ADC Awards
ADC Annual Awards is the oldest continuously running industry award show in the world, with an incredible legacy of over 100 years. 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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Client
Title
Category
Annual ID
65th Anniversary Campaign
Agency: Paprika
Client: National Theatre School of Canada Category: Posters / Billboards - Series
GDC Award 2025
Agency: BY-ENJOY / FUJIAN + Shenzhen Graphic Design Association / SHENZHEN + YOUNG HUALE
Client: GDC Award 2025 Category: Posters / Billboards - Series
Tadanori Yokoo — Poster Art
Agency: Jumping He
Client: Center for Visual Arts Berlin Category: Posters / Traditional - Single
Imprison, Encircle, Trap
Agency: Wei Hong
Client: Tianzhen Hall Category: Posters / Traditional - Series
Where Hope Lives
Agency: The Local Collective / Toronto + Safehaven Toronto / Toronto
Client: Safehaven Toronto Category: Promotional / Products
International Printmaking Exhibition (Hangzhou)
Agency: Yanrong Pan + Xiangrong Pan
Client: Jiangsu Phoenix Art Publishing House Category: Image-Driven Books
Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art
Agency: Brad Bartlett Design
Client: ArtCenter College of Design Category: Innovation
The Book That Listens
Agency: Alvaro García Ruano + David Consuegra Chacón + Elena Yuste
Client: Cotec Foundation Category: Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format Books
18 Months
Agency: Klick Health / Toronto + Picma / São Paulo + Jamute / São Paulo + Zombie Animation / São Paulo
Client: Second Nurture Category: Design for Good / Advertising - Single
Together for Palestine
Agency: Samar Maakaroun + Pentagram / London
Client: Own the space Category: Design for Good / Brand / Communication Design - Series
The Unsheltered Project
Agency: Bader Rutter / Milwaukee + Courage+ / Milwaukee
Client: Courage+ Category: Design for Good / Experiential Design
Where Hope Lives
Agency: The Local Collective / Toronto + Safehaven Toronto / Toronto
Client: Safehaven Toronto Category: Design for Good / Illustration
Desi Oon
Agency: Studio Eeksaurus Productions Pvt. Ltd. / Mumbai
Client: Centre for Pastoralism Category: Design for Good / Motion / Film Craft
The Great Catch
Agency: Victo Ngai
Client: German Children's Literature Award Category: Advertising / Single
Free Mind PSAs
Agency: Fors Marsh / Arlington
Client: Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Category: Animation / Series
Zip Code Exam
Agency: Area 23 / New York + Dalmatian Cow / Los Angeles + Bumblebeat / São Paulo
Client: Equality Health Foundation Category: Data Visualization
Elastic Magazine
Agency: Scheffe Shields
Client: Elastic Magazine Category: Magazines / Self-Published / Zine
Head Above Water
Agency: The Bloc / New York
Client: Working for Women Category: Craft in Motion / Film / Animation
Cracked
Agency: Area 23 / New York + Dirty Work / São Paulo + Sizzer / Amsterdam
Client: Mercy for Animals Category: Craft in Motion / Film / Animation
18 Months
Agency: Klick Health / Toronto + Picma / São Paulo + Jamute / São Paulo + Zombie Animation / São Paulo
Client: Second Nurture Category: Craft in Motion / Film / Cinematography
Everyone Except
Agency: Dark Alley Pictures / Amsterdam + Dentsu Creative / Amsterdam
Client: KPN Category: Craft in Motion / Film / Direction
Barra Slow Festival
Agency: UNTITLED MACAO / Macao + Chon Hin Au + Guang Huan + The Industry and Commerce Federation of Macau Central and Southern District
Client: The Industry and Commerce Federation of Macau Central and Southern District Category: Brand / Communication Design
Together for Palestine (T4P)
Agency: Samar Maakaroun + Pentagram / London
Client: Own the Space Category: Brand / Communication Design
DEMO 2025 — Design in Motion Festival
Agency: Studio Dumbar/DEPT® / Rotterdam
Client: DEMO Category: Brand / Communication Design
Customtype REAL
Agency: beierarbeit / Bielefeld
Client: Theater Bielefeld Category: Display Typeface
Drawn to D&AD
Agency: Jones Knowles Ritchie / London + Studio DRAMA / London
Client: D&AD Category: Use of Typography
In Hot Water
Agency: NOMINT / London + Sine Audio / London + Twelve Decibels / London + Black Kite / London
Client: WWF Category: Best of Non-Profit
Health First
Agency: KOSSMANNDEJONG - EXHIBITION DESIGN / Amsterdam + Stapferhaus / Lenzburg
Client: Stapferhaus Category: Best of Architecture / Interior / Environmental Design
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Agency: Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client: ASTER Category: Fusion Cube
Who the fuck is Henry Gorse?!
