ADC Awards

The ADC Annual Awards is the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world. Now in its incredible 102nd year, these awards celebrate the very best in advertising, digital media, graphic and publication design, packaging and product design, motion, experiential and spatial design, photography, illustration and fashion design all with a focus on artistry and craftsmanship.

Agency of the Year is awarded to the Agency that garners the most points overall for winning entries (Cubes, Merits, Special Awards), allocated per the points chart.

Design Team of the Year is awarded to the year's highest-scoring design team that garners the most points overall for winning entries (Cubes, Merits, Special Awards), allocated per the points chart.

Points are only awarded to agencies credited under the Primary Agency listing. If several agencies are listed, the points are DIVIDED among them.


MULTIPLE AWARDS WITHIN A DISCIPLINE
If the same piece of work won multiple awards within a Discipline, the points for the one (1) highest award* in that discipline were counted.
*For work that received a Best of Discipline honor, the points for both the Gold win and Best of Discipline win were counted within that Discipline.


AWARDS IN MULTIPLE DISCIPLINES
If the same piece of work won awards across multiple Disciplines, the points for the highest award per discipline were counted.


The rankings were determined based on the point values listed on this chart:

AWARD
Gold Cube
Silver Cube
Bronze Cube
Merit
Fusion Cube
Designism Cube
Best of Discipline
Best of Show
POINTS
45
21
9
3
90
90
90
135

Rank

Agency Rankings

Points

1

alma DDB / Miami

180

2

COLLINS / New York

150

3

BACKBONE BRANDING

45

4

Leo Burnett / Chicago

45

5

Mucho / San Francisco

45

6

Ken-Tsai Lee Design Lab / Taipei

30

7

DENTSU INC. / Tokyo

24

8

FCB / Chicago

21

9

STUDEO / Tokyo

21

10

the community / Miami

21

11

TIGERPAN PACKAGING DESIGN LAB. / Shenzhen

21

12

Leo Burnett / Toronto

19.50

13

Mother Design NY / Brooklyn

12

14

Bold Scandinavia / NoA / Oslo

10.50

15

CATK / Berlin / Berlin

10.50

16

AU CHON HIN / UNTITLED MACAO

9.25

17

UNTITLED MACAO

9.25

18

360i / New York

9

19

Indego Design / Macau

9

20

OFFICE OF DEMANDE SPÉCIALE / Montreal

9

21

Pengguin / Hong Kong

9

22

Reklamekollektivet / Bergen

9

23

SCHOLZ & FRIENDS / Berlin

9

24

THE NINE SHANGHAI / Shanghai

9

25

Thinking Room / Jakarta

9

26

UNTITLED DESIGN, LTD.

7.75

27

INNOCEAN Worldwide Europe / Berlin

7.50

28

another design / Guangzhou

6

29

Blackspace / Munich

4.50

30

Goods / Oslo

4.50

31

Heydays / Oslo

4.50

32

Makkaihang Design / Hong Kong

4.50

33

The Hong Kong Type Foundry / Hong Kong

4.50

34

Area 23, An IPG Health Company / New York

3

35

Baillat Studio / Montreal

3

36

Bruketa&Zinic&Grey / Zagreb

3

37

Design by AO / Shenzhen

3

38

Dieste / Dallas

3

39

Fictionist Studio / Kuala Lumpur

3

40

Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco

3

41

hesign

3

42

L3 Branding / Beijing

3

43

lg2

3

44

M-N Associates / Ho Chi Minh City

3

45

McCann / New York

3

46

Paprika / Montreal

3

47

Raffinerie AG für Gestaltung / Zurich

3

48

SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich

3

49

SHA inc. / Tokyo

3

50

XI'AN GAOPENG / Xi'an

3

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