The Art Directors Club ((www.adcglobal.org)), the leading organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, has announced the 50 young creatives from 14 countries to claim the prestigious ADC Young Guns 8 title.
ADC Young Gunsยฎ is the only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creative professionals age 30 or younger. Selected from entries received from 37 countries, these ADC Young Guns 8 winners represent an impressive global roster of young talent in the fields of graphic design, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation & video, interactive design, product design and typography.
The complete ADC Young Guns 8 class is as follows:
North America:
โข Scott Amron, Amron Experimental, Westbury, NY, USA
โข Alec Brownstein, Y&R New York, NY, USA
โข Mikey Burton, 160OVER90, Philadelphia, PA, USA
โข Elsa Chaves and Tyler Lang (Always With Honor), self-employed, Portland, OR, USA
โข Frank Chimero, self-employed, Portland, OR, USA
โข Crobin, MTV, Brooklyn, NY, USA
โข Jennifer Daniel, self-employed, Brooklyn, NY, USA
โข Michael Freimuth, self-employed, New York, NY, USA
โข Christine Gignac, Mother New York, NY, USA
โข Jeremy Hall, Figure, Quebec, Quebec, Canada
โข Eric Hu, self-employed, Los Angeles, CA, USA
โข Nicole Jacek, Karlssonwilker, Inc., New York, NY, USA
โข E. Roon Kang, Math Practice, Brooklyn, NY, USA
โข Stephen Kelleher, self-employed, Brooklyn, NY, USA
โข Jeong Eun (Elle) Kim, self-employed, Brooklyn, NY, USA
โข Mike Krol, self-employed, Madison, WI, USA
โข Gracia Lam, self-employed, Toronto, ON, Canada
โข Jude Landry, self-employed, Starkville, MS, USA
โข Nathaniel Lawlor, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, CA, USA
โข Micah Lidberg, self-employed, Brielle, NJ, USA
โข Joseph Marianek, Pentagram, Providence, RI, USA
โข Gareth O’Brien, Buck, Brooklyn, NY, USA
โข Mitchell Paone, Dreamers Ink Aesthetics, New York, NY, USA
โข Steve Peck, BBH New York, NY, USA
โข Gavin Potenza, self-employed, Portland, OR, USA
โข Nikolay Saveliev, self-employed, New York, NY, USA
โข Jarrod Taylor, Harper Collins, Brooklyn, NY, USA
โข Rich Tu, self-employed, South Orange, NJ, USA
โข Jessica Walsh, Sagmeister, Inc., New York, NY USA
โข Stefanie Weigler, Triboro Design, Brooklyn, NY, USA
Europe/UK:
โข Jonathan Calugi, self-employed, Pistola, Italy
โข Gemma Correll, self-employed, Norwich, UK
โข HelloVon, self-employed, London, UK
โข Yannis Konstantindis, Nomint, Athens, Greece
โข Rimantas Lukavicius, Korb, Lithuania
โข Tomas Makovsky, self-employed, London, UK
โข Sophia Martineck, self-employed, Berlin, Germany
โข Carles Murillo, Bisdixit BCN, Barcelona, Spain
โข Martin Nicolausson, self-employed, London, UK
โข Lotta Nieminen, self-employed, New York, NY (recently relocated from Finland)
โข Mads Jakob Poulsen, Wolff Olins NY, Brooklyn, NY (recently relocated from Denmark)
โข Alex Robbins, self-employed, Berlin, Germany
โข Mark Ward, self-employed, London, UK
โข Ian Wharton, The Mill, London, UK
Asia Pacific:
โข Kellie Campbell, Parallax Design, Adelaide, SA, Australia
โข Genki Ito, Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo, Japan
โข Kenichi Matsumoto, E. Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan
โข Daihei Shibata, Wow Inc., Tokyo, Japan
โข Kris Sowersby, self-employed, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand
โข Jeseok Yi, self-employed, Daegu, Republic of Korea
ADC Young Guns 8 exhibition, opening party, redesigned ADC Young Guns Cube award
A selection of work from ADC Young Gun 8 class, comprised of both professional and personal projects, will be exhibited at the ADC Gallery at 106 W. 29th St in New York from October 7-22, 2010 (Monday-Friday, 10:00 am to 6:00 pm).
ADC Young Guns 8 winners exhibition opening party October 7, 2010
The exhibition opening party, sponsored by Adobe and Ace Hotel, will be held at the gallery on October 7, 7:00 pm to 10:00 pm (free to ADC members, $20 for non-members). Whiskey and cocktails supplied by Tuthilltown Spirits, beer from Brooklyn Brewery and food from Grandaisy Bakery. A color photo booth will be on hand at the event, courtesy of Photo Illusion, LLC, and DJ for the evening will be Pretty Girls & Lasers. To RSVP and buy tickets, please visit <a href="http://(www.adcglobal.org)/adc/events/calendar/#193″>http://(www.adcglobal.org)/adc/events/calendar/#193
With this year’s program, ADC begins a new tradition: a newly redesigned ADC Young Guns Cube award will be presented to every new class of winners. A new award will be designed and produced in a limited edition of 50 for each class of winners.
Work from this year’s winners will be printed in a commemorative, limited-edition volume published exclusively for the Art Directors Club by Moleskineยฎ, and selected pieces will also be available in November 2010 as part of ADC’s permanent collection online. Along with receiving an ADC Young Guns Cube, the winners receive a complimentary one-year ADC Cube Club membership to ADC, and an assortment of career-boosting benefits from ADC Young Guns sponsors, including Adobe, Ace Hotel, Behance and Surface Magazine.
This year’s 50 winners joins an elite group of past ADC Young Guns, including then-rising stars who went on to become leaders in their chosen fields such as Stefan Sagmeister and James Victore (graphic design), Deanne Cheuk (illustration), Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner (aka floto+warner, photography), Alexander Gelman (advertising), Rei Inamoto and Jerome Austria (interactive), Mike Mills (film and video), Alex Trochut (typography), Todd St. John (animation) and others.
To elevate the spirit of competition among ADC Young Guns and encourage a strong sense of community, a panel of 30 past ADC Young Guns served as the jury for this year’s competition.
ADC Young Guns Apple Store events
The ADC Young Guns speaking series at Apple Stores, started in 2009, has extended to include events at Apple Stores in New York, Chicago, San Francisco, Santa Monica, Sydney, Paris and London. These events showcase winners from all classes of ADC Young Guns; this year’s speakers have included Scott Stowell (YG3), PJ Richardson (YG5), Stewart Smith (YG7), Eva Kolenko (YG5), Jason Munn (YG5), Julien Valรฉe (YG6) and Greg Brunkalla (YG6). ADC Young Guns 8 winners will become eligible to participate in this high-visibility program in the coming months.
For details about this and other ADC Young Guns events and news, please visit www.adcyoungguns.org.
The Art Directors Club ((www.adcglobal.org)) is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920, the ADC is a self-funded, not-for-profit global membership organization whose mission is to connect creative communications professionals around the globe, and to provoke and elevate world-changing ideas. It focuses on the highest standards of excellence in communications for the industry, and encourages students and young professionals entering the field. ADC provides a forum for creatives in Advertising, Design, Interactive Media and Communications to explore the direction of these rapidly converging industries.