Agency: HENRY GORSE + Alfie Allen + Max Marshall
Client: Henry Gorse Category: Photo Book
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Agency: Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client: ASTER Category: Motion / Film Craft / Animation
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Agency: Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client: ASTER Category: Animation / Single
Health First
Agency: KOSSMANNDEJONG - EXHIBITION DESIGN / Amsterdam + Stapferhaus / Lenzburg
Client: Stapferhaus Category: Exhibition Design / Museum Exhibition
Echoes of the Wall
Agency: Zhou Chen + gao sen
Client: Phoenix Education Publishing,Ltd Category: Text & Image-Driven Books
Images: Perspectives
Agency: Lai Ping So + mmmmor studio / Düsseldorf + WMA / Hong Kong + Wai Lun Hsu
Client: WMA Category: Text & Image-Driven Books
Paris Paralympics : 2024 Considering What
Agency: Biscuit Filmworks + Revolver + 4creative / London
Client: Channel 4 Category: Craft in Video / Editing
6th Guanzhong Mangba Arts Festival
Agency: Untitled Macao / Macau + Chon Hin Au + Guanzhong Mangba Arts Festival / Xi'an
Client: Guanzhong Mangba Arts Festival Category: Branding / Branding Systems / Identities - Integrated
In Hot Water
Agency: NOMINT / London + Sine Audio / London + Twelve Decibels / London + Black Kite / London
Client: WWF Category: Motion / Film / Short Video
Catalogue of Traditional Costumes in Liuzhou
Agency: Yanrong Pan
Client: Guangxi Education Press Category: Image-Driven Books
The First Speech
Agency: INNOCEAN / Berlin + Reporter Without Borders Germany / Berlin + Stink Films Berlin / Berlin
Client: Reporters Without Borders Category: Craft in Motion / Film / Cinematography
Morning is born
Agency: DENTSU INC. / Tokyo + The Ad Museum Tokyo / Tokyo
Client: The Ad Museum Tokyo Category: Posters / Traditional - Series
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Agency: Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client: ASTER Category: Design for Good / Illustration
Signage for Family Center allesamt
Agency: Atelier Andrea Gassner + Christian Schmoelz Architekt
Client: GEMEINDE NENZING Category: Wayfinding Systems
Semiconductor Pavilion of the Future
Agency: 23Design + Tronk Interactive
Client: National Taiwan Science Education Center Category: Exhibition Design / Museum Exhibition
The Shotline
Agency: MullenLowe U.S.
