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
SAY THEIR NAMES
Agency: The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client: The New Yorker Category: Best of Illustration
AFTER THE STORM
Agency: CBS SUNDAY MORNING / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client: CBS Sunday Morning Category: Promotional / Collateral / Single
DOWN THE LINE
Agency: THE JKBN GROUP, LLC. / Los Angeles + Kadir Nelson
Client: THE JKBN GROUP, LLC Category: Wildcard / Single
RAN
Agency: Ailun Jiang + Yatang Hsu
Client: Self-Promotion Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
SAY THEIR NAMES
Agency: The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client: The New Yorker Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
THE CENTENNIAL
Agency: The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client: The New Yorker Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Distant Summer
Agency: The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client: The New Yorker Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
AMERICAN UPRISING
Agency: Rolling Stone / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client: Rolling Stone Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Sweet Liberty
Agency: The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client: The New Yorker Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Big Change Starts Small
Agency: Kin / New York + Mailchimp / Atlanta + Buck / New York
Client: Mailchimp Category: Animation / Series
Misery
Agency: Edward Kinsella + The Folio Society / London
Client: The Folio Society Category: Book / Series
Lou
Agency: Aiste Stancikaite
Client: Aiste Stancikaite Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Portraits of Westlake
Agency: Dominic Bodden
Client: Self-Promotion Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Diaspora
Agency: Sally Deng
Client: Personal Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Tears not Shown Till Now/AAPI Hate
Agency: Chloe Yee May
Client: Personal / Unpublished Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single
They Were Always Alone
Agency: Aiste Stancikaite
Client: Aiste Stancikaite Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single
America, Get Off Our Necks!
Agency: Brian Stauffer
Client: NAACP / The Crisis Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
The Legends
Agency: TOFU Studio / Gdansk + UNICEF Poland / Warsaw
Client: UNICEF Poland Category: Editorial / Spread - Series
Night of the Living Dead
Agency: Edward Kinsella + Bloomsbury Publishing PLC / London + British Film Institute / London
Client: The British Film Institute + Bloomsbury Publishing Category: Book / Single
Windows of Hope
Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco
Client: HP Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Blackish Tea
Agency: BLACKISH/ABC / Los Angeles + Kadir Nelson
Client: ABC Category: Promotional / Collateral / Single
#TAKEMEBACK
Agency: MullenLowe SSP3 / Bogotá
Client: AB InBev / Aguila Light Beer Category: Packaging / Series
The Lovely Old Street In My Memory
Agency: Han
Client: Self-promotion Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Tasty Treats
Agency: Simone Noronha
Client: - Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Disabled in the Coronavirus Crisis
Agency: Leonardo Santamaria
Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
"The Only One in the Room"
Agency: Alexis Eke + The Canvas Agency / New York
Client: Bloomberg Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
ON THE SEA OF TIME
Agency: Condé Nast, Vanity Fair / NEW YORK + CALIDA
Client: VANITY FAIR Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
ABCs of Survival
Agency: The Bloc / New York
Client: National Black Child Development Institute Category: Digital / Series
#TAKEMEBACK
Agency: MullenLowe SSP3 / Bogotá
Client: AB InBev / Aguila Light Beer Category: Digital / Series
The History of "THE LAST JUDGEMENT" by Memling
Agency: TOFU Studio / Gdansk + National Museum in Gdansk / Gdansk
Client: National Museum in Gdansk Category: Animation / Single
Boards of Change
Agency: FCB / Chicago + Lord + Thomas / Chicago + Current Global / Chicago + FCBX / Chicago
Client: City of Chicago Category: Innovation
The Embrace
Agency: Simone Noronha
Client: - Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single
Right Now
Agency: Giant Ant / Vancouver + Ambrose Yu
Client: Giant Ant Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single
Quarantine Journal
Agency: The New York Times Magazine / New York
Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
ABCs of Survival
Agency: The Bloc / New York
Client: National Black Child Development Institute Category: Book / Series
Black History Month
Agency: YouTube Art Department / San Bruno
Client: YouTube Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Boring Heroes
Agency: McCann / New York + Reckitt Benckiser / Parsnipanny + Dutch Uncle / New York
Client: Mucinex Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Juan Cun-Military Dependents’ Villages in Taiwan
Agency: Zhang Xin
Client: Self-promotion Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Afghanistan's First All Female Orchestra
Agency: Williams Murray Hamm / London + Orchestra of Saint John / Oxford
Client: Orchestra of Saint John Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Truly Orginals
Agency: Boston Beer Company + 360i / New York
Client: Truly Category: Promotional / Collateral / Single
Our Rhythms
Agency: Yani&Guille + Eugenia Mello
Client: Aguila Chocolates Category: Packaging / Series
Vasaknai Craft Beer
Agency: FOLK / Vilnius
Client: Vasaknos Manor & Brewery Category: Packaging / Series
IMBALANCE
Agency: indego design / Macau
Client: Naughty Roll Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
world2
Agency: Thomas Hedger + TWOMUCH.STUDIO / London
Client: Thomas Hedger Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Personal Portrait Illustrations
Agency: Alexis Eke
Client: Alexis Eke Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Glitter
Agency: Jiaqi Wang
Client: Self-Promotion Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Black Lives Matter
Agency: Dominique Ramsey
Client: Dominique Ramsey Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Award:
2021 Illustration Best of Discipline Cube
Agency:
The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
SAY THEIR NAMES
Category:
Best of Illustration
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_001G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
CBS SUNDAY MORNING / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client:
CBS Sunday Morning
Title:
AFTER THE STORM
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_009G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
THE JKBN GROUP, LLC. / Los Angeles + Kadir Nelson
Client:
THE JKBN GROUP, LLC
Title:
DOWN THE LINE
Category:
Wildcard / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_010G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Ailun Jiang + Yatang Hsu
Client:
Self-Promotion
Title:
RAN
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_008G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Te Hu
Client:
Te Hu
Title:
Nine Songs
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_007G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
SAY THEIR NAMES
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_001G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
THE CENTENNIAL
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_003G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
Distant Summer
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_004G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Rolling Stone / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client:
Rolling Stone
Title:
AMERICAN UPRISING
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_005G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
Sweet Liberty
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_006G
Award:
2021 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Kin / New York + Mailchimp / Atlanta + Buck / New York
Client:
Mailchimp
Title:
Big Change Starts Small
Category:
Animation / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_002G
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Edward Kinsella + The Folio Society / London
Client:
The Folio Society
Title:
Misery
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_012S
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Aiste Stancikaite
Client:
Aiste Stancikaite
Title:
Lou
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_018S
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Dominic Bodden
Client:
Self-Promotion
Title:
Portraits of Westlake
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_019S
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Sally Deng
Client:
Personal
Title:
Diaspora
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_020S
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Chloe Yee May
Client:
Personal / Unpublished
Title:
Tears not Shown Till Now/AAPI Hate
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_016S
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Aiste Stancikaite
Client:
Aiste Stancikaite
Title:
They Were Always Alone
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_017S
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Brian Stauffer
Client:
NAACP / The Crisis
Title:
America, Get Off Our Necks!
