The One Club for Creativity has unveiled the diverse group of 33 talented young creative individuals and teams based in 10 countries who are the winners in the Young Guns 22 competition, celebrating global creative professionals age 30 or younger.
Young Guns is the industry’s only global, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies and celebrates today’s vanguard of young creatives. This year’s entries were judged by a diverse jury of 101 creatives–many of whom are past YG winners–from 45 countries.
Young Guns 22 winners are:
Mika Aberra, cinematographer, Mika Aberra Film AB, New York
Geoff Baillie, creative director, Rethink, Toronto
Nancy Beka, architectural designer, Studio Edwards, Melbourne
Carlos Bocai, graphic designer, Base, New York
Camille Boumans, director, editor, Partizan Entertainment LLC, Amsterdam
Jure Brglez, Illustrator, animator, Ljubljana
Jocelyn C. Chambers, composer, BUTTER Music & Sound, Los Angeles
Poe Cheung, designer, Nous, Hong Kong
Grace Chuang, creative director, biocreative, Austin
Bradley Credit, cinematographer, Bradley Credit Ltd., New York
Jiaan Dai, art director, creative director, graphic designer, The End Design, Guangzhou City
Helena Dong, experiential art director, creative technologist, BUCK, New York
Ellie & Elisa, creative team, Uncommon, London
Aaron Fernandez, illustrator, Brooklyn
Elizabeth Goodspeed, designer, writer, Providence
Céline Hurka, type designer, Studio Céline Hurka, The Hague
Lewis James, stage and show designer, London
Brandon Kapelow, director, photographer, Voyager, Los Angeles
Nicholas Konrad, art director, illustrator, New York
Tobias Lindborg, art/creative director, TBWAMedia Arts Lab, Los Angeles
Giordano Maestrelli, director, Stink Films, São Paulo
MAÏLIS, director, Montréal
Ana Miminoshvili, illustrator, Tbilisi
Yiting Nan, animator, illustrator, Wolff Olins, New York
Dante Pasquinelli, colorist, Ethos Studio, Los Angeles
Adam Riding, photographer, Adam Riding Photography, Los Angeles
Gabriel Sehringer, associate creative director, Rethink, New York
Vivek Thakker, graphic designer, art director, New York
The Reids, directors, Anonymous Content, London
Cameron Thuman, director, Los Angeles
Dev Valladares, design generalist, San Francisco
Daniel Wenzel, creative technologist, art director, designer, