Art Directors Club launches ADC Young Guns 9 competition

The Art Directors Club has announced the upcoming launch of the ADC Young Guns 9 competition for creatives and designers age 30 or younger.

ADC Young Guns is the only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creatives, and is open to both ADC members and non members.

Last year’s competition drew entries from 38 countries, with 47 per cent of registrations coming from outside the US. A total of 50 winners are selected each year by a jury of past ADC Young Guns.

The program is open internationally to creatives age 30 and under who have been working for at least two years, full-time or freelance.

Eligible entrants can submit a combination of professional and personal work in graphic design, photography, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation, video, interactive design, object design and typography.

Online entries will be accepted starting on March 15, 2011, with final deadline of May 16, 2011.

The ADC Young Guns 9 printed and online call for entries have been designed by Nessim Higson, using a dark “secret society” and graphic Fight Club-type theme to express the message that "creatives fight for their work, now it’s time it battles for you".

The CFE features heavily made up, battered and bruised images of 10 past ADC Young Guns -- Jessica Hische, James Victore, Rodrigo Corral, Julia Hoffmann, Jennifer Daniel, Jayson Atienza, Sam Weber, Sarah Wilmer, Greg Brunkalla and Jonathan Jackson -- who have fought for their work, taken by photographer Brady Fontenot.

"The creative process is a battle," said Olga Grisaitis, director of ADC. "This includes the initial inner struggle to come up with the concept, fighting for an idea through the politics of an agency, and the difficulties of dealing with client approvals."

For complete details and to enter ADC Young Guns 9, visit www.adcyoungguns.org