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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Agency
Client
Title
Category
Annual ID
Truck Art Childfinder
Agency: Impact BBDO / Dubai + BBDO Pakistan / Lahore + Samar Minallah Khan / Islamabad
Client: Berger Paints Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Series
FLIGHT OF THE CLOTILDA
Agency: Kadir Nelson / Los Angeles + National Geographic / Washington DC
Client: National Geographic Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Lessons in Herstory
Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco + GS&P Social / San Francisco + GS&P Labs / San Francisco + ELevel / San Francisco
Client: Daughters of the Evolution Category: Digital / Series
Truck Art Childfinder
Agency: Impact BBDO / Dubai + BBDO Pakistan / Lahore + Samar Minallah Khan / Islamabad
Client: Berger Paints Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Series
Us Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Agency: Edward Kinsella Illustration / Saint Louis + Waxwork Records / New Orleans
Client: Waxwork Records Category: Packaging / Series
The Art of Storytelling
Agency: Gallegos United / Los Angeles
Client: Comcast Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
Staffless Libraries
Agency: Head Gear Animation / Toronto
Client: Toronto Public Library Workers Union Category: Animation / Series
Creativity for All
Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco + Buck / Toronto + One Union / San Francisco
Client: Adobe Category: Animation / Single
"Velvet Buzzsaw" Main Title
Agency: Elastic / Santa Monica + Niel Kellerhouse / Los Angeles
Client: Netflix Category: Animation / Single
‘Human Scum’ and Trump’s Tortured English
Agency: Nicolas Ortega / New York + The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
KAKUICHI YOKOCHO
Agency: IC4DESIGN / Hiroshima
Client: HIROSHIMA KAKUICHI YOKOCHO Category: Digital / Single
What Parents Can Do About Gendered Toys
Agency: Ran Zheng / Jersey City + NPR / Washington, D.C.
Client: NPR Category: Digital / Single
Putting a Price on the End of the World
Agency: The New York Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Parade of six-armed Maṇi-Padme
Agency: Te Hu / San Francisco
Client: Self-Promotion Category: Personal / Unpublished / Single
Yusra Swims
Agency: Creative Editions / Mankato + Sally Deng / Los Angeles
Client: Creative Editions Category: Book / Single
Bauhaus Everywhere
Agency: Google Brand Studio / London + Animade / London + Jungle Studios / London
Client: Google Arts and Culture Category: Animation / Series
Flavor Drop
Agency: 360i / New York + Truly Hard Seltzer / Boston
Client: Truly Hard Seltzer Category: Packaging / Single
THE ART OF TATSURO KIUCHI
Agency: Tatsuro Kiuchi / Tokyo + Genkosha / Tokyo
Client: Genkosha Category: Book / Series
Anansi Boys
Agency: The Folio Society / London + Francis Vallejo / Detroit
Client: The Folio Society Category: Book / Series
Plastic Legacy
Agency: Philipp und Keuntje / Berlin + Carioca Studio / Budapest
Client: Greenpeace Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Series
Planet or Plastic?
Agency: Square Pixel / Rio de Janeiro + Saatchi & Saatchi / Dubai
Client: National Geographic Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Series
#VaccinesWork
Agency: RPA / Santa Monica
Client: Unicef Globle Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Series
LEONARDO DAVID
Agency: Airbnb Magazine / New York
Client: AIR B N B MAGAZINE Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
Letter From Rome
Agency: Airbnb Magazine / New York + Airbnb / San Francisco
Client: Airbnb Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
“SHISEIDO KARAKUSA”
Agency: Shiseido Company, Limited / Tokyo + DENTSU INC. / Tokyo + Hakuten Corporation / Tokyo, Japan
Client: Shiseido Company, Limited Category: Innovation
TOKYO MOTOR SHOW 2019
Agency: Dentsu Inc. / Tokyo + ADBRAIN Inc. / Tokyo + TYO MONSTER / Tokyo + Dentsu Live Inc. / Tokyo
Client: Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc. (JAMA) Category: Wildcard / Series
Planet or Plastic?
