RESCHEDULED FOR AUGUST 23! PJ Richardson is a graphic designer, illustrator, and creative director from Los Angeles, CA. He co-owns and leads animation and production studio Laundry!. His focus is on design, animation, live action and vfx with work for television commercials, music videos, posters, and apparrel. Past clients include: Wrigleys, Nike, Virgin, The Cool Kids, Mountain Dew, MTV, VH1, Zune arts, and Stussy to name a few., where he uses his design and illustration background to create stylized posters, lettering, and comics, ensuring that he gets as little sleep as possible.

PJ is part of the ADC Young Guns 5 class of winners, honored in 2007.

Monday, August 23, 2010
7:30 -9 PM
Apple Store, Third Street Promenade
1248 Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Free, no reservation required.

Timothy Goodman will be speaking at the Apple Store in San Francisco this August. Born in Cleveland, Ohio, Timothy currently lives in San Francisco and works for Apple Inc. Formerly, he was a senior designer with the experiential design firm COLLINS: in New York City, where he worked for clients such as CNN, Motts, and Microsoft. He enjoys doing a variety of freelance work, including illustrations for The New York Times and a recent mural for the Ace Hotel. In 2009, Print selected Timothy for its annual “New Visual Artists” issue. He volunteers his time as a mentor for Big Brothers Big Sisters.

Timothy is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, August 23, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store, San Francisco
One Stockton Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

Free, no reservation required.

Scott Stowell is part of the Young Guns 3 class of winners. He will be presenting his work as part of the ADC Young Guns@ Apple Store SoHo, NYC on August 23. 2010.

Scott Stowell is the proprietor of Open, an independent design studio that creates rewarding experiences for people that look, read, and think. Open projects include identity systems for Bravo, NakedPizza, the National Multiple Sclerosis Society, Planet Green, and WNYC Radio; the editorial design of Good magazine; short films for Google and Jazz at Lincoln Center; and architectural signage for Brooklyn Bridge Park.

Open's work has received awards from and/or been published by the American Institute of Architects, AIGA, the Art Directors Club, the Broadcast Designers Association, Communication Arts, Eye, Grafik, I.D., +81, Print, ReBrand, the Society of Environmental Graphic Designers, the Society of Publication Designers, Step Inside Design, and the Tokyo Typedirectors Club, among others.

Before starting Open, Scott was the art director of Colors magazine in Rome and a senior designer at M&Co. New York. Before that, he earned a BFA in graphic design from Rhode Island School of Design. A former AIGA/NY vice president, Scott teaches at Yale and the School of Visual Arts. In 2008, the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum named Scott the winner of the National Design Award for Communication Design.

Monday, August 23, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

Free, no reservation required.

Michael Schachtner and Julia Neumann are part of the Young Guns 7 class of winners. They will be presenting their work together as part of the ADC Young Guns@ Apple Store SoHo, NYC on July 26. 2010.

Julia and Michael joined Y&R New York in the fall of 2009.

After graduating from Miami Ad School they both started their careers at Saatchi & Saatchi New York in 2006. Julia as a Copywriter, Michael as an Art Director.

Since then, both have won awards from several major advertising festivals including Cannes, ADC NY, Clio Awards, and One Show. They were also part of the Saatchi team that earned the “Agency of the Year” title at the Cannes Festival as well as at the Clio Awards in 2007.

They are currently creating work for global brands such as Dell, LG, Virgin Atlantic, Land Rover, MTV and besides that Michael tries very hard to bring some German order into Julia’s chaotic everyday life.

Monday, July 26, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

Free, no reservation required.

After filling the house at the New York Apple Store in February, ADC Young Gun Stewart Smith will cross the Atlantic to show his work at the London Apple Store this June!

Stewart Smith is the founder and principal of Stewdio, a consultancy that approaches art and software through the lens of graphic design. Stewdio has created collaborative works with renowned firms including Diller Scofidio+Renfro, O-R-G, Warning Office, and Death by Cyan. Stewart earned his MFA from Yale University and teaches Visualizing Data at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is also a research scholar at Columbia University.
Stewart is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, June 28, 2010
7 - 8:30 PM
Apple Store, Regent Street
235 Regent Street
London, W1B 2EL

Free, no reservation required.

Garland Lyn and Ting Ting Lee, two New York art directors, talk about their experiences in the world of design, magazines, advertising and fashion.

Between the both of them, they've worked for a breadth of companies including Vh1, Banana Republic, Calvin Klein, Levi's, Ann Taylor, Cesare Paccioti, Ferragamo, Dolce and Gabbana, Escada, Supreme, Spin, Flair and ESPN.

They have done everything from Branding, logo design and advertising campaigns for national brands to companies of one, drawing regular paychecks to being paid in stacks of cash, skateboards, carpets, meals, and panties. They will center their talk about their experiences working for both ends of the spectrum, large and small and the pros and cons of each.

Their work has won awards from the Art Directors Club, Society of Publication Design, I.D. Magazine, Type Director's Club & WWD. They've been published in +81, Creative Review, Educated Community, Graphics and fffound.

Ting Ting Lee+ Garland Lyn were part of the ADC Young Guns 3 class of winners.

