The Art Directors Club (www.adcglobal.org), the premier organization for creatives in integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, today announced the lineup of industry leaders who will serve as jury chairs for the ADC 91st Annual Awards program.
Jury chairs for the six ADC 91st Annual Awards categories are as follows:
Advertising: John Boiler, president, 72andSunny, Los Angeles, CA
Design: Arem Duplessis, design director, The New York Times Magazine, New York, NY
Photography: Kieran Antill, creative director, senior vice president, Leo Burnett, New York, NY
Illustration: Rodrigo Corral, creative director, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; founder, Rodrigo Corral Design, New York, NY
Interactive: Natalie Lam, executive creative director, McCann Erickson, New York, NY
Integrated: Brian DiLorenzo, chief production officer, McCann Erickson, New York, NY
Motion: Andre Stringer, director, creative director, founder, Shilo, New York, NY
New for this year is the appointment of a separate jury chair for Motion, a fast-growing segment of awards entries. In addition, this will be the first time the ADC Annual Awards will have a separate jury chair and jury dedicated specifically to Integrated. Elevating these two areas reflects the growing importance of each in today’s creative work.
The online call for entries (CFE) for the ADC 91st Annual Awards will be open shortly at www.adcawards.org. Deadlines for entry are January 20, 2012 for Design, Photography, Illustration and Interactive; February 3, 2012 for Student, and February 10, 2012 for Advertising and Integrated.
This year’s CFE is created by DDB New York. “This CFE campaign looks at the obstacles that increasingly stand in the way of doing great creative,” said Olga Grisaitis, director, ADC. “We are encouraging creatives worldwide to keep fighting the good fight.” To receive the CFE, please sign up at http://www.adcglobal.org/register/user/.
Entrants are eligible to be the recipients of the coveted ADC Black Cube for best-in-show in Advertising, Design and Interactive categories, as well as cumulative awards for Design Firm of the Year, Advertising Agency of the Year, Interactive Agency of the Year, Network of the Year and School of the Year, based on winning point totals for the year.
ADC 91st Annual Awards jury chair bios:
Advertising: John Boiler, president, 72andSunny, Los Angeles, CA
John Boiler is the creative compass at 72andSunny and uses his wealth of knowledge to develop multi-platform brand campaigns for clients. Prior to co-founding 72andSunny, he was at Wieden+Kennedy, where he served as executive creative director and managing partner of W+K, Amsterdam, helping the office grow from 40 employees to 185. Boiler is currently using entrepreneurial skills to expand 72andSunny’s international footprint, talent pool and capabilities to serve the growing list of national and international clients.
The agency’s work for clients such as NIKE, HP, Bugaboo, K-Swiss, Activision and Discovery Channel has helped garner one of the best creative reputations in the industry. 72andSunny recently joined the MDC Partners network.
Although he has received many of the industries highest creative awards, Boiler sites his real achievements as both helping to create a culture of collaboration and personal growth for people, as well as creating intensely high standards for each individual’s work and creativity.
Design: Arem Duplessis, design director, The New York Times Magazine, New York, NY
Arem Duplessis’ work has been recognized by the Art Directors Club, Society of Publication Designers, AIGA, Communication Arts magazine, Type Directors Club, Print magazine, American Photography, PDN, Society of News Designers and American Illustration.
He is an Instructor at The School of Visual Arts in New York, and teaches an annual Masters Workshop at The Danish Design School in Copenhagen. Duplessis has lectured in New York , Washington D.C., Louisville, Los Angeles, Atlanta, London, Copenhagen and Oslo.
Photography: Kieran Antill, creative director, senior vice president, Leo Burnett, New York, NY
Kieran Antill has always pursued a balance between his commercial work and his career as a fine artist, and has exhibited in Sydney, London and New York for more than 10 years. A selection of his fine art can be viewed at www.kieranantill.com.
He was ranked as the #1 Art Director worldwide at Cannes in 2010 while at Leo Burnett Sydney, and a year prior was named International Co-Young Gun of the Year.
Antill’s love for craft, painting and photography is evident through his recent work including Canon “Photochains”, a social network of photography; Canon “Photo5”, a gallery of 5000 images inspired by a simple cardboard box; “Vote Earth”, the world’s first global election, and most recently the “Space Monkey” music video with Ben Lee and WWF.
Illustration: Rodrigo Corral, creative director, Farrar, Straus and Giroux; founder, Rodrigo Corral Design, New York, NY
Rodrigo Corral runs Rodrigo Corral Design, and is creative director at Farrar, Straus and Giroux. He has designed covers for the Pulitzer Prize winning author Junot Diaz and the bestselling author Chuck Palahniuk, among many others. Corral also designed The New York Times bestselling books “Decoded” by Jay-Z, “Classy” by Derek Blasberg and “Influence” by Mary-Kate and Ashley Olsen. He has taught at the School of Visual Arts in New York and lectured around the country. Through it all, Corral remains deeply committed to transcending the visual possibilities in art, in culture and throughout the universe. His work can be seen at www.rodrigocorral.com
Interactive: Natalie Lam, executive creative director, McCann Erickson, New York, NY
Natalie Lam recently joined McCann New York, after spending three years in China as executive creative director for OgilvyOne, building brands for clients like adidas, Chanel, Fanta, Vans, Lee Jeans, Johnnie Walker in one of the most exciting and experimental markets of the world.
Before China, she was creative director at R/GA New York, leading the Nike+, Nike Running and NIKEiD accounts. She was part of the original small crew that created Nike+, and launched the first global Nike Human Race in which 800k runners from 24 cities over the world ran a 10k race on the same day.
Lam’s work has picked up an ADC gold cube, Cannes Titanium, D&AD Black Pencil, One Show Interactive Best of Show and Grand Clio, amongst many other awards. Most recently, her team was the only one from China to win a number of international interactive awards, including a Cannes Silver. She is a frequent jury member industry awards such as One Show Interactive, International Andy and AdFest Asia.
Integrated: Brian DiLorenzo, chief production officer, McCann Erickson, New York, NY
Brian DiLorenzo is chief production officer at McCann New York, where he leads the agency’s integrated production operations and content development.
Prior to joining McCann, he was executive director of integrated production at BBDO, New York, where he managed the department and produced transmedia content for clients such as AT&T, HBO and Starbucks. HBO “Voyeur” became the single most awarded campaign on the planet in 2008. The Starbucks “Love Project,” a 2009 holiday campaign, helped raise millions of dollars for Product Red, and in the process earned a Guinness World Record, a Cannes Lion and numerous technical awards for its global live sing-along event.
Prior to BBDO, DiLorenzo was head of production for Fallon, Minneapolis, and executive produced “The Hire” films for BMW, which received the first-ever Cannes Titanium Lion in 2003. In 2011, The One Club honored BMW Films and HBO “Voyeur” as two of the “10 Best of the Digital Decade”.
He serves on the Advisory Board of the Interactive Advertising Bureau (IAB), and is an awarded member of D&AD.
Motion: Andre Stringer, director, creative director, founder, Shilo, New York, NY
Andre Stringer is a doer, a maker, a builder. His hands-on approach to filmmaking springs from his roots in the world of skateboarding, street culture and documentary film-making. His work spans a wide range — from gritty realism to sophisticated — all the while holding authentic character performance and poetic storytelling in the highest regard.
As co-founder and director of Shilo, his collaborative vision has brought successful projects to life for an elite client list including Guinness, Under Armour, AT&T, and Anheuser-Busch.
For more information about the ADC 91st Annual Awards, please visit www.adcawards.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 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.