Agency: Pixel Square / Rio de Janeiro + Saatchi & Saatchi / Dubai
Client: national geographic Category: Wildcard / Series
Royal Mail: Curious Customs stamps
Agency: NB Studio / London + Royal Mail LTD / London
Client: Royal Mail LTD Category: Wildcard / Series
Diversity in Disaster Preparation
Agency: Dentsu Inc. / Tokyo + Dentsu Digital Inc. / Tokyo + TYO Inc. / Tokyo + AID-DCC Inc. / Tokyo
Client: Yahoo Japan Corporation Category: Wildcard / Series
Seeds of dreams
Agency: Tribal / Paris + L'Occitane / Paris + MERCI-MICHEL / Paris
Client: L'Occitane Category: Digital / Single
The Art of Storytelling
Agency: Gallegos United / Los Angeles
Client: Comcast Category: Mural / Graffiti / Street Art / Single
Representation Matters Mural
Agency: Camila Rosa / Sao Paulo + Society6 / Los Angeles + The Other Art Fair / London
Client: Society6 / The Other Art Fair Category: Mural / Graffiti / Street Art / Single
50 Years of Pride
Agency: Sunday Afternoon / New York + The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Deconstructing Bong Joon-ho
Agency: Nicole Rifkin / Jersey City + The Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
ART CONNOISSEURS
Agency: The er / New York
Client: THE NEW YORKER Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
The New Yorker's Film and Theatre Reviews
Agency: Leonardo Santamaria / Los Angeles + The New Yorker / New York City
Client: The New Yorker Category: Editorial / Spread - Series
Giannina
Agency: Aiste Stancikaite / Berlin + Self Promotion / Berlin
Client: Self Promotion Category: Personal / Unpublished / Single
Red Hot
Agency: Nick Levesque / San Francisco
Client: Nick Levesque Category: Personal / Unpublished / Single
The Brass Instruments Band
Agency: The Nine / Shanghai
Client: Hengzheng Dental Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
UNIQLO Sustainability
Agency: Tatsuro Kiuchi / Tokyo + Uniqlo / Tokyo
Client: UNIQLO Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
THE UNDEFEATED
Agency: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN / New York
Client: HOUGHTON MIFFLIN/VERSIFY Category: Book / Single
Tasty Truths
Agency: Gallegos United / Los Angeles
Client: California Milk Processor Board (CMPB) Category: Animation / Series
Dreams Add Up
Agency: Harrison & Star / New York
Client: Dream Foundation Category: Digital / Series
Award:
2020 Illustration Best of Discipline Cube
Agency:
Impact BBDO / Dubai + BBDO Pakistan / Lahore + Samar Minallah Khan / Islamabad
Client:
Berger Paints
Title:
Truck Art Childfinder
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_001G
Award:
2020 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Kadir Nelson / Los Angeles + National Geographic / Washington DC
Client:
National Geographic
Title:
FLIGHT OF THE CLOTILDA
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_016G
Award:
2020 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco + GS&P Social / San Francisco + GS&P Labs / San Francisco + ELevel / San Francisco
Client:
Daughters of the Evolution
Title:
Lessons in Herstory
Category:
Digital / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_015G
Award:
2020 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Casa Rex / São Paulo
Client:
Pulo do Gato
Title:
Muito Esquisito
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_008G
Award:
2020 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Spotify In-House / New York
Client:
Spotify
Title:
All The Moods
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_001G
Award:
2020 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Impact BBDO / Dubai + BBDO Pakistan / Lahore + Samar Minallah Khan / Islamabad
Client:
Berger Paints
Title:
Truck Art Childfinder
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_001G
Award:
2020 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Edward Kinsella Illustration / Saint Louis + Waxwork Records / New Orleans
Client:
Waxwork Records
Title:
Us Original Motion Picture Soundtrack
Category:
Packaging / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_022G
Award:
2020 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Yidong Cai / Shanghai
Client:
Yidong cai
Title:
C-MOJI
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_024S
Award:
2020 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Gallegos United / Los Angeles
Client:
Comcast
Title:
The Art of Storytelling
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_025S
Award:
2020 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Spotify In-House / New York
Client:
Spotify
Title:
All The Moods
Category:
Animation / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_004S
Award:
2020 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Head Gear Animation / Toronto
Client:
Toronto Public Library Workers Union
Title:
Staffless Libraries
Category:
Animation / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_005S
Award:
2020 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Eugenia Mello / Brooklyn
Client:
Victionary
Title:
Moving
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_009S
Award:
2020 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco + Buck / Toronto + One Union / San Francisco
Client:
Adobe
Title:
Creativity for All
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_002S
Award:
2020 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Elastic / Santa Monica + Niel Kellerhouse / Los Angeles
Client:
Netflix
Title:
"Velvet Buzzsaw" Main Title
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_003S
Award:
2020 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Nicolas Ortega / New York + The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times
Title:
‘Human Scum’ and Trump’s Tortured English
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_018S
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
IC4DESIGN / Hiroshima
Client:
HIROSHIMA KAKUICHI YOKOCHO
Title:
KAKUICHI YOKOCHO
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_013B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Ran Zheng / Jersey City + NPR / Washington, D.C.
