Disturbance Design takes Silver at ADC

Disturbance has also gone in-book for this year's D&AD Annual for the same work in Illustration: Magazine & Newspaper Design.

ADC, an organisation for integrated media and the allegedly the first global creative collective of its kind, announced the winners of the programme at its Awards Gala, held at the ADC Gallery in New York on Thursday, 30 April 2009. The theme of the gala honoured “sustainable creativity” for work that's relevant today, yesterday and in the future.

Agencies of the Year

This year marked the first time ADC named an Agency, Network, Design Firm and Interactive Agency of the Year. Winners scored the most cumulative ADC Cubes across all categories for the year. The winners were:

• ADC Agency of the Year: Saatchi & Saatchi New York with eight awards (four Gold, one Silver, one Bronze, two Merit)
  
• ADC Network of the Year: Leo Burnett with 12 awards (three Gold, two Silver, six Bronze, one Merit)
  
• ADC Design Firm of the Year: Pentagram Design with six awards (one ADC Design Sphere, one Gold, two Bronze and two Merit)
  
• ADC Interactive Agency of the Year: R/GA with three awards (two Silver, one Bronze)

Saatchi & Saatchi New York collected the most ADC Gold Cubes with four, followed by Ogilvy & Mather Frankfurt and Leo Burnett London with three each. Burger King work from Crispin Porter + Bogusky was highly awarded, collecting an ADC Hybrid Cube and a Gold Cube in Interactive for “Whopper Sacrifice” and a Gold Cube in Advertising-integrated campaign for “Whopper Virgins” .

There were no winners of the newly created ADC Black Cube for best-in-show in a category.

“A surprising development of the ADC Black Cube's inaugural year is that none were awarded by the advertising, design or interactive juries, which reflects a rigorous judging process that does not separate the idea from execution or innovation or art direction,” said Ami Brophy, ADC CEO.

“Our newly minted ADC Black Cube was introduced to elevate the best in show by channel - the ‘goldest' or ‘uber gold'. Now, we'll have to wait till the ADC 89th Annual Awards to see what work captures ADC Black.”

ADC Vision Award

YouTube was selected to receive the ADC Vision Award, presented by the ADC Board to a company or individual whose work embodies the ADC mission to connect in new and exciting ways, provoke the industry, address important issues and presents breakthrough ideas. Past recipients of the ADC Vision Award, established in 1954, include IBM, Volkswagen, RCA, Levi-Straus, Ford, MTV Music Television and Martha Stewart Living Omnimedia.

In Advertising, 65 ADC Cubes were awarded (18 Gold, 21 Silver, 26 Bronze, 33 Merit); Interactive had 25 ADC Cubes (four Gold, nine Silver, 12 Bronze, 11 Merit); Design had 103 ADC Cubes awarded (29 Gold, 36 Silver, 38 Bronze, 29 Merit); ADC Design Sphere had one ADC Design Sphere Cube and one Merit awarded; and ADC Hybrid had three ADC Hybrid Cubes awarded and two Merit.

This year's Corbis Creativity for Social Justice Award & Scholarship went to:

• Ogilvy & Mather Werbeagentur GmbH, Frankfurt, Germany, environmental design, environment, series, “Begging Sculptures” for German Foundation of Monument Protection
  
• Designmatters at Art Center College of Design, Pasadena, CA, USA, corporate/institutional, annual reports, brochures, etc., “Images Speak - The Mpala Health Education Projects” for Designmatters at Art Center College of Design and Mpala.

As part of the award, Corbis presents a US$10 000 cash prize to the German Foundation of Monument Protection. The five Art Center College of Design students responsible for their winning entry -- Sara Hofmann, Rawn Trinidad, Melissa Galaviz Rocamora, Andrew Behr and Ching Ching Cheng - receive a US$2500 scholarship from Corbis for the top student entry created for an existing non-profit organisation.

All Gold, Silver and Bronze medalists and Merit winners will be included in the Art Directors Annual 88, a hardcover book to be published by RotoVision SA in November 2009. To view the complete list of ADC 88th Annual Awards, ADC Design Sphere and ADC Hybrid winners, go to www.adcawards.org/winners/. For more on ADC, go to www.adcglobal.org and follow @adcglobal on Twitter.