In accordance with the Let’s Make The Industry 50/50 Initiative – launched by ADC in 2013 to promote equal participation for women and men on award show juries, boards of directors and event speaking opportunities – this year's Design juries consist of 23 woman and 18 men representing nine countries, who will judge work from around the world based on the show’s historic focus of honoring the best in craft, design and innovation.

Entries can be submitted via http://www.adcawards.org and the deadline is 31 January 2018.

The juries are as follows:

Brand/Communication Design

• Sagi Haviv, partner, designer, Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv, New York, NY, USA (jury chair)
  
• Ruba Abu-Nimah, creative director, Elle, New York, NY, USA
  
• Ana Couto, founder, CEO, Ana Couto Branding, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
  
• Kristen Dietz, managing partner, Strichpunkt, Stuttgart, Germany
  
• Luis Fitch, founder, creative director, UNO Branding, Minneapolis, MN, USA
  
• Gesina Roters, creative partner, DAY, Amsterdam, The Netherlands
  
• Lisa Smith, vice president, brand design, Chobani, New York, NY, USA
  
• Rich Tu, vice president, designer, MTV, New York, NY, USA
  
• Ida Woldemichael, creative director, Everytown for Gun Safety, New York, NY, USA

Experiential Design

• Valetin Spiess, CEO, iart ag, Basel, Switzerland
  
• Florian Born, creative technologist, FELD | Studio for Digital Crafts, Berlin, Germany
  
• Eylul Duranagac, media artist, creative director, Ouchhh Studio, Istanbul, Turkey
  
• Rachel Einsidler, associate, senior designer, Airspace Design Inc., Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Ingūna Elere, creative lead, Design Studio H2E, Riga, Latvia
  
• Rachael Harvey, executive creative director, Airbnb, San Francisco, CA, USA
  
• Harsh Kapadia, executive creative director, VML, London, UK
  
• Gunita Kulikovska, founder, Vividly, Riga, Latvia and London, UK
  
• Julio Obelleiro, cofounder, CEO, Wildbytes, New York, NY, USA
  
• Bjørn Gunnar Staal, designer, developer, founding partner, Void, Oslo, Norway
  
• Rene Toneman, partner, creative director, SILO, The Hague, The Netherlands
  
• Timoni West, head of Authoring Tools, Unity Labs, Unity Technologies, San Francisco, CA, USA

Packaging/Product Design

• Bruce Duckworth, cofounder, head of design, Turner Duckworth, London, UK (jury chair)
  
• Hamish Campbell, creative director, Pearlfisher, New York, NY, USA
  
• Hunter Craighill, founder, creative director, Craighill, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Grace Dawson, director of brand, Jones Knowles Richie, New York, NY, USA
  
• Jolene Delisle, partner, The Working Assembly, New York, NY, USA
  
• Joe Doucet, principal, Joe Doucet x Partners, New York, NY, USA
  
• Felicia Ferrone, design director, CEO, f f e r r o n e, Chicago, IL, USA
  
• Anne Lawrence-Cherry, studio art director, package design, Hallmark Cards, Inc., Kansas City, MO, USA

Publication Design

• Charlotte Strick, principal, Strick&Williams, Brooklyn, NY, USA (jury chair)
  
• Christopher Brand, vice president, creative director, Crown Publishing Group, New York, NY, USA
  
• Chris Dixon, creative director, Vanity Fair, New York, NY, USA
  
• Adly Elewa, art director, designer, ICRAVE, New York, NY, USA
  
• Ryan Fitzgibbon, editor-in-chief, Hello, Mr., Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Na Kim, senior designer, Farrar, Straus and Giroux, New York, NY, USA
  
• Nathalie Kirsheh, design director, New York, NY, USA
  
• Jaya Miceli, art director, designer, Scribner, an imprint of Simon & Schuster, Brooklyn, NY, USA
  
• Joanne O’Neill, senior designer, HarperCollins, New York, NY, USA
  
• Matt Willey, art director, The New York Times Magazine, New York, NY, USA
  
• Rachel Willey, designer, The New York Times Magazine, New York, NY, USA

“Design has been the cornerstone of the ADC Annual Awards since the program’s origins nearly a century ago,“ said Michael O’Rourke, executive director, ADC, part of The One Club for Creativity. “This year for the first time, we’ve divided the design discipline jury into four specific categories and assembled separate juries for each of talented creative leaders from around the world who are highly qualified to judge work in their respective fields.”

New tiered pricing structure

A significant change to this year’s awards programme is a tiered pricing structure designed to make it easier for smaller agencies, studios and freelancers to participate. Companies with 21 or more employees pay the standard entry fee; smaller shops with from two to 20 employees get a discount on entries (amount varies by discipline) and freelance creatives and one-person shops are eligible for an even greater reduction in their entry fee.

The new tiered pricing structure helps level the playing field and makes it easier for smaller studios and independent designers, photographers, illustrators and typographers to get their work judged by an all-star creative jury and elevated on a global stage. It also reflects The One Club’s mission to support and celebrate the success of the entire global creative community regardless of company size or location.

ADC Annual Awards juries focus on craft, design and innovation, while juries for The One Club for Creativity’s One Show Awards judge work based on creativity of ideas and quality of execution.

Judging takes place in March, with finalists announced in April in lead up to the ADC 97th Annual Awards Ceremony on 7 May 7 2018 as part of Creative Week in New York.

For more information about the ADC 97th Annual Awards, please visit http://www.adcawards.org.