Client:
NPR
Title:
What Parents Can Do About Gendered Toys
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_014B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Putting a Price on the End of the World
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_017B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Te Hu / San Francisco
Client:
Self-Promotion
Title:
Parade of six-armed Maṇi-Padme
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_023B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Creative Editions / Mankato + Sally Deng / Los Angeles
Client:
Creative Editions
Title:
Yusra Swims
Category:
Book / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_007B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Google Brand Studio / London + Animade / London + Jungle Studios / London
Client:
Google Arts and Culture
Title:
Bauhaus Everywhere
Category:
Animation / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_006B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
360i / New York + Truly Hard Seltzer / Boston
Client:
Truly Hard Seltzer
Title:
Flavor Drop
Category:
Packaging / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_021B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Tatsuro Kiuchi / Tokyo + Genkosha / Tokyo
Client:
Genkosha
Title:
THE ART OF TATSURO KIUCHI
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_010B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
The Folio Society / London + Francis Vallejo / Detroit
Client:
The Folio Society
Title:
Anansi Boys
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_011B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
YUKE LI / New York
Client:
YUKE
Title:
THE TIGER IN MY YARD
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_012B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Philipp und Keuntje / Berlin + Carioca Studio / Budapest
Client:
Greenpeace
Title:
Plastic Legacy
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_022B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Square Pixel / Rio de Janeiro + Saatchi & Saatchi / Dubai
Client:
National Geographic
Title:
Planet or Plastic?
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_023B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
RPA / Santa Monica
Client:
Unicef Globle
Title:
#VaccinesWork
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_024B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Airbnb Magazine / New York
Client:
AIR B N B MAGAZINE
Title:
LEONARDO DAVID
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_019B
Award:
2020 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Airbnb Magazine / New York + Airbnb / San Francisco
Client:
Airbnb
Title:
Letter From Rome
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_020B
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Shiseido Company, Limited / Tokyo + DENTSU INC. / Tokyo + Hakuten Corporation / Tokyo, Japan
Client:
Shiseido Company, Limited
Title:
“SHISEIDO KARAKUSA”
Category:
Innovation
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_056M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Dentsu Inc. / Tokyo + ADBRAIN Inc. / Tokyo + TYO MONSTER / Tokyo + Dentsu Live Inc. / Tokyo
Client:
Japan Automobile Manufacturers Association, Inc. (JAMA)
Title:
TOKYO MOTOR SHOW 2019
Category:
Wildcard / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_067M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Pixel Square / Rio de Janeiro + Saatchi & Saatchi / Dubai
Client:
national geographic
Title:
Planet or Plastic?
Category:
Wildcard / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_068M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
NB Studio / London + Royal Mail LTD / London
Client:
Royal Mail LTD
Title:
Royal Mail: Curious Customs stamps
Category:
Wildcard / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_069M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Dentsu Inc. / Tokyo + Dentsu Digital Inc. / Tokyo + TYO Inc. / Tokyo + AID-DCC Inc. / Tokyo
Client:
Yahoo Japan Corporation
Title:
Diversity in Disaster Preparation
Category:
Wildcard / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_070M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Tribal / Paris + L'Occitane / Paris + MERCI-MICHEL / Paris
Client:
L'Occitane
Title:
Seeds of dreams
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_035M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Gallegos United / Los Angeles
Client:
Comcast
Title:
The Art of Storytelling
Category:
Mural / Graffiti / Street Art / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_057M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Camila Rosa / Sao Paulo + Society6 / Los Angeles + The Other Art Fair / London
Client:
Society6 / The Other Art Fair
Title:
Representation Matters Mural
Category:
Mural / Graffiti / Street Art / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_058M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Sunday Afternoon / New York + The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times
Title:
50 Years of Pride
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_040M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Nicole Rifkin / Jersey City + The Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times
Title:
Deconstructing Bong Joon-ho
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_041M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
The er / New York
Client:
THE NEW YORKER
Title:
ART CONNOISSEURS
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_042M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Leonardo Santamaria / Los Angeles + The New Yorker / New York City
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
The New Yorker's Film and Theatre Reviews
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_055M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Aiste Stancikaite / Berlin + Self Promotion / Berlin
Client:
Self Promotion
Title:
Giannina
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_063M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Nick Levesque / San Francisco
Client:
Nick Levesque
Title:
Red Hot
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_064M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Woshi Bai / Shanghai
Client:
N/A
Title:
A man in hat
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_065M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
The Nine / Shanghai
Client:
Hengzheng Dental
Title:
The Brass Instruments Band
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_073M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Tatsuro Kiuchi / Tokyo + Uniqlo / Tokyo
Client:
UNIQLO
Title:
UNIQLO Sustainability
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_074M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN / New York
Client:
HOUGHTON MIFFLIN/VERSIFY
Title:
THE UNDEFEATED
Category:
Book / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_033M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Gallegos United / Los Angeles
Client:
California Milk Processor Board (CMPB)
Title:
Tasty Truths
Category:
Animation / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_032M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Harrison & Star / New York
Client:
Dream Foundation
Title:
Dreams Add Up
Category:
Digital / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_036M
