The Art Directors Club, the premier organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, announces the launch of the ADC Young Guns 8 competition for creatives and designers age 30 or younger.

ADC Young Guns® (www.adcyoungguns.org/home) is the only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creatives. The competition is open to ADC members and non-members worldwide. Last year’s competition drew entries from 84 countries, with 53% of registrations coming from outside the U.S. A total of 50 winners are selected for ADC Young Gun status.  

Eligible entrants can submit a combination of both professional and personal work in graphic design, photography, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation, video, interactive design, object design and typography. Judging is done by a panel of past ADC Young Guns winners.

All 50 ADC Young Guns 8 winners receive the following:
-  the iconic ADC Young Guns Cube;
- their work showcased in an exhibition at the ADC Gallery in New York; 
- their work included in a limited-edition volume published exclusively for ADC by Moleskine;
- their work added to ADC’s permanent collection online;
- complimentary one-year ADC membership;
- automatic and permanent membership in the exclusive ADC CUBE club as an ADC award winner; 
- an assortment of career-boosting benefits from ADC Young Guns sponsors.