05/16/2012: DAN SAELINGER FOR MONEY MAGAZINE

Young Guns 7 winner Dan Saelinger recently completed a project for the June issue of Money Magazine. "The concept behind the shoot was about making your money safe," explained Dan on his blog.

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05/16/2012: YOUNG GUNS FEATURED ON NEWSWEEK ALSO-RANS

Designed by Oliver Munday

Designed by Dress Code

Designed by Dress Code

Newsweek also-rans, the Newsweek tumblr feature from Lindsay Ballant (YG7) and creative director Dirk Barnett, is back! Check out the alternate versions of their 'First Gay President' Newsweek cover here, including one from Oliver Munday (YG7) and a few from Young Guns 5 team Dress Code. In the end, it was this cover by Dress Code that made the newsstands.

Follow Lindsay @lindsayballant
Follow Dress Code @dresscodeny

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05/16/2012: IAN WHARTON ON WIRED UK

Ian Wharton argues that a great interface can override loyalty to a brand in an article on Wired UK. "The interface is the brand. Content creators need to start thinking like software companies," explained Ian. Read the rest here.

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05/15/2012: OLIMPIA ZAGNOLI: ILLUSTRATION FOR THE NEW YORKER

Olimpia Zagnoli's (YG9) illustration for The New Yorker's new, literary blog Page-Turner is featured on their homepage today.

Follow Olimpia @olimpiazagnoli

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05/15/2012: Q+A TUESDAY: JAMES VICTORE ON INSPIRATION

James Victore (YG1) talks about inspiration and how to get it through both working and not working on this week's segment of Q+A Tuesday.

Send James questions for next week via twitter: @JamesVictore

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05/14/2012: CONTROVERSIAL NEWSWEEK COVER ILLUSTRATED BY DRESS CODE

Andre Andreev and Dan Covert of Dress Code (YG5) illustrated the cover for this week's issue of Newsweek, which depicts Obama sporting a "gaylo" in light of his recent, public support of gay marriage. The cover's getting a lot of heat, but we think it's pretty great.

Young Guns 7 winner Lindsay Ballant served as the art director for the cover. It's not the first time Dress Code has collaborated with Lindsay - they also created this modern Jesus cover for Newsweek back in April.

Pick up a copy on newsstands now!

Follow Dress Code @dresscodeny
Follow Lindsay @lindsayballant

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05/14/2012: FRANK CHIMERO: SHAPE OF DESIGN WEBSITE

Frank Chimero (YG8) redesigned the website for his new book, The Shape of Design, and made the first chapter available to read for free. Visit shapeofdesignbook.com to find out more.

Follow Frank @fchimero

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05/14/2012: FAST COMPANY NAMES MASASHI KAWAMURA ONE OF THE 100 MOST CREATIVE PEOPLE IN BUSINESS

Congratulations to Young Guns 6 winner and YGX jury member Masashi Kawamura for being named one of the 100 Most Creative People in Business 2012 by Fast Company! Masa and his creative firm, PARTY, have been at the forefront of redefining the ad agency for the past year, paving the way with interactive, multimedia campaigns. "There are so many different ways to communicate now. Interactive is definitely one of the tools. So we figured there must be a better process in developing creative communications using those technologies. We see it more like an experiment--what if we mix these seemingly unconnected things together?" said Masashi.

Click here to read a conversation between Masashi and Ross Marti, the Executive VP at MTV Scratch (and fellow 100 Most Creative People in Business honoree) about their resistance to use to word agency and their aim to distrupt the universe.

Follow Masashi @masakawa

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05/14/2012: TIMOTHY GOODMAN FEATURED IN READER'S DIGEST

Young Guns 7 winner Timothy Goodman was recently interviewed and given a full-page illustration in this month's Reader's Digest. Click through the slideshow interview here, where Tim opens up about the physicality of his work and the power of telling a story.

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05/14/2012: OWEN GILDERSLEEVE FOR BLOOMBERG BUSINESSWEEK

Young Guns 9 winner Owen Gildersleeve has a new illustration featured in this week's issue of Bloomberg BusinessWeek, highlighting an article about Big Oil’s push towards renewable energy.

