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
Enchanted Lands
Agency: Airbnb Magazine / New York + Airbnb / San Francisco
Client: Airbnb Magazine Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
What The U.S. Gets Wrong About China
Agency: Nicolas Ortega / New York + Barron's / New York
Client: Barron's Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
Beating the Bounds: The Case for Ethical Borders
Agency: Leonardo Santamaria / Los Angeles + Believer Magazine / Las Vegas
Client: Believer Magazine Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
Control
Agency: Dan Bejar Illustration / Brooklyn + Imagination / Washington DC
Client: Engineering Inc. Magazine Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
My Sister, Myself
Agency: Leonardo Santamaria / Los Angeles + O, The Oprah Magazine / New York City
Client: O, The Oprah Magazine Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
Harvey Weinstein Convicted
Agency: Brian Stauffer Illustration + Animation / Novato + The New York Times Magazine / NYC
Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
One Small Step
Agency: Estudio Javier Jaen / Barcelona
Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
Athleisure Time
Agency: Igor Bastidas Studio / Brooklyn + The er / New York
Client: The New Yorker Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
Student Debt
Agency: Till Lauer / Lucerne + The New Yorker / New York City
Client: The New Yorker Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
Painted by Everyone
Agency: BBDO / New York + VT Pro Design / Los Angeles + BBDO Studios / New York
Client: Bacardi - Bombay Sapphire Category: Online / Mobile Websites / Campaign Site
Go Back To Africa
Agency: FCB/SIX / Toronto
Client: Black & Abroad Category: Online / Mobile Websites / Campaign Site
Seeds of dreams
Agency: Tribal / Paris + L'Occitane / Paris + MERCI-MICHEL / Paris
Client: L'Occitane Category: Online / Mobile Websites / Campaign Site
#SelfieBud
Agency: Jones Knowles Ritchie / New York
Client: AB InBev - Budweiser Category: Integrated / Digital
Life Lolli - A lollipop designed to save lives
Agency: BBDO GmbH / Duesseldorf
Client: KMSZ (Bone Marrow Donation Center) Category: Integrated / Digital
AURA INCENSE BARRICADE
Agency: TBWA\Sri Lanka / Colombo
Client: D'LAS INTERNATIONAL (PVT) LTD. Category: Design for Good / Product Design
Accessibility Mat
Agency: GTB / São Paulo + Code Studio / São Paulo + Bizsys / São Paulo
Client: Ford Motor Company Category: Design for Good / Product Design
The Most Challenging Pingpong Table
Agency: TBWA\HAKUHODO Inc. / Tokyo
Client: Japan Para Table Tennis Association Category: Design for Good / Product Design
Cart Wheelchair
Agency: Kzy Agency thailand / bangkok
Client: TESCO LOTUS SUPERMARKET Category: Design for Good / Product Design
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
German Cancer Aid "Spectrum"
Agency: HEIMAT / Berlin + Intermate Media GmbH / Berlin + achtung! / Hamburg + Low Bros / Berlin
Client: ADP e. V. / Deutsche Krebshilfe Category: Design for Good / Experiential Design
Lolli: The Exhibit Nobody Wants to Talk About
Agency: No Fixed Address / Toronto + Canadian Centre for Child Protection / Winnipeg + Canadian Centre for Child Protection / Winnipeg
Client: Canadian Centre for Child Protection Category: Design for Good / Experiential Design
#NoKidsInCages
Agency: Badger & Winters / New York
Client: RAICES Category: Design for Good / Experiential Design
SickKids Airbnb
Agency: No Fixed Address / Toronto + SickKids Foundation / Toronto
Client: SickKids Foundation Category: Design for Good / Experiential Design
The Infinity Classroom
Agency: BBDO / Minneapolis + BBDO / New York
Client: Theirworld Category: Design for Good / Experiential Design
History Blocks
Agency: Africa / Sao Paulo
Client: Unesco Category: Design for Good / Experiential Design
Frontiers 2019 Intro
Agency: Giant Ant / Vancouver
Client: Slack Category: Motion / Film / Title Sequences
Royal palmeira
Agency: Anna Rolskaia / Lisbo
Client: Royal palmeira Category: Lettering / Single or Series
Chinese Provincial Capital Typeface
Agency: Version Design Group / Shanghai
Client: shanghai version design group Category: Lettering / Single or Series
Let The Song Play
Agency: Spotify In-House / New York
Client: Spotify Category: Television / Film / Online Video / Film - Single
Wonderful Tools
Agency: BUCK / Los Angeles + TBWA\Media Arts Lab / Los Angeles
Client: Apple Category: Branded Content / Entertainment - Online Video / Short Form
Les Marianne
Agency: DDB, / Paris + Marie Claire / Paris + DL Additive / Paris
Client: Marie Claire Category: Interiors / Home / Office / Decorative - Single or Series
Mental Fatigues
Agency: TAXI / Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver/New York + Canadian Mental Health Association / Toronto
Client: Canadian Mental Health Association Category: Craft / Patterns / Textiles
Gucci Cheetahorse Dress
Agency: Marc Burckhardt / Austin + Gucci / Milan
Client: Gucci Category: Craft / Patterns / Textiles
I Am Hunger in America
Agency: Leo Burnett / Chicago
Client: Feeding America Category: Design for Good / Motion / Film Craft
Train
Agency: BBDO / New York + Furlined / New York
Client: AT&T Category: Craft in Video / Direction - Single
Mori Building Brand movie DESIGNING TOKYO
Agency: Dentsu Inc. / Tokyo + Dentsu Creative X inc. / Tokyo
Client: Mori Building Co., Ltd. Category: Craft in Video / Direction - Single
The Others
Agency: DDB, / Paris + Wanda / Paris + THE / Paris + MIKROS / Paris
Client: Volkswagen Category: Craft in Video / Direction - Single
Let's Summer
Agency: AlmapBBDO / Sao Paulo + Alpargatas / Sao Paulo
Client: Alpargatas Category: Posters / Traditional - Series
Sound Images
Agency: Scholz & Friends / Berlin
Client: Berliner Philharmoniker Category: Posters / Traditional - Series
The huge wall
Agency: PEN.Inc. / Tokyo + Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association / Tokyo
Client: International Federation of Sport Climbing + Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association Category: Posters / Traditional - Series
Human Clock
Agency: Leo Burnett / Toronto + Leo Burnett / Vietnam
Client: McDonald's Category: Posters / Traditional - Series
Broken Display Maps
Agency: Cheil Germany / Schwalbach am Taunus
Client: Samsung Electronics Germany Category: Posters / Traditional - Series
Ink Expression: Silk Road Poster
Agency: SOLO Studio / Xi'an
Client: Xi'an Municipal Government Category: Posters / Traditional - Series
Independents on 5th: Shoppable Holiday Windows
Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco + Standard Transmission / Brooklyn + Picture Farm / Brooklyn + Gattie and Lopez / New York
Client: PayPal Category: Spatial Design / Retail Design
Windows Into The Future
Agency: Cheil Germany / Schwalbach am Taunus
Client: Samsung Electronics Germany Category: Spatial Design / Retail Design
Theaster Gates
Agency: Taylor Castle / Seattle + Tribune / Chicago
Client: Chicago Tribune Category: Portraiture / Single
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Airbnb Magazine / New York + Airbnb / San Francisco
Client:
Airbnb Magazine
Title:
Enchanted Lands
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_046M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Nicolas Ortega / New York + Barron's / New York
Client:
Barron's
Title:
What The U.S. Gets Wrong About China
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_047M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Leonardo Santamaria / Los Angeles + Believer Magazine / Las Vegas
Client:
Believer Magazine
Title:
Beating the Bounds: The Case for Ethical Borders
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_048M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Dan Bejar Illustration / Brooklyn + Imagination / Washington DC
Client:
Engineering Inc. Magazine
Title:
Control
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_049M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Leonardo Santamaria / Los Angeles + O, The Oprah Magazine / New York City
Client:
O, The Oprah Magazine
Title:
My Sister, Myself
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_050M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Brian Stauffer Illustration + Animation / Novato + The New York Times Magazine / NYC
Client:
The New York Times
Title:
Harvey Weinstein Convicted
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_051M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Estudio Javier Jaen / Barcelona
Client:
The New York Times
Title:
One Small Step
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_052M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Igor Bastidas Studio / Brooklyn + The er / New York
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
Athleisure Time
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_053M
Award:
2020 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Till Lauer / Lucerne + The New Yorker / New York City
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
Student Debt
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT20_054M
Award:
2020 Photography Merit Honor
Agency:
New York Magazine / New York
Client:
New York Magazine
Title:
IRL City
Category:
Fashion / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PHO20_035M
Award:
2020 Interactive Merit Honor
Agency:
BBDO / New York + VT Pro Design / Los Angeles + BBDO Studios / New York
Client:
Bacardi - Bombay Sapphire
Title:
Painted by Everyone
Category:
Online / Mobile Websites / Campaign Site
Annual ID:
ADC_INT20_060M
Award:
2020 Interactive Merit Honor
Agency:
FCB/SIX / Toronto
Client:
Black & Abroad
Title:
Go Back To Africa
Category:
Online / Mobile Websites / Campaign Site
Annual ID:
ADC_INT20_061M
Award:
2020 Interactive Merit Honor
Agency:
Tribal / Paris + L'Occitane / Paris + MERCI-MICHEL / Paris
Client:
L'Occitane
Title:
Seeds of dreams
Category:
Online / Mobile Websites / Campaign Site
Annual ID:
ADC_INT20_062M
Award:
2020 Integrated Merit Honor
Agency:
Jones Knowles Ritchie / New York
Client:
AB InBev - Budweiser
Title:
#SelfieBud
Category:
Integrated / Digital
Annual ID:
ADC_ITG20_016M
Award:
2020 Integrated Merit Honor
Agency:
BBDO GmbH / Duesseldorf
Client:
KMSZ (Bone Marrow Donation Center)
Title:
Life Lolli - A lollipop designed to save lives
Category:
Integrated / Digital
Annual ID:
ADC_ITG20_017M
Award:
2020 Product Design Merit Honor
Agency:
TBWA\Sri Lanka / Colombo
Client:
D'LAS INTERNATIONAL (PVT) LTD.
Title:
AURA INCENSE BARRICADE
Category:
Design for Good / Product Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_065M
Award:
2020 Product Design Merit Honor
Agency:
GTB / São Paulo + Code Studio / São Paulo + Bizsys / São Paulo
Client:
Ford Motor Company
Title:
Accessibility Mat
Category:
Design for Good / Product Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_066M
Award:
2020 Product Design Merit Honor
Agency:
TBWA\HAKUHODO Inc. / Tokyo
Client:
Japan Para Table Tennis Association
Title:
The Most Challenging Pingpong Table
Category:
Design for Good / Product Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_067M
Award:
2020 Product Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Kzy Agency thailand / bangkok
Client:
TESCO LOTUS SUPERMARKET
Title:
Cart Wheelchair
Category:
Design for Good / Product Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_068M
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 Experiential Design Merit Honor
Agency:
HEIMAT / Berlin + Intermate Media GmbH / Berlin + achtung! / Hamburg + Low Bros / Berlin
Client:
ADP e. V. / Deutsche Krebshilfe
Title:
German Cancer Aid "Spectrum"
Category:
Design for Good / Experiential Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_045M
Award:
2020 Experiential Design Merit Honor
Agency:
No Fixed Address / Toronto + Canadian Centre for Child Protection / Winnipeg + Canadian Centre for Child Protection / Winnipeg
Client:
Canadian Centre for Child Protection
Title:
Lolli: The Exhibit Nobody Wants to Talk About
Category:
Design for Good / Experiential Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_046M
Award:
2020 Experiential Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Badger & Winters / New York
Client:
RAICES
Title:
#NoKidsInCages
Category:
Design for Good / Experiential Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_047M
Award:
2020 Experiential Design Merit Honor
Agency:
No Fixed Address / Toronto + SickKids Foundation / Toronto
Client:
SickKids Foundation
Title:
SickKids Airbnb
Category:
Design for Good / Experiential Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_048M
Award:
2020 Experiential Design Merit Honor
Agency:
BBDO / Minneapolis + BBDO / New York
Client:
Theirworld
Title:
The Infinity Classroom
Category:
Design for Good / Experiential Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_049M
Award:
2020 Experiential Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Africa / Sao Paulo
Client:
Unesco
Title:
History Blocks
Category:
Design for Good / Experiential Design
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_050M
Award:
2020 Motion / Film / Gaming Craft Merit Honor
Agency:
Giant Ant / Vancouver
Client:
Slack
Title:
Frontiers 2019 Intro
Category:
Motion / Film / Title Sequences
Annual ID:
ADC_MOT20_068M
Award:
2020 Typography Merit Honor
Agency:
Anna Rolskaia / Lisbo
Client:
Royal palmeira
Title:
Royal palmeira
Category:
Lettering / Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_TYP20_022M
Award:
2020 Typography Merit Honor
Agency:
Version Design Group / Shanghai
Client:
shanghai version design group
Title:
Chinese Provincial Capital Typeface
Category:
Lettering / Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_TYP20_023M
Award:
2020 Advertising Merit Honor
Agency:
Spotify In-House / New York
Client:
Spotify
Title:
Let The Song Play
Category:
Television / Film / Online Video / Film - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ADV20_098M
Award:
2020 Advertising Merit Honor
Agency:
BUCK / Los Angeles + TBWA\Media Arts Lab / Los Angeles
Client:
Apple
Title:
Wonderful Tools
Category:
Branded Content / Entertainment - Online Video / Short Form
Annual ID:
ADC_ADV20_074M
Award:
2020 Product Design Merit Honor
Agency:
DDB, / Paris + Marie Claire / Paris + DL Additive / Paris
Client:
Marie Claire
Title:
Les Marianne
Category:
Interiors / Home / Office / Decorative - Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_PRD20_012M
Award:
2020 Fashion Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Africa / Sao Paulo
Client:
Ampara ANIMAL
Title:
Life Print
Category:
Craft / Patterns / Textiles
Annual ID:
ADC_FSN20_007M
Award:
2020 Fashion Design Merit Honor
Agency:
TAXI / Toronto/Montreal/Vancouver/New York + Canadian Mental Health Association / Toronto
Client:
Canadian Mental Health Association
Title:
Mental Fatigues
Category:
Craft / Patterns / Textiles
Annual ID:
ADC_FSN20_008M
Award:
2020 Fashion Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Marc Burckhardt / Austin + Gucci / Milan
Client:
Gucci
Title:
Gucci Cheetahorse Dress
Category:
Craft / Patterns / Textiles
Annual ID:
ADC_FSN20_009M
Award:
2020 Motion / Film / Gaming Craft Merit Honor
Agency:
Leo Burnett / Chicago
Client:
Feeding America
Title:
I Am Hunger in America
Category:
Design for Good / Motion / Film Craft
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG20_062M
Award:
2020 Advertising Merit Honor
Agency:
BBDO / New York + Furlined / New York
Client:
AT&T
Title:
Train
Category:
Craft in Video / Direction - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ADV20_083M
Award:
2020 Advertising Merit Honor
Agency:
Dentsu Inc. / Tokyo + Dentsu Creative X inc. / Tokyo
Client:
Mori Building Co., Ltd.
Title:
Mori Building Brand movie DESIGNING TOKYO
Category:
Craft in Video / Direction - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ADV20_084M
Award:
2020 Advertising Merit Honor
Agency:
DDB, / Paris + Wanda / Paris + THE / Paris + MIKROS / Paris
Client:
Volkswagen
Title:
The Others
Category:
Craft in Video / Direction - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ADV20_085M
Award:
2020 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
AlmapBBDO / Sao Paulo + Alpargatas / Sao Paulo
Client:
Alpargatas
Title:
Let's Summer
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_BCD20_063M
Award:
2020 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Scholz & Friends / Berlin
Client:
Berliner Philharmoniker
Title:
Sound Images
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_BCD20_064M
Award:
2020 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Geometry Ogilvy Japan / Tokyo
Client:
D&AD
Title:
See It
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_BCD20_065M
Award:
2020 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
PEN.Inc. / Tokyo + Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association / Tokyo
Client:
International Federation of Sport Climbing + Japan Mountaineering and Sport Climbing Association
Title:
The huge wall
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_BCD20_066M
Award:
2020 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Leo Burnett / Toronto + Leo Burnett / Vietnam
Client:
McDonald's
Title:
Human Clock
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_BCD20_067M
Award:
2020 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Cheil Germany / Schwalbach am Taunus
Client:
Samsung Electronics Germany
Title:
Broken Display Maps
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_BCD20_068M
Award:
2020 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
SOLO Studio / Xi'an
Client:
Xi'an Municipal Government
Title:
Ink Expression: Silk Road Poster
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_BCD20_069M
Award:
2020 Spatial Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco + Standard Transmission / Brooklyn + Picture Farm / Brooklyn + Gattie and Lopez / New York
Client:
PayPal
Title:
Independents on 5th: Shoppable Holiday Windows
Category:
Spatial Design / Retail Design
Annual ID:
ADC_SPL20_032M
Award:
2020 Spatial Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Cheil Germany / Schwalbach am Taunus
Client:
Samsung Electronics Germany
Title:
Windows Into The Future
Category:
Spatial Design / Retail Design
Annual ID:
ADC_SPL20_033M
Award:
2020 Photography Merit Honor
Agency:
Taylor Castle / Seattle + Tribune / Chicago
Client:
Chicago Tribune
Title:
Theaster Gates
Category:
Portraiture / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_PHO20_049M
