The Art Directors Club, the premier organisation for integrated media and the first global creative collective of its kind, calls for entries for ADC Young Guns 9 competition for creatives and designers age 30 or younger.

ADC Young Guns is the only international, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies today’s vanguard of young creatives. The competition is open internationally to creatives age 30 and under who have been working for at least two years, full-time or freelance. Entrants can submit a combination of professional and personal work in graphic design, photography, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation, video, interactive design, object design and typography.  Full details are available at www.adcyoungguns.org. 

A total of 50 winners are selected each year by a jury of past ADC Young Guns. Winners get:
• a unique version of the iconic ADC Young Guns Cube, designed exclusively for this year’s incoming class; 
• their work featured in an exhibition at the ADC Gallery in New York; 
• their work included in the ADC Young Guns 9 Annual; 
• their work added to the ADC permanent online collection; 
• complimentary one-year ADC membership; 
• permanent membership in ADC Young Guns Network,
• and the chance to be featured in YG events and on www.adcyoungguns.org;  

Online entries will be accepted until the final deadline of May 16, 2011 11:59 PM EST (fee is $135). Late entries will be accepted through midnight EST May 30, 2011, with the addition of a $35 late fee. For complete details and to enter ADC Young Guns 9, please visit www.adcyoungguns.org  

To celebrate their Young Guns 9 call for entries, ADC has been producing video interviews with past winners, talking about their work and their experience with ADC Young Guns, you can check the most recent one out here.