The One Club for Creativity has announced the diverse group of creative leaders who will serve as jury chairs for the ADC 101st Annual Awards celebrating excellence in craft and innovation in all forms of design and advertising.
This year’s jury chairs include:
- Advertising: Alexander Kalchev, CCO, DDB Paris
- Brand/Communication Design: Eddie Opara, partner, Pentagram, New York
- Experiential Design: Till Diestel, CCO, BBDO Group Germany, Berlin
- Fusion: Marc Wilson, PhD, EVP, executive director of Strategic Inclusion, FCB Chicago
- Illustration: Jade Purple Brown, artist, Brooklyn
- In-House: Jess Kirkman, ECD, Taco Bell, Irvine (California)
- Interactive: Menno Kluin, US CCO, dentsu Creative, New York
- Motion/Film/Gaming Craft: Leah Nelson, producer, director, cofounder, Giant Ant, Vancouver
- Packaging/Product Design: Alex Center, founder, CENTER, Brooklyn
- Photography: Ahmed Klink, photographer, director, cofounder, Sunday Afternoon, New York
- Publication Design: Nia Lawrence, creative director, Essence, New York
- Spatial Design: Carla Conte, founder, creative director, Brand Creative LLC, Dubai
- Typography: Rathna Ramanathan, Dean of Academic Strategy, Reader in Intercultural Communication of Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London
The Fashion Design jury chair and full juries for all disciplines will be announced shortly.
Entries can be submitted now, with fees increasing after each deadline period. Regular deadline is January 31, 2022, with extended deadline of February 18, 2022 and final deadline March 4, 2022. No physical entries will be accepted this year due to the ongoing pandemic; all entry media must be uploaded into the online entry system.
Judging will be conducted online, starting in March 2022, with finalists announced in May. ADC 101st Annual Awards Gold, Silver and Bronze Cube winners will be announced during Creative Week in May 2022.
Other highlights of ADC 101st Annual Awards:
- Continued partnership with creative community Working Not Working on content collaborations, as well as the special Freelancer of the Year award.
- ADC Members’ Choice Award, where freelance members of both The One Club and Working Not Working are invited to cast votes for their favorite entry amongst the year’s top-scoring works in all ADC Design disciplines.
- ADC Fusion Cube, the advertising and design industry’s first global initiatives to recognize great work that best incorporates underrepresented groups in both creative content and the team that made it.
- Reduced pricing for personal/unpublished work in Fashion Design, Illustration, Motion/Film/Gaming Craft, Photography and Typography.
Avid completes acquisition of Wolftech
Avid®, known for software solutions for professional media production, has completed the acquisition of Wolftech Broadcast Solutions, a leader in cloud-based multiplatform news planning, production and publishing solutions.
The acquisition enables Avid to combine its digital-first, end-to-end media solution with Wolftech’s expertise in story-centric workflow management. News organizations will be able to increase efficiency and accelerate story delivery through enhanced remote collaboration and multiplatform amplification.
Avid CEO Wellford Dillard stated, “Wolftech is unquestionably on the leading edge of where the industry is going, and this acquisition demonstrates Avid’s commitment to transform news, sports, and live production workflows. We are delighted to welcome Wolftech into the Avid family.”
Wolftech CEO Arne Berven added, “We were focused on finding a partner that could accelerate the adoption of our platform globally. We explored a number of possibilities, but when we talked to Avid, we knew it was the right match.”
The closing of the acquisition follows Avid’s announcement on October 7 that the company had entered into a definitive agreement to acquire Wolftech.
With this acquisition, Avid deepens the integration between the two toolsets while continuing to embrace an open approach in partnering with a wide range of media production tools and newsroom systems. Existing Wolftech customers will benefit from Avid’s global scale for customer support and professional services.
Ian Axton, head of production operations for ITV News, said, “As a customer of both Avid and Wolftech we’re excited about the benefits this acquisition will bring to our users and our business. Wolftech has transformed... Read More