X Marks the Spot: Young Designers Take Aim at ADC Young Guns 10

The competition that spotted Stefan Sagmeister, James Victore, and Mike Mills when they were but wee design/art powerhouses-to-be is back for its tenth go-round. Behold Young Guns 10 (or X, as the Romans would have it), the Art Directors Club‘s international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based competition to identify the young creative vanguard. By “young,” they mean 30 or under, and by “creatives,” they mean those doing great things in graphic design, photography, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation, video, interactive design, object design, and/or typography. What’s so special about Young Guns? It recognizes an individual, and considers a body of work, not a single ad or design. Also, you get a really cool cube if you win.

Young Guns 10 is open to ADC members and non-members worldwide (last year’s competition saw entrants from 43 countries). A jury of past ADC Young Guns including Emily Oberman, Mike Bishop, and Jennifer Tzar will select the 50 winners. Entries will be accepted beginning Tuesday, March 13, when the ADC will host an opening party with a show of original “X”-related artwork prints from the likes of Arem Duplessis and Irma Boom. Coincidentally, the ADC’s New York City HQ was recently covered in giant graffiti Xs—OK, it was the ADC-sanctioned work of Dress Code‘s Andre Andreev and Dan Covert, but it’s still fun to watch:

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