Follow Owen @ogildersleeve

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05/14/2012: ANDREW MAYNARD: OP-ED FOR PARLOUR

Andrew Maynard wrote a poignant op-ed urging architecture firms to put an end to exploitative working conditions for Australian website Parlour. Though Parlour's focus is on resources for women and equality in architecture, Andrew's piece points out that poor working conditions in the profession affect everyone - men and women alike. "I performed my contracted task well and received compliments from fellow employees about the care and rigour of my work. There was no evidence that I did any less work than other employees. However, it became obvious that one idealistic graduate commie upstart like myself was not going to change the exploitative office culture of one of Australia's biggest firms. So I left," explained Andrew. Read the article in full here.

About Parlour: A site for active exchange and discussion, Parlour brings together research, informed opinion and resources on women, equity and architecture in Australia. It seeks to expand the spaces and opportunities available to women while also revealing the many women who already contribute in diverse ways.

Follow Andrew @andrewmaynard

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05/10/2012: JOSH COCHRAN: NEW ZINE FOR SALE

Order Josh Cochran's (YG6) 16-page zine of recent work here. THIS IS ME, EVERYDAY is staple bound, offset printed, and only $10.

Follow Josh @joshjcochran

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05/10/2012: DAN SAELINGER: PHOTO SERIES FOR ESPN THE MAGAZINE

Young Guns 7 winner Dan Saelinger recently completed a project for ESPN The Magazine about the undervalued and overvalued aspects of sporting. Browse through more photographs from the shoot here.

Follow Dan @dansaelinger

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05/10/2012: MADS JAKOB POULSEN: FEATURE IN COMPUTER ARTS MAGAZINE

Young Guns 8 winner Mads Jakob Poulsen wrote a feature for Computer Arts about why creatives should stop focusing on making the perfect logo and instead devote their time to the design system as a whole.

"If you're designing a logo for a beer label, make the whole system act like a logo. Create a custom typeface that can be used on the labels as well as online. Be iconic. Stand out! Instead of spending all that time creating a logotype for a client to put in the bottom corner of a poster, spend the time designing their posters, the content and the words. Make these elements have just as much an impact as the company logo, if not more – make the posters the logo," wrote Mads. Read the full op-ed here.

Follow Mads @madsjpoulsen

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05/10/2012: JONATHAN BARTLETT: ILLUSTRATION FOR MIO CULTURE

Illustrator Jonathan Bartlett took a castaway sketch from his MTA poster project and will soon transform it into a bigger project for industrial design firm MIO Culture. Visit Jonathan's blog for more information on the illustration.

Follow Jonathan @seejbdraw

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05/10/2012: SYLVAIN DUMAIS WINS TWO APPLIED ARTS AWARDS

Young Guns 7 winner Sylvain Dumais recently won two Applied Arts Awards featured in the Photo & Illustration Annual and the Design Annual for a spot he directed for TFO, an Ontario TV channel. Keep your peepers peeled for the summer issue of Applied Arts Magazine, which will run a feature on Sylvain's body of work.

Take a peak at Sylvain's freshly updated website.

Follow Sylvain @dumaisstudio

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05/09/2012: THE NEW CLUB: AN OPEN LETTER TO THE INDUSTRY

The New Club: An Open Letter to the Industry

I just finished reading the Steve Jobs biography, and the one thing I picked up from him is that sometimes organizations have to believe in something that is not proven and gamble it all. It is my feeling that the members of the Art Directors Club want a resource that forces them to become better creative professionals. As the new Executive Director of the Club, I will be betting all my chips on the future—studying, learning, exposing and embracing the changes we face now, and will face in the years to come.

For 92 years (which is older than most of your grandparents), the Art Directors Club has been at the center of the advertising, design and visual communications industries. Huddled around this core, have been agencies and creative professionals that came to the Club for two main reasons: to network and to celebrate the best work created by their peers. It was an easy formula for the members, and an easy matter for the Club to implement year after year.

