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.

Award

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
RAN Agency: Ailun Jiang + Yatang Hsu Client: Self-Promotion Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series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
DOWN THE LINE Agency: THE JKBN GROUP, LLC. / Los Angeles + Kadir Nelson Client: THE JKBN GROUP, LLC Category: Wildcard / Single
AFTER THE STORM Agency: CBS SUNDAY MORNING / New York + Kadir Nelson Client: CBS Sunday Morning Category: Promotional / Collateral / Single
Big Change Starts Small Agency: Kin / New York + Mailchimp / Atlanta + Buck / New York Client: Mailchimp Category: Animation / Series
Nine Songs Agency: Te Hu Client: Te Hu Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single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
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Lou Agency: Aiste Stancikaite Client: Aiste Stancikaite Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series
Portraits of Westlake Agency: Dominic Bodden Client: Self-Promotion Category: Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series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
America, Get Off Our Necks! Agency: Brian Stauffer Client: NAACP / The Crisis Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Day One Agency: Tim O'Brien Client: Time Magazine Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
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
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 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
Boards of Change Agency: FCB / Chicago + Lord + Thomas / Chicago + Current Global / Chicago + FCBX / Chicago Client: City of Chicago Category: Innovation
Quarantine Journal Agency: The New York Times Magazine / New York Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
#TAKEMEBACK Agency: MullenLowe SSP3 / Bogotá Client: AB InBev / Aguila Light Beer Category: Packaging / Series
Windows of Hope Agency: Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco Client: HP Category: Design for Good / Illustration - Single or 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
Blackish Tea Agency: BLACKISH/ABC / Los Angeles + Kadir Nelson Client: ABC Category: Promotional / Collateral / Single
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
“No, Really, Are we Rome?“ Agency: Nicolas Client: The Atlantic Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
How to Stop the Next Pandemic Agency: The New York Times Magazine Labs / New York Client: The New York Times Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
The Queen's Gambit Agency: Leonardo Santamaria Client: The New Yorker Category: Editorial / Spread - Single
2020 Holiday Gift Guide Agency: Jiaqi Wang + Closer & Closer / Los Angeles + The Washington Post Client: The Washington Post Category: Editorial / Spread - Series
WORLD OF CRYPTIDS Agency: Laimutė + NeoMam Studios / London Client: NeoMam Studios/ SavingSpot Category: Digital / Series
Boring Heroes Agency: McCann / New York + Reckitt Benckiser / Parsnipanny + Dutch Uncle / New York Client: Mucinex Category: Digital / Series
Crack Open Happy Agency: The Martin Agency / Richmond + Flutter/Jacky Winter Group / Melbourne + Spang TV / Richmond Client: Happy Egg Category: Wildcard / Series
A Rainy Day in New York Agency: Longride / Tokyo + Tatsuro Client: Longride Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
Illustrated, Your Way Agency: Jones Knowles Ritchie / New York Client: Burger King Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
Festival of Animation Berlin Agency: INNOCEAN Worldwide Europe / Berlin + Festival of Animation Berlin / Berlin Client: Festival of Animation Berlin Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
Illustrations for Norwegian Academy of Music Agency: ANTI Client: Norwegian Academy of Music Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
The Missing Piece Agency: Bruno Cintra Client: Hermoso Compadre Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
Alem Illustration System Agency: Fabrizio Lenci Client: Alem.com.br Category: Promotional / Collateral / Series
Muscle Memory Agency: Leonardo Santamaria Client: Nike Category: Digital / Single

2021 Illustration Best of Discipline Cube

The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson

The New Yorker

SAY THEIR NAMES

Best of Illustration

ADC_ILT21_001G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

Ailun Jiang + Yatang Hsu

Self-Promotion

RAN

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series

ADC_ILT21_008G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson

The New Yorker

SAY THEIR NAMES

Editorial / Front Page - Single

ADC_ILT21_001G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson

The New Yorker

THE CENTENNIAL

Editorial / Front Page - Single

ADC_ILT21_003G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson

The New Yorker

Distant Summer

Editorial / Front Page - Single

ADC_ILT21_004G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

Rolling Stone / New York + Kadir Nelson

Rolling Stone

AMERICAN UPRISING

Editorial / Front Page - Single

ADC_ILT21_005G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

The New Yorker / New York + Kadir Nelson

The New Yorker

Sweet Liberty

Editorial / Front Page - Single

ADC_ILT21_006G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

THE JKBN GROUP, LLC. / Los Angeles + Kadir Nelson

THE JKBN GROUP, LLC

DOWN THE LINE

Wildcard / Single

ADC_ILT21_010G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

CBS SUNDAY MORNING / New York + Kadir Nelson

CBS Sunday Morning

AFTER THE STORM

Promotional / Collateral / Single

ADC_ILT21_009G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

Kin / New York + Mailchimp / Atlanta + Buck / New York

Mailchimp

Big Change Starts Small

Animation / Series

ADC_ILT21_002G

2021 Illustration Gold Cube

Te Hu

Te Hu

Nine Songs

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single

ADC_ILT21_007G

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

TOFU Studio / Gdansk + UNICEF Poland / Warsaw

UNICEF Poland

The Legends

Editorial / Spread - Series

ADC_ILT21_015S

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

Edward Kinsella + Bloomsbury Publishing PLC / London + British Film Institute / London

The British Film Institute + Bloomsbury Publishing

Night of the Living Dead

Book / Single

ADC_ILT21_011S

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

Edward Kinsella + The Folio Society / London

The Folio Society

Misery

Book / Series

ADC_ILT21_012S

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

Aiste Stancikaite

Aiste Stancikaite

Lou

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series

ADC_ILT21_018S

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

Dominic Bodden

Self-Promotion

Portraits of Westlake

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series

ADC_ILT21_019S

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

Sally Deng

Personal

Diaspora

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series

ADC_ILT21_020S

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

Brian Stauffer

NAACP / The Crisis

America, Get Off Our Necks!

