Art Directors Club Selects Sixth Class of Young Guns

The Art Directors Club has announced its latest group of Young Guns, and this sixth cohort of 50 rising design stars was selected by a jury of 19 Young Guns alumni, including UnBeige buddies Chris Rubino and Stefan Bucher. With nearly double the number of entries from the previous ADC Young Guns competition in 2006, the judging was no easy task: the five-week process entailed each of the 19 judges individually scoring every entry through three elimination rounds.

Click “continued…” below for the full list of ADC Young Guns 6, a diverse group of designers that range in age from 23 to 30 and hail from 13 countries. Incidentally, nearly half of the winners are self-employed, either as freelancers or under a studio of their own founding. Check out their work—both personal and professional—at the ADC Gallery in Manhattan, which is hosting an exhibition of winning Young Guns 6 entries through September 18, when the Young Guns will be there to present and discuss their work.

Also, USA

Emily CM Anderson, freelance, USA

Jerome Austria, AKQA, USA

Mike Bishop, freelance, Canada

Michael Christopher Brown, freelance, USA

Greg Brunkalla, @radical.media, USA

C-F: Cybu Richli – Fabienne Burri, Switzerland

Marta Cerdà, Vasava, Spain

Josh Cochran, freelance, USA

Damien Correll, freelance, USA

CTRL, USA

Keetra Dean Dixon, FromKeetra, USA

Eric Elms, freelance, USA

Daniel Eskils, Eskils Junker Film, Sweden

Jason Evans, LLOYD&CO, USA

Nicholas Felton, Megafone, USA

Naoki Ga, Wieden+Kennedy Tokyo, Japan

Brian Michael Gossett, freelance, USA

Graeme Hall, DDB London, UK

Kristian Henson, Studio Number One, USA

Derick Holt, freelance, USA

Philipp Hubert, Visiotypen, Germany

Jesse Kaczmarek, Jkaczmarek, USA

Max Kaplun, NYC & Company, USA

Shun Kawakami, artless Inc., Japan

Masashi Kawamura, 180 Amsterdam, Netherlands

Justin Thomas Kay, freelance, USA

Alex Kirzhner, 7 Local, USA

Menno Kluin, Saatchi & Saatchi New York, USA

Marcos Kotlhar, AlmapBBDO, Brazil

John Kudos, Kudos Design, USA

Labour, USA

Morris Lee, Momorobo, Singapore

Justin Meredith, Thornberg & Forester, USA

Joel Micah Miller, Joel Micah Miller Fotografie, Germany

Garrett Morin, freelance, USA

Carl Nielson, exit10, USA

Ed O’Brien, Hybrid Design, USA

Mike Perry, Midwestisbest, USA

Emiliano Ponzi, Magnet Reps, Italy

Pawel Piotr Przybyl, Siedemzero, Poland

Yolanda Santosa, Ferroconcrete, USA

Paul Schlacter, Trollbäck+Co., USA

Ryan Schude, freelance, USA

Alex Trochut, Alex Trochut SL, Spain

Julien Vallée, freelance, Canada

Emre Veryeri, Trollbäck+Co., USA

Craig Ward, Words are Pictures, UK

Sarah Wilmer, freelance, USA

Florencio Zavala, Studio Number One, USA

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