Meet the GRADE5 Judges

Antonio Alcalá graduated from Yale University with a BA in history and from the Yale School of Art with an MFA in graphic design. After working as a book designer and freelance graphic designer Alcalá opened Studio A in 1988. Since then his studio has won awards of excellence in design from local, national and international design institutions including AIGA, Print, Communication Arts and Graphis. His clients include: the National Gallery of Art, Library of Congress, National Portrait Gallery, United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, National Museum of Women in the Arts, Freer+Sackler Galleries, Folger Shakespeare Library, The Phillips Collection, and the Smithsonian Institution. Alcalá is an adjunct faculty member of the Corcoran Gallery of Art and Design Graphic Design Department and founder of the design education program DesignWorkshops. He serves on the board of the Northern Virginia Fine Arts Association and is a past president of the Art Directors Club of Metropolitan Washington. His work is represented in the AIGA Design Archives and the Library of Congress Permanent Collection of Graphic Design.

Drew Davies is the founder and design director of Oxide Design Co., a communications and information design firm established in 2001.

Drew recently judged AIGA Charlotte's BOOM design competition and AIGA South Carolina's InShow. He also judged the Communication Arts Design Annual, an honor bestowed on only nine national designers each year. He is the only Nebraskan who has ever been selected as a judge in the 46 years of the competition.

A past president of the AIGA Nebraska chapter, Drew now serves as the design director for AIGA's Design for Democracy program. DFD is currently involved in implementing ballot design standards nationally for all elections.

Drew believes that the most effective method of creating positive change in the world is to clearly communicate the ideas that can make a difference.

Marcus Hewitt has over 20 years experience as a design leader, building design teams for several of the world’s leading agencies.

Since 2007 he has been the chief creative officer of Dragon Rouge US in New York. DR is the largest independent design consultancy with offices in Paris, London, Hamburg, Warsaw and Brussels.

Before Dragon Rouge, he was the chief creative officer and a managing partner of Sterling Brands - a leading independently owned design consultancy involved in all areas of visual communication. Marcus was the lead creative at Sterling for over thirteen years.

Before Sterling, Marcus worked with Pentagram in London, and helped to establish the Michael Peters Group in London, Toronto and Los Angeles. He also worked with Walter Dorwin Teague in New York. He has been responsible for major new identity and packaging programs for clients including: Burger King, Givaudan Roare, ElPaso Energy, the American Architectural Foundation, Royal Philips  Electronics, The Getty Museum, Toyota, Unilever, Gillette, Diagio, Hasbro Games, Pernod Ricard, Port Canaveral, Pepsi, The Hartford, Levi Strauss, Radio City, Cablevision, Ferragamo and SAP.

He is an active member of the AIGA and a past AIGA/NY board member. His design work is often recognized in the press and has won numerous creative prizes, including Clios, Mobius and PDC awards. Marcus has committed time and energy to many non profit groups and he believes designers have an essential role to promote  responsible design whenever they can.

He is an adjunct professor at FIT and The School of Visual Arts, where he shares his passion for witty solutions and intelligently simple design.

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