The Art Directors Club recently announced the 50 young creatives from 14 countries to claim the prestigious ADC Young Guns 8 title.

Winners were selected from entries received from 37 countries in this international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creative professionals age 30 or younger. The field includes young talent in the fields of graphic design, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation & video, interactive design, product design and typography.

Here are a few works we especially liked:

 

The complete ADC Young Guns 8 class is as follows:

North America:

•   Scott Amron, Amron Experimental, Westbury, NY, USA

•   Alec Brownstein, Y&R New York, NY, USA

•   Mikey Burton, 160OVER90, Philadelphia, PA, USA

•   Elsa Chaves and Tyler Lang (Always With Honor), self-employed, Portland, OR, USA

•   Frank Chimero, self-employed, Portland, OR, USA

•   Crobin, MTV, Brooklyn, NY, USA

•   Jennifer Daniel, self-employed, Brooklyn, NY, USA

•   Michael Freimuth, self-employed, New York, NY, USA

•   Christine Gignac, Mother New York, NY, USA

•   Jeremy Hall, Figure, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

•   Eric Hu, self-employed, Los Angeles, CA, USA

•   Nicole Jacek, Karlssonwilker, Inc., New York, NY, USA

•   E. Roon Kang, Math Practice, Brooklyn, NY, USA

•   Stephen Kelleher, self-employed, Brooklyn, NY, USA

•   Jeong Eun (Elle) Kim, self-employed, Brooklyn, NY, USA

•   Mike Krol, self-employed, Madison, WI, USA

•   Gracia Lam, self-employed, Toronto, ON, Canada

•   Jude Landry, self-employed, Starkville, MS, USA

•   Nathaniel Lawlor, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, CA, USA

•   Micah Lidberg, self-employed, Brielle, NJ, USA

•   Joseph Marianek, Pentagram, Providence, RI, USA

•   Gareth O’Brien, Buck, Brooklyn, NY, USA

•   Mitchell Paone, Dreamers Ink Aesthetics, New York, NY, USA

•   Steve Peck, BBH New York, NY, USA

•   Gavin Potenza, self-employed, Portland, OR, USA

•   Nikolay Saveliev, self-employed, New York, NY, USA

•   Jarrod Taylor, Harper Collins, Brooklyn, NY, USA

•   Rich Tu, self-employed, South Orange, NJ, USA

•   Jessica Walsh, Sagmeister, Inc., New York, NY USA

•   Stefanie Weigler, Triboro Design, Brooklyn, NY, USA

 

Europe/UK:

•   Jonathan Calugi, self-employed, Pistola, Italy

•   Gemma Correll, self-employed, Norwich, UK

•   HelloVon, self-employed, London, UK

•   Yannis Konstantindis, Nomint, Athens, Greece

•   Rimantas Lukavicius, Korb, Lithuania

•   Tomas Makovsky, self-employed, London, UK

•   Sophia Martineck, self-employed, Berlin, Germany

•   Carles Murillo, Bisdixit BCN, Barcelona, Spain

•   Martin Nicolausson, self-employed, London, UK

•   Lotta Nieminen, self-employed, New York, NY (recently relocated from Finland)

•   Mads Jakob Poulsen, Wolff Olins NY, Brooklyn, NY (recently relocated from Denmark)

•   Alex Robbins, self-employed, Berlin, Germany

•   Mark Ward, self-employed, London, UK

•   Ian Wharton, The Mill, London, UK

 

Asia Pacific:

•   Kellie Campbell, Parallax Design, Adelaide, SA, Australia

•   Genki Ito, Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo, Japan

•   Kenichi Matsumoto, E. Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

•   Daihei Shibata, Wow Inc., Tokyo, Japan

•   Kris Sowersby, self-employed, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

•   Jeseok Yi, self-employed, Daegu, Republic of Korea

 

Also don't miss the ADC Young Guns 8 winners exhibition: A selection of work from ADC Young Gun 8 class, comprised of both professional and personal projects, will be exhibited at the ADC Gallery at 106 W. 29th St in New York from October 7-22, 2010 (Monday-Friday, 10 am to 6 pm).