Monday, June 28, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

Free, no reservation required.

Florencio Zavala will be speaking at the Apple Store in Santa Monica this June. Studio Number One’s associate creative director, Florencio has been with the studio since it opened in 2003, and has worked with artist and designer Shepard Fairey since 2000.He has been a guest lecturer at the University of Florida, Loyola Marymount University, Chaffey College, Boston University, California Institute of the Arts and the Southern California Institute of Architecture. A graduate of the University of Florida (BFA) and the California Institute of the Arts (MFA), Florencio also operates Big Skills, a platform for experimental design, film and animation projects.

Florencio is part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.

Monday, June 28, 2010
7:30 -9 PM
Apple Store, Third Street Promenade
1248 Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Free, no reservation required.

The evening will be moderated by Bill Oberlander, past President of the Art Directors Club and Chief Creative Officer, Cossette New York.
Drinks to follow, providing an opportunity to speak with the presenters.

Thursday, June 10, 2010
5:30-6:30pm CS5 Workshop led by Dan Rodney
6:30-8:30pm

Limited seating available for this event.
RSVP HERE

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in London! On the fourth Monday of the month, January through May, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work. May's speaker: Laura Carlin.

Laura Carlin is an illustrator who lives in London after obtaining an MA at the Royal College of Art. Clients include The New York Times, The Guardian, American Express and British Airways. She has illustrated several books, with The Folio Society, The House of Illustration and Walker Books, the latter publishing her latest - 'The Iron Man' by Ted Hughes. She also enjoys her own projects writing, making ceramics and books, but all with a touch of cynicism.
Laura is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, May 24, 2010
7 - 8:30 PM
Apple Store, Regent Street
235 Regent Street
London, W1B 2EL

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in Sydney! May's speaker: Ivana Martinovic!

Ivana was born in Sydney, Australia and currently works as a Senior Designer with the Sydney office of global branding agency Landor Associates.

She has developed identity and branding systems, promotional materials, environmental graphics, packaging and publication designs for a broad range of clients that includes, among others, Australian Graphic Design Association, Ben Sherman, Citi, City of Melbourne, Fidelity International, ISIS Projects, Spicers Paper, University of Sydney Union, Telstra, Yellow Pages, The Cool Hunter, Fresh As, Harper Collins, IAG, Lifestyle Insurance, Logan Wines, Macquarie Telecom, Tower Insurance, Remedies Healthcare and Wagamama.

She was recently selected to be part of the WPP High Potential 2010 group. Her work has won a number of awards and has been recognised by Graphis Design, AIGA, Pentawards, the New York and Tokyo Type Directors Club, Step Inside Design, HOW International, the Australian Graphic Design Association, Design & Art Directors Club and Design & Design.

Her interests beyond design include fashion, history and contemporary art.

Ivana is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, May 24, 2010
6 - 7:30 PM
Sydney Apple Store
367 George St.
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Free, no reservation required.

Devan Simunovich will be continuing the tradition of select ADC Young Guns speaking on the fourth Monday of every month at the Apple Store in SoHo this May.

Devan Simunovich is a multidisciplinary Designer/Director working at the intersection of motion design, CG animation and realtime 3D. He is co-founder of boutique design studio CTRL, who's diverse outpouring has included cg shorts, music videos, custom software, and generative video installations. Devan lives and works in New York, and currently hold a staff position at Trollback.
Devan is part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.

Monday, May 24, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in Santa Monica! On the fourth Monday of the month, February through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work. April's speaker: Yolanda Santosa.

Yolanda 'Yo' Santosa designed main titles for 300, Desperate Housewives and Ugly Betty. She founded Ferroconcrete in 2006 with the Pinkberry account, and has been managing the company’s brand ever since. Yo has taught at Art Center, and is an active national guest speaker; she has earned several awards, including 3 consecutive Emmy nominations.
Yo is part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.

Monday, April 26, 2010
7:30 - 9 PM
Apple Store, Third Street Promenade
1248 Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Free, no reservation required.

On the fourth Monday of the month, January through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work at the Apple Store in San Francisco. April's speaker: Jennifer Lew.

Jennifer Lew is a multidisciplinary artist / designer originally from L.I.C., Queens. Graduating in 2002 from the School of Visual Arts with a BFA in graphic design, she works in fabric, paper and viral. And collaborates with artner (n. art part•ner), Victor-John Villanueva as BLACK PANDA.

Jennifer is part of the ADC Young Guns 5 class of winners, honored in 2007.

Monday, April 26, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store, San Francisco
One Stockton Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaking series is extending to Paris! On the fourth Monday of April, ADC Young Gun Yves Geleyn will present his work at the Apple Store @ Carrousel du Louvre in Paris.

A true hybrid, Yves was brought into the World via the love of a German lady and a French man in Reading, England of all forgotten places. Yves' background has mainly been in print, working on poster designs, book and cd covers, but has also worked on installations and signage, notably for large museums and other cultural establishments. His move into motion was a natural progression with a common goal – to communicate and narrate with visual beauty and innovative style. He continues his hybrid tradition by fusing mixed media and various techniques culminating in poetic visual unions.

