Call for Entries Opens for ADCE Awards 2024

Jun. 10, 2024

The Art Directors Club of Europe has opened the call for entries for the 2024 edition of the ADCE Best of European Design and Advertising Awards.

The competition hosts all the award-winning work from across Europe and is the only one of its kind. Because of this, participation in the ADCE Awards is exclusively given to works that have been recognized at a national level, offering them international visibility and promotion. 

Winners of ADCE-affiliated national club competitions are eligible to participate under advantageous conditions: free entry for Gold Award winners and reduced entry fees for Silver, Bronze, and Shortlist recipients.

For the 2024 edition, the entry fee for freelancers is discounted by 30%.  In addition, entries from Ukraine will be eligible for a 50% discount to support the local creative industry during these challenging times.

The final deadline to submit works is September 27, 2024. The jury, consisting of selected prominent international creatives and designers from across Europe, will convene at the Disseny Hub in Barcelona on October 29-30 to decide this year's award winners, who will be announced on November 22, 2024 at the ADCE Festival’s Winners Gala Ceremony in Barcelona.

New Student competition revealed soon

For this 2024 edition of the Awards, ADCE will launch a new competition aimed at young creatives to foster emerging talent and provide a platform to showcase their potential to professionals from across Europe.   Details will be revealed soon on ADCE’s platforms.

The One Club's Global Creative Rankings

After last year’s merger with the global The One Club for Creativity based in New York, the ADCE is growing and promoting European creativity beyond the continent, bringing various benefits to its community including all ADCE Awards winners. 

The One Club's Global Creative Rankings will include all ADCE awardees making it the industry’s foremost global ranking of agencies, brands, work, and creative professionals. 

The Global Creative Rankings combines scores from The One Show, global ADC Annual Awards, ONE Asia Creative Awards, The One Club US chapter awards, Type Directors Club TDC competitions and ADCE Awards.

About the Art Directors Club of Europe

ADCE is the platform that allows its creative community to unite, interact, foster, explore, promote and celebrate creativity as a multi-solution approach. ADCE brings creatives together in Europe and beyond through its annual awards, events, educational programs, and publications. Internationally recognized as an authoritative voice, ADCE represents the best of local European advertising and design in an increasingly globalized market. ADCE believes that only being a diverse, connected, and collaborative European creative community we’ll be able to solve the complex problems. 

The Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) is a non-profit association headquartered in Barcelona. It comprises 23 professional clubs and associations of graphic design and advertising from 22 European countries: Austria, Bulgaria, Cyprus, Czech Republic, Estonia, Finland, Germany, Georgia, Iceland, Ireland, Italy, Latvia, Lithuania, Netherlands, Portugal, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia, Spain, Switzerland, United Kingdom and Ukraine.

Founded in 1990, the ADCE strives to foster excellence in graphic design and advertising creativity at a European scale. The association represents more than 7,000 professionals from the field and gives visibility to the best works accomplished locally. The current president is Alexander Schill, Global Chief Creative Officer of Serviceplan Group and is now part of The One Club for Creativity, being its European branch.

ADCE is part of The One Club for Creativity based in New York, the world’s foremost non-profit organisation whose mission is to support and celebrate the global creative community through programming that includes The One Show, the global ADC Annual Awards, ONE Asia Awards, Type Directors Club competitions, TDC Ascenders, Young Guns, Young Ones Student Awards, Next Creative Leaders, ONE Screen Short Film Festival, ONE School US and UK, ONE Creator Lab, and more.