Client: Change The Ref & March For Our Lives Category: Design for Good / Artificial Intelligence
Young Again Never Again
Agency: TBWA\Canada / Edmonton + Radke Film Group / Toronto + Framestore / Chicago + The Ski Team / New Jersey
Client: Liberation75 Category: Design for Good / Artificial Intelligence
Unsilence the Violence
Agency: Scholz & Friends / Germany + 2030 Kommunikation
Client: TERRE DES FEMMES Category: Live Experience Design / Stunts / Guerrilla
KTK 2024
Agency: LiaoDesign / Shenzhen
Client: KAN TAI-KEUNG DESIGN AWARD Category: Branding / Branding Systems / Identities - Integrated
Award:
2026 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Paprika
Client:
National Theatre School of Canada
Title:
65th Anniversary Campaign
Category:
Posters / Billboards - Series
Annual ID:
ADC105_BCD054M
Award:
2026 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
BY-ENJOY / FUJIAN + Shenzhen Graphic Design Association / SHENZHEN + YOUNG HUALE
Client:
GDC Award 2025
Title:
GDC Award 2025
Category:
Posters / Billboards - Series
Annual ID:
ADC105_BCD055M
Award:
2026 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Jumping He
Client:
Center for Visual Arts Berlin
Title:
Tadanori Yokoo — Poster Art
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Single
Annual ID:
ADC105_BCD057M
Award:
2026 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Wei Hong
Client:
Tianzhen Hall
Title:
Imprison, Encircle, Trap
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Series
Annual ID:
ADC105_BCD058M
Award:
2026 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
The Local Collective / Toronto + Safehaven Toronto / Toronto
Client:
Safehaven Toronto
Title:
Where Hope Lives
Category:
Promotional / Products
Annual ID:
ADC105_BCD066M
Award:
2026 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Yanrong Pan + Xiangrong Pan
Client:
Jiangsu Phoenix Art Publishing House
Title:
International Printmaking Exhibition (Hangzhou)
Category:
Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC105_BKD016M
Award:
2026 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Brad Bartlett Design
Client:
ArtCenter College of Design
Title:
Seeing the Unseeable: Data, Design, Art
Category:
Innovation
Annual ID:
ADC105_BKD017M
Award:
2026 Book Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Alvaro García Ruano + David Consuegra Chacón + Elena Yuste
Client:
Cotec Foundation
Title:
The Book That Listens
Category:
Limited Edition / Private Press / Special Format Books
Annual ID:
ADC105_BKD023M
Award:
2026 Advertising Merit Honor
Agency:
Klick Health / Toronto + Picma / São Paulo + Jamute / São Paulo + Zombie Animation / São Paulo
Client:
Second Nurture
Title:
18 Months
Category:
Design for Good / Advertising - Single
Annual ID:
ADC105_DFG029M
Award:
2026 Brand / Communication Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Samar Maakaroun + Pentagram / London
Client:
Own the space
Title:
Together for Palestine
Category:
Design for Good / Brand / Communication Design - Series
Annual ID:
ADC105_DFG033M
Award:
2026 Experiential Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Bader Rutter / Milwaukee + Courage+ / Milwaukee
Client:
Courage+
Title:
The Unsheltered Project
Category:
Design for Good / Experiential Design
Annual ID:
ADC105_DFG035M
Award:
2026 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
The Local Collective / Toronto + Safehaven Toronto / Toronto
Client:
Safehaven Toronto
Title:
Where Hope Lives
Category:
Design for Good / Illustration
Annual ID:
ADC105_DFG041M
Award:
2026 Motion / Film Craft Merit Honor
Agency:
Studio Eeksaurus Productions Pvt. Ltd. / Mumbai
Client:
Centre for Pastoralism
Title:
Desi Oon
Category:
Design for Good / Motion / Film Craft
Annual ID:
ADC105_DFG044M
Award:
2026 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Victo Ngai
Client:
