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 75 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 2016 through April 2017. The year’s award-winning works and other outstanding works to be featured in the “Tokyo Art Directors Club Annual 2016” were chosen by the club members during rigorous judging sessions spanning three days. This year the scope of entries was further expanded with the addition of a new category: “OnScreen Media,” targeted at works created for websites and videos.
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).
Tokyo ADC Award Winners
Grand Prix
“INDUSTRIAL JP” website and video for 6 small factories
Rintaro Shimohama, art director
Toshihide Kimura, sound director
Masanori Sakamoto, art director (web)
Ken Murayama, front-end engineer (web)
Tokyo ADC Awards
Posters and commercial film for PARCO’s “2016AW-2017SS Season Campaign”
M/M (Paris), art director
Juergen Teller, film director, photographer
Graphic design for pages’ “PERSPECTIVE DESK NOTE”
Ken Okamuro, art director
Posters, magazine advertising and commercial film for Toyota Motor Corporation’s “NEW TOYOTA 86”
Tatsuki Ikezawa, art director
Kazuma Yamamoto, film director
Takeshi Nozoe, creative director
Stefan von Borbely, photographer
Shoji Uchida, photographer
“FLOTICON BALLOON” design for Roppongi Hills
Ken Okamuro, art director
Commercial film for NTT DOCOMO’s “Style ’20”
Tetsuro Aso, creative director, planner, copywriter
“dansko” poster and magazine advertising for Seastar Inc.
Yoko Inoue, art director
Fumiko Takano, illustrator
Environmental space design for Yahoo!’s “Disaster prevention begins with the imagination.”
Yusei Kakizaki, art director
Kazuaki Hashida, creative director
Book & editorial design for SUPER LABO’s “32”
Hichiro Hara, art director
“Tokyo Gas Man” posters for Tokyo Gas Co.
Gen Tanaka, art director
Isao Makino, painter
Hiromu Hara Award
Book & editorial design of “Art Director Tamotsu Ejima: Use Your Hands” by Kimura Design Office
Yuji Kimura, 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)
Mon. July 3 – Tue. July 25, 2017＊
11:00 a.m. – 7 p.m. Closed Sundays and holidays. Admission free.
DNP Ginza Bldg., 7-7-2 Ginza, Chuo-ku, Tokyo 104-0061
Tel: 03-3571-5206
＊Please note that the exhibition will end on different dates at the two venues.
Featured Exhibits
Approx. 100 award-winning or outstanding works: TV commercials, posters, newspaper ads, editorials, package designs, logomarks, websites, videos, etc.
Exhibition in Nagano
Komorokougen Museum – Shiratori Eisetsu Museum
Sat. December 23 (holiday), 2017 – Mon. February 12 (holiday), 2018
2805-1 Oaza Hishidaira, Komoro City, Nagano Pref. 384-0041
Tel: 0267-26-2070
