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Agency
Client
Title
Category
Annual ID
Walnut and Me
Agency: The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Best of Illustration
Full Moon Festival
Agency: So Creative Studio / Shanghai + SHUI ON XINTIANDI / SHANGHAI
Client: SHUI ON XINTIANDI Category: Branded Identity / Series
Visually Receipt : Recorded in Kappabashi
Agency: Lily Ongartthaworn
Client: Lily Ongartthaworn Category: Personal Project / Series
Walnut and Me
Agency: The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Animation / Single
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Agency: Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client: ASTER Category: Animation / Single
47
Agency: Klick Health / Toronto + Canja Audio Culture + Zombie Studio
Client: Café Joyeux Category: Animation / Single
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Agency: Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client: ASTER Category: Design for Good / Illustration
47
Agency: Klick Health / Toronto + Canja Audio Culture + Zombie Studio
Client: Café Joyeux Category: Design for Good / Illustration
130 Years of Memories
Agency: DDB Paris / Paris + MICHAEL LIM
Client: Galeries Lafayette Category: Animation / Series
Shadow Fleet
Agency: OWEN GILDERSLEEVE + Plastic Horse / Ramsgate + Arnau Busquets + Politico / Brussels
Client: Politico Category: Editorial / Front Page - Series
The Doll Test: Choosing Equality
Agency: David Elmo Cooper
Client: Lerner Publishing Category: Book / Series
Most Searched Playground: Paris 2024
Agency: Google / Mountain View
Client: Google Category: Branded Identity / Single
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Agency: Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client: ASTER Category: Advertising / Series
Let The Journey Begin
Agency: BUCK + Mother / New York
Client: Streeteasy Category: Advertising / Series
Walnut and Me
Agency: The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Editorial / Spread - Series
The Steamboat Willie Story
Agency: Klick Health / Toronto + Jamute + LightFarm Studios
Client: Retiro dos Artistas Category: Design for Good / Illustration
How&How: Aruba Conservation Foundation
Agency: How&How / London
Client: Aruba Conservation Foundation Category: Branded Identity / Series
Ame Illustration
Agency: Sons & Daughters ID / Vilnius
Client: AME COFFEE Category: Branded Identity / Series
The Dinner Ladies
Agency: Universal Favourite / Sydney
Client: The Dinner Ladies Category: Branded Identity / Series
Pinghu EDZ Kindergarten
Agency: RIFLING / Changsha长沙
Client: Pinghu EDZ Kindergarten Category: Branded Identity / Series
How To Make Retirement Less Scary
Agency: The New York Times Magazine
Client: The New York Times Magazine Category: Digital / Single
The Symphony Plotter
Agency: TBWA\HAKUHODO Inc. / Tokyo + digimo INC. / Tokyo + HAKUHODO PRODUCT'S INC / Tokyo + Y’s inc / Tokyo
Client: JAPAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA Category: Innovation
Joy Soldiers™ - Unit One
Agency: Mickaël Mehala
Client: Black Childish Category: Personal Project / Series
THE BUREAUCRAT WHO COULD MAKE TRUMP’S AUTHORITARIAN DREAMS REAL.
Agency: Deena So'Oteh + Mother Jones Magazine
Client: Mother Jones Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
The Circus Is In Town
Agency: Marco Lawrence
Client: Christianity Today Category: Editorial / Front Page - Single
Paramount Network's Killer Classics
Agency: Paramount Media Networks, MTV Entertainment Studios + STATE Design
Client: Paramount Network Category: Animation / Single
It works.