Yves is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, April 26, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store @ Carrousel du Louvre, Paris
Carrousel du Louvre
99 rue de Rivoli, 75001, Paris, France

Free, no reservation required.

On the fourth Monday of the month, ADC Young Guns winners will present their work at the Apple Store in Chicago. April's speaker: The Little Friends of Printmaking.

You can easily spot The Little Friends of Printmaking in a crowd—their inky hands and clothes are a dead giveaway, and their work is just as distinctive. Husband-and-wife team J W & Melissa Buchanan first made a name for themselves through their silkscreened concert posters, but now design fancy junk for whomever will pay them money. Their awards include honors from the Art Directors’ Club, American Illustration, and Communication Arts; and their work has been published in the books New Masters of Poster Design [Rockport], Juxtapoz: Poster Art [Gingko Press], and Handmade Nation [Princeton Architectural Press], among others.

The Little Friends of Printmaking are part of the ADC Young Guns 5 class of winners, honored in 2007.

Monday, April 26, 2010
7:00 - 8:30 PM
Apple Store, North Michigan Avenue
679 North Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611

Free, no reservation required.

On the fourth Monday of the month, January through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work at the Apple Store in London! April's speakers: Fx&Mat.

Fx and Mat met at France’s Supinfocom computer graphics university, where they made their directing debut with ‘En Tus Brazos’. The 3D animated short has won them awards from all over the world, including an ‘Award of Excellence’ at Siggraph.

They joined Nexus having directed commercials for the French and Canadian markets including a spot for Royal Bank of Canada, as well as working on various illustration projects.

The duo’s exploration in animation and live action is already making waves in the commercial world, being selected as finalists in the First Boards Awards 2009, and winner of an ADC young guns award the same year. Their recent spot for the International Olympic Committee is up for Best Commercial: Direction at the British Animation Awards this year.
Fx&Mat are part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, April 26, 2010
7 - 8:30 PM
Apple Store, Regent Street
235 Regent Street
London, W1B 2EL

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns 8 entry site will go live on March 24, 2010. We're planning a launch party that same night at ADC Gallery -- sign up for the ADC Young Guns mailing list (top left sidebar of this page) to stay tuned for details. And head over to the competition rules to get your portfolios ready for submission.

MAKE YOUR MARK on the walls of the ADC Gallery.

Come celebrate as the the Young Guns 8 Entry site goes live and vote on your choice for the winner of the Shutterstock contest. Two winners will be announced with prizes up to $2500 in value.

Beer to be provided by our friends at Brooklyn Brewery.

Wednesday, March 24, 2010
7-10 PM
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC
Markers will be provided.

ADC Members free with RSVP
Non-Members $20

Please RSVP/purchase your tickets here.

Photo by Jeff Dey.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in San Francisco! On the fourth Monday of the month, January through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work. March's speaker: Ed O'Brien.

Ed O'Brien is a designer at Hybrid Design in San Francisco. Since graduating in 2003 from the Academy of Art University, his work has been recognized by magazines such as ID and Print, and groups such as the AIGA and the Art Directors Club.
Ed is part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.

Monday, March 22, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store, San Francisco
One Stockton Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in London! On the fourth Monday of the month, January through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work. March's speaker: Adam Simpson.

Adam Simpson studied at Edinburgh College of Art and the Royal College of Art. His work encompasses design, animation and illustration - always with a strong emphasis on drawing. He works on commercial and self-initiated projects from his studio in East London.
Adam is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, March 22, 2010
7 - 8:30 PM
Apple Store, Regent Street
235 Regent Street
London, W1B 2EL

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in Chicago! On the fourth Monday of the month, February through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work. March's speaker: Isaac Tobin.

Isaac Tobin is a senior designer at the University of Chicago Press. He earned a BFA in Graphic Design in 2002 from the Rhode Island School of Design. He worked as a Book Designer at Beacon Press and freelanced for a year in Buenos Aires before settling in Chicago in 2005. His work has been recognized by the AIGA, the AAUP, the Type Directors Club, The Society of Typographic Arts, and Print Magazine, and has been featured in books published by Die Gestalten Verlag and Laurence King.
Isaac is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, March 22, 2010
7 - 8:30 PM
Apple Store, North Michigan Avenue
679 North Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in Santa Monica! On the fourth Monday of the month, February through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work. March's speaker: Brian Michael Gossett.

Brian Michael Gossett is a designer/illustrator/art director/teacher/maker of things working in commercial advertising, commercial and editorial print, film, and broadcast media in sunny Santa Monica, CA. He received his BFA in Graphic Communication at the University of Houston in 2000, graduating magna cum laude. Since then, he has been involved in a wide variety of projects both small and large. Brian teaches a class at the Art Center College of Art and Design in Pasadena, CA. He is also author and editor for Motionographer.com. He enjoys putting smiles on faces.
Brian is part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.

Monday, March 22, 2010
5:30 - 7 PM
Apple Store, Third Street Promenade
1248 Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Free, no reservation required.

On the fourth Monday of every month, select ADC Young Guns winners present their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. March's speaker: Greg Brunkalla.

