Art Directors Club Names ADC Young Guns 7 Winners

The Art Directors Club, the leading organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, last night announced the 50 young creatives from 14 countries to claim the prestigious ADC Young Guns 7 title.

ADC Young Guns is the only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today's vanguard of young creative professionals age 30 or younger. Selected from entries received from 84 countries (up from 46 countries last year), these ADC Young Guns 7 winners represent an impressive global roster of young talent in the fields of graphic design, photography, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation & video, interactive design, product design and typography.

This year for the first time, ADC Young Guns-Moleskine grants were awarded to top winners. Based upon jury scores, Moleskine awarded $1,000 to Siggi Eggertsson, Germany, as the top-ranked ADC Young Guns 7 winner, and $250 to each to Fx&Mat, France and Mario Hugo, USA, as the two runners-up.



The Complete ADC Young Guns 7 Class

North America
Wesley Allsbrook - Self-employed, USA
Lindsay Ballant - Public Service Bureau, USA
Nina Boesch - And Partners, USA
Karim Charlebois-Zariffa - Sagmeister Inc., Canada
Yong Choe - Ralph Lauren Media, USA
Brian Close - Lifelong Friendship Society, USA
Sylvain Dumais - Self-employed, Canada
Yoko Furusho - Self-employed, USA
Timothy Goodman - COLLINS:, USA
Jessica Hische - Self-employed, USA
Mario Hugo - Hugo & Marie, USA
Kitman Keung - Kitman Keung Ltd., Canada
Mixtape Club - Self-employed, USA
Oliver Munday - Oliver Munday Design, USA
Sean Pecknold - Grandchildren, USA
Qian Qian - McCann Erickson, USA
Keren Richter - Self-employed, USA
Dan Saelinger - Self-employed, USA
Michael Schachtner and Julia Neumann - Y&R, USA
Stewart Smith - Stewdio, USA
Matt Smithson - Self-employed, USA
Will Staehle - JibJab, USA
Ben Steiger Levine - Self-employed, Canada
Isaac Tobin - University of Chicago Press, USA
Sam Weber - Self-employed, USA
Ben Wiseman - Rodrigo Corral Design, USA

Latin America
Danilo Boer - AlmapBBDO, Brazil
Guiga Giacomo - AlmapBBDO, Brazil

Europe/UK
Bendita Gloria (Alba Rosell and Santi Fuster), Spain
Dora Budor and Maja Cule, budor+cule, Croatia
Laura Carlin - Self-employed, UK
Siggi Eggertsson - Self-employed, Germany
Veronica Fuerte - Hey, Spain
Fx&Mat - Self-employed, France
Yves Geleyn - Self-employed, France
Raúl Goni Fdez - Self-employed, Spain
David Kamp - Kamp Music & Sound Design, Germany
Johnny Kelly - Self-employed, UK
PetPunk (Andrius Kirvela & Gediminas Šiaulys) - Lithuania
Adam Simpson - Self-employed, UK
Jim Stoten - Self-employed, UK
Richard Vijgen - Self-employed, Netherlands
Bianca Wendt - Bianca Wendt Ltd., UK
Greg White - Self-employed, UK
Peter Michael Willer - MMIX, Denmark

Africa/Asia Pacific
Clinton Duncan - Self-employed, Australia
Ivana Martinovic - Landor Associates, Australia
NOSIGNER - Self-employed, Japan
Jake Smallman - Paper Stone Scissors, Australia
Joanne van der Linde - Net#work BBDO, South Africa

A selection of their winning work, comprised of both professional and personal projects, is being exhibited at ADC Gallery (106 W. 29th St., New York) from October 22 to November 6, Monday-Friday, 10:00 am - 6:00 pm.

This work will also be printed in a commemorative, limited-edition volume published exclusively for the Art Directors Club by Moleskine. The full body of winners' submitted work will be available in November 2009 as part of ADC's permanent collection online. Members of ADC Young Guns 7 class receive the iconic ADC Young Guns Cube, complimentary one-year membership to ADC, and an assortment of career-boosting benefits from ADC Young Guns sponsors.

Winners also get a chance to create original artwork for the recently opened New York location of Ace Hotel. Dubbed "the country's most original new hotel" by The New York Times, Ace Hotel's vintage-mod aesthetic caters to the urban nomad on a mission for experience. Ace Hotel will be selecting artists from the ADC Young Guns 7 winning class later this year.

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