Agency: DENTSU INC. / Tokyo
Client: THE YOSHIDA HIDEO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION/AD MUSEUM TOKYO Category: Animation / Single
Tactile Wall Illustrations
Agency: Sjoerd Verbeek + de ruimdenkers
Client: HKU University of Arts Utrecht Category: Mural / Graffiti / Street Art / Series
An Illustrated Treasury of Dragon Tales
Agency: Kate Leiper
Client: Floris Books Category: Book / Series
Die Froschprinzessin - Märchen aus aller Welt
Agency: Julia Plath + Fischer Sauerländer / Frankfurt
Client: Fischer Sauerländer Publishing Category: Book / Series
McLolla '24 Posters
Agency: Jun Ioneda + GALERIA / São Paulo
Client: McDonald's Category: Advertising / Series
MACAO DESIGN AWARDS 2023 EXHIBITION- TOKYO
Agency: indego design / Macau
Client: MACAU DESIGNERS ASSOCIATION Category: Advertising / Series
Morning is born
Agency: DENTSU INC. / Tokyo + The Ad Museum Tokyo / Tokyo
Client: The Ad Museum Tokyo Category: Print / Series
One in 100
Agency: The Local Collective + Safehaven Toronto / Toronto
Client: Safehaven Toronto Category: Book / Single
Narrating Slavery's Wake
Agency: Pola Maneli
Client: The Smithsonian Institute Category: Wildcard / Series
Philo Visual Identity
Agency: Sibling Rivalry / New York
Client: Philo Category: Branded Identity / Series
Lishui Nancheng Kindergarten
Agency: RIFLING / Changsha长沙
Client: Lishui Nancheng Kindergarten Category: Branded Identity / Series
Metro Rewind
Agency: WHITE64 / Tysons
Client: Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority Category: Digital / Series
Award:
2025 Illustration Best of Discipline Cube
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Walnut and Me
Category:
Best of Illustration
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT000G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
So Creative Studio / Shanghai + SHUI ON XINTIANDI / SHANGHAI
Client:
SHUI ON XINTIANDI
Title:
Full Moon Festival
Category:
Branded Identity / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT006G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
FCB / New York
Client:
Spotify
Title:
Spreadbeats
Category:
Innovation
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT008G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Lily Ongartthaworn
Client:
Lily Ongartthaworn
Title:
Visually Receipt : Recorded in Kappabashi
Category:
Personal Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT009G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Walnut and Me
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT000G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client:
ASTER
Title:
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT003G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Klick Health / Toronto + Canja Audio Culture + Zombie Studio
Client:
Café Joyeux
Title:
47
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT004G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client:
ASTER
Title:
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT001G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
Klick Health / Toronto + Canja Audio Culture + Zombie Studio
Client:
Café Joyeux
Title:
47
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT002G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
DDB Paris / Paris + MICHAEL LIM
Client:
Galeries Lafayette
Title:
130 Years of Memories
Category:
Animation / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT005G
Award:
2025 Illustration Gold Cube
Agency:
OWEN GILDERSLEEVE + Plastic Horse / Ramsgate + Arnau Busquets + Politico / Brussels
Client:
Politico
Title:
Shadow Fleet
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT007G
Award:
2025 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
FCB / New York
Client:
Spotify
Title:
Spreadbeats
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT013S
Award:
2025 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Vanissa Foo
Client:
Humana Studio
Title:
Humana Hotel Zine
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT015S
Award:
2025 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Nate Sweitzer
Client:
The Folio Society
Title:
To Kill a Mockingbird
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT016S
Award:
2025 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
David Elmo Cooper
Client:
Lerner Publishing
Title:
The Doll Test: Choosing Equality
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT017S
Award:
2025 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Google / Mountain View
Client:
Google
Title:
Most Searched Playground: Paris 2024
Category:
Branded Identity / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT014S
Award:
2025 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client:
ASTER
Title:
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Category:
Advertising / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT011S
Award:
2025 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
BUCK + Mother / New York
Client:
Streeteasy
Title:
Let The Journey Begin
Category:
Advertising / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT012S
Award:
2025 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
Walnut and Me
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT018S
Award:
2025 Illustration Silver Cube
Agency:
Klick Health / Toronto + Jamute + LightFarm Studios
Client:
Retiro dos Artistas
Title:
The Steamboat Willie Story
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT010S
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
How&How / London
Client:
Aruba Conservation Foundation
Title:
How&How: Aruba Conservation Foundation
Category:
Branded Identity / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT024B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Sons & Daughters ID / Vilnius
Client:
AME COFFEE
Title:
Ame Illustration
Category:
Branded Identity / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT025B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Universal Favourite / Sydney
Client:
The Dinner Ladies
Title:
The Dinner Ladies
Category:
Branded Identity / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT026B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
RIFLING / Changsha长沙
Client:
Pinghu EDZ Kindergarten
Title:
Pinghu EDZ Kindergarten
Category:
Branded Identity / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT027B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
The New York Times Magazine
Client:
The New York Times Magazine
Title:
How To Make Retirement Less Scary
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT033B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
TBWA\HAKUHODO Inc. / Tokyo + digimo INC. / Tokyo + HAKUHODO PRODUCT'S INC / Tokyo + Y’s inc / Tokyo
Client:
JAPAN PHILHARMONIC ORCHESTRA
Title:
The Symphony Plotter
Category:
Innovation
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT037B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Mickaël Mehala
Client:
Black Childish
Title:
Joy Soldiers™ - Unit One
Category:
Personal Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT039B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
YU TENG
Client:
Teng Yu Lab
Title:
OBSESSED with BOXES
Category:
Personal Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT040B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Vanissa Foo
Client:
Humana Studio
Title:
Humana Hotel Zine
Category:
Personal Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT041B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Handowin Xuan He
Client:
Self-promotion
Title:
Twin Flame
Category:
Personal Project / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT042B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Deena So'Oteh + Mother Jones Magazine
Client:
Mother Jones
Title:
THE BUREAUCRAT WHO COULD MAKE TRUMP’S AUTHORITARIAN DREAMS REAL.
