The Art Directors Cluband Dreamina AI have announced the ADC Cube and cash prize winners in the inaugural ADC AI Visual Design-Dreamina AI category, that appluds the frontier of generative craft. 

The new category, which was free to enter and made possible by ADC’s exclusive partnership with Dreamina AI, part of ByteDance, recognises evolving creative craft and honours modern creators who are using AI as a creative partner to expand the boundaries of visual expression.  

The first ADC Cube and cash prize winners of the new competition are:

First Place: ADC Gold Cube, US$6,000

• Xīnxīn Lǐ and Donglin Cheng, Beijng, Ivory

Second Place: ADC Silver Cube, US$4,000 each

• Anne Horel, Paris La Tisseuse d’Ombres (The Shadows Weaver)

• Jason Peng, Chongqing Perfect Place

• Park Zhi, Guangzhou, Red Pill

Third Place: ADC Bronze Cube, $2,000 each

• Chén Kūn, Shenyang, Ordinary Anthem

• Serhii Kostenko, Berlin, Trained on Perfection

• Xingchen Ding, Hangzhou, The Joyful Pasture

• Dorothy Pang, Vancouver, Love Hotel

• Tāozé Cài, Beijing, Bad Traveling

• Yongning Zhang, Suzhou, Big Eyes Town

Hongye Liu (Yea野了), Shanghai, was awarded a Merit for《HONG KONG LOADING…》

“Rather than limiting ourselves strictly to the original storyboard, we drew continuous inspiration from Dreamina AI during the creation process,” explained Gold Cube winner, Xinxin Li.  “The mutual inspiration between human creativity and AI capability allowed us to revise and optimise the script accordingly, and eventually we completed a finished piece with a distinctive aesthetic style and sophisticated editing rhythm. It truly lets us feel the unique charm of the integration of technology and artistic creation.”

Jury member, Wesley ter Haar, co-founder, Monks, Amsterdam, said of the Gold Cube winning entry, “It’s a standout piece when it comes to storytelling and using the tools and technology to create something very visually compelling. It confirmed for me how much the value of craft is still very much at the core of doing great AI work.”

Entry brief: Imperfection. Creativity can lose its spark when every element is perfectly polished and optimised. Therein lies the opportunity to celebrate the messiness, contradictions, and lived experience that provide fuel for better AI tools and more creative ideas.

For the new ADC AI Visual Design-Dreamina AI category, entrants were asked to create work that honours imperfection and uses AI to complement, not erase, those qualities. Entries could take a variety of forms, including video, motion graphics, animation, or poster. 

As the presenting AI artner of the ADC 105th Annual Awards, Dreamina AI was the primary engine for this challenge, inviting users to prove that even in a digital age, the human spark remains the most essential component. 

Dreamina AI is powered by its world-leading proprietary models, including the Seedream generative image model – which produces and refines high-quality 4K visuals from text prompts and up to 10 image references – as well as the Seedance video generation and OmniHuman AI avatar models.  Acting as a “camera for an imagined world,” Dreamina AI enables creators to transform ideas into high-quality, production-ready visuals within seconds using simple text prompts.

View a showcase of all ADC 105th Annual Awards here.