Greg has been directing commercial content, music videos, and other moving images in New York City since 2002. With five years of representation with @radical.media, he has recently founded a new media company with industry friends called Legs, based out of Milk Studios in NYC. Legs' first project was a multifaceted black-and-white film campaign for Diesel.com. Greg was nominated for an Emmy for a series he directs for The New York Times Style Magazine. Other clients include: Nike, Levi's, Kia, and Diet Coke. Agencies he has worked with include: Mother, Taxi, Farfar, Duetsche, 180, and Ogilvy. He lives in Brooklyn.
Greg is part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, March 22, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in Sydney! ADC Young Gun Clinton Duncan will kick off our Apple Store events in Australia this March!

Clinton Duncan is a graphic designer and art director living and working in Sydney, Australia. His work has crossed most disciplines, from branding and identity, advertising and communications, online and interactive to 3 dimensional design for signage and environments. His work has been recognized by the Design & Art Directors Club, the Australian Graphic Design Association, Australasian Writers and Art Directors Association, Cannes, The One Show and the Art Directors Club.

His approach is informed by his early career in advertising as an art director - focusing on big, beautiful ideas that are executed with clarity and precision. Typography plays a central part of this approach, and Clinton also lectures on Typography for the University of Technology, Sydney. His interest in contemporary art is also a key influence in his work, and has resulted in many collaborations with curators, galleries and artists.

Clinton is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, March 22, 2010
6 - 7:30 PM
Sydney Apple Store
367 George St.
Sydney NSW 2000
Australia

Free, no reservation required.

On the fourth Monday of every month, select ADC Young Guns winners present their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. February's speaker: Stewart Smith.

Stewart Smith is the founder and principal of Stewdio, a consultancy that approaches art and software through the lens of graphic design. Stewdio has created collaborative works with renowned firms including Diller Scofidio+Renfro, O-R-G, Warning Office, and Death by Cyan. Stewart earned his MFA from Yale University and teaches Visualizing Data at NYU in the Interactive Telecommunications Program. He is also a research scholar at Columbia University.
Stewart is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

Monday, February 22, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in San Francisco! On the fourth Monday of the month, January through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work. February's speaker: Eva Kolenko.

Thriving on new experiences, especially adventure and travel, Eva Kolenko uses photography as a means to experience the world. From pop culture to the inexplicable beauty of the natural world, she takes inspiration from a range of sources. While her diverse portfolio is continuously enriched by assignments from clients such as M&M's, Metropolitan Home, & Random House Publishing, Kolenko continues to pursue personal assignments that push her style and ensure that it is always evolving.
Eva is part of the ADC Young Guns 5 class of winners, honored in 2006.

Monday, February 22, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store, San Francisco
One Stockton Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in Chicago! On the fourth Monday of the month, February through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work. Kicking off the Chicago series: ALSO.

Working from New York and Chicago, ALSO is a three-headed creative team – part designer, illustrator, and animator. Jenny, Julia, and Matt create highly customized websites and print work for a fun and visually adventurous clientele.
ALSO is part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.

Monday, February 22, 2010
7 - 8:30 PM
Apple Store, North Michigan Avenue
679 North Michigan Ave.
Chicago, IL 60611

Free, no reservation required.

The ADC Young Guns speaker series is extending to the Apple Retail Store in Santa Monica! On the fourth Monday of the month, February through April, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work. Kicking off the Santa Monica series: Will Staehle.

Will Staehle grew up reading comics and working summers at his parents' design firm in Wisconsin. He has been Art Director for HarperCollins Publishers in New York and is currently Design Director for JibJab in Venice, CA. He also runs his own studio, Lonewolfblacksheep, where he uses his design and illustration background to create stylized posters, lettering, and comics, ensuring that he gets as little sleep as possible.
Will is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2008.

Monday, February 22, 2010
5:30 - 7 PM
Apple Store, Third Street Promenade
1248 Third Street Promenade
Santa Monica, CA 90401

Free, no reservation required.

On the fourth Monday of every month, select ADC Young Guns winners present their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. January's speaker: Mixtape Club.

Too technical for the arts, too creative for the sciences, Chris Smith, Jesse Casey, and Michelle Higa knew they had to work together as soon as they met. They funneled their collective love of music, computer science and semiotics into the world of animation, and Mixtape Club was born. With a fondness for character-based storytelling, Mixtape Club has created work for a wide variety of clients, including music videos for TV on the Radio, J Dilla, Yeasayer, My Morning Jacket, and most recently Passion Pit.
Mixtape Club is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.

The event took place on:
Monday, January 25, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

See photos of the event here.

On the fourth Monday of the month, January through April 2010, select ADC Young Guns winners will present their work at the Apple Store on Regent Street, London. Kicking off the series on January 25 was Johnny Kelly.

Nexus productions director Johnny Kelly graduated from The Royal College of Art where he completed an MA in Animation and was awarded the Conran Foundation Award by the Provost, Sir Terence Conran. His graduation short film, Procrastination, has been very well received and won him the Jerwood Moving Image Prize 08 and was selected to be part of the Saatchi & Saatchi New Director Showcase. He was also awarded Best New Director at the 2007 Shark Awards in Kinsale and won the Animator First Boards Award this year.
Johnny is part of the ADC Young Guns 7 class of winners, honored in 2009.



