GLOBAL – UNITED STATES, APRIL 5, 2013 – The Art Directors Club (ADC) has announced the winners of the prestigious ADC 92nd Annual Awards for the advertising, interactive, and motion categories. The winners were presented with the coveted Gold and Silver Cubes at the Awards Gala, marking the conclusion of the three-day ADC 92ndAnnual Awards + Festival of Art and Craft in Advertising and Design.
This year’s cumulative winners, based upon awards won across all categories, are as follows:
· ADC Agency of the Year: McCann NY
· ADC Network of the Year: BBDO
· ADC Design Firm of the Year: Dentsu Inc.
· ADC Interactive Agency of the Year: Forsman & Bodenfors
· ADC School of the Year: School of Visual Arts
Additionally, there was one winner of the third-annual ADC Designism Award, which honors work that drives social or political change. This year’s winner was Buck, a design-driven production company, for its work promoting Good Books. Juries did not select an ADC Black Cube winner for best-in-show this year.
Judged by an international panel of the world’s most respected creative professionals, including Naked Creative partner Fernanda Romano (Interactive Jury Chair); Droga5 executive creative director Ted Royer (Advertising Jury Chair); and Prologue Films founder and Imaginary Forces co-founder Kyle Cooper (Motion Jury Chair), the ADC Annual Awards competition honors the best work from around the world in the interactive, advertising, design, motion, photography and illustration industries. This year’s winners represented 23 countries, demonstrating the ADC’s dedication to finding the best creative talent across the globe.
Master of ceremonies for the 92nd Annual Awards Gala was advertising great and entrepreneur Cindy Gallop. The evening began with cocktails and hors d’oeuvres in the Atrium of the Frank Gehry-designed New World Center, home of the New World Symphony, followed by the awards presentation, with interactive elements in the venue provided by Float4 Interactive, iStockphoto and theatreMAMA. The evening and three-day Festival concluded with the Gala After-Party atop the rooftop of the New World Center overlooking Miami Beach serenaded by Miami’s Best Latin Band of the Year, Suénalo.
All of the winners will be featured in the award-winning Art Directors Annual, the oldest and most respected compendium of outstanding work in the industry. Additionally, following the awards ceremony, the Gold, Silver and Bronze work will be sent on a worldwide tour—from New York to Sao Paolo and numerous venues in between—through the ADC International Annual Awards Exhibition.
To view the complete list of all ADC 92nd Annual Awards Gold, Silver, Bronze, Merit, Student and ADC Designism winners, please visit http://www.adcawards.org/92ndgalawinners/
