Adelaide designer Kellie Campbell named as Australia’s ADC Young Gun

Just one Australian made the winners list for this year’s Art Directors Club Young Guns Competition.

Kellie Campbell, a senior designer at Parallax Design in Adelaide made the Young Guns 8 list, which named 50 creatives aged below 30 from around the globe.

The accolade is not the first for Campbell, who was previously awarded Best Graduate from the Australian Graphic Design Association and the Design Institute of Australia. 

In 2008 she received the Adelaide Advertising and Design Club Gold Chair. She is vice president of the Australian Graphic Design Association’s South Australian Chapter.

There was also one Kiwi winner among the 50, with self-employed Kris Sowersby, from  Hawkes Bay also making the list.

According to the New York-basedADC: ” Selected from entries received from 37 countries, these ADC Young Guns 8 winners represent an impressive global roster of young talent in the fields of graphic design, illustration, advertising and art direction, environmental design, film, animation & video, interactive design, product design and typography.”

The complete ADC Young Guns 8 class is as follows:

North America:

• Scott Amron, Amron Experimental, Westbury, NY, USA

• Alec Brownstein, Y&R New York, NY, USA

• Mikey Burton, 160OVER90, Philadelphia, PA, USA

• Elsa Chaves and Tyler Lang (Always With Honor), self-employed, Portland, OR, USA

• Frank Chimero, self-employed, Portland, OR, USA

• Crobin, MTV, Brooklyn, NY, USA

• Jennifer Daniel, self-employed, Brooklyn, NY, USA

• Michael Freimuth, self-employed, New York, NY, USA

• Christine Gignac, Mother New York, NY, USA

• Jeremy Hall, Figure, Quebec, Quebec, Canada

• Eric Hu, self-employed, Los Angeles, CA, USA

• Nicole Jacek, Karlssonwilker, Inc., New York, NY, USA

• E. Roon Kang, Math Practice, Brooklyn, NY, USA

• Stephen Kelleher, self-employed, Brooklyn, NY, USA

• Jeong Eun (Elle) Kim, self-employed, Brooklyn, NY, USA

• Mike Krol, self-employed, Madison, WI, USA

• Gracia Lam, self-employed, Toronto, ON, Canada

• Jude Landry, self-employed, Starkville, MS, USA

• Nathaniel Lawlor, Goodby, Silverstein & Partners, San Francisco, CA, USA

• Micah Lidberg, self-employed, Brielle, NJ, USA

• Joseph Marianek, Pentagram, Providence, RI, USA

• Gareth O’Brien, Buck, Brooklyn, NY, USA

• Mitchell Paone, Dreamers Ink Aesthetics, New York, NY, USA

• Steve Peck, BBH New York, NY, USA

• Gavin Potenza, self-employed, Portland, OR, USA

• Nikolay Saveliev, self-employed, New York, NY, USA

• Jarrod Taylor, Harper Collins, Brooklyn, NY, USA

• Rich Tu, self-employed, South Orange, NJ, USA

• Jessica Walsh, Sagmeister, Inc., New York, NY USA

• Stefanie Weigler, Triboro Design, Brooklyn, NY, USA

Europe/UK:

• Jonathan Calugi, self-employed, Pistola, Italy

• Gemma Correll, self-employed, Norwich, UK

• HelloVon, self-employed, London, UK

• Yannis Konstantindis, Nomint, Athens, Greece

• Rimantas Lukavicius, Korb, Lithuania

• Tomas Makovsky, self-employed, London, UK

• Sophia Martineck, self-employed, Berlin, Germany

• Carles Murillo, Bisdixit BCN, Barcelona, Spain

• Martin Nicolausson, self-employed, London, UK

• Lotta Nieminen, self-employed, New York, NY (recently relocated from Finland)

• Mads Jakob Poulsen, Wolff Olins NY, Brooklyn, NY (recently relocated from Denmark)

• Alex Robbins, self-employed, Berlin, Germany

• Mark Ward, self-employed, London, UK

• Ian Wharton, The Mill, London, UK

Asia Pacific:

• Kellie Campbell, Parallax Design, Adelaide, SA, Australia

• Genki Ito, Wieden + Kennedy Tokyo, Japan

• Kenichi Matsumoto, E. Co., Ltd., Tokyo, Japan

• Daihei Shibata, Wow Inc., Tokyo, Japan

• Kris Sowersby, self-employed, Hawkes Bay, New Zealand

• Jeseok Yi, self-employed, Daegu, Republic of Korea