ADC Young Guns 6: The Final 50

Past Young Guns winners serve as jury for sixth biennial competition of young creative talent in visual media and design.

NEW YORK, September 5, 2008 – The Art Directors Club, the premier organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind with membership in advertising, design and visual communications, has announced the 50 young professionals who have claimed the ADC Young Guns 6 title. 

Outside the ADC Gallery in New York City (Photo: Luke Stoffel)

Exhibition opening at the ADC Gallery on September 5, 2008 (Photo: Luke Stoffel)

Ranging in age from 23 to 30 years, this year’s new ADC Young Guns class represents a diverse generation of creative talent in visual media and design.  Selected out of hundreds of entries from 46 countries, these ADC Young Guns 6 winners stand out as an impressive international roster of young talent, which backgrounds including graphic design, art direction, motion design, photography and illustration.  In their careers, some focus on a single discipline, while others combine several; nearly half of these young professionals are self-employed, either as freelancers or under a studio of their own founding.

All 50 Young Guns 6 winners are on display at the ADC Gallery from September 5 through 18 (Photo: Luke Stoffel)

The ADC Young Guns 6 class represents 13 countries, and consists of the following:

• Also, USA
• Emily CM Anderson, freelance, USA
• Jerome Austria, AKQA, USA
• Mike Bishop, freelance, Canada
• Michael Christopher Brown, freelance, USA
• Greg Brunkalla, @radical.media, USA
• C-F: Cybu Richli - Fabienne Burri, Switzerland (image below)

• Marta Cerdà, Vasava, Spain
• Josh Cochran, freelance, USA
• Damien Correll, freelance, USA
• CTRL, USA
• Keetra Dean Dixon, FromKeetra, USA
• Eric Elms , freelance, USA
• Daniel Eskils, Eskils Junker Film, Sweden (still from show reel 2006 below)

• Jason Evans, LLOYD&CO, USA
• Nicholas Felton, Megafone, USA
• Naoki Ga, Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo, Japan
• Brian Michael Gossett, freelance, USA
• Graeme Hall, DDB London, UK
• Kristian Henson, Studio Number One, USA
• Derick Holt, freelance, USA
• Philipp Hubert, Visiotypen, Germany
• Jesse Kaczmarek, Jkaczmarek, USA
• Max Kaplun, NYC & Company, USA
• Shun Kawakami, artless Inc., Japan (image below)

• Masashi Kawamura, 180 Amsterdam, Netherlands
• Justin Thomas Kay, freelance, USA
• Alex Kirzhner, 7 Local, USA
• Menno Kluin, Saatchi & Saatchi New York, USA
• Marcos Kotlhar, AlmapBBDO, Brazil (image below)

• John Kudos, Kudos Design, USA
• Labour, USA
• Morris Lee, Momorobo, Singapore
• Justin Meredith, Thornberg & Forester, USA
• Joel Micah Miller, Joel Micah Miller Fotografie, Germany (image below)

• Garrett Morin, freelance, USA
• Carl Nielson, exit10, USA
• Ed O’Brien, Hybrid Design, USA
• Mike Perry, Midwestisbest, USA
• Emiliano Ponzi, Magnet Reps, Italy
• Pawel Piotr Przybyl, Siedemzero, Poland
• Yolanda Santosa, Ferroconcrete, USA
• Paul Schlacter, Trollbäck+Co., USA
• Ryan Schude, freelance, USA
• Alex Trochut, Alex Trochut SL, Spain
• Julien Vallée, freelance, Canada
• Emre Veryeri, Trollbäck+Co., USA
• Craig Ward, Words are Pictures, UK (image below)

• Sarah Wilmer, freelance, USA
• Florencio Zavala, Studio Number One, USA

To elevate the spirit of competition among ADC Young Guns and encourage a stronger sense of community, a panel formed entirely of Young Guns alumni served as the jury for this YG6 competition.  The jury included:

• Stefan Bucher, YG4, founder, 344design.com
• Stella Bugbee, YG5, design director, domino magazine
• Deanne Cheuk, YG4, creator, Neomu magazine
• Niko Courtelis, YG2, freelance creative director, Plazm
• Jeff Glendenning, YG5, principal, Studio Glendenning
• Tiziana Haug, YG5, art director, Wolff Olins
• Jeremy Hollister, YG3, president, Plus et Plus
• Jonathan Milott & Cary Murnion, YG4, founders, HONEST
• Chris Hutchinson, YG5, art director/writer, Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo
• Rei Inamoto, YG4, global creative director, AKQA
• Matthew Leavitt, YG3, TDA Advertising and Design
• Albert Lee, YG5, freelance creative director
• The Little Friends of Printmaking, YG5
• Driscoll Reid, YG5, art director/writer, Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo
• Chris Rubino, YG5, freelance artist/designer
• Todd St. John, YG1, founder, HunterGatherer
• Scott Stowell, YG3, principal, Open
• Ward Sutton, YG2, freelance illustrator
• Carlo van de Roer, YG5, freelance photographer

With nearly double the number of entries from the previous ADC Young Guns competition in 2006, this year’s judging process took place over the course of five weeks, with each of the 19 judges individually scoring every entry through three elimination rounds.  Based on average scores, the competition field was gradually filtered down to its top 50.

The winning entries from ADC Young Guns 6, comprised of both professional and personal work, is being exhibited at the ADC Gallery (106 W. 29th St., New York, NY) from September 5–18, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm.  The exhibition will conclude on September 18, with an ADC Backstory event, presented by Adobe (members $10; non-members $15 online, $20 at the door). The event offers an Adobe workshop at 5:30 pm, where attendees will be eligible to win a CS3 package; the main presentation will begin at 7:00 pm and feature members of the ADC Young Guns 6 class as they show and discuss their work.