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 79 members, art directors all ranking at the top 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 8,000 entries, all works making their first appearance, usage or publication in the 12-month period from May 2015 through April 2016. The year’s award-winning works and other outstanding works to be featured in the “Tokyo ADC Annual” were chosen by the club members during rigorous judging sessions spanning five days. Ahead of the publication of the new yearbook, 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).
ADC Award Winners
Grand Prix
Posters and commercial film for Otsuka Pharmaceutical’s “CalorieMate®” balanced nutrition blocks
Takuro Enomoto, art director
Tsugihisa Tanaka, film director
Akihiro Fukube, creative director
Orie Ichihashi, photographer
Hiroki Nakajima, photographer
ADC Awards
Newspaper ad for Takarajima publishing house
Ryosuke Miyashita, art director
Yumiko Ota, copywriter
Junpei Kato, photographer
Newspaper ads and commercial film for Apple Inc. (iPhone World Gallery)
Haruhito Nisawadaira, art director
Masaya Asai, art director
Commercial film for NTT DoCoMo (“Style ’20”)
Tetsuro Aso, creative director, planner, copywriter
Graphic design for Suntory’s “Line of life Project”
Shogo Kishino, art director
Environmental space design for Yuni Yoshida exhibition (“IMAGINATOMY”) at Mitsubishi Estate Home’s Atrium art gallery
Yuni Yoshida, art director
Posters and newspaper ads for an Itochu Corp. advertising series
Manabu Okamoto art director
Koichiro Yamamoto, creative director
Mika Kunii, copywriter
Toshikazu Hirai, illustrator
Magazine ads and commercial film for Toyota Motors (“G’s” series)
Tatsuki Ikezawa, art director
Kazuma Yamamoto, film director
Takeshi Nozoe, creative director
Stefan Von Borvely, photographer
Shoji Uchida, photographer
Posters for Matsuyama Municipal Shiki-kinen Museum
Norio Nakamura, art director
Posters for Niigata Art Festival 2015 (“Water and Land”)
Go Hosokawa, art director
Venues
Creation Gallery G8 (works by non-members)
Recruit Ginza8 Bldg., 8-4-17 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-8001
Tel: 03-6835-2260
ginza graphic gallery (works by Tokyo ADC members)
DNP Ginza Bldg., 7-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
Tel: 03-3571-5206
11:00 a.m. – 7 p.m. (6:00 p.m. on Saturdays). Closed Sundays and holidays. Admission free.
Featured Exhibits
Approx. 100 award-winning or outstanding works: TV commercials, posters, newspaper ads, editorials, signage, logomarks, etc.
Special Summer Exhibition at ggg
August 12 (Fri) – September 3 (Sat), 2016
Exhibition of all award-winning works (by members and non-members)
Exhibition in Nagano
Komorokougen Museum – Shiratori Eisetsu Museum
December 24 (Sat), 2015 – February 12 (Sun), 2017
2805-1 Oaza Hishidaira, Komoro City, Nagano Pref. 384-0041
Tel: 0267-26-2070
