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.
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Client
Title
Category
Annual ID

The Fake News Stand
Agency: TBWA\Chiat\Day / New York + Design by Disruption / New York + Rebel & Rogue / New York
Client: Columbia Journalism Review Category: Design for Good / Publication Design - Series

Planet or Plastic
Agency: McCann / New York + National Geographic / New York
Client: National Geographic Category: Design for Good / Publication Design - Single


Book Burnings: An Anthology
Agency: Thijs Verbeek graphic design / Amsterdam
Client: Yuri Veerman Category: Books / Text-Driven - Single


The New York Times For Kids: Halloween Cover Series
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Newspapers / Front Page - Series


Planet or Plastic
Agency: McCann / New York + National Geographic / New York
Client: National Geographic Category: Design for Good / Publication Design - Single


Yu-ichi Inoue/ Shiko Munakata/Kazuo Yagi
Agency: Minmin qu & qian jiang / Nanjing
Client: The Commercial Press Category: Books / Text Driven - Series


The Fake News Stand
Agency: TBWA\Chiat\Day / New York + Design by Disruption / New York + Rebel & Rogue / New York
Client: Columbia Journalism Review Category: Design for Good / Publication Design - Series


If You Were Me
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Newspapers / Full Issue - Single


TOOLS
Agency: MARU / Tokyo
Client: MARU Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


The Fake News Stand
Agency: TBWA\Chiat\Day / New York + Design by Disruption / New York + Rebel & Rogue / New York
Client: Columbia Journalism Review Category: Innovation / Publication Design


Time-Less in Motion.
Agency: Armin Walcher / Pürgg
Client: Armin Walcher Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty
Agency: Sagmeister & Walsh / New York
Client: Sagmeister & Walsh Category: Books / Jacket - Single


Inhuman Nature
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Story / Spread - Single


Planet or Plastic
Agency: National Geographic / Washington, D.C.
Client: National Geographic Category: Magazines / Cover - Single


How Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Cover - Single


The Sick Bag Song
Agency: Tenmilliontimes Design / Nanjing
Client: Beijing United Publishing Co.,Ltd. Category: Books / Text-Driven - Single


Six hundred poems of Tang Dynasty selected by Jin Shengtan
Agency: Bai Fengkun / Beijing
Client: Mugui culture company Category: Books / Text-Driven - Single


The Indoek St. Augustine Issue
Agency: ITAL/C / Los Angeles + Indoek / Los Angeles
Client: Indoek Category: Magazines / Full Issue - Single


Unknown
Agency: To Change Design Co.,Ltd / Nanjing
Client: Jianyu Graphics Lab Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


L’Heptaméron des Gourmets – The World’s Most Exclusive Cook Book
Agency: Bedow / Stockholm
Client: Nunchi Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Utah Jazz 2017-2018 Player Yearbook
Agency: 7D8 / Salt Lake City
Client: Utah Jazz Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


#1917LIVE: The Russian Revolution in Tweets
Agency: RT / Moscow
Client: RT Category: Innovation / Publication Design


Illuminated Editions
Agency: Beehive Books / Philadelphia
Client: Beehive Books Category: Books / Text Driven - Series


Variety: Lady Gaga On the Edge Series
Agency: Robert Festino / Los Angeles + Variety / Los Angeles
Client: Variety Magazine Category: Magazines / Story / Spread - Series


AGI New Members 2007-2017
Agency: hesign / Berlin
Client: AGI Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE: Forgotten Works & Worlds of Herbert Crowley
Agency: Beehive Books / Philadelphia + Headcase Design / Philadelphia
Client: Beehive Books Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


Tomorrow Is Too Late: A history of the 1980s Toronto hardcore punk scene
Agency: Goods & Services Branding / Toronto + UXB Press / Toronto
Client: Goods & Services Branding Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


Variety: Leslie Moonves
Agency: Robert Festino / Los Angeles + Variety / Los Angeles
Client: Variety Magazine Category: Magazines / Cover - Single


A Profound Waste of Time
Agency: A Profound Waste of Time ltd / London
Client: A Profound Waste of Time LTD Category: Magazines / Full Issue - Single


A New Type of Imprint v. 13
Agency: ANTI / Norway
Client: ANTI Category: Magazines / Full Issue - Single


Anxy No. 3: The Boundaries Issue
Agency: Anxy Magazine / Berkeley
Client: Anxy Magazine Category: Magazines / Full Issue - Single


Anxy No. 4: The Masculinity Issue
Agency: Anxy Magazine / Berkeley
Client: Anxy Magazine Category: Magazines / Full Issue - Single


The Music Issue
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Magazines / Full Issue - Single


The Unseasonal — Prelude Issue
Agency: LA K50 / Los Angeles
Client: The Unseasonal Category: Magazines / Full Issue - Single


IN & OUT
Agency: A Black Cover Design / Bei Jing
Client: Power Station of Art (Shanghai) Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Series