Editorial / Front Page - Single

ADC_ILT21_013S

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

Tim O'Brien

Time Magazine

Day One

Editorial / Front Page - Single

ADC_ILT21_014S

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

Chloe Yee May

Personal / Unpublished

Tears not Shown Till Now/AAPI Hate

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single

ADC_ILT21_016S

2021 Illustration Silver Cube

Aiste Stancikaite

Aiste Stancikaite

They Were Always Alone

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single

ADC_ILT21_017S

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

Leonardo Santamaria

The New York Times

Disabled in the Coronavirus Crisis

Editorial / Spread - Single

ADC_ILT21_025B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

Alexis Eke + The Canvas Agency / New York

Bloomberg

"The Only One in the Room"

Editorial / Spread - Single

ADC_ILT21_026B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

Condé Nast, Vanity Fair / NEW YORK + CALIDA

VANITY FAIR

ON THE SEA OF TIME

Editorial / Spread - Single

ADC_ILT21_027B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

The Bloc / New York

National Black Child Development Institute

ABCs of Survival

Digital / Series

ADC_ILT21_022B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

MullenLowe SSP3 / Bogotá

AB InBev / Aguila Light Beer

#TAKEMEBACK

Digital / Series

ADC_ILT21_023B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

Han

Self-promotion

The Lovely Old Street In My Memory

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series

ADC_ILT21_032B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

Simone Noronha

-

Tasty Treats

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Series

ADC_ILT21_033B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

FCB / Chicago + Lord + Thomas / Chicago + Current Global / Chicago + FCBX / Chicago

City of Chicago

Boards of Change

Innovation

ADC_ILT21_028B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

The New York Times Magazine / New York

The New York Times

Quarantine Journal

Editorial / Front Page - Single

ADC_ILT21_024B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

MullenLowe SSP3 / Bogotá

AB InBev / Aguila Light Beer

#TAKEMEBACK

Packaging / Series

ADC_ILT21_029B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

Goodby Silverstein & Partners / San Francisco

HP

Windows of Hope

Design for Good / Illustration - Single or Series

ADC_DFG21_022B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

TOFU Studio / Gdansk + National Museum in Gdansk / Gdansk

National Museum in Gdansk

The History of "THE LAST JUDGEMENT" by Memling

Animation / Single

ADC_ILT21_021B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

BLACKISH/ABC / Los Angeles + Kadir Nelson

ABC

Blackish Tea

Promotional / Collateral / Single

ADC_ILT21_034B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

Simone Noronha

-

The Embrace

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single

ADC_ILT21_030B

2021 Illustration Bronze Cube

Giant Ant / Vancouver + Ambrose Yu

Giant Ant

Right Now

Personal / Unpublished / Passion Project / Single

ADC_ILT21_031B

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

Nicolas

The Atlantic

“No, Really, Are we Rome?“

Editorial / Spread - Single

ADC_ILT21_047M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

The New York Times Magazine Labs / New York

The New York Times

How to Stop the Next Pandemic

Editorial / Spread - Single

ADC_ILT21_048M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

Leonardo Santamaria

The New Yorker

The Queen's Gambit

Editorial / Spread - Single

ADC_ILT21_049M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

Jiaqi Wang + Closer & Closer / Los Angeles + The Washington Post

The Washington Post

2020 Holiday Gift Guide

Editorial / Spread - Series

ADC_ILT21_050M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

Laimutė + NeoMam Studios / London

NeoMam Studios/ SavingSpot

WORLD OF CRYPTIDS

Digital / Series

ADC_ILT21_043M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

McCann / New York + Reckitt Benckiser / Parsnipanny + Dutch Uncle / New York

Mucinex

Boring Heroes

Digital / Series

ADC_ILT21_044M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

The Martin Agency / Richmond + Flutter/Jacky Winter Group / Melbourne + Spang TV / Richmond

Happy Egg

Crack Open Happy

Wildcard / Series

ADC_ILT21_076M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

Longride / Tokyo + Tatsuro

Longride

A Rainy Day in New York

Promotional / Collateral / Series

ADC_ILT21_069M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

Jones Knowles Ritchie / New York

Burger King

Illustrated, Your Way

Promotional / Collateral / Series

ADC_ILT21_070M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

INNOCEAN Worldwide Europe / Berlin + Festival of Animation Berlin / Berlin

Festival of Animation Berlin

Festival of Animation Berlin

Promotional / Collateral / Series

ADC_ILT21_071M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

ANTI

Norwegian Academy of Music

Illustrations for Norwegian Academy of Music

Promotional / Collateral / Series

ADC_ILT21_072M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

Bruno Cintra

Hermoso Compadre

The Missing Piece

Promotional / Collateral / Series

ADC_ILT21_073M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

Fabrizio Lenci

Alem.com.br

Alem Illustration System

Promotional / Collateral / Series

ADC_ILT21_074M

2021 Illustration Merit Honor

Leonardo Santamaria

Nike

Muscle Memory

Digital / Single

ADC_ILT21_040M

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