The ADC Annual Awards is celebrating 105 years of excellence in design and craft. This iconic international non-profit award show honors the best creative talent and groundbreaking work across many different creative disciplines including advertising, digital media, graphic and publication design, packaging and product design, motion, gaming, experiential and architecture, photography, illustration and all points in between.

A special tiered pricing structure makes it easier for smaller agencies, studios and freelancers to participate. Small shops 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.

This year’s ADC Annual Awards call for entries campaign was created by Dentsu Inc., Tokyo.

Titled “Create a Beautiful Future”, the campaign highlights the Art Directors Club’s status as a global nonprofit award show which takes revenue generated from the award show and puts it back into the industry to fund a range of professional development, education, and diversity programs.

The centerpiece visual of a magnificent peacock represents the notion of courtship and putting on a show in order to attract attention. By displaying their beautiful talents and work in the form of entering the ADC 105th Annual Awards, entrants can help create a beautiful future for the industry by funding year-round programming.

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This year's awards will include the Paul Manship Medal, the original ADC competition award reimagined as an enterable category recognizing a single creative professional who acts as a catalyst for change, demonstrates foresight and innovation, and made the most significant contribution in the past two years. "Paul Manship’s medal was more than the Art Directors Club's first award,” said Brian Collins, Co-founder of COLLINS in San Francisco and New York, and ADC President. “It became a statement: that the work we do can be both practical and profound. That commercial creativity, when done with care and conviction, can be the best of our culture, in itself. This year, ADC brings back the Paul Manship Medal to honor those whose work redefines our profession. Work that doesn’t follow the times, but helps set the direction of what’s to come.”