Mutual Observation and Learning
Agency: T-Change Design Co.,Ltd / Nanjing
Client: Nanjing Graphic Designer Alliance Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


The 9th National Book Design Art Exhibition Excellent Works Collection
Agency: Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client: Nanjing Press Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography
Agency: Brad Bartlett / Los Angeles
Client: Nevada Museum of Art Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Paula Gately Tillman: Fringe
Agency: Ashton Design / Baltimore
Client: Paula Gately Tillman Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


The Physics of “Chen Qi”-A Cultivated Controller and a Mad Experimenter
Agency: Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client: People‘s Fine Arts Publishing House Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Old Trades of Jiangsu
Agency: Phoenix Education Publishing, Ltd. / Nanjing + Artron Art Printing Co., Ltd. / Shanghai
Client: Phoenix Education Publishing,Ltd Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


11×16 XXL Studio
Agency: XXL Studio / Beijing
Client: Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


From Addict to Convict
Agency: Ananya Khaitan / New Delhi
Client: Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy Category: Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single


Variety: Power of Women
Agency: Robert Festino / Los Angeles + Variety / Los Angeles
Client: Variety Magazine Category: Magazines / Cover - Series


The New York Times for Kids Cover Series
Agency: The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Newspapers / Front Page - Series


Blink To Speak
Agency: TBWAIndia / Mumbai
Client: NeuroGen Brain and Spine Institute / Asha Ek Hope Foundation Category: Design for Good / Publication Design - Single


Memorabilia
Agency: Lithuanian Artists’ Association / Vilnius + Kopa / Kaunas
Client: Lithuanian Artists' Association Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


Past/Forward: The LA Phil at 100
Agency: Content Object / Los Angeles + Philharmonic Association / Los Angeles
Client: Los Angeles Philharmonic Association Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


The Field Revisited
Agency: Stuart Geddes / Collingwood + National Gallery of Victoria / Melbourne + Matter of Sorts / Melbourne
Client: National Gallery of Victoria Category: Books / Image-Driven - Single


Award:
2019 Publication Design Best of Discipline Cube
Agency:
TBWA\Chiat\Day / New York + Design by Disruption / New York + Rebel & Rogue / New York
Client:
Columbia Journalism Review
Title:
The Fake News Stand
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19001G

Award:
2019 Publication Design Designism Cube
Agency:
McCann / New York + National Geographic / New York
Client:
National Geographic
Title:
Planet or Plastic
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19002G

Award:
2019 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Thijs Verbeek graphic design / Amsterdam
Client:
Yuri Veerman
Title:
Book Burnings: An Anthology
Category:
Books / Text-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19015G

Award:
2019 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The New York Times For Kids: Halloween Cover Series
Category:
Newspapers / Front Page - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19026G

Award:
2019 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
McCann / New York + National Geographic / New York
Client:
National Geographic
Title:
Planet or Plastic
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19002G

Award:
2019 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Minmin qu & qian jiang / Nanjing
Client:
The Commercial Press
Title:
Yu-ichi Inoue/ Shiko Munakata/Kazuo Yagi
Category:
Books / Text Driven - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19018G

Award:
2019 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
TBWA\Chiat\Day / New York + Design by Disruption / New York + Rebel & Rogue / New York
Client:
Columbia Journalism Review
Title:
The Fake News Stand
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19001G

Award:
2019 Publication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
If You Were Me
Category:
Newspapers / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19027G

Award:
2019 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
MARU / Tokyo
Client:
MARU
Title:
TOOLS
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19011S

Award:
2019 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
TBWA\Chiat\Day / New York + Design by Disruption / New York + Rebel & Rogue / New York
Client:
Columbia Journalism Review
Title:
The Fake News Stand
Category:
Innovation / Publication Design
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19003S

Award:
2019 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
Armin Walcher / Pürgg
Client:
Armin Walcher
Title:
Time-Less in Motion.
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19007S

Award:
2019 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
Sagmeister & Walsh / New York
Client:
Sagmeister & Walsh
Title:
Sagmeister & Walsh: Beauty
Category:
Books / Jacket - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19005S

Award:
2019 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
Nicole Caputo Design / NYC
Client:
Tyrant Books
Title:
LIVEBLOG
Category:
Books / Jacket - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19006S

Award:
2019 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Inhuman Nature
Category:
Magazines / Story / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19023S

Award:
2019 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
National Geographic / Washington, D.C.
Client:
National Geographic
Title:
Planet or Plastic
Category:
Magazines / Cover - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19020S

Award:
2019 Publication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
How Law Enforcement Failed to See the Threat of White Nationalism
Category:
Magazines / Cover - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19021S

