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ADCE Creativity Festival 2023: Former Speakers
Check out all the talks from last edition's Festival. Leading industry figures took the stage to share their passion for innovation through creativity. 2024 lineup will be revealed soon!
Creativity Trend Report 2023: The new European advertising wave
The first ADCE's Trend Report curated by Patrizia Boglione
Bridging the Creativity Gap: Enroll for free!
The EU founded project aims to cover the gap between what is taught in education and the skills needed in the creativity industry. Find out more!
Europe ascends to the top global rankings at the Creative Week
The Creative Week 2024 was amazing and ADCE was there! Find out more about what happened and all the rankings announced during the event.
ADCE High Potentials: Grabarz & Partner testimony
Julijus Rebič, Executive Creative Director from Grabarz & Partner, shares his experience at the ADCE's talent scouting event, from the point of view of an agency.
Unveiling the Journey: High Potentials Testimonies
The Lithuanian Graphic Designer and former High Potentials participant, Morta Vileikytė, shares with ADCE her impressions and insight about her experience in last year's edition of the programme.
Meet the creatives behind this year's Agency Exchange Campaign
Registrations for Agency Exchange are officially open. This 2024’s campaign, "Let it grow," is signed by the Portuguese duo from Uzina, Beatriz Pinto (Art Director), and Carolina Cunha (Copywriter).
ADCE Agency Exchange: What Finnish and Italian Ad Agencies Could Learn from Each Other
Two creative minds. Two agencies. Two different cultures. Six weeks. Many lessons learnt. Pauline Marie Korp from Helsinki-based hasan&partners and Emma Varotti from Milanese Caffeina share their most compelling thoughts and experiences on the Agency Exchange '22
New member of the ADCE organization, the Irish club has joined the community
Institute of Creative Advertising and Design (ICAD), has officially join forces with ADCE entering and expanding the European network
The Green Futures Initiative
We are thrilled to announce the launch of The Green Futures Initiative in collaboration with Creatives for Climate and our esteemed club member, Clube da Criatividade da Portugal. The EU-funded project that mobilizes European graphic design for solutions in employment, resilience, innovation, and global competition.
Agents of Change: Musicians Navigating Cultural Influence in Advertising
An article written by Cece Wyldeck, Director of Creative Development at MassiveMusic
Young Guns 21 Winners Announced!
From hundreds of submissions from all over the world and across many different creative disciplines, a stellar jury spent months narrowing them down to a list of 29 incredible winners, from wich 7 are European. Get to know them!
Meet the Jury Presidents that led this year's ADCE Awards
These are the 7 selected Jury Presidents that helped set the highest benchmark of creative excellence in Europe this November.
The ADCE Merges with The One Club, expanding opportunities for the global creative community
We are thrilled to announce we have reached an agreement with The One Club for Creativity to merge and be able to grow and promote European creativity beyond the continent!
Meet the newest ADCE Special Award
Get to know more about the award won by ACNE in the 2022 Awards... Created as a recognition for a work that promotes inclusion, gender equality, and fights against all forms of discrimination.
The ADCE collaborative programme - Bridging the Creativity Gap
Together with D&AD, IAAC, University of Oulu and Kersnikova Institute, ADCE joins the European Union Erasmus+ Programme to address the creative skills gap between education and industry.
Is designing for multi-screens causing you a headache?
Moving from static design to responsive design. Meet Experios, the platform to make this move seamless.
Do you want to be the one who carries out ADCE's Awards & Festival campaign of 2024?
This year's ADCE Awards and Festival are closer and the ADCE Board invites all members of the Art Directors Club of Europe who are interested in carrying out the campaign to submit their portfolio! What are you waiting for?
ADCE Festival'23 hosts The One Club's Executive Creative Summit
The One Club for Creativity teams up with ADCE by introducing for the first time in Europe, their exclusive programme Executive Creative Summit!
The ADCE 2022 Awards #StandWithUkraine
The 2022 Awards supported the Ukrainian creative community. Take a closer look at ¨Big Ideas Unite Europe¨, the selected concept that embodied last year's campaign.
In conversation with Alex Schill: ADCE Student Awards
The Dutch Club, ADCN, has joined the ADCE
Being the 22nd club to join, together, we will continue to achieve an even greater height in creativity, expanding ADCE's reach in the Netherlands.
Refining the briefing for a brighter future
On the occasion of Earth Day this Friday, we have a look at how the creative industries are reframing the approach to the climate emergency.
Meet Susana Albuquerque, the newly appointed ADCE vice-president
The Executive Creative Director, president of the Portuguese Creative Club, has been a member of the ADCE Board since 2019.
10 ADCE Awarded Works to celebrate International Women’s Day
From our Grand Prix Winner “#wombstories” to “Mammanual” an illustrated manual for new mums.
A Touching Testimony about War
By Slava Denys, ADCE Board Member from Ukraine.
#StandWithUkraine
Read ADCE's full statement with the actions our community is taking.
Four insights into our Grand Prix Nominees
They were given best-of-gold consideration in the design, interactive, print and brand experience categories, so we went a bit behind the scenes to learn more about them.