The event took place on:
Monday, January 25, 2010
7 - 8:30 PM
Apple Store, Regent Street
235 Regent Street
London, W1B 2EL

On the fourth Monday of the month, January through April 2010, select ADC Young Guns winners present their work at the Apple Retail Store in San Francisco. Kicking off the series on January 25 was Jason Munn.

Jason Munn is originally from Wisconsin but now calls Oakland, California home. Arising from a love of independent music, design, and making for the sake of making, his posters soon became a fixture in the local independent music scene. He started The Small Stakes in the fall of 2003, and it has since unfolded into a successful independent design studio, producing nationally and internationally commissioned work in a range of print materials, including book covers, album packaging, T-shirt designs, screen-printed posters, and illustrations. Jason's work has appeared in Print, Communication Arts, Step Inside Design, Computer Arts Projects, Étapes, ReadyMade, and Creative Review. His work has also been featured in numerous exhibits and is part of the permanent collection at the San Francisco Museum of Modern Art.
Jason is part of the ADC Young Guns 5 class of winners, honored in 2006.



This event took place on:
Monday, January 25, 2010
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store, San Francisco
One Stockton Street
San Francisco, CA 94108

On the fourth Monday of every month, select ADC Young Guns winners present their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. November's speaker was Justin Gignac.

Justin Gignac is an artist, entrepreneur and freelance art director living in New York. After holding jobs at Ogilvy, Fallon NY and Toy, Justin left full-time agency life in 2007 to focus on his artistic endeavors, among them NYC Garbage, an ongoing series of carefully packaged urban trash, and Wants For Sale, in which he and his wife paint things that they want and sell the paintings for the actual price of each object. He currently still dabbles in the ad world as a freelancer.
Justin was part of the ADC Young Guns 5 class of winners, honored in 2006.

The event took place on:
Monday, November 23, 2009
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

The work of this year's incredible ADC Young Guns 7 winners was on exhibition at ADC Gallery from Thursday, October 22 - Friday, November 6, 2009.

FIVE ADC Young Guns 7 judges picked FIVE of this year's incredible winners.
All TEN presented their work, Pecha Kucha-style – 20 slides, 20 seconds each. 400 seconds to tell their story.

Speakers were:
Robin Bilardello and Ben Wiseman
Bridget De Socio and Yong Choe
dress code and Lindsay Ballant
Nicholas Felton and Jessica Hische
WeShouldDoItAll and Mario Hugo

The evening was moderated by Connor Swegle of Click 3X Entertainment.

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Before the speaker presentation, an optional training session was offered from Adobe. Creative Suite 4 Design Premium includes traditional design products for print as well as the latest for web and interactive design.

Mastering CSS and Web Design
Over the last several years, the world of web design has been undergoing a change, moving from the old table-based, non-semantic markup of the past into the world of standards-compliant web design. Getting a handle on the language of HTML, XHTML, CSS and AJAX can be a challenge. However, Dreamweaver CS4 makes it easy with CSS and also makes advanced AJAX development much more approachable. During this session, Adobe Evangelist, Greg Rewis, explores standards-compliant design—markup, presentation and behavior—while simultaneously looking at the new features in Dreamweaver CS4.

Flash Bootcamp: Actionscript for Designers
Today’s Flash encompasses not only greatly improved animation capabilities, but also advanced features like inverse kinetics and 3D manipulations, not to mention being the most popular video delivery format on the web. As a designer, one challenge continues to stand in your way – to get the most out of Flash, you need to learn a little Actionscript. During this session, Greg will tear down the Actionscript wall, exposing what you really need to know as a designer to get the most out of Flash.

Greg Rewis is the Group Manager, Creative Solutions Evangelism at Adobe Systems. With over 20 years of computer industry experience, Greg spends in excess of 200 days of the year on the road, talking with customers, giving product demonstrations at trade shows and seminars, and speaking at industry conferences. Greg is a recognized authority on CSS and Ajax, as well as the co-author of “Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS3″ and the updated “Mastering CSS with Dreamweaver CS4″ published by New Riders.

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FivePlusFive took place on:
Thursday, October 29, 2009
5:00-7:00 Adobe Training Session
7:00-8:30 Speaker Presentations
ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

Sponsored by:

On the fourth Monday of every month, select ADC Young Guns winners present their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. October's speaker was Julien Vallée.

Based in Montréal, Canada, graphic designer Julien Vallée marries handcraft and digital technology to produce awe-inspiring work in both print and motion. From art installations to videos for the music industry, Julien's work has been published worldwide in international graphic books and magazines. In 2008 he was part of the YCN Live 2008 event where he exhibited work in Sydney and at the Bloomberg YCN showroom in London. His client list includes Computer Arts, Swatch, MTV-One and the New York Times Magazine. Julien was part of the ADC Young Guns 6 class of winners, honored in 2008.

The talk took place on:
Monday, October 26, 2009
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

The work of this year's incredible ADC Young Guns 7 winners was on exhibition at ADC Gallery from Thursday, October 22 - Friday, November 6, 2009.

ADC unveiled the fifty winners of the ADC Young Guns 7 competition! Their winning work in advertising, design, illustration and photography graced the gallery walls, and winners will claim the iconic ADC Young Guns Cube. The ADC Young Guns 7 book, published by Moleskine, was released at the event.

