Rising Stars 2026

This year's Rising Stars

The ADCC’s Rising Stars awards recognize emerging creative talent across talent.

 

This year’s judges have selected two winners – one from Advertising, one from Design:

 

—Louis-Philippe Bélanger, Designer

—Shannon Glassford, Art Director

 

See their work below.

Louis-Philippe Bélanger is a 25-year-old graphic designer from Rouyn-Noranda, now based in Montreal. His interests in video editing, graphic design, and music production have driven his creative work for as long as he can remember. These interconnected disciplines inform his multidisciplinary approach to design. He graduated from UQAM School of Design in 2023, where he developed expertise in typography and motion design. In 2026, he also studied at the Typography Summer School in London. Currently, he works as a graphic designer at Demande Spéciale, where he focuses on visual identity, motion design, logos, and graphic systems. His projects range from architectural firms to theater campaigns and album designs. He values both structured grid systems and straightforward communication, as well as playful, crafty, and colorful work. His practice has been recognized with awards from the ADCC, Type Director Club, Communication Arts, Applied Arts, and Idéa. Beyond his professional practice, Louis-Philippe maintains a personal creative practice rooted in constraint-free creation and experimentation with analog techniques, including Riso printing, dry transfer, screenprinting, and analog filmmaking. He is constantly searching for new creative opportunities, and his next endeavor involves digitizing lost typefaces. In one sentence, his practice could be described as the thin space between digital and handmade.

Louis-Philippe Bélanger

Designer

Shannon is the kind of designer who is equal parts conceptual thinker, creative doer, and fearless procrastinator. She found her way here by giving her best, having a bit of fun, and working with great people (they know who they are). She believes every culture has a context and a rhythm, and that paying attention to it makes communication and art stronger. Her process involves cutting through the noise by day and 'analyzing the zeitgeist' by night (which is her preferred industry term for 'being on the internet all the time').

Shannon Glassford

Art Director