The One Club for Creativity this week announced that it has put together 21 creative professionals from various industries to serve on the newly established Art Directors Club (ADC) Board.

Brian Collins, the co-founder of COLLINS in San Francisco and New York, has been appointed ADC President.

Collins has previously served as an officer in the Art Directors Club before its merger and co-developed the ADC Designism award with designer Milton Glaser to recognize work that promotes societal and cultural progress. He has also been a member of The One Club for Creativity Board of Directors since 2017.

The mission : The board aims to reassert the legacy of the world’s original creative organization

I’ve been wondering what that could even mean, nut so far, the Board’s agenda is to build a stronger creative community and foster the next generation of creative leaders, while I see no South African names on the list below, I’m keen and invested to see how the new board plans to reassert objectives of a global creative community.

The international group of creative leaders who have joined forces on the new ADC Board are:

• Alan Dye, Vice President of Human Interface Design, Apple, San Francisco
• Alex Center, Designer, Founder, CENTER, New York
• Aporva Baxi, Co-founder, Executive Creative Director, DixonBaxi, London
• Debbie Millman, Writer, Designer, Educator, Artist, Brand Consultant, Host of Design Matters podcast, New York
• Diego Segura, Founder, Family Office, New York
• Gail Bichler, Creative Director, The New York Times Magazine, New York
• John Maeda, VP, Engineering, Head of Computational Design/AI Platform, Microsoft, Silicon Valley
• Kapono Chung, Founding Partner, Head of Design, Combo, New York
• Karin Fong, Creative Director, Imaginary Forces, Los Angeles
• Lauren Indovina, Director, Visual Artist, House of Indovina, Los Angeles
• Leandro Assis, Designer and Lettering Artist, Lebassis, Rio de Janeiro
• Mah Ferraz, Film Editor, Co-Founder, Church Edit, New York
• Marina Willer, Partner, Graphic Designer, Filmmaker, Pentagram, London
• Oliver Jeffers, Artist, Author, Activist, Oliver Jeffers Studio, Belfast
• Pablo Juncadella, Executive Creative Director, Mucho, Barcelona
• Resh Sidhu, Global Director, Snap AR Marketing & Branded Innovation, Snap, New York
• Rick Griffith, Former Denver Commissioner of Cultural Affairs, Public Art Policy Chair, and Founder, Partner, MATTER, Denver
• Steven Heller, Co-chair, MFA Design / Designer as Author and Entrepreneur, School of Visual Arts, New York
• Verònica Fuerte, Founder, Creative Directress, Hey, Barcelona
• Yoshihiro Yagi, Executive Creative Director, Dentsu, Tokyo

“The Art Directors Club didn’t just show up first—it kicked the door open back in 1920,” said Brian Collins.

“Everyone else wandered in later with their events and annual award shows. All good. But ADC was the original—proof that this wild, visual, opinionated community could organize together and build something lasting. The ADC not only offered a model for creative excellence; it has lit the match for 105 years.”

Founded in 1920, the Art Directors Club is the world’s longest continuously running creative organization to support and celebrate excellence in craft and innovation in all forms of advertising and design.

Home to the celebrated ADC Annual Awards, global Young Guns competition and more, ADC merged with The One Club in 2017 to form The One Club for Creativity.

The newly formed Art Directors Club Board will look to engage and advance the creative community with a range of programming and reassert ADC’s legacy and leadership role as the original creative organization for both design and advertising.