German Children's Literature Award
Title:
The Great Catch
Category:
Advertising / Single
Annual ID:
ADC105_ILT023M
Award:
2026 Illustration Merit Honor
Agency:
Fors Marsh / Arlington
Client:
Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
Title:
Free Mind PSAs
Category:
Animation / Series
Annual ID:
ADC105_ILT026M
Award:
2026 Interactive Merit Honor
Agency:
Area 23 / New York + Dalmatian Cow / Los Angeles + Bumblebeat / São Paulo
Client:
Equality Health Foundation
Title:
Zip Code Exam
Category:
Data Visualization
Annual ID:
ADC105_INT015M
Award:
2026 Magazine / Newspaper Design Merit Honor
Agency:
Scheffe Shields
Client:
Elastic Magazine
Title:
Elastic Magazine
Category:
Magazines / Self-Published / Zine
Annual ID:
ADC105_MND015M
Award:
2026 Motion / Film Craft Merit Honor
Agency:
The Bloc / New York
Client:
Working for Women
Title:
Head Above Water
Category:
Craft in Motion / Film / Animation
Annual ID:
ADC105_MOT046M
Award:
2026 Motion / Film Craft Merit Honor
Agency:
Area 23 / New York + Dirty Work / São Paulo + Sizzer / Amsterdam
Client:
Mercy for Animals
Title:
Cracked
Category:
Craft in Motion / Film / Animation
Annual ID:
ADC105_MOT049M
Award:
2026 Motion / Film Craft Merit Honor
Agency:
Klick Health / Toronto + Picma / São Paulo + Jamute / São Paulo + Zombie Animation / São Paulo
Client:
Second Nurture
Title:
18 Months
Category:
Craft in Motion / Film / Cinematography
Annual ID:
ADC105_MOT054M
Award:
2026 Motion / Film Craft Merit Honor
Agency:
Dark Alley Pictures / Amsterdam + Dentsu Creative / Amsterdam
Client:
KPN
Title:
Everyone Except
Category:
Craft in Motion / Film / Direction
Annual ID:
ADC105_MOT056M
Award:
2026 Photography Merit Honor
Agency:
JIANG YAN
Client:
Dafang Academy
Title:
ZHI
Category:
Fine Art / Conceptual
Annual ID:
ADC105_PHO020M
Award:
2026 Typography / Lettering Merit Honor
Agency:
UNTITLED MACAO / Macao + Chon Hin Au + Guang Huan + The Industry and Commerce Federation of Macau Central and Southern District
Client:
The Industry and Commerce Federation of Macau Central and Southern District
Title:
Barra Slow Festival
Category:
Brand / Communication Design
Annual ID:
ADC105_TYP021M
Award:
2026 Typography / Lettering Merit Honor
Agency:
Samar Maakaroun + Pentagram / London
Client:
Own the Space
Title:
Together for Palestine (T4P)
Category:
Brand / Communication Design
Annual ID:
ADC105_TYP022M
Award:
2026 Typography / Lettering Merit Honor
Agency:
Studio Dumbar/DEPT® / Rotterdam
Client:
DEMO
Title:
DEMO 2025 — Design in Motion Festival
Category:
Brand / Communication Design
Annual ID:
ADC105_TYP023M
Award:
2026 Typography / Lettering Merit Honor
Agency:
beierarbeit / Bielefeld
Client:
Theater Bielefeld
Title:
Customtype REAL
Category:
Display Typeface
Annual ID:
ADC105_TYP026M
Award:
2026 Typography / Lettering Merit Honor
Agency:
Jones Knowles Ritchie / London + Studio DRAMA / London
Client:
D&AD
Title:
Drawn to D&AD
Category:
Use of Typography
Annual ID:
ADC105_TYP038M
Award:
2025 Best of Non-Profit Best of Non-Profit Cube
Agency:
NOMINT / London + Sine Audio / London + Twelve Decibels / London + Black Kite / London
Client:
WWF
Title:
In Hot Water
Category:
Best of Non-Profit
Annual ID:
ADC104_MOT011G
Award:
2025 Architecture / Interior / Environmental Design Best of Discipline Cube
Agency:
KOSSMANNDEJONG - EXHIBITION DESIGN / Amsterdam + Stapferhaus / Lenzburg
Client:
Stapferhaus
Title:
Health First
Category:
Best of Architecture / Interior / Environmental Design
Annual ID:
ADC104_AIE000G
Award:
2025 Fusion Cube Fusion Cube
Agency:
Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client:
ASTER
Title:
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Category:
Fusion Cube
Annual ID:
ADC104_FUS000F
Award:
2025 Photography Gold Cube
Agency:
HENRY GORSE + Alfie Allen + Max Marshall
Client:
Henry Gorse
Title:
Who the fuck is Henry Gorse?!
