The Selection Jury

The Selection Jury met on 1 and 2 February 2016 on the premises of the Moravian Gallery in Brno. The jury assessed each submitted work on the basis of its originality of approach, how innovatively it deals with specific tasks, and its aesthetic and functional qualities, while bearing in mind the limitations of available exhibition space.

Selection Jury:
Serge Rompza (DE)
Oliver Klimpel (DE)
Tereza Rullerová (CZ)
Ľubica Segečová (SK)
Willi Schmid (AT) 

Serge Rompza
After graduating from Gerrit Rietveld Academy Amsterdam, Serge Rompza has co-founded the Berlin- and Oslo-based design studio NODE in 2003, together with Anders Hofgaard. The two offices collaboratively focus on identity, print, exhibition and interactive work. Clients include MIT Program in Art, Culture and Technology (ACT), Office for Metropolitan Architecture (OMA), Haus der Kulturen der Welt (HKW), ZKM Karlsruhe, National Museum of Art, Architecture and Design Oslo and Canadian Centre for Architecture (CCA). Since 2004 he has been teaching regularly at art and design academies across Europe and the US. 

Oliver Klimpel
Oliver Klimpel is a designer, currently based in Berlin after living and working in London for more than 15 years. He has worked on numerous publishing and identity projects in the UK and abroad, combining design projects and research on visual culture and art. He frequently writes, and lectures internationally. From 2008 to 2015 he had been Professor at the Academy of Visual Arts in Leipzig comprehensively re-positioning the System-Design class. Most recently, he was invited by the Taipei Contemporary Art Center to develop a design research project, which seeks to explore and define the idea of a more active and critical identity for arts and cultural institutions. In May he is to undertake a project on narrative structures in Tokyo. 

Tereza Rullerová
Tereza Rullerová (1987) was an unsuccessful artist. At present she works as a graphic designer in studios The Rodina and Moniker and is involved with permeations of action art and graphic design in both theory and practice, working, lecturing, organising happenings and encounters at all places where people seek for contact between design and art. She graduated from the Intermedia Studio of Václav Stratil at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Brno University of Technology, and from Graphic Design at the Royal Academy of Art in The Hague. She lives in Amsterdam. 

Ľubica Segečová
Ľubica Segečová was born in Slovakia. She lives and works in Bratislava as a freelance graphic designer. She studied at the Academy of Fine Arts (VŠVU); she got her BA degree at the Department of Visual Communication (2009) and her MA at the Department of Design (2011). She has founded SELF, an independent festival of graphic design (2012), and the artist's studio trivjednom (2012). She also worked as a teacher at the Graphic Design Department of Ostrava University, studio Text Form Function. 

Willi Schmid
After studying at the Federal Training and Research Institute for Graphic Art and Media in Vienna, the Academy of Arts, Architecture & Design in Prague, and Werkplaats Typografie in Arnhem he established his own studio in Vienna. His graphic design work concentrates on book design. From 2008 to 2015 he taught at the Academy of Fine Arts in Vienna; he currently teaches at the Federal Training and Research Institute for Graphic Art and Media in Vienna. His teaching practice is focused on the medium of drawing in its broadest sense.