2016 ADC Young Guns winners

ADC Young Guns background:
In a bold departure from the traditional awards show model, ADC this year transformed the Young Guns programme, now in its 14th iteration, into a curated invitation competition where nominees are handpicked by an esteemed cultural influencer committee made up of 40 thinkers, makers and visionaries from 11 countries representing a range of creative fields.

The influencer committee was highly diverse in terms of gender and ethnicity and included ADC Hall of Fame laureates Paula Scher, partner, Pentagram and John Maeda, design partner, Kleiner Perkins Caulfield & Byers, as well as creative luminaries such as Paola Antonelli, senior curator, architecture & design director, Research & Development, The Museum of Modern Art (MOMA); Apple creative director Arem Duplessis, The New York Times Magazine deputy art director Gail Bichler, PAPER magazine co-founder and editor Kim Hastreiter, OK Go bassist Timothy Nordwind, R/GA vice chairman Nick Law and others (for a complete list, please see here).

Each member of the influencer committee nominated up to five individuals from around the world who they felt are the most talented and forward-shaping creatives 30 and under in any creative field, including design, motion, photography, advertising, new media and product design. In addition, ADC members were eligible to submit their portfolios online free of charge to be considered for a select group of additional nominations chosen by ADC.

The ADC Young Guns for 2016 are:

• Becky & Joe (Becky Sloan and Joe Pelling), animators, directors, Becky and Joe, London, UK
  
• Jack Beveridge, senior creative, multidisciplinary designer, Google Creative Labs, London, UK
  
• Florian Born, interactive designer, Berlin, Germany
  
• George Michael Brower, interactive artist, Always & Forever Computer Entertainment, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Sean Buckelew, animator, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  
• Santiago Carrasquilla, designer, animator, filmmaker, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Daniels (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert), directors, PRETTYBIRD, Culver City, CA, USA
  
• Pablo Delcan, graphic designer, Delcan & Company, New York, NY, USA
  
• Vika Eksta, photographer, Graveri, Aglonas novads, Latvia
  
• Laila Gohar, food designer, Sunday Supper, New York, NY, USA
  
• Coralie Gourguechon, interdisciplinary designer, Fabrica, Treviso, Italy
  
• Rachael K. Harvey, executive creative producer, environments, Airbnb, San Francisco, CA, USA
  
• Joe Hollier, multidisciplinary designer, Light, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Kerby Jean-Raymond, fashion designer, Pyer Moss, Queens, NY, USA
  
• Ann-Katrin Krenz, interactive designer, programmer, schnellebuntebilder, Berlin, Germany
  
• Raven Kwok, creative programmer, generative designer, visual artist, computational artist, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  
• John Lisle, illustrator, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Lauren McCarthy, multidisciplinary artist, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Ezra Miller, interactive artist, Chicago, IL, USA
  
• Nonotak (Noemi Schipfer and Takami Nakamoto), digital artists, fine artists, performance artists, Nonotak, Paris, France
  
• Clement Pascal, photographer, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Danit Peleg, 3D fashion designer, Danit Peleg 3D, Tel Aviv, Israel
  
• Nejc Prah, graphic designer, Ansambel, Bloomberg Businessweek, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Hassan Rahim, graphic designer, 12:01, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Elaine Sheldon, documentary filmmaker, Requisite Media LLC, Elkview, WV, USA
  
• Martin Stirling, filmmaker, Stirling Studios, Northampton, UK
  
• Toph Tucker, web programmer, front-end engineer, Kensho, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Max Weisel, interface designer, developer, creative coder, Normal VR, San Francisco, CA, USA
  
• Scott West, art director, artist, Los Angeles, CA, USA
  
• Merel Witteman, art director, KesselsKramer, Rotterdam, The Netherlands

This newest class of winners will be the first to receive a special redesigned ADC Young Guns Award Cube and headphones, created and engineered by New York-based audio company Master & Dynamic.

The 2016 ADC Young Guns winners celebration and party offers complimentary drinks and hors d’oeuvres, special performances by ADC YG 2016 Winners Nonotak and Ezra Miller, and music by Brooklyn-based DJ Christine Renee. For tickets, click here.

Levine/Leavitt “Artist in Residence” winners:

For the third consecutive year, international artists management agency and ADC Young Guns sponsor Levine/Leavitt will announce their Artist In Residence winners, selected from the YG 2016 class, at the September 22 event. The NY/LA-based agency will provide recipients with a year of representation, guidance and support from its agents and their Advisory Board of industry professionals.

For more information about ADC Young Guns, click here.