Members of ADC Young Guns 7 class receive the iconic ADC Young Guns Cube, complimentary one-year membership to ADC, and an assortment of career-boosting benefits from ADC Young Guns sponsors.

Winners also get a chance to create original artwork for the recently opened New York location of Ace Hotel. Dubbed 'the country’s most original new hotel' by The New York Times, Ace Hotel’s vintage-mod aesthetic caters to the urban nomad on a mission for experience. Ace Hotel will be selecting artists from the ADC Young Guns 7 winning class later this year.

ADC Young Guns is the only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creative professionals age 30 or younger. Selected from entries received from 84 countries (up from 46 countries last year), these ADC Young Guns 7 winners represent an impressive global roster of young talent in the fields of graphic design, photography, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation & video, interactive design, product design and typography.

This year for the first time, ADC Young Guns-Moleskine grants were awarded to top winners. Based upon jury scores, Moleskine awarded $1,000 to Siggi Eggertsson, Germany, as the top-ranked ADC Young Guns 7 winner, and $250 to each to Fx&Mat, France and Mario Hugo, USA, as the two runners-up.

A selection of the winning work, comprised of both professional and personal projects, is being exhibited at ADC Gallery, 106 W. 29th St., New York, from Oct. 22 to Nov. 6/09, Monday-Friday, 10:00 am – 6:00 pm.

This work will also be printed in a commemorative, limited-edition volume published exclusively for the Art Directors Club by Moleskine. The full body of winners’ submitted work will be available in Nov./09 as part of ADC’s permanent collection online.

A panel of 23 past ADC Young Guns served as the jury for this ADC YG7 competition.