Aussie ad legend (and #2 on B&T’s Best of the Best Mentors list and Lifetime Achievement Award winner at the 2024 B&T Women in Media Awards) Esther Clerehan is set to serve as jury president for the global ADC 105th Annual Awards.
The full ADC 105th jury will be announced in January, and sees creative professionals lead judging for each discipline, and have a vote on the work.
This year’s ADC 105th Annual Awards call for entries campaign was created by Dentsu Tokyo. Titled ‘Create a Beautiful Future,’ the campaign highlights The One Club’s nonprofit initiatives, which sees it take revenue generated from its awards shows and putting it back into the industry to fund a range of professional development, education, and diversity programs.
This year’s awards include the presentation of the Paul Manship Medal, now reimagined as an enterable category recognizing a single designer who best acts as a catalyst for change, demonstrates foresight and innovation, embodies a lasting legacy, and made the most significant contribution in the past 12 months to two years.
Other changes for 2026 include the separation of health & wellness and pharma into two distinct disciplines, and the addition of four new categories for film & moving image, motion & graphic design, experiential & interactive, and digital & emerging media within the AI discipline.
Advertising will be judged by Danilo Boer, global creative partner, FCB, New York. In architecture/interior/environmental design, Kimberly Dowdell, vice president of strategic partnerships, Amrize, Chicago has been appointed.
Artificial intelligence will be judged by Indgila Samad Ali, designer, OpenAI, San Francisco.
Book design, magazine/newspaper design will be judged by Dian Holton, art director, AARP, Washington DC and brand/communication design by Andrea Trabucco-Campos, partner, Pentagram, New York.
Brand-Side/In-House will tap Rachel Been, SVP of Design, Expedia Group, San Francisco, and Experiential Design will see Jonathan Alger, Managing Partner, C&G Partners, New York.
Gaming will be headed up by Chad Dezern, co-studio head, Insomniac Games, Burbank/Chapel Hill Illustration, and Gala Alari. Illustrator, Art and Animation Director, and Milan Interactive will be judged by Augustus Cook, VP, Head of Brand Design, Americas, R/GA, New York.
Motion/film craft will see Emily Rickard, CEO, BUCK, Los Angeles, and packaging design will tap Yoji Nobuto, senior creative director, Shiseido Creative., Tokyo, and Health/Wellness + Pharma will tap Laura Florence, CCO, Rise & Run, New York.
Photography will be judged by Bronson Farr, photographer, director, New York, and product design by Matthias Harbeck, CCO, Partner, Saint Elmo’s Group, Munich.
Typography/Lettering will be judged by Eleni Beveratou, Creative Director, Dalton Maag, London.
