The global Art Directors Club and Dreamina AI announced the ADC Cube and cash prize winners in the inaugural ADC AI Visual Design-Dreamina AI category, dedicated to honoring the frontier of generative craft in this year’s ADC 105th Annual Awards.

The new category, which was free to enter and made possible by ADC’s exclusive partnership with Dreamina AI, part of ByteDance, recognizes evolving creative craft and honors modern creators who are using AI as a creative partner to expand the boundaries of visual expression.

The first ADC Cube and cash prize winners of the new competition are as follows.

First Place: ADC Gold Cube, $6,000
Xīnxīn Li and Donglin Cheng, Beijng, “Ivory”

Second Place: ADC Silver Cube, $4,000 each
Anne Horel, Paris “La Tisseuse d’Ombres” (“The Shadows Weaver”)
Jason Peng, Chongqing “Perfect Place”
Park Zhi, Guangzhou, “Red Pill”

Third Place: ADC Bronze Cube, $2,000 each
Chén Kūn, Shenyang, “Ordinary Anthem”
Serhii Kostenko, Berlin, “Trained on Perfection”
Xingchen Ding, Hangzhou, “The Joyful Pasture”
Dorothy Pang, Vancouver, “Love Hotel”
Tāozé Cài, Beijing, “Bad Traveling”
Yongning Zhang, Suzhou, “Big Eyes Town”

Hongye Liu, Shanghai, was awarded a Merit for “{HONG KONG LOADING…}”.

“Rather than limiting ourselves strictly to the original storyboard, we drew continuous inspiration from Dreamina AI during the creation process,” explained Gold Cube winner Xinxin Li. “The mutual inspiration between human creativity and AI capability allowed us to revise and optimize the script accordingly, and eventually we... Read More