Tonight they'll be rocking the stage in New York since Art Directors Club awarded them Young Guns Award 7.

Tonight, on Wednesday, October 21, the grand Young Guns Award Ceremony will be taking place in New York Art Directors Club gallery. Young graphic designers Dora Budor and Maja Čule were selected, together with 48 other creatives under 30 from all over the world, to recieve this prestigious prize. In the past 7 years, the Young Guns Award went to some of the most renowned names in the world of graphic design and visual arts: Stefan Sagmeister, James Victore, Ryan McGinness, Mike Mills, Scottu Stowell ... who are now members of the jury, selecting the best young ilustrators, photographers and designers.

All the awarded works will be exhibited in the gallery in NY 'till November 6 and published in a special edition Moleskin book. In 2010, the exhibition will be traveling through galleries worldwide and the award winners will be presented through a series of ADC lectures.

* About the event: http://www.adcyoungguns.org/events/#25
* Budor & Čule @ ADC: http://www.adcyoungguns.org/archive/yg/search/?year=&id=343

More about Budor & Čule
 

Freelance designers Budor & Čule have been working together for 5 years now, mostly taking on projects related to culture and non-profit organisations. This year, they both enlisted their masters course Designer as Author at School of Visual Arts in New York. Their work has been awarded at many (inter)national festivals: Magdalena, Zgraf 10, The Exhibition of Croatian Design 0708 (Izložba hrvatskog dizajna 0708); they are one of the 13 Croatian representatives of Croatia for the 14th Bienall of the Young Artists of Europe and Mediterranian in Skopje. This year, they were awarded New Visual Artists 2009, the award given by the biggest American graphic design magazine Print.

Even more about Budor & Čule

Dora was a rebellious teenager growing up in eastern Europe, surrounded by stacks of chicken pate, folk music and bald-headed men with all hair on their back. Not knowing how this would influence her future career, she met Maja over speed-dating table where she answered correctly on question what is the meaning of life and stopped her from stealing a plastic chair for her collection. She hardly recognized Maja at design school few years after because she was wearing bear head as she was a very pretentious fashion victim.

Maja grew up travelling around eastern European Youth Tennis Centres, dreaming of becoming a star tennis player. She spent all her free time punching tennis balls and making collage decorations for weddings in suburban party halls. Not knowing how this would influence her future life, she went for a speed dating session, where she met Dora who impressed her with her origami skills by making the little salt and pepper holders out of napkin. Maja decided to kiss the tennis racquet goodbye. She hardly recognized Dora at design school few years after because Dora was wearing a rabbit suit as she was a very pretentious fashion victim.

They started their studio and held it securely for 5 years, choosing only clients that were beautiful, intellectual and agreed with them on everything, which got them in deep debts, although they even got some awards like New Visual Artist, Young Guns, Magdalena and Zgraf. Since Maja learnt how to use most progressive software of that time called the spellcheck, and Dora realized she wasn't going to make any money as a conceptual postfeminist picknic organizer, only exit of situation they found in overnight escape to SVA Designer as Author program in NY.

Currently they are living in all-organic-esque city of Williamsburg, right beneath the bridge in wonderful self-sustainable cardboard house, being life partners in crime, whatever that means. They are very open to all kinds of artistic collaboration and peculiar performances, while working hard on their first line of wearable products dedicated to rising phenomena of unisexus, unique handmade pottery of a virtuous name "China's what i'm made of" and re-reading Das Kapital from end to beginning in order to get more familiar with American way.