Open Bar + Food by Asia Dog
DJ: Luke and Zach Go Boating
A color photo booth was on hand at the event, generously provided by Photo Illusion, LLC.

The event took place on:
Wednesday, October 21, 2009
7-10 PM
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

For a selection of photos from the event, go here. For the full album, and photo booth pictures, visit our Facebook page.

On the fourth Monday of every month, select ADC Young Guns winners present their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. Third in the series were Menno Kluin and Graeme Hall.

Menno Kluin is an art director at Y&R NY. He started at Saatchi & Saatchi three years ago and within two years in the business he was ranked by Creativity magazine as the “Most Awarded Art Director” in the world. He is currently working at Y&R NY for clients like Bacardi, LG, Colgate, VH1 and Land Rover. He just teamed up with Graeme Hall, who joined Y&R NY this month. Graeme is 30 years old and was a creative at DDB London for 5 years. In that time, he made award winning campaigns for VW, Harvey Nichols and Marmite.
Graeme and Menno were both part of the ADC Young Guns 6 winning class, in 2008.

The event took place on:
Monday, September 28, 2009
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

After the presentation, the audience moved on to SoHo Room at 203 Spring St. to meet Menno and Graeme and enjoy specially discounted beer and wine.

FIVE past ADC Young Guns picked FIVE creatives they admire.
All TEN presented their work, Pecha Kucha-style – 20 slides, 20 seconds each. 400 seconds to tell their story.

Speakers:
Jerome Austria, Wieden+Kennedy NY, ADC Young Guns 6
+ Ricardo Viramontes, Wieden+Kennedy NY

Tiziana Haug, Wolff Olins, ADC Young Guns 5
+ Julie Hirschfeld, Stiletto NYC, ADC Young Guns 3

Luke Hayman, Pentagram, ADC Young Guns 1
+ Eddie Opara, Map

Alex Lin, Studio Lin, ADC Young Guns 5
+ Stephen Burks, readymade projects

Carlo Van De Roer, Photographer, ADC Young Guns 5
+ Alex Prager, Photographer

The evening was moderated by Matt Lambert.

Presentations were followed by drinks, providing an opportunity to speak with the presenters. Congratulations to Judy Blom who won a copy of Adobe CS4 in our raffle!

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Before the speaker presentation, an optional training session was offered from Adobe:

Designing Web Pages in Photoshop and Dreamweaver CS4
Presented by Scott Citron for Adobe Systems Inc.

In this training presentation, designer, author, and Adobe Photoshop Certified Expert, Scott Citron, will demonstrate how to build and prepare web images and pages in Adobe Photoshop CS4 for eventual use in Adobe Dreamweaver CS4. As part of the demo, Scott will also show Incontext Editing, a technology that allows portions of a live web page to be accessed and edited by end users through standard Internet browsers.

In addition, you'll also learn about:
• Image slicing and optimization in Photoshop
• Prototyping web pages with Adobe Fireworks
• Using CSS to control positioning
• Leveraging Dreamweaver CS4 Live View to preview your pages

If you're making the transition from print to web you won't want to miss this valuable presentation.

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FivePlusFive took place on the evening of:
Wednesday, September 16, 2009
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC

Sponsored by:

On the fourth Monday in July, August and September of 2009, select ADC Young Guns winners will be presenting their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. Second in the series was Asif Mian.

Born and raised in and around NYC, Asif Mian began at a young age with drawing, painting and sculpture. Interested in filmmaking, Mian applied his sculptural concepts to music videos. Using film to tell abstract visual narratives, he also directs commercial spots and his own short films.

The event took place on:
Monday, August 24, 2009
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

After the presentation, the audience was invited to meet Asif at SoHo Room, 203 Spring St., NYC.

On the fourth Monday in July, August and September of 2009, select ADC Young Guns winners will be presenting their work at the Apple Store in SoHo. First up was Keetra Dean Dixon.

Keetra Dean Dixon is a designer and artist working under the handle FromKeetra. Her socially-themed messaging, objects & installations have gained notoriety for their friendly absurdism and whimsical tone. Dixon's work has been recognized on several fronts including a place in the permanent design collection at the SFMOMA, works exhibited for the '09 U.S. Presidential Inauguration, and an upcoming solo exhibit at London's KKOutlet.

The event took place on:
Monday, July 27, 2009
6:30 - 8 PM
Apple Store SoHo
103 Prince Street, NYC

After the presentation, the audience was invited to meet Keetra and hang out at Bar 89, 89 Mercer Street, NYC.

They work for top agencies. They create award-winning campaigns. They’ve made it in the advertising world and keep pushing themselves every day. Wieden+Kennedy and Y&R creatives Chris Hutchinson, Driscoll Reid and Menno Kluin shared their ideas, ideals and industry secrets.

Driscoll Reid and Chris Hutchinson are a creative team at Wieden+Kennedy Portland. Driscoll grew up in Vermont and graduated from Skidmore College. Chris grew up in California and graduated from the University of Oregon. They met in 2004 in the first group of W+K's school/experiment, 12, where they decided to team up and were subsequently hired by Wieden+Kennedy. They recently returned to the Portland office after a two-year stint in the agency's Tokyo office working on Nike Asia.

