NEW YORK, November 11, 2026 — Thirteen young creative professionals and teams in APAC are among the 94 talented individuals in 20 countries who have been named finalists for the prestigious ADC Young Guns 24 competition, celebrating global creative professionals age 30 or younger.
ADC Young Guns is the industry’s only global, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies and celebrates today’s vanguard of young creative professionals. This year’s entries were judged by a diverse jury of more than 100 creative professionals — many of whom are past ADC YG winners — from around the world.
ADC YG24 finalists based in APAC are as follows:
Australia
- Zoe Hu, lead designer, Love & Money, Melbourne
Hong Kong SAR China
- HONMI (Bryan Honting Wong and Namhi Kwun), architectural designers, Hong Kong and New York
India
- Boomranng Studio, illustration and design studio, Mumbai
- Chandni Poddar, designer, Mumbai
- Dhrutika Khimani, illustrator, animator, Mumbai
Japan
- Naoto Nakamura, art director, artist, Dentsu, Tokyo
- Hiroto Yazawa, graphic designer, DEJIMAGRAPH inc., Nagasaki prefecture
- Shun Onozawa, creator, Dentsu Tokyo
Macao SAR China
- Yulong Zheng, graphic designer, Macao
Singapore
- Rebekah Lee, designer, educator, Apause Studio, Singapore
Taiwan
- Hung-Yu Chen, designer, art director, Taipei
- Brian Liu, creative director, Local Remote, Taipei
- Darren Mulianto, motion and graphic designer, Second Nature Services, Taipei and Singapore
Finalists in this year’s global competition are based in Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, France, Germany, Hong Kong SAR China, India, Israel, Japan, Latvia, Macao SAR China, Mexico, Netherlands, Norway, Singapore, Taiwan, UAE, UK, and US.
The complete list of ADC YG24 finalists can be viewed here.
Winners will be announced in mid-January 2027, with the ADC YG24 awards ceremony and party slated for January 27, 2027 at Sony Hall in New York.
All winners receive a unique version of the iconic ADC Young Guns Cube, designed exclusively for this year’s incoming class, and have their permanent profile page added to the ADC Young Guns website.
Winners also receive a complimentary one-year One Club for Creativity membership, permanent membership in the ADC Young Guns network, a chance to be featured in events and an assortment of career-boosting opportunities from ADC Young Guns sponsors.
Past ADC Young Guns include rising stars who went on to become leaders in their chosen fields, including Oscar-winning film director duo DANIELS (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) (YG14), “Top Gun Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski (YG4); graphic designers James Victore (YG1), Stefan Sagmeister (YG1), Natasha Jen (YG4) and Jessica Walsh (YG8); artist/designer Rich Tu (YG8); ad creatives Rei Inamoto (YG4) and Menno Kluin (YG6); illustrators Christoph Niemann (YG2) and Deanne Cheuk (YG4); fashion designer Kerby Jean-Raymond (YG14); artist/filmmaker Calmatic (YG16); director/photographer India Sleem (YG17); typographers Alex Trochut (YG6) and Gemma O’Brien (YG13); animation artist Todd St. John (YG1), and others.
ADC Young Guns 24 branding and physical ADC YG Cube award were created by Brooklyn-based independent illustrator and designer Chantal Jahchan, a winner in last year’s ADC YG23 competition.
For more information, please visit the ADC Young Guns 24 website.
The One Club for Creativity – home of The One Show, ADC Annual Awards, Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) awards, ONE Asia Creative Awards, Type Directors Club TDC competition and scholarships, ADC Young Guns, Young Ones Student Awards, global AI Creative Challenge, WAATBP Essentials career fair, Portfolio Night, Creative Week, and more – is the world’s foremost non-profit organization whose mission is to support and celebrate the success of the global creative community. Revenue generated from entries to its global awards shows goes back into the industry to fund programs that support industry access, creative education, professional development, and enhancement of creative careers around the world.