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT034B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Marco Lawrence
Client:
Christianity Today
Title:
The Circus Is In Town
Category:
Editorial / Front Page - Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT035B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Paramount Media Networks, MTV Entertainment Studios + STATE Design
Client:
Paramount Network
Title:
Paramount Network's Killer Classics
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT021B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
MICHAEL LIM
Client:
LEGO Group
Title:
LEGO Cataclaws
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT022B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
DENTSU INC. / Tokyo
Client:
THE YOSHIDA HIDEO MEMORIAL FOUNDATION/AD MUSEUM TOKYO
Title:
It works.
Category:
Animation / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT023B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Sjoerd Verbeek + de ruimdenkers
Client:
HKU University of Arts Utrecht
Title:
Tactile Wall Illustrations
Category:
Mural / Graffiti / Street Art / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT038B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Vikki Zhang
Client:
Yeehoo Press
Title:
If A Bumblebee Lands on Your Toe
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT029B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Kate Leiper
Client:
Floris Books
Title:
An Illustrated Treasury of Dragon Tales
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT030B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Matteo Berton
Client:
Inuit Editions
Title:
PINI
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT031B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Julia Plath + Fischer Sauerländer / Frankfurt
Client:
Fischer Sauerländer Publishing
Title:
Die Froschprinzessin - Märchen aus aller Welt
Category:
Book / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT032B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Jun Ioneda + GALERIA / São Paulo
Client:
McDonald's
Title:
McLolla '24 Posters
Category:
Advertising / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT019B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
indego design / Macau
Client:
MACAU DESIGNERS ASSOCIATION
Title:
MACAO DESIGN AWARDS 2023 EXHIBITION- TOKYO
Category:
Advertising / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT020B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Yan Long
Client:
sell oneself
Title:
Verbal Violence
Category:
Editorial / Spread - Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT036B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
DENTSU INC. / Tokyo + The Ad Museum Tokyo / Tokyo
Client:
The Ad Museum Tokyo
Title:
Morning is born
Category:
Print / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT043B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
The Local Collective + Safehaven Toronto / Toronto
Client:
Safehaven Toronto
Title:
One in 100
Category:
Book / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT028B
Award:
2025 Illustration Bronze Cube
Agency:
Pola Maneli
Client:
The Smithsonian Institute
Title:
Narrating Slavery's Wake
Category:
Wildcard / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT044B
Award:
2025 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Sibling Rivalry / New York
Client:
Philo
Title:
Philo Visual Identity
Category:
Branded Identity / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT054M
Award:
2025 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
RIFLING / Changsha长沙
Client:
Lishui Nancheng Kindergarten
Title:
Lishui Nancheng Kindergarten
Category:
Branded Identity / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT055M
Award:
2025 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Ben Hickey
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
The Interviews Issue
Category:
Digital / Single
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT058M
Award:
2025 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
WHITE64 / Tysons
Client:
Washington Metropolitan Area Transit Authority
Title:
Metro Rewind
Category:
Digital / Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_ILT059M
