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.
South Korea fines Meta $15 million for illegally collecting information on Facebook users
South Korea's privacy watchdog on Tuesday fined social media company Meta 21.6 billion won ($15 million) for illegally collecting sensitive personal information from Facebook users, including data about their political views and sexual orientation, and sharing it with thousands of advertisers.
It was the latest in a series of penalties against Meta by South Korean authorities in recent years as they increase their scrutiny of how the company, which also owns Instagram and WhatsApp, handles private information.
Following a four-year investigation, South Korea's Personal Information Protection Commission concluded that Meta unlawfully collected sensitive information about around 980,000 Facebook users, including their religion, political views and whether they were in same-sex unions, from July 2018 to March 2022.
It said the company shared the data with around 4,000 advertisers.
South Korea's privacy law provides strict protection for information related to personal beliefs, political views and sexual behavior, and bars companies from processing or using such data without the specific consent of the person involved.
The commission said Meta amassed sensitive information by analyzing the pages the Facebook users liked or the advertisements they clicked on.
The company categorized ads to identify users interested in themes such as specific religions, same-sex and transgender issues, and issues related to North Korean escapees, said Lee Eun Jung, a director at the commission who led the investigation on Meta.
"While Meta collected this sensitive information and used it for individualized services, they made only vague mentions of this use in their data policy and did not obtain specific consent," Lee said.
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