ADC Awards
The ADC Annual Awards is the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world. Now in its incredible 101st 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.
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Agency
Client
Title
Category
Annual ID
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Agency: Nora Krug / Brooklyn
Client: Scribner Category: Book / Series
Stormy
Agency: Tim O'Brien / Brooklyn + Time Magazine / New York
Client: Time Magazine Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
lululemon: 20 Years
Agency: Giant Ant / Vancouver + lululemon / Vancouver
Client: lululemon Category: Animation / Series
SHUSH!
Agency: RedBank / BeiJing + Illusion, / Bangkok
Client: 360 QIKU（Qiku Internet Network Scientific (shenzhen)Co.,Ltd） Category: Digital / Series
The Health Issue
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
In Deep
Agency: Tim O'Brien / Brooklyn + Time Magazine / New York
Client: Time Magazine Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Oscar Wilde Fairytales
Agency: Yuko Shimizu / New York + Beehive Books / Philadelphia
Client: Beehive Books Category: Book / Series
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Agency: Victo Ngai Studio, Inc / Los Angeles + Folio Society / London
Client: Folio Society Category: Book / Series
King Me
Agency: Tim O'Brien / Brooklyn + Time Magazine / New York
Client: Time Magazine Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Legopress
Agency: VMLY&R / New York + LEGOLAND Florida Resort / Winter Haven + Two Tone Press / Kansas City
Client: LEGOLAND Florida Resort Category: Wildcard / Series
Play For All TV
Agency: i.d.e.a. / San Diego + JVG / Madrid + MPC / Los Angeles
Client: Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino Category: Animation / Single
Submarine
Agency: Red Nose Studio / Greenfield, IN + Langland / Windsor, UK + Sonica Studios / London, UK
Client: Red Nose Studio Category: Animation / Single
What’s your pet’s carbon pawprint?
Agency: Junction Studio / Brighton + Studio Bliink / Brighton + YORA Pet Foods / UK
Client: YORA Pet Foods Category: Animation / Single
Doctor Who - China Campaign
Agency: Feifei Ruan / New York + BBC Studios Creative / London
Client: Doctor Who - BBC Studios Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
SVA Summer NYC_Subway posters
Agency: Chris Buzelli / New York
Client: School of Visual Arts Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
Scars of Democracy
Agency: SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client: STROKE ART FAIR GmbH Category: Mural / Series
A Series of United States National Parks
Agency: Marie Thorhauge / Ringsted
Client: Marie Thorhauge Category: Personal / Unpublished / Series
Time Pieces
Agency: Red Nose Studio / Greenfield, IN
Client: Red Nose Studio Category: Personal / Unpublished / Series
Play for All Pods
Agency: i.d.e.a. / San Diego + JVG / Madrid + MPC / Los Angeles
Client: Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino Category: Digital / Series
International Women's Day - Regrets
Agency: WeTransfer / Amsterdam
Client: WeTransfer Category: Digital / Series
The Art of Magic
Agency: United States Postal Service / Washington, DC + J Fletcher Design / Charleston + Journey Group / Charlottesville
Client: United States Postal Service Category: Digital / Single
Grand Canyons
Agency: Owen Gildersleeve / London + Time Out / New York
Client: Time Out Los Angeles Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Credit Her
Agency: Facebook / San Francisco
Client: Facebook Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Single
Any job is better than being a tourist attraction.
