Goa: Kyoorius Designyatra 2017 – India’s biggest annual conference on design and innovation held over a span of three days successfully concluded with the announcements of the Kyoorius Design Awards 2017 today at the Grand Hyatt, Goa. With 25 Blue Elephants this year, the Kyoorius Design Awards honoured and celebrated the most outstanding and innovative work in design and visual communication. Apart from these, Kyoorius also awarded some of the upcoming creative stars with the Kyoorius Young Blood Awards that showcase and encourage the young professionals to ideate and innovate in the creative fields.
With awards in a wide-ranging list of categories, OPEN Strategy & Design won the maximum Blue Elephants this year. Kyoorius received over 400 entries for Kyoorius Design Awards out of which 44 were the In-Book winners. There were no Black Elephants awarded this year. The Kyoorius Design Awards aim to honour good design, designers and design oriented companies in India. The Kyoorius Young Blood Awards received over 300 entries with 4 Red Elephants being awarded and 20 In-Book winners this year. Apart from the cash prize, these winners also got an opportunity to have their work published in the Kyoorius Awards Annual.
The awards were a glitzy finale for Kyoorius Designyatra 2017 that ignited a lot of interesting conversations and original ideas among the delegates. The third and final day of Kyoorius Designyatra saw a great line-up of speakers including Morag Myerscough – Founder and Designer, Studio Myerscough, Lizzie Mary Cullen – Pen and ink Illustrator and Writer, Lizzie Mary Cullen, Lord Christopher Laverty – Author, Clothes on Film, Leeroy New – Artist and Designer, Lab New and Saskia Neuman – Global Art Manager, Absolut. The 12th edition of Kyoorius Designyatra ended with Samuel Ball – ECD at Large; and Founder, Lean Mean Fighting Machine taking the delegates through a lively discussion on thinking without restrictions and inhibitions in order to be an optimist.
Kyoorius Design Awards Winners List 2017 (Blue Elephant Winners):
| Project Title | Entrant | Category |
| I am progress | Open Strategy & Design | Branding and Identity |
| The World’s Most Accommodating Brand Identity | Famous Innovations | Branding and Identity |
| Fat Feed Fashion: Instagram to Instafashion | Response India Private Limited | Branding and Identity |
| Donate Organs Logo | First Show Tekzenit | Branding and Identity |
| I am progress | Open Strategy & Design | Branding and Identity |
| The Bombay Canteen Delivery Potli | Please See// | Packaging Design |
| The Proposal Box that’ll get You a Yes | Famous Innovations | Packaging Design |
| Savlon Healthy Hands Chalk Sticks | Ogilvy & Mather | Product Design |
| Whatcha lookin’ at? | Open Strategy & Design | Design for Communications |
| Calendar | tree design / tree frogs | Design for Communications |
| You Eat. They Eat. | Ogilvy & Mather | Design for Communications |
| I am progress | Open Strategy & Design | Design for Communications |
| Zoobar Pet Friendly Bar | tbwa/india | Design for Communications |
| NH8 | Guerrilla Art & Design | Design for Space |
| The Amateur Art Gallery | Umbrella Design | Design for Space |
| Linkedin Bangalore | Bhushanraj | Design for Space |
| P N Gadgil & Sons – Graphic Design | Ideas@work | Design Craft |
| Gypsies of Maharashtra | Enormous Brands | Design Craft |
| Gypsies of Maharashtra | Enormous Brands | Design Craft |
| Zoobar Pet Friendly Bar | tbwa/india | Design Craft |
| Jaini | Ek Type | Design Craft |
| Witness / Kashmir 1986–2016 / Nine photographers | Itu Chaudhuri Design | Design for Books |
| Death Penalty India Report | Struckby | Design for Books |
| Savlon Healthy Hands Chalk Sticks | Ogilvy & Mather | Design for Good |
| The Books of Hope | Famous Innovations | Design for Good |
Kyoorius Young Blood Awards Winners List 2017 (Red Elephant Winners)
| Brief | Entrants Names |
| Caratlane + DY Works | Kunal Pardeshi, Neil Chitnis, Maryann Rodrigues |
| Urvi Shah | |
| G F Smith – Colorplan | Mansi Sharma, Ravinder Soni, Khushboo Gautam, |
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ARSHIA JAIN, Prachi Gupta, Sneha Iyer, Apurva Desai |