Get to know BACA: the new ADCE Club member
"We are part of the colorful European creative community, and ADCE is the brightest and most unifying representative of this society."
OiKo Design Office: “We wanted the new trophy to allow winners to literally grab the identity of the ADCE Awards”
In this interview, Jose F. López-Aguilar and Salva Codinach, Co-Founders of the studio, unveil the images of their redesign, and tell us how it connects with the ethos of their practice.
Meet our first Green Star Award Winners
Creative Directors Christian Korntheuer and Andy Wyeth from BBDO Germany talk us through their multi-awarded campaign “Eurythenes Plasticus”
Highlights from ADCE Festival 2021
Enjoy a brief summary of the key ideas and projects shared, and videos of all the speakers’ presentations to rewatch or watch anew.
Join our 8th ADCE Festival: Creating Visibility
A free one-day virtual and live event featuring 3 panels and 11 speakers to celebrate the power of creativity
ADCE Awards 2021: Meet the Jury
Top level creatives from Austria, Finland, Italy, Czech Republic, Lithuania, Portugal, & Germany share their takes on awards judging.
ADCE, Official Partner of the New European Bauhaus
Beauty, Sustainability and Inclusion, the focus points of the project, are also key aspects of ADCE’s new board direction.
30 Years of Awards: The Manifesto
The only European competition that recognizes creativity as the only official language.
Happy big 30 to us!
As our Awards celebrate their 30th edition this year, we look back on their evolution and how we envision their future.
ADCE Summer Reads & Recs
We are off until September for a well deserved break, but we didn’t want to go without sharing the books we are taking with us, and a couple of extra recommendations.
Join our Creative Incubator 2021 anywhere, anytime!
The new format of the programme allows you to access content at your own pace and take part in weekly digital live sessions, group work and Q&As with international mentors.
High Potentials 2021: "Don’t be shy about sharing your work"
We catch up with Marina Colell and Sergi Sauras, two creatives that came to work together after their participation at ADCE High Potentials.
The 10th Creative Express presents 9 ideas for the #NewEuropeanBauhaus
Young creatives from ADCE member clubs are coming strong. Don’t miss the ideas they came up with on this edition of our Creative Express.
Meet ADCE New President, Alexander Schill, a believer in creativity for good
Alex has found multiple ways to create, curate and collaborate to push for ideas that can make a real difference, in business and beyond.
Jamshid Alamuti introduces the concept of Collective Creative Culture that will guide this edition of our Creative Incubator
“We are moving from “I” to “We” and the programme will be in digital format so that more people can benefit from the content and the experience”.
Celebrate the end of Women’s Month and the start of our Female Leadership Series with Viva la Vulva
“Change is bottom-up and top-down and diversity and inclusion is about bringing in different perspectives” say Viva la Vulva Creative Directors Toby Allen and Jim Hilson.
Johannes Newrkla recognized with ADCE’s Creative Distinction Award
In Memoriam. For working to elevate the standards of European creativity through the ADCE.
ADCE Festival 2020 Highlights
Missed our 7th European Creativity Festival? No problem! Get a bit-sized recap of the programme here...
The curator's note: 'Prototyping brands for a new era'
In this article, Festival's curator Steve Vranakis, explains the need of this year's festival theme.
ADCE Insights
New perspectives from creative leaders in a challenging time.
ADCE Awards 2020
The 2020 special edition comes with lots of updates. Check them now!
A statement from ADCE
To those committed to honour excellence beyond prejudice, cultural borders and national differences.
Design: What's Next? by Toni Segarra
The Spanish creative reflects on the sector's present and future.
Boost your design career in 3 easy steps
Join the Huawei Global Theme Design Competition
Huawei Global Theme Design Competition
Are you a design genius? Then let the world now!
10 creative ideas to face the Covid-19 crisis
The results are in!
You will be missed
Rest in peace, Johannes Newrkla.
A Message from the Future
Nuno Dores, from Clube Criativos Portugal, shares some tips on adaptation for this crisis from his home in Shanghai.
ADCE & Pi School's White Paper 2019
The outcomes of our Creative Incubator 2019 are here.
VIRTUE Austria delves into the Creative Incubator 2020 theme
Dian Warsosumarto, ECD at VIRTUE Austria, on diversity and consciousness.
Get advice from ADCE
Ami Hasan, ADCE President, interviews the best creative minds who share their views about creativity today, the impact of technology and the role of creative clubs.
Creativity for Tomorrow
The 6th ADCE Festival focused on how creativity can help address the planetary and social emergency we are currently living.
Announcing the Jury Members of the 2019 ADCE Awards
7 prestigious European creatives selected to chair the juries of the 28th edition of the ADCE Awards
5 reasons to attend the 6th ADCE Festival
A unique opportunity to reshape the way you think, see you next 8 & 9 November at Disseny Hub Barcelona
The curator's note: 'People for Tomorrow' — by Fernanda Romano
In this article, Festival's curator Fernanda Romano explains the need of this year's festival theme.
32 young creatives selected for the 8th Creative Express
This year, the participants will travel to Riga, Latvia, to tackle a real-world business challenge.
