ADC 101st ANNUAL AWARDS
The ADC Annual Awards, celebrating 101 years of excellence in design and craft, is now open for entries! This iconic award show honors the best creative talent and groundbreaking work across many different creative disciplines, from graphic design to illustration, from publishing to packaging, from advertising to photography and all points in between.The ADC 101st Annual Awards branding is designed by DDB Paris.
Important Dates
- Awards Live Q&A
- Regular Deadline
January 31, 2022 - Extended Deadline
February 18, 2022 - Final Extended Deadline March 4, 2022
The first ADC gold medal winning work in 1921
ADC 100TH HISTORIC TIMELINE
On August 13, 2020, the 100th anniversary date of the incorporation of the Art Directors Club of New York, ADC launched a year-long ADC100 centennial celebration, kicked off with a special identity and online historic timeline developed by multi-specialty creative studio C&G Partners, New York.
The ADC100 program provided rare insights into the observations and human exchanges of the creative community throughout the past century. Serialized monthly content traced the history of ADC, and by extension told the story of how the design and advertising professions evolved during major global events including recessions, world wars and shifts in consumer lifestyles.
The Art Directors Club, known as ADC, was the first global organization to celebrate and award leaders in creative communications. Founded in New York by Louis Pedlar on August 13, 1920, the club was established to ensure advertising was judged by the same stringent standards as fine art.
ADC organized the first juried exhibition of advertising art in 1921 to, in the words of ad and design legend Earnest Elmo Calkins, "dignify the field of business art in the eyes of artists" and communicate that "artistic excellence is vitally necessary to successful advertising." The ADC Annual Awards is the world's longest continuously running awards program recognizing global excellence in craft and innovation in all forms of design and advertising.
ADC 101ST Partner
ADC will for the third year partner with the creative community Working Not Working on event and content collaborations, as well as special awards including the Freelancer of the Year, which was won in 2021 by editor Mah Ferraz. All ADC 101st Annual Awards Gold Cube-winning entries submitted through the freelance level of the show's tiered pricing structure will be judged again by a separate jury that includes the Working Not Working community.
