The Tokyo Art Directors Club (ADC) Exhibitions are regular events at Creation Gallery G8, occasions that always garner great attention within advertising and design circles. The Tokyo ADC, founded in 1952, currently has 78 members, art directors all in the top ranks of their profession. Together they serve as the judging panel for the annual Tokyo ADC open competition, and the awards they bestow each year draw attention both in Japan and abroad as prestigious indicators of the latest trends in Japanese advertising and graphic design.

This year’s competition attracted some 10,000 entries, all works making their first appearance, usage or publication in the 12-month period from May 2008 through April 2009. The year’s award-winning works and other outstanding works to be featured in the “Tokyo Art Directors Club Annual 2009” were chosen by the club members during rigorous judging sessions spanning four days. Ahead of the publication of the new yearbook (to be released in late November from Bijutsu Shuppan-sha), this year’s award-winning and outstanding works will be shown at Creation Gallery G8 (works by non-members) and ginza graphic gallery (works by Tokyo ADC members).