Category:
Photo Book
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHO002G
Award:
2025 Motion / Film Craft Gold Cube
Agency:
NOMINT / London
Client:
WWF
Title:
In Hot Water
Category:
Innovation
Annual ID:
ADC104_MOT009G
Award:
2025 Pharma / Health / Wellness Gold Cube
Agency:
Aster / San Francisco + Area 23, an IPG Health Company / New York
Client:
ASTER
Title:
IMPOSSIBLE JOURNEY
Category:
Motion / Film Craft / Animation
Annual ID:
ADC104_PHW003G
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 Architecture / Interior / Environmental Design Gold Cube
Agency:
KOSSMANNDEJONG - EXHIBITION DESIGN / Amsterdam + Stapferhaus / Lenzburg
Client:
Stapferhaus
Title:
Health First
Category:
Exhibition Design / Museum Exhibition
Annual ID:
ADC104_AIE000G
Award:
2025 Book Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Zhou Chen + gao sen
Client:
Phoenix Education Publishing,Ltd
Title:
Echoes of the Wall
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD003G
Award:
2025 Book Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Lai Ping So + mmmmor studio / Düsseldorf + WMA / Hong Kong + Wai Lun Hsu
Client:
WMA
Title:
Images: Perspectives
Category:
Text & Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD004G
Award:
2025 Advertising Gold Cube
Agency:
Biscuit Filmworks + Revolver + 4creative / London
Client:
Channel 4
Title:
Paris Paralympics : 2024 Considering What
Category:
Craft in Video / Editing
Annual ID:
ADC104_ADV004G
Award:
2025 Brand / Communication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Untitled Macao / Macau + Chon Hin Au + Guanzhong Mangba Arts Festival / Xi'an
Client:
Guanzhong Mangba Arts Festival
Title:
6th Guanzhong Mangba Arts Festival
Category:
Branding / Branding Systems / Identities - Integrated
Annual ID:
ADC104_BCD001G
Award:
2025 Motion / Film Craft Gold Cube
Agency:
NOMINT / London + Sine Audio / London + Twelve Decibels / London + Black Kite / London
Client:
WWF
Title:
In Hot Water
Category:
Motion / Film / Short Video
Annual ID:
ADC104_MOT011G
Award:
2025 Book Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Yanrong Pan
Client:
Guangxi Education Press
Title:
Catalogue of Traditional Costumes in Liuzhou
Category:
Image-Driven Books
Annual ID:
ADC104_BKD001G
Award:
2025 Motion / Film Craft Gold Cube
Agency:
INNOCEAN / Berlin + Reporter Without Borders Germany / Berlin + Stink Films Berlin / Berlin
Client:
Reporters Without Borders
Title:
The First Speech
Category:
Craft in Motion / Film / Cinematography
Annual ID:
ADC104_MOT002G
Award:
2025 Brand / Communication Design Gold Cube
Agency:
DENTSU INC. / Tokyo + The Ad Museum Tokyo / Tokyo
Client:
The Ad Museum Tokyo
Title:
Morning is born
Category:
Posters / Traditional - Series
Annual ID:
ADC104_BCD007G
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 Architecture / Interior / Environmental Design Gold Cube
Agency:
Atelier Andrea Gassner + Christian Schmoelz Architekt
Client:
GEMEINDE NENZING
Title:
Signage for Family Center allesamt
Category:
Wayfinding Systems
Annual ID:
ADC104_AIE001G
Award:
2025 Architecture / Interior / Environmental Design Silver Cube
Agency:
23Design + Tronk Interactive
Client:
National Taiwan Science Education Center
Title:
Semiconductor Pavilion of the Future
Category:
Exhibition Design / Museum Exhibition
Annual ID:
ADC104_AIE005S
Award:
2025 Artificial Intelligence Silver Cube
Agency:
MullenLowe U.S.
Client:
Change The Ref & March For Our Lives
Title:
The Shotline
Category:
Design for Good / Artificial Intelligence
Annual ID:
ADC104_ART008S
Award:
2025 Artificial Intelligence Silver Cube
Agency:
TBWA\Canada / Edmonton + Radke Film Group / Toronto + Framestore / Chicago + The Ski Team / New Jersey
Client:
Liberation75
Title:
Young Again Never Again
Category:
Design for Good / Artificial Intelligence
Annual ID:
ADC104_ART009S
Award:
2025 Experiential Design Silver Cube
Agency:
Scholz & Friends / Germany + 2030 Kommunikation
Client:
TERRE DES FEMMES
Title:
Unsilence the Violence
Category:
Live Experience Design / Stunts / Guerrilla
Annual ID:
ADC104_EXP005S
Award:
2025 Brand / Communication Design Silver Cube
Agency:
LiaoDesign / Shenzhen
Client:
KAN TAI-KEUNG DESIGN AWARD
Title:
KTK 2024
Category:
Branding / Branding Systems / Identities - Integrated
Annual ID:
ADC104_BCD009S