South African among ADC Young Guns 7 Winners

The ADC Young Guns 7 logo was designed by ADC YG6 winner Craig Ward of Words Are Pictures, London, UK.

ADC Young Guns is claimed to be 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 US$1,000 to Siggi Eggertsson, Germany, as the top-ranked ADC Young Guns 7 winner, and US$250 to each to Fx&Mat, France and Mario Hugo, USA, as the two runners-up.

The complete ADC Young Guns 7 class is as follows

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
• Verónica Fuerte - Hey, Spain
• Fx&Mat - self-employed, France
• Yves Geleyn - self-employed, France
• Raúl Goñi 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, comprising both professional and personal projects, is being exhibited at ADC Gallery (106 W. 29th St., New York) from 22 October to 6 November, Monday-Friday, 10am-6pm.

Limited edition

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.

This year's 50 winners joins an elite group of past winners, including then-rising stars who went on to become leaders in their chosen fields such as Stefan Sagmeister and James Victore (graphic design), Deanne Cheuk (illustration), Jeremy Floto and Cassandra Warner (aka floto+warner, photography), Alexander Gelman (advertising), Rei Inamoto and Jerome Austria (interactive media), Mike Mills (film and video), Alex Trochut (typography), Todd St. John (animation) and others.

To elevate the spirit of competition among ADC Young Guns and encourage a strong sense of community, a panel of 23 past ADC Young Guns served as the jury for this ADC YG7 competition.

The Art Directors Club gratefully acknowledges Adobe, Veaux, Teagle & Little, Moleskine, Ace Hotel, Photo Illusion LLC and Resource Magazine for their support of ADC Young Guns 7.

ADC Young Guns 7 FivePlusFive event, 29 October

With ADC Young Guns 7 work on the walls of the gallery, ADC will hold the year's second FivePlusFive event on Thursday, 29 October. Five ADC Young Guns 7 judges will pick five of this year's winners, and all 10 will present their work Pecha Kucha style: each person gets 20 slides, 20 seconds per slide, 400 seconds total to tell their story.

FivePlusFive participants include ADC YG7 judges Robin Bilardello, Harper Collins Publishers (class of YG5), Bridget De Socio, Socio X (YG1), dress code (Andre Andreev and G. Dan Covert, YG5), Nicholas Felton, The Office of Felton (YG6) and photographers floto+warner (YG5), plus their five selections from ADC Young Guns 7 winning class.

For more information about ADC Young Guns, go to www.adcyoungguns.org/home or contact Noémie Bonnet, ADC Young Guns manager, .

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