The Art Directors Club (www.adcglobal.org), the premier organization for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind with membership in advertising, design and visual communications, today announced the line-up of industry leaders who will serve as jury chairs to head the five categories of the ADC 89th Annual Awards program for 2010.

The jury chairs for each category are as follows:

• Advertising – Luis Miguel Messianu, president/chief creative officer, Alma/DDB, Coral Gables, FL, US
• Design – Chris Campbell, executive creative director, Interbrand, New York, US
• Interactive – Dave Bedwood, creative partner, Lean Mean Fighting Machine, London, UK
• Hybrid – Rob Reilly, partner/co-executive creative director, Crispin Porter + Bogusky, Miami, FL and Boulder, CO, US
• Design Sphere – Karen Welman, creative partner, Pearlfisher, London, UK

““The ADC Annual Awards honor great work that leads the industry forward, so it’s important that our chairs and jury members be at the vanguard of their respective fields,” said Ami Brophy, CEO, Art Directors Club. “In addition, chairs must have served on a past ADC jury, giving them an understanding of our rigorous evaluation process and high standards. We has a strong group of chairs this year who will continue to elevate the tradition of the ADC Annual Awards.”

Call for entries for the ADC 89th Annual Awards will be open as of October 15, 2009, with a staggered set of deadlines for submission by category: Design - January 22, 2010; Interactive and Student - January 29, 2010; Advertising - February 5, 2010; ADC Hybrid and ADC Design Sphere - February 26, 2010.  

Entrants in the ADC 89th Annual Awards are eligible to be the first recipients of the ADC Black Cube for best-in-show in Advertising, Design and Interactive. This highest award level was initiated last year, but juries did not elect to present the honor to any of the winners. It also marks the second year for the cumulative awards for Design Firm of the Year, Advertising Agency of the Year, Interactive Agency of the Year, Network of the Year and School of the Year, based on winning point totals for the year.  

The 89th Annual Awards also marks the inaugural ADC-Nissan Student Brief Competition. Playing off the Art Directors Club prestigious Cube award, students will be asked to respond to a brief for the new Nissan cube©. Participants will develop a creative campaign or concepts for the US market that make the Nissan cube part of the target audience’s life, using channels and communications vehicles they feel most appropriate to the target’s lifestyle and what the model represents. A $2,500 ADC scholarship will go to the grand prize winner, and ADC Gold, Silver and Bronze Cubes will also be awarded by a five-person jury made up of executives and key creatives from Nissan North America and TBWA\Chiat\Day, the car company’s ad agency. For entry and more information, please visit www.adcglobal.org/education/competition.

All winners will be announced in the spring of 2010 at a special awards presentation in New York. Winning work will also be part of a world exhibition tour, and be published in the Art Directors Annual, the longest running archive of leading creative work in global advertising, design and visual communications.