Menno Kluin is an art director at Y&R NY. He started at Saatchi & Saatchi three years ago and within two years in the business he was ranked by Creativity magazine as the “Most Awarded Art Director” in the world. He is currently working at Y&R NY for clients like Bacardi, LG, Colgate, VH1 and Land Rover.



This event took place on:

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Thursday June 11, 2009
@ ADC Gallery
6:30 pm Drinks
7:00 pm Presentation

This evening was brought to you by:

They represent the leading edge and the cutting edge—the anointed and the soon-to-be anointed—the established and the new kid on the block. Past ADC Young Guns Rei Inamoto, Chief Creative Officer at AKQA, and Justin Meredith, Creative Director at Thornberg & Forester, took to the stage to share their digi-tales with the audience. Connor Swegle of Click3X moderated.

Inamoto, one of the most award-winning creatives in the interactive marketing industry, was named to Creativity Magazine’s annual Creativity 50 and has won multiple grand prix and golds at industry shows. He works, globally, for AKQA clients Nike, Xbox, Coca-Cola and McDonald’s.

Since graduating in 2005, Thornberg has completed spots for Target, Microsoft Zune, the network launch of Discovery Channel’s Planet Green, branding materials for the Playstation 3 Network, and the opening title sequence of the 2008 AICP Awards Show. Justin’s work has appeared in the Museum of Modern Art, Whitney Museum of Art, and the Tokyo Auto Show.



Digi-tales took place on the evening of Thursday, May 14, 2009, at the ADC Gallery.

This evening was brought to you by:

To kick off the ADC Young Guns 7 Call for Entries, ADC hosted:

SCORE!
ADC Young Guns 7 Call for Entries Launch Party and Ping Pong Tournament
Thursday, March 19, 2009
7-10 pm
@ ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC



Beer. Food. Ping Pong.
See photos of the ping pong tournament and party here. Franck Raharinosy took first place in the singles tournament, Andrew Gordon and Bill Mack won doubles. The winners scored cash + copies of Adobe Creative Suite 4! Runner-up in singles was Timmy Cai, while Manav Thaker and Russell Daiber snatched second place in doubles - all went home with a pair of Behance Action Runners.

Congrats to Véronique Krieger, who won a one-night stay at Ace Hotel's New York location, due to open April 1st. We also handed out ADC Young Guns 6 + The Undiscovered Letter books to five lucky guests.

The ADC Young Guns 7 entry site went live on the evening of Score! Enter your portfolio. Get recognized: www.adcyoungguns.org/enter/

'Twas a festive night of food, drinks and gift-giving! ADC collected approximately 200 toys and over $1,500 for the Children's Aid Society.

The ADC Young Guns 6 Annual, along with The Undiscovered Letter companion volume, made its debut at the party.



Buy your copy now at the ADC Online Store!

Four ADC Young Guns 6 winners presented and discussed their work—ranging from illustration to video and everything in between.

ADC presented for the first time:
John Kudos, Studio Kudos
Keetra Dean Dixon, fromKeetra
Julia Rothman, ALSO
Ryan Dunn and Wyeth Hansen, Labour

Moderated by James Gaddy, Associate Editor, PRINT magazine

The evening was sponsored by:

Find out who claimed the ADC Young Guns Cube! Their winning work graces the ADC gallery walls for two weeks in September.

Exhibition runs Friday, September 5 - Thursday, September 18, 2008
@ADC Gallery
106 West 29th Street, NYC
Gallery open Mon-Fri, 10am - 6pm.

On the evening of September 4, 2008, ADC revealed Young Guns 6 - 350 guests celebrated with the fifty winners of the ADC Young Guns 6 class! Their winning work graced the gallery walls, and winners claimed the newly minted ADC Young Guns Cube.

Mr. Randy Watson of WSDIA was on hand to DJ the event.

Check out photos here.

Exhibition runs Friday, September 5 - Thursday, September 18, 2008
Gallery open Mon-Fri, 10am - 6pm.

The event was sponsored by:

Last month's Happy Hour was such a good time; we're doing it again. Whether you've entered the ADC Young Guns 6 competition, are still looking to learn more, or just want to have after-work drinks with like-minded creatives, join us!

Wednesday, June 18
6:30-8:30pm
@The Delancey
168 Delancey St. (between Clinton & Attorney)
*We'll be on the rooftop.

WHO:
ADC Young Guns 6 judges, past Young Guns, and you.

WHAT:
After-work drinks + interesting people = good conversation. Get away from those computers and make some new friends. Some new, very talented friends.

WHERE:
Sweet & Vicious, 5 Spring Street (near Bowery), NYC
*Look for us in the back garden area.

WHEN:
Wednesday, May 21, 6:30-8:30pm

WHY:
Why not?

Julia Hoffmann trekked back to the ADC to talk about transitions from design to advertising, from traditional to interactive, from Pentagram to Crispin Porter Bogusky, and from New York City to Boulder, Colorado. She shared her work, which - like her career, life, and location - is constantly in flux.