The social, technological, and interactive environments have instigated substantial change in the industry and in our lives, and this change has forced everything and everybody to evolve. Some of us resisted, some embraced, and some of us are still trying to come to grips with it.

Moving forward, The Art Directors Club is going to be different. We are not going to keep on doing what we have done in the past, rather we are going to throw ourselves headfirst into the uncertainty of change—and revitalize our mission to Connect, Provoke and Elevate. It’s easy to see where the industry is going to be tomorrow, but can you see a year into its future? Three? Five? The role of the new Club will be to start focusing on predicting the things that will come tomorrow, and to empower and educate our members to face these changes.

In an industry that doesn’t really believe in career education or training (ask most creative directors if they have taken management or technical training courses lately), the Club will become more than just a meeting place. It will become the place for our members to learn—and be exposed to topics, technologies and thinking that they won’t find in their day-to-day work experience. The Club will become your part-time University. Whether you drop in for a drink at one of our many events, or visit the websites to read an article or watch a video, I will make sure you come out a changed person and a better professional.

Sometimes you will come out with answers to your questions, sometimes you’ll come out with more questions, but I promise you won’t come out the same. It’s our obligation to you, and it is the challenge I have set for the Club.

Before online social networking came along, people actually used to meet face to face. Those were the days of ‘Humanbook.’ Call me old school, but I plan on bringing that back big time. Most people change jobs like a frog jumping lily pads in a storm, and I have discovered that the best business contacts throughout my life were always the ones that came through unexpectedly at events where I wasn’t expecting to meet anyone.

Our industry is changing so fast that you can’t even buy or write a book about it, because by the time it is published, it’s old news (imagine buying a book on social networks a year ago). The only way to pick up the freshest, latest know-how is to get it straight from the source of the river. The fact that this is usually done over drinks at the Club can’t hurt! Anybody want another cocktail alongside your web 2.0 know-how? I’m in!

You will notice that the Art Directors Club will be focusing a lot of energy on creating new content for the industry. Most advertising associations, non-profits and award shows tend to steer clear of controversial issues. But topics like racial discrimination, the role of women in our business, the debate of comp and agency pitch work, crowdsourcing and the role of award shows should be topics that are dealt with directly, openly and perhaps even harshly. The Club should be the neutral stomping ground where these debates take place, and I plan on facilitating that for all of us to talk, debate and learn from each other. Like Ken Blanchard, a world-renowned speaker said, “None of us is as smart as all of us.”

I know all our members understand that change is here, and instead of shielding you from it, we are going to hold hands together and step forward in unison like an unstoppable force towards it.

I hope you’ll join me.

Ignacio Oreamuno
Executive Director


ADC Board members Rei Inamoto, Robert Wong, Brian Collins and Board President Benjamin Palmer speak about ADC's new direction and leader.

OFFICIAL PRESS STATEMENT

05/08/2012: Q+A TUESDAY: JAMES VICTORE AT THE DO LECTURES

James Victore (YG1) brings us a special Q+A Tuesday from Wales this week, where he asks The Do Lectures founder David Hieatt, "Why do?"

Send James questions for next week via twitter: @JamesVictore

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05/08/2012: STEPHAN WALTER: ADS FOR BBH GLOBAL

Young Guns 9 winner Stephan Walter recently completed two ads for Bartle Bogle Hegarty. Visit Stephan's website for more portfolio updates.

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05/08/2012: IT'S NICE THAT: INTERVIEW WITH CHRISTOPH NIEMANN

Today, It's Nice That posted an interview with illustrator Christoph Niemann (YG2/3), the creator of The New York Times spot Abstract Sunday. "In 2008 I was asked by Brian Rea of The New York Times to start a series of visual essays for the opinion section of nytimes.com. I had always tried to give my drawings a personal twist, but had never come up with my own stories before. I was completely out of my comfort zone — which was exactly what I was looking for, because I was afraid that I would eventually become too comfortable with the work I was doing," explained Christoph on how his column came to be. Read the rest of the interview here.

