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    Area 23 NY’s 21 Finalists Lead The Way At ADC 105th Annual Awards

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    Finalists announced for ADC 105th Annual Awards
    NEW YORK --

    The global Art Directors Club has announced the finalists entries from 39 countries for the ADC 105th Annual Awards.

    Founded in 1920, the ADC Annual Awards is the world’s longest continuously running awards program recognizing global excellence in craft and innovation in all forms of advertising and design.

    Area 23 New York leads the way this year with 21 finalists, including five for Equity Health Foundation’s “The Zip Code Exam”, and four each for Mercy for Animals’ “Cracked” and Gavião Kyikatejê FC’s “Kyikatejê”.

    McCann New York has 20 ADC 105th finalists, including 11 for Kotex’s “Own Your Flow” and nine for Instacart’s “For Papa!”.

    With 19 finalists is Squarespace New York, including 15 for “Unavailable.” Klick Health Toronto has 18, including 11 for Second Nurture’s “18 Months”.

    Google Creative Team Mountain View has 16 finalists, including four each for “Thomas’ Story” and Google/Netflix’s “Stranger Things in Search”.

    Other top ADC 105th finalists are The New York Times Magazine New York with 14, Dentsu Inc. Tokyo and VML Health Spain Madrid with 13 each, Serviceplan Germany Munich with 12, and Rethink Toronto and TBWAMedia Arts Lab Los Angeles with 10 each.

    This year’s ADC 105th Annual Awards global jury selected a total of 668 finalists from 39 countries and regions. The complete searchable list of finalists for is available here.

    All finalists will win Gold, Silver, or Bronze ADC Cubes, or merits, which will be presented during Creative Week 2026 at the ADC 105th Annual Awards ceremony on May 13 at Capitale in New York.

    Creative Week 2026
    Now in its 17th year, Creative Week is a premier annual gathering for the advertising and design industries to come together and celebrate the creative excellence showcased in The One Club’s leading global awards shows: ADC Annual Awards, The One Show, and Young Ones Student Awards.

    Other Creative Week 2026 programming includes The One Club AI Creative Challenge, exclusive Executive Creative Summit 2026, Client Pitch Competition, in person and virtual Portfolio Reviews, Type Directors Club TDC Lettering Walk, and informative daily Morning Buzz panels.

    This year’s global ADC 105th Annual Awards branding campaign was created by Dentsu Inc. Tokyo.

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    D&AD Festival Sets Program For 2026; Stefan Sagmeister To Headline President’s Lectures

    Wednesday, April 22, 2026

    The full program for D&AD Festival 2026--set for May 19-20 in London’s South Bank--has been unveiled.

    Leading the program are The President’s Lectures, curated by D&AD president Lisa Smith and headlined by graphic designer Stefan Sagmeister, a two-time Grammy winner. The Festival also features Jury Insight Sessions, Yellow Pencils: Why They Won and dedicated learning programs.

    Sagmeister stated, “I’m delighted to be appearing at the D&AD Festival this year. It’s where the industry comes together to properly celebrate the work, challenge itself and talk about what actually matters to drive creativity forward. I’ll be talking about the single worst job of my career, the kind of project that nearly kills your creativity. We all love a good disaster, so it should be fun.”

    David Patton, CEO of D&AD, said, ”At D&AD, we’ve never believed creativity is dead, but belief isn’t enough. The industry needs to prove it. The D&AD Festival is where that argument gets made at the highest level. Two days, the most provocative voices in the business and the finest creative work of the year. We think we know the answer. Come and join the debate.”

    The President’s Lectures
    Sagmeister will reflect on the job that, in his words, almost killed his creativity, and why it didn’t.

    David Lee (Squarespace) will argue that creativity may be the last remaining human advantage, while Alex Center (CENTER) sets out the case for a creative rebirth and Court Williams (De-Yan) explores the intersection of brand, technology and experience.

    Mary Lewis (Lewis Moberly), D&AD’s first female president, joins current president Lisa Smith on stage to ask: three decades later, have we really... Read More

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