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Tenmilliontimes Design / Nanjing
Client:
Beijing United Publishing Co.,Ltd.
Title:
The Sick Bag Song
Category:
Books / Text-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19016B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Bai Fengkun / Beijing
Client:
Mugui culture company
Title:
Six hundred poems of Tang Dynasty selected by Jin Shengtan
Category:
Books / Text-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19017B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
ITAL/C / Los Angeles + Indoek / Los Angeles
Client:
Indoek
Title:
The Indoek St. Augustine Issue
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19025B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
To Change Design Co.,Ltd / Nanjing
Client:
Jianyu Graphics Lab
Title:
Unknown
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19012B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Bedow / Stockholm
Client:
Nunchi
Title:
L’Heptaméron des Gourmets – The World’s Most Exclusive Cook Book
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19013B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
7D8 / Salt Lake City
Client:
Utah Jazz
Title:
Utah Jazz 2017-2018 Player Yearbook
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19014B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
RT / Moscow
Client:
RT
Title:
#1917LIVE: The Russian Revolution in Tweets
Category:
Innovation / Publication Design
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19004B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Beehive Books / Philadelphia
Client:
Beehive Books
Title:
Illuminated Editions
Category:
Books / Text Driven - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19019B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Robert Festino / Los Angeles + Variety / Los Angeles
Client:
Variety Magazine
Title:
Variety: Lady Gaga On the Edge Series
Category:
Magazines / Story / Spread - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19024B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
hesign / Berlin
Client:
AGI
Title:
AGI New Members 2007-2017
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19008B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Beehive Books / Philadelphia + Headcase Design / Philadelphia
Client:
Beehive Books
Title:
THE TEMPLE OF SILENCE: Forgotten Works & Worlds of Herbert Crowley
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19009B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Goods & Services Branding / Toronto + UXB Press / Toronto
Client:
Goods & Services Branding
Title:
Tomorrow Is Too Late: A history of the 1980s Toronto hardcore punk scene
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19010B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Bronze Cube
Agency:
Robert Festino / Los Angeles + Variety / Los Angeles
Client:
Variety Magazine
Title:
Variety: Leslie Moonves
Category:
Magazines / Cover - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19022B

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
A Profound Waste of Time ltd / London
Client:
A Profound Waste of Time LTD
Title:
A Profound Waste of Time
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19053M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
ANTI / Norway
Client:
ANTI
Title:
A New Type of Imprint v. 13
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19054M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Anxy Magazine / Berkeley
Client:
Anxy Magazine
Title:
Anxy No. 3: The Boundaries Issue
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19055M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Anxy Magazine / Berkeley
Client:
Anxy Magazine
Title:
Anxy No. 4: The Masculinity Issue
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19056M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The Music Issue
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19057M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
LA K50 / Los Angeles
Client:
The Unseasonal
Title:
The Unseasonal — Prelude Issue
Category:
Magazines / Full Issue - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19058M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
A Black Cover Design / Bei Jing
Client:
Power Station of Art (Shanghai)
Title:
IN & OUT
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19047M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
T-Change Design Co.,Ltd / Nanjing
Client:
Nanjing Graphic Designer Alliance
Title:
Mutual Observation and Learning
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19039M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client:
Nanjing Press
Title:
The 9th National Book Design Art Exhibition Excellent Works Collection
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19040M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Brad Bartlett / Los Angeles
Client:
Nevada Museum of Art
Title:
Anne Brigman: A Visionary in Modern Photography
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19041M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Ashton Design / Baltimore
Client:
Paula Gately Tillman
Title:
Paula Gately Tillman: Fringe
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19042M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Han Qing Tang Design / Nanjing
Client:
People‘s Fine Arts Publishing House
Title:
The Physics of “Chen Qi”-A Cultivated Controller and a Mad Experimenter
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19043M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Phoenix Education Publishing, Ltd. / Nanjing + Artron Art Printing Co., Ltd. / Shanghai
Client:
Phoenix Education Publishing,Ltd
Title:
Old Trades of Jiangsu
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19044M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
XXL Studio / Beijing
Client:
Shanghai People's Fine Arts Publishing House
Title:
11×16 XXL Studio
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19045M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Ananya Khaitan / New Delhi
Client:
Vidhi Centre for Legal Policy
Title:
From Addict to Convict
Category:
Books / Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19046M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Robert Festino / Los Angeles + Variety / Los Angeles
Client:
Variety Magazine
Title:
Variety: Power of Women
Category:
Magazines / Cover - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19051M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
The New York Times for Kids Cover Series
Category:
Newspapers / Front Page - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19059M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
TBWAIndia / Mumbai
Client:
NeuroGen Brain and Spine Institute / Asha Ek Hope Foundation
Title:
Blink To Speak
Category:
Design for Good / Publication Design - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19028M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Lithuanian Artists’ Association / Vilnius + Kopa / Kaunas
Client:
Lithuanian Artists' Association
Title:
Memorabilia
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19031M

Award:
2019 Publication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Content Object / Los Angeles + Philharmonic Association / Los Angeles
Client:
Los Angeles Philharmonic Association
Title:
Past/Forward: The LA Phil at 100
Category:
Books / Image-Driven - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PUB19032M