Agency: SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client: Pro Wildlife e.V. Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Single
#UNIGNORABLE - Domestic Violence
Agency: TAXI / Toronto + United Way / Toronto
Client: United Way Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Single
Art Directors Club Germany "Feed your creativity"
Agency: HEIMAT / Berlin
Client: Art Directors Club für Deutschland e.V. Category: Wildcard / Series
SKII Art of Travel
Agency: FuturePowerStation Ltd / London
Client: SKII Category: Animation / Series
Boys In The Street #PRIDE
Agency: Louisa Bertman / Cambridge
Client: Genero | Greg Holden Category: Animation / Single
Kindness
Agency: Giant Ant / Vancouver + Random Acts of Kindness Foundation / Denver
Client: Random Acts of Kindness Foundation Category: Animation / Single
FESTIVE ART
Agency: PICTOGLAZE / Singapore
Client: PICTOGLAZE Category: Personal / Unpublished / Single
Missing The Story
Agency: Nicolas Ortega / New York
Client: Columbia Journalism Review Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
Taste Test
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
UCSF Magazine Winter 2019
Agency: Pentagram / Austin
Client: University of California San Francisco Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII
Agency: Flying Eye Books / London + Sally Deng / Los Angeles
Client: Flying Eye Books Category: Book / Single
CITIES TOKYO
Agency: IC4DESIGN / Hiroshima + Shobunsha Publications, Inc. / Tokyo
Client: Shobunsha Publications, Inc. Category: Book / Single
Beauty through the eyes of Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh
Agency: Thomas Hedger / London + It's Nice That / London
Client: It's Nice That Category: Editorial / Spread - Series
Japanese Tales
Agency: Yuko Shimizu / New York + Folio Society / London
Client: Folio Society Category: Book / Series
HEARTLAND 365
Agency: DENTSU INC. / Tokyo
Client: Kirin Brewery Company, Limited Category: Promotional / Collateral / Single
OOEDO-ONSEN TABLE-TENNIS CHANPIONSHIP -TABLE-
Agency: DENTSU INC. / Tokyo
Client: OOEDO-ONSEN MONOGATARI Category: Promotional / Collateral / Single
YA-MARK-PO（野芒坡）
Agency: ZhangxuanStudio in luxun academy of finearts / Da Lian
Client: Encyclopedia of China Publishing House Category: Comic Book / Graphic Novel / Series
Book + Plant + Hair = fossette
Agency: knot / Tokyo
Client: fossette hair Ginza Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
Find a new face of “OFURO”
Agency: DENTSU Inc. / Tokyo + TAKI corporation / Tokyo + SHOEI Inc. / Tokyo + Que Inc. / Tokyo
Client: Noritz Corporation Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
Award:
2019 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Nora Krug / Brooklyn
Client:
Scribner
Title:
Belonging: A German Reckons with History and Home
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19001G
Award:
2019 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Tim O'Brien / Brooklyn + Time Magazine / New York
Client:
Time Magazine
Title:
Stormy
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19009G
Award:
2019 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Giant Ant / Vancouver + lululemon / Vancouver
Client:
lululemon
Title:
lululemon: 20 Years
Category:
Animation / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19005G
Award:
2019 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
RedBank / BeiJing + Illusion, / Bangkok
Client:
360 QIKU（Qiku Internet Network Scientific (shenzhen)Co.,Ltd）
Title:
SHUSH!
Category:
Digital / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19008S
Award:
2019 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Health Issue
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19010S
Award:
2019 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Tim O'Brien / Brooklyn + Time Magazine / New York
Client:
Time Magazine
Title:
In Deep
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19011S
Award:
2019 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Yuko Shimizu / New York + Beehive Books / Philadelphia
Client:
Beehive Books
Title:
Oscar Wilde Fairytales
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19006S
Award:
2019 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Victo Ngai Studio, Inc / Los Angeles + Folio Society / London
Client:
Folio Society
Title:
The Kama Sutra of Vatsyayana
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19007S
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Sally Deng / Los Angeles
Client:
Sally Deng
Title:
Waves
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19017B
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Tim O'Brien / Brooklyn + Time Magazine / New York
Client:
Time Magazine
Title:
King Me
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19012B
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
VMLY&R / New York + LEGOLAND Florida Resort / Winter Haven + Two Tone Press / Kansas City
Client:
LEGOLAND Florida Resort
Title:
Legopress
Category:
Wildcard / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19018B
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
i.d.e.a. / San Diego + JVG / Madrid + MPC / Los Angeles
Client:
Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino
Title:
Play For All TV
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19002B
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Red Nose Studio / Greenfield, IN + Langland / Windsor, UK + Sonica Studios / London, UK
Client:
Red Nose Studio
Title:
Submarine
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19003B
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Junction Studio / Brighton + Studio Bliink / Brighton + YORA Pet Foods / UK
Client:
YORA Pet Foods
Title:
What’s your pet’s carbon pawprint?
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19004B
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Feifei Ruan / New York + BBC Studios Creative / London
Client:
Doctor Who - BBC Studios
Title:
Doctor Who - China Campaign
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19015B
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Chris Buzelli / New York
Client:
School of Visual Arts
Title:
SVA Summer NYC_Subway posters
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19016B
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Jones Knowles Ritchie / London
Client:
Tesco
Title:
At Its Finest
Category:
Packaging / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19014B
Award:
2019 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client:
STROKE ART FAIR GmbH
Title:
Scars of Democracy
Category:
Mural / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19013B
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Marie Thorhauge / Ringsted
Client:
Marie Thorhauge
Title:
A Series of United States National Parks
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19050M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Yukai Du / London
Client:
n/a
Title:
An Anthology vol.2
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19051M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Red Nose Studio / Greenfield, IN
Client:
Red Nose Studio
Title:
Time Pieces
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19052M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
i.d.e.a. / San Diego + JVG / Madrid + MPC / Los Angeles
Client:
Harrah's Ak-Chin Casino
Title:
Play for All Pods
Category:
Digital / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19035M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
WeTransfer / Amsterdam
Client:
WeTransfer
Title:
International Women's Day - Regrets
Category:
Digital / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19036M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Timothy Mattimore / Minneapolis
Client:
CREDO Mobile
Title:
36,231 Dots
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19031M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
R/GA / New York
Client:
Mailchimp
Title:
Mailchimp Customer Experience
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19032M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Meitu Pic / Hangzhou + Yukai Du / London
Client:
Meitu Pic
Title:
Night
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19033M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
United States Postal Service / Washington, DC + J Fletcher Design / Charleston + Journey Group / Charlottesville
Client:
United States Postal Service
Title:
The Art of Magic
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19034M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Owen Gildersleeve / London + Time Out / New York
Client:
Time Out Los Angeles
Title:
Grand Canyons
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19037M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Facebook / San Francisco
Client:
Facebook
Title:
Credit Her
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19019M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
SERVICEPLAN GERMANY / Munich
Client:
Pro Wildlife e.V.
Title:
Any job is better than being a tourist attraction.
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19020M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
TAXI / Toronto + United Way / Toronto
Client:
United Way
Title:
#UNIGNORABLE - Domestic Violence
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19021M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
HEIMAT / Berlin
Client:
Art Directors Club für Deutschland e.V.
Title:
Art Directors Club Germany "Feed your creativity"
Category:
Wildcard / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19053M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
FuturePowerStation Ltd / London
Client:
SKII
Title:
SKII Art of Travel
Category:
Animation / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19026M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Hue&Cry / Richmond
Client:
Chevy
Title:
Call Me Out
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19022M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Louisa Bertman / Cambridge
Client:
Genero | Greg Holden
Title:
Boys In The Street #PRIDE
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19023M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Giant Ant / Vancouver + Random Acts of Kindness Foundation / Denver
Client:
Random Acts of Kindness Foundation
Title:
Kindness
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19024M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
VICE News / Brooklyn
Client:
VICE News / HBO
Title:
Sharing the Rails
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19025M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
PICTOGLAZE / Singapore
Client:
PICTOGLAZE
Title:
FESTIVE ART
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19049M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Nicolas Ortega / New York
Client:
Columbia Journalism Review
Title:
Missing The Story
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19038M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Taste Test
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19039M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Pentagram / Austin
Client:
University of California San Francisco
Title:
UCSF Magazine Winter 2019
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19040M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Flying Eye Books / London + Sally Deng / Los Angeles
Client:
Flying Eye Books
Title:
Skyward: The Story of Female Pilots in WWII
Category:
Book / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19027M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
IC4DESIGN / Hiroshima + Shobunsha Publications, Inc. / Tokyo
Client:
Shobunsha Publications, Inc.
Title:
CITIES TOKYO
Category:
Book / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19028M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Thomas Hedger / London + It's Nice That / London
Client:
It's Nice That
Title:
Beauty through the eyes of Stefan Sagmeister and Jessica Walsh
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19041M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
Yuko Shimizu / New York + Folio Society / London
Client:
Folio Society
Title:
Japanese Tales
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19029M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
DENTSU INC. / Tokyo
Client:
Kirin Brewery Company, Limited
Title:
HEARTLAND 365
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19045M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
DENTSU INC. / Tokyo
Client:
OOEDO-ONSEN MONOGATARI
Title:
OOEDO-ONSEN TABLE-TENNIS CHANPIONSHIP -TABLE-
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19046M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
ZhangxuanStudio in luxun academy of finearts / Da Lian
Client:
Encyclopedia of China Publishing House
Title:
YA-MARK-PO（野芒坡）
Category:
Comic Book / Graphic Novel / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19030M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
knot / Tokyo
Client:
fossette hair Ginza
Title:
Book + Plant + Hair = fossette
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19047M
Award:
2019 Illustration Merit Award
Agency:
DENTSU Inc. / Tokyo + TAKI corporation / Tokyo + SHOEI Inc. / Tokyo + Que Inc. / Tokyo
Client:
Noritz Corporation
Title:
Find a new face of “OFURO”
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT19048M
