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. Judged on a body of both professional and personal work by a jury of past YG winners, this year's class represents an impressive global roster of young talent in the fields of graphic design, illustration, advertising and art direction, photography, environmental design, film, animation & video, interactive design, sound design, product design and typography. Entries for the YG9 competition were received from 43 countries.
The complete ADC Young Guns 9 class is as follows:
Asia Pacific:
- Curtis Baigent, Auckland, New Zealand
- Clem Devine, Alt Group, Auckland, New Zealand
- Urs Furrer, Cutting Edge, Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Felix Ng, SILNT, Singapore, Singapore
Europe/UK:
- Kyle Bean, Brighton, England, UK
- CAPTIVE, Lisbon, Portugal
- Leslie David, Paris, France
- Sean Freeman, London, England, UK
- William Gerritsen, Passion Raw, London, England, UK
- Owen Gildersleeve, London, England, UK
- Inka Järvinen, TSTO, Helsinki, Finland
- Pete Rossi, Glasgow, Scotland, UK
- Vesa Sammalisto, Berlin, Germany
- Stephan Walter, Zurich, Switzerland
- James Wignall, mutanthands, London, England, UK
- Olimpia Zagnoli, Milan, Italy
Latin America:
- Denis Artico Peralta, Almap BBDO, Sao Paulo, Brazil
North America:
- Roanne Adams, RoAndCo, New York, NY
- Craig Allen, Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, OR
- Jordan Awan, Brooklyn, NY
- Jonathan Bartlett, Brooklyn, NY
- Daniel Blackman, 160over90, Philadelphia, PA
- Wilson Brown, Antfood, Brooklyn, NY
- Daniel Cassaro, Young Jerks, Brooklyn, NY
- Jon Contino, Brooklyn, NY
- Vinicius Costa, 1st Ave Machine, New York, NY
- Brent Couchman, San Francisco, CA
- Sara Cwynar, The New York Times Magazine, New York, NY
- Aaron Duffy, 1st Ave Machine/Special Guest, New York, NY
- Kimberly Dulaney, Brooklyn, NY
- Croix Gagnon, Wieden+Kennedy, Portland, OR
- Julie Glassberg, Julie Glassberg Photographer, Brooklyn, NY
- GrandArmy, Brooklyn, NY
- Huma-Huma, Brooklyn, NY
- Jesse Juriga, BBH, New York, NY
- Dan Kenneally, Anomaly, New York, NY
- Tamar Levine, Los Angeles, CA
- Alex Mapar, Brooklyn, NY
- Mike McQuade, Chicago, IL
- Homer Mendoza, Standard Life, Montreal, Quebec, Canada
- John Passafiume, Louise Fili, Ltd., New York, NY
- Jesse Rieser, Los Angeles, CA
- Camm Rowland, Digital Kitchen, Chicago, IL
- Jon Saunders, Brooklyn, NY
- Genevieve Simms, Edmonton, Alberta, Canada
- Dana Tanamachi, Louise Fili, Ltd., New York, NY
- Richard The, Brooklyn, NY
- Erin Trieb, Bellaire, TX
- Tomi Um, Brooklyn, NY
- Elizabeth Weinberg, Brooklyn, NY
Profiles of all YG9 winners can be found at http://www.adcyoungguns.org/winners9/.
ADC Young Guns 9 winners exhibition and awards party: 13 October 2010
Venue: ADC Gallery, 106 W. 29th St, NYC
Times:7pm to 10:00 pm.
Admission to the event is free to ADC members, US$25 for non-members, with open bar, food and music by DJ Veronica Vasicka of Minimal Wave Records.
To RSVP and buy tickets, go to http://www.adcglobal.org/adc/events/calendar/#273.
For details about this and other ADC Young Guns events and news, go to www.adcyoungguns.org.