Prior to the presentation by Hoffmann, Adobe presented a one-hour tutorial on Adobe Creative Suite 3 Design Premium, led by Adobe Certified Trainer Scott Citron. One lucky attendee - Florian Weckert - won a copy of Adobe CS3 Design Premium.

The evening was sponsored by Adobe.

Go here to see photos of the event.

Launched by the Art Directors Club and Moleskine®, The Undiscovered Letter was a creative competition developed to raise awareness about lettera27. The challenge was open exclusively to past ADC Young Guns, who were asked to conjure up the 27th letter of the alphabet. Participants were encouraged to do away with boundaries and interpret this concept freely.

Every participant was given a custom Moleskine® notebook to sketch in. After developing their ideas, they were asked to submit one final project.

Based on jury scores, 27 finalists were selected. Among these, three projects were singled out as Judge's Favorites, and a fourth - the top-ranked project - was named the 27th letter.

An online exhibition of all finalists' work is now live. Check it out here.

Disclosure kicked off the launch of ADC Young Guns 6 and showcased the work of the Undiscovered Letter's 27 finalists.

The ADC Young Guns 6 call for entries, which opened online earlier that day, launched in a more literal manner at the event; Young Guns hopefuls were especially encouraged to attend to pick up the Call for Entries poster along with a booklet filled with advice from past ADC Young Guns.
The evening also showcased the 27 finalists of The Undiscovered Letter, a creative challenge in which participants flexed their imaginative muscle to conjure up the 27th letter of the alphabet.

Guests were invited to join in the evening's theme and disclose a little known fact about themselves - facts were exhibited anonymously throughout the gallery during the party, and guests voted on their favorites. The person behind the top-ranked fact - "I already stole CS3" - won Adobe CS3 Design Premium.

Disclosure happened on Thursday, April 3, 2008, from 7:30-11pm at the ADC Gallery. Click here for photos.

The evening was sponsored by Adobe.

ADC Young Guns - past and current - were invited to a private reception to learn more about The Undiscovered Letter, a challenge developed by the ADC and Moleskine to raise awareness about lettera27, a non-profit foundation devoted to defending the right to literacy.

Go here to see photos of the event.

For more info, visit www.theundiscoveredletter.com.

27 finalists were announced on April 3, 2008. Go here to see their work.

ADC Young Guns Live was a four-part series exploring the work, history, hurdles, goals and aspirations of ADC Young Guns. This series highlighted the fifth biennial class of international professionals working in advertising, design, video, interactive and other forms of media. A committee encompassing ADC Young Guns 5 recipients planned the topics and chose the speakers for this series. Presenting sponsorship was led by Adobe with additional support from Neenah Paper and Enterprise Press.

Watch videos of ADC Young Guns Live events and interviews with ADC Young Guns.

Check out ihaveanidea.org's ADC blog with lots of photos and commentary on ADC Young Guns Live.

The Woman Vanguard:
Tracy Boychuck, Trooper, YG1 (1996)
Leanne Shapton, YG2 (1998)
Julie Hirschfeld, Stiletto, YG3 (2001)
Deanne Cheuk, Deanne Cheuk Design, YG4 (2004)
Stella Bugbee, Stella Bugbee Studio, YG5 (2006)
Thursday, April 19, 2007
Five ADC Young Guns, one from each class and all of them women, have taken very different career paths, made personal choices in both their careers and lives, and found work they like to do. They are creative stars, which may be flying under your radar, while shaping creative careers. Each will shared their work, their vision of the future, and opened their portfolios for a peak inside.

BIG|small:
BBDO (2006) and WeShouldDoItAll (WSDIA also 2006)
Thursday, May 17, 2007
Creative teams Frank Anselmo and Jayson Atienza of BBDO and Jonathan Jackson, Sarah Nelson, and Jared Seavers of WSDIA represent two ends of the creative business spectrum. One team works in a large organization with layers, meetings, processes, and procedures while the other runs their own small firm, aptly named WeShouldDoItAll. They discussed how their environments affect their work and how they leveraged their creativity within the confines of their companies.

DIY:
James Victore (1996) and Chris Rubino (2006)
Thursday, October 4, 2007
James Victore and Chris Rubino offered a chance to take a break from client work. An original ADC Young Gun, James Victore, and a new ADC Young Gun, Chris Rubino, create work for themselves. Their self-motivated projects deliver satisfaction, win awards, and push their creative boundaries. James and Chris will show examples of this work and talk about how these projects drive, and perhaps, inspire the work they produce for clients. This evening featured two mavericks that translate inner visions into new directions.

Frame by Frame:
Asif Mian (2006)
Christopher Lane (2006)
Floto + Warner (2006)
Justin Gignac (2006)
Thursday, November 1, 2007
Four ADC Young Guns shared—frame by frame—fresh new images. Each ADC Young Gun creates imagery using multiple formats and every tool available. They shoot in any medium, resulting in work that sits comfortably in several categories or in none. These image creators—photographers, videographers, illustrators and multi-media experts—shared how they break down traditional boundaries and explore the limits. This evening was a visual feast of fresh new work from a talented crew of image-makers.

Opening party for the ADC Young Guns 5 exhibition - 70 were inducted into the fifth class of ADC Young Guns.

More photos available here!