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These brilliant people are: Kate Tregoning, London; Simon Johnston, Simon Johnston Design, London/Los Angeles; Alexei Tylevich, Logan, Minsk, Belarus/Los Angeles; Murat Patavi, Republica / 34 / haaz, Istanbul, Turkey; Niels ‘Shoe’ Meulman, Unruly, Amsterdam; Willem Henri Lucas, Willem Augustus, Amsterdam/Los Angeles; Jorge Verdin, Tijuana/Los Angeles; Folkert Gorter, Superfamous, Studios Amsterdam/Los Angeles; Dana Lixenberg, Amsterdam/New York; Jessica Helfand, Winterhouse, New York State; Karin Fong, Imaginary Forces, New York; Giorgio Baravalle, de.MO, New York State; Jan Wilker, karlssonwilker inc., Stuttgart/New York; Rafael Esquer, Alfalfa, Sonora/New York; Eng San, Kho Love and War, Amsterdam/New York; Michael Powers, Los Angeles; Anja Lutz, Shift!, Berlin; Anna Gerber, London; Irma Boom, Irma Boom Office, Amsterdam; Paul Davis, Big Orange, London; Chaz Maviyane-Davies, Massachusetts College of Art, Zimbabwe/Boston; Georgianna Stout, 2×4, New York; Vesna Petrovic, Picnic Design, Belgrade/Los Angeles; Bryony Gomez-Palacio, UnderConsideration, Mexico, DF/New York.

The ADC is the premier organization for integrated media and the first international creative collective of its kind. Founded in New York in 1920, the ADC is a self-funding, not-for-profit membership organization that celebrates and inspires creative excellence, connecting creative visual communications professionals from around the world.

The judging took place February 8 – 10. Over 4000 pieces were entered from across the world in multiple categories—from brand, book and poster design, to environmental installation, digital animation, illustration and photography. After 86 years of doing this, the ADC has perfected their review system to make the organization seem effortless. We were taken care of beautifully. Kudos to Myrna Davis and Chris Reitz! As in any competition of this magnitude, the majority of the work was not that interesting and our task was to find those excellent pieces that represent the heartbeat of design now, imbued with intelligence, innovation, and relevance. Yet, some pieces were truly outstanding. For example, a meaningful and powerful piece was a 3” x 4” simple black and white calendar, where each page you tear off contains information and a photograph of a person on death row. Another thoughtful and beatifully designed piece was a book submitted by Elizabeth Yerin Shim in partial fulfillment for the requirements for the degree of Masters of Fine Arts from Yale, with a major in graphic design. In a discussion, Irma Boom, Chaz Maviyane-Davies and I, agreed that in general we felt that the posters were designed more like book pages, subtle and sometimes with beautiful textures and forms, operating more like wallpaper rather than posters. A poster operates by instantly drawing you in through its interplay of image and word creating an iconic and powerful message.

The out-of-town judges stayed at the Maritime Hotel, and as the ADC had generously supplied each judge with two fine bottles of wine each, we spent long purple-lipped nights by the Maritime fireplace bonding, laughing, falling in love and creating mayhem while discussing the design of the world. A once in a life time experience. We are grateful to the ADC for creating such platform and to the design jury for their time, expertise and friendship.

“THANK YOU ALL SO MUCH!! > NY WAS DIFFERENT THIS TIME > I ENJOYED IT VERY VERY MUCH. LOVE FROM AMSTERDAM.” — Irma Boom.

Honored to meet and spend time with all you amazing (and crazy) individuals. To be continued! — Folkert Gorter

“Closed quarters, good food, honest discussions and great company are a fantastic way to spend a couple of days.” — Bryony Gomez-Palacio

“You marvellous (marvelous) bunch. Miss you already.” — Paul Davis

“Thanks all for a marvelous time – the team of judges were just an amazing group of people and the adc-people were nice, patient and truly organized, I had a great time and man NYC truly ROCKS!” — W H Lucas

“To keep the chorus going… Thanks to everyone for a fabulous few days. Great to meet old friends and make new ones. Big gracias and a shiny gold star to Rebeca and Adam for putting such a great team together, and to all at the Albrecht Dürer Club for being so organized and generous.” — Simon Johnston

“Getting back to the norm, I was almost tempted to take some wine into my classes today. Alas no fire place and great company. Till we meet again. Ciao, it was fun.” — Chaz

“I’m sorry that I didn’t get to drink and dine with you all. But it was great to see you all (and meet some of you). I hope to run into some of you again.” — Georgie Stout

“You missed the best part!”— Giorgio Baravalle

“Yes to all. I’ve posted something just this morning on Design Observer that mentions what a delight it was to spend time with such lovely people who were all so uniformly rigorous with regard to judging: a perfect combination.” — Jessica Helfand

“It was very fun indeed. Let’s have all our people call everyone else’s people and do it more often.” — Jorge Verdin

“It was a wonderful opportunity to get to know everyone. A highly accomplished crowd, yet even more compelling in character. From the judging sessions to the get togethers, I had a wonderful time, pleasant and inspirational. Everyone is welcome to İstanbul, the Republica (34 magazine/haaz gallery) family will always be here to make you feel at home.” — Murat Patavi

“better late than never… even though it’s only been a week! NY was a blast. it was a pleasure to spend a few days in such great company. thank you guys!” — Alexei Tylevich