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_013S
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Tim O'Brien
Client:
Time Magazine
Title:
Day One
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_014S
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
TOFU Studio / Gdansk + UNICEF Poland / Warsaw
Client:
UNICEF Poland
Title:
The Legends
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_015S
Award:
2021 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Edward Kinsella + Bloomsbury Publishing PLC / London + British Film Institute / London
Client:
The British Film Institute + Bloomsbury Publishing
Title:
Night of the Living Dead
Category:
Book / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_011S
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco
Client:
HP
Title:
Windows of Hope
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG21_022B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
BLACKISH/ABC / Los Angeles + Kadir Nelson
Client:
ABC
Title:
Blackish Tea
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_034B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
MullenLowe SSP3 / Bogotá
Client:
AB InBev / Aguila Light Beer
Title:
#TAKEMEBACK
Category:
Packaging / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_029B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Han
Client:
Self-promotion
Title:
The Lovely Old Street In My Memory
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_032B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Simone Noronha
Client:
-
Title:
Tasty Treats
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_033B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Leonardo Santamaria
Client:
The New York Times
Title:
Disabled in the Coronavirus Crisis
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_025B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Alexis Eke + The Canvas Agency / New York
Client:
Bloomberg
Title:
"The Only One in the Room"
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_026B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Condé Nast, Vanity Fair / NEW YORK + CALIDA
Client:
VANITY FAIR
Title:
ON THE SEA OF TIME
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_027B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
The Bloc / New York
Client:
National Black Child Development Institute
Title:
ABCs of Survival
Category:
Digital / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_022B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
MullenLowe SSP3 / Bogotá
Client:
AB InBev / Aguila Light Beer
Title:
#TAKEMEBACK
Category:
Digital / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_023B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
TOFU Studio / Gdansk + National Museum in Gdansk / Gdansk
Client:
National Museum in Gdansk
Title:
The History of "THE LAST JUDGEMENT" by Memling
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_021B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
FCB / Chicago + Lord + Thomas / Chicago + Current Global / Chicago + FCBX / Chicago
Client:
City of Chicago
Title:
Boards of Change
Category:
Innovation
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_028B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Simone Noronha
Client:
-
Title:
The Embrace
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_030B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Giant Ant / Vancouver + Ambrose Yu
Client:
Giant Ant
Title:
Right Now
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_031B
Award:
2021 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine / New York
Client:
The New York Times
Title:
Quarantine Journal
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_024B
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
The Bloc / New York
Client:
National Black Child Development Institute
Title:
ABCs of Survival
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_039M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
YouTube Art Department / San Bruno
Client:
YouTube
Title:
Black History Month
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG21_045M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
McCann / New York + Reckitt Benckiser / Parsnipanny + Dutch Uncle / New York
Client:
Mucinex
Title:
Boring Heroes
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG21_046M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Zhang Xin
Client:
Self-promotion
Title:
Juan Cun-Military Dependents’ Villages in Taiwan
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG21_047M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Williams Murray Hamm / London + Orchestra of Saint John / Oxford
Client:
Orchestra of Saint John
Title:
Afghanistan's First All Female Orchestra
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series
Annual ID:
ADC_DFG21_048M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Boston Beer Company + 360i / New York
Client:
Truly
Title:
Truly Orginals
Category:
Promotional / Collateral / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_068M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Muhammad Mustafa
Client:
Marwan Pablo
Title:
CTRL album Art
Category:
Wildcard / Single
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_075M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Yani&Guille + Eugenia Mello
Client:
Aguila Chocolates
Title:
Our Rhythms
Category:
Packaging / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_055M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
FOLK / Vilnius
Client:
Vasaknos Manor & Brewery
Title:
Vasaknai Craft Beer
Category:
Packaging / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_056M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
indego design / Macau
Client:
Naughty Roll
Title:
IMBALANCE
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_060M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Thomas Hedger + TWOMUCH.STUDIO / London
Client:
Thomas Hedger
Title:
world2
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_061M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Alexis Eke
Client:
Alexis Eke
Title:
Personal Portrait Illustrations
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_062M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Jiaqi Wang
Client:
Self-Promotion
Title:
Glitter
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_063M
Award:
2021 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Dominique Ramsey
Client:
Dominique Ramsey
Title:
Black Lives Matter
Category:
Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC_ILT21_064M
