• annual judging of Advertising and Design entries;
  • presentation of the ADCN Lamps for the awarded entries;
  • organisation of the annual ADCN advertising festival;
  • publication of the ADCN Annual of Dutch Advertising, which comprises all the Awards (Lamps) and nominations (an English translation is always included);
  • organisation of workshops;
  • organisation of the annual ADCN Open Days, an exhibition of the majority of entries.

The most important of the above activities are the Advertising Awards and publication of the Annual of Dutch Advertising.

  
Every year advertising and design agencies and freelancers enter advertising and design work produced during the preceding year. These materials are judged by various juries and by the jury of members according to the aims of the ADCN. The principal criteria are creativity and originality.
Each jury grants in its respective category (needless to say only with good reason), awards and honourable mentions. These are included in the Annual of Dutch Advertising. With these Annuals the ADCN endeavours to create a bit of historiography from which people in the advertising and design business can take example. 		 
 
The mission of the organisation as laid down in its Articles of Association is:
To publicise and improve the creative standard of commercial communication and related disciplines.
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Categories of the Annual Judging
of Dutch Advertising and Design 2013

Annual Advertising Awards
  • Advertisements (daily newspapers, magazines and trade journals)
  • Outdoor advertising (billboards, columns, public transport and bus shelters)
  • Commercials (TV, internet, radio and cinema)
  • Integrated Communication
  • Interactive
  • Action Marketing
  • Graphic Design
  • Packaging
  • Young Talent
  
Special awards
  • Actuality
  • Art Direction
  • Copy
  • Photography
  • Illustration
  • Film Direction
  • Young Directors
  • Sound

Since the establishment of the ADCN the Annual Awards have evolved into the recognition of the creative quality of advertising work in The Netherlands.

The ADCN has also succeeded in securing an equal place for creative people within the structure of advertising agencies.
  
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In addition to its principal activities the ADCN realises its aims through an active P.R. communication policy.

  
 
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Lode Schaeffer, voorzitter
Creative director (art) /owner Indie

Maarten van Huijstee, penningmeester
Creative director / partner at Delight Agency 
 
Sicco Beerda
Creative director (copy) /partner Kingsday
 
Tim Voors
Freelance creative (art) director
 
Stephan Gonnissen
Creative director digital Etcetera

Pieter Scheltema
Creative director /owner Being There

Sybrig Andringa
Executive producer CZAR

Peter van Leeuwen
Etcetera
 		 
Contacts are the following:

Minou Adami, project manager
Mariëlle Baggerman, project manager
Ilse de Vries, project manager
Marijke Hopman, administrative financial employee

Arjen Vaalburg, business manager
  
Art Directors Club Nederland
W.G. Plein 504
1054 SJ Amsterdam
 
Telephone: 31-20 685 08 61
Fax: 31-20 689 04 45
E-mail:
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Besides sponsorship for the special awards, the ADCN has a number of main sponsors:

Cebuco, Condor Digital, JCDecaux, Ster and Straight Premedia. 		 
These sponsors enable the ADCN to realise its aims. Through this sponsorship these organisations come in contact with ADCN members: first rate creative people in the world of advertising and design. 		 
Do you wish to know more about the Sponsors?
 
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