106 years in search of what’s next.

ADC has never been interested in more of the same.

For over a century, they’ve searched for the work that makes us look twice. The scorching. The feral. The piercing. The stuff that breaks rules, shifts culture and drags creativity somewhere new.

Celebrating the pioneers, the misfits and the minds that refuse to sit still.

A relentless search for the unusual, the outstanding, and the impossible to ignore.

The Search starts with the ADC Cube.

106 years of creative excellence, ideas and history. Not a destination, but a starting point. An iconic symbol becomes the catalyst for a restless search for creative truth.

ADC 106 poster: the manifesto set as a falling line of type around the cube
ADC 106 poster: the ADC monogram in acid green on red
ADC 106 poster: Seething Stillness
ADC 106 poster: a stack of words in many languages
ADC 106 poster: inside the gold cube
ADC 106 poster: Quietly Feral

The result is restless, elastic and alive, a visceral expression of ADC’s search for what’s next. A visual language built around the reality of creativity itself: experimentation and instinct, friction and flow, wrong turns and unexpected breakthroughs, the exhilaration of discovery, the quiet and the unruly, and the refusal to sit still.

We partnered with Zelig Sound London on the sound design, creating a bespoke sonic world that gives another dimension to the search, capturing its nerve, heat, flow and friction.

A pink fleece with the acid-green arrow mark across the back
An ADC 106 lanyard pass: In search of Absurd Awakening
Framed ADC 106 posters on a sideboard
An ADC 106 tote bag hanging in a hedge
ADC 106 poster: Absurd Awakening
ADC 106 call for entries: In search of What’s Next, adcawards.org

Still searching. Always.

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