About It's Nice That: It’s Nice That exists to champion creativity across a whole host of disciplines. We publish exciting, original and engaging work from both established names and talented newcomers.

Follow Christoph @abstractsunday

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05/07/2012: MATT LEWKOWICZ FROM HUMA-HUMA LEADS SCW

Last week, Matt Lewkowicz from Young Guns 9 team Huma-Huma led a Saturday Career Workshop at the ADC gallery, where he taught high school juniors "six steps to make hot jams out of everyday sounds." Using a variety of non-music objects (a coffee grinder, books, mallets, and napkin holders just to name a few), Matt and the students made beautiful, unusual, and sometimes scary sounds to create a short song in ProTools, titled "Ticking Time Bomb."

Listen to "Ticking Time Bomb."

For more information on Saturday Career Workshops, click here.

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05/07/2012: DANA TANAMACHI: CHALK INSTALLATIONS FOR TOMMY AND EN-ONE TOKYO

Last month, Young Guns 9 winner Dana Tanamachi visited Tokyo to collaborate with TOMMY and En-One Tokyo on a number of chalk installations for their new Harajuku store. "Needless to say, I was beyond excited and honored for this first international commission," wrote Dana on her blog, where you can find a time-lapse video and installation pictures.

Follow Dana @dana_tanamachi

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05/07/2012: KEREN RICHTER: TEXTILE DESIGNS FOR REEDNYC

Young Guns 7 winner Keren Richter's textile designs for REEDNYC are a perfect medley of florals and summer motifs - check them out on Keren's blog.

Follow Keren @notkeren

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05/07/2012: KYLE BEAN: PORTFOLIO UPDATES

Kyle Bean (YG9) recently updated his portfolio with commissions from Nature magazine, Lloyds bank, and Wallpaper* magazine.

Follow Kyle @kylebean

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05/07/2012: READMILL BLOG: Q+A WITH FRANK CHIMERO

Last week, Frank Chimero (YG8) was interviewed by the Readmill blog about the highly anticipated release of his new book, The Shape of Design. "I was teaching a thesis design class for undergraduate students in Portland, Oregon, and felt really frustrated I couldn't find suitable reading that encouraged my students to think bigger and more holistically. I wanted a field guide for the emerging skill set; the types of skills design is a prime candidate to teach: storytelling, improvisation, craft, gift-giving," said Frank, regarding his motivation for putting his pen to paper. Find out how Kickstarter played a huge role in turning The Shape of Design into a reality and why this book isn't just for designers here.

Follow Frank @fchimero

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05/04/2012: VESA SAMMALISTO: ILLUSTRATION FOR TALOUSELAMA

Vesa Sammalisto (YG9) created this illustration for Nordic's largest weekly business magazine, Talouselämä, as part of their renewed visual identity.

Follow Vesa @vesasammalisto

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05/04/2012: JON CONTINO: BROOKLYN NETS LOGO ON THE FOX IS BLACK

Art and design blog The Fox Is Black was so disappointed by the new Brooklyn Nets logo (designed by Jay-Z himself) that they asked Young Guns 9 winner Jon Contino to solve the problem with his old school design expertise. "I wanted to take the solid concept behind Jay-Z's logo and run with it a little further. Over the years, I think I may have become more familiar with classic New York design than anyone. It's been an obsession of mine and I could probably teach a four year course on it by now," said Jon. Read more about Jon's ideas for the Brooklyn Nets logo here.

Follow Jon @joncontino

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05/01/2012: Q+A TUESDAY: JAMES VICTORE ON SUCCESS

James Victore (YG1) defines his idea of success and how he got there on this week's segment of Q+A Tuesday.

Send James questions for next week via twitter: @JamesVictore

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05/01/2012: JAMES WIGNALL: PRINT GIVEAWAY!

Young Guns 9 winner James Wignall is giving away this signed A2 giclee print - all you have to do is follow James on Twitter and tell him why you deserve it by Friday, May 4.

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