European and African Creativity connect in Addis Ababa
The ADCE and “L'Afrique c'est Chic” brought some of their top-notch creatives to the first ever “Africa-Europe Creatives Connect” event.
“Pages of the Sea” art project recognised with ADCE’s Creative Distinction Award 2019
Danny Boyle’s commemoration of Armistice Day is awarded for its evocative message, its scale and its way of engaging both the local and the international community.
Presenting the first ADCE White Paper, a recipe to design the creative organisation of the future
The document highlights the trends, challenges and opportunities that creative organisations need to face in order to thrive in a radical new context.
Presenting the winners of the scholarships from the Rising Stars' 2019 edition
We are proud to announce the winners of the scholarships offered for Hyper Island and D&AD courses.
Creativity with a social purpose
The second edition of our Creative Incubator aims to workshop creativity and design methods to solve real-world problems that go beyond communication campaigns.
The best European creativity of 2018 comes near you
Learn about the new trends in the world of advertising and design and meet the award-winning pieces of the last ADCE Awards.
The ADCE night honours the Spanish winners at 2018 ADCE Awards
ADCE, ADG-FAD and c de c will host on 7th February an Awards ceremony to honour the Spanish winners at the last edition of ADCE Awards.
The ADCE Night brings the best of the 2018 ADCE Awards to Lisbon
ADCE and Clube Criativos de Portugal (CCP) held a special Awards ceremony on 12 December to honor all the Portuguese winners from the ADCE Awards 2018
Some key learnings from the ADCE Festival 2018
We have compiled the key learnings from every single session of the programme.
Five crowd-funding ideas from the next generation of creatives
A judge is going to be kidnapped. Digital wishes will be granted. A non-existent colleague has left. Yes, it’s the entries for the 2018 ADCE Greatness Challenge, and they’re as radical as ever.
Jung von Matt Germany wins 2018 ADCE Awards Grand Prix for “BVG x Adidas – The ticket shoe”
The 5th European Creativity Festival came to an end with the awaited announcement of the most important recognition of the ADCE Awards.
An interview with Pip Jamieson
At the ADCE Festival Pip will draw on a wealth of research, analytics and data from over 350,000 creators, to will uncover ten ways creativity can thrive in an age of automation.
An interview with Moby Digg
Ahead of their workshop at the ADCE Festival, Maximilian Heitsch gives us a short history and introduction to the design philosophy of this ground-breaking studio.
Creating world’s first interactive experiences – an interview with Wildbytes Barcelona
At the 5th ADCE European Creativity Festival, you can join Wildbytes for a behind-the-scenes creative tech workshop.
Five ways 72andSunny Amsterdam have smashed conventions with their innovative creative campaigns
At ADCE Festival, Rey Andrade will draw on these experiences for his talk, ‘Creativity Needs Diversity’
Three innovative creative campaigns from Cancer Dojo's Conn Bertish
Conn Bertish is a cancer survivor, founder and CEO of Cancer Dojo, a mobile app that gamifies the world’s most feared disease.
The curator's note: 'Rewiring the Creative Machine' — by Kris Hoet
In this article, Festival's curator Kris Hoet turns the focus on creative transformation and how it is leading to new ways of coming up with great ideas.
Exploring the transformation of the creative process
This year’s Festival lineup is shaping up with some of the most innovative minds contributing their ideas on the transformation of the creative process.
Announcing the Jury Members of the 2018 ADCE Awards
6 prestigious European creatives selected to chair the juries of the ‘Champions League’ of creativity.
Full house for the upcoming Creative Incubator in Berlin
With 30 participants from 15 European countries, the third module of the Creative Incubator is officially fully booked.
The 7th Creative Express brings together 29 talented young creatives from all over Europe in Lisbon
Participants in this exclusive educational program will be briefed on the ADCE European Creativity Festival
A Love Story
It's no secret that creatives fall in love with awards so easily. They provide some laughs and fun times, but what happens when the lights turn off?
A Cup of Tea at ADCE
An inspiring afternoon with Universitat Autònoma de Barcelona Advertising & PR students
ADCE offers scholarships for Hyper Island and D&AD courses
The Rising Stars programme offers exclusive scholarships to members of the 22 local clubs represented by the ADCE
The Creative Incubator takes another step forward towards designing new agency models
Applications are open for the second module of the Creative Incubator.
The ADCE Exhibition is touring Europe and Asia
A comprehensive representation of the best of European design and advertising.
ADCE and Pi School launch a “Creative Incubator” for designing new agency models
Workshops will take place in Rome (March), Barcelona (May) and Berlin (September)
ADCE Night Spain
An opportunity to present winning creative teams with their trophies and awards, and showcase their success in front of the local industry.
Lisbon celebrates a year of creativity
The ADCE Nights celebrate all the local winners from the ADCE Awards.
These six ideas show the creative and entrepreneurial flair of Europe’s next stars
What links a paving-tile typeface, a buddy honeymoon and a stock image library?
8 reasons not to miss the 4th European Creativity Festival
Here we’ve picked out some of the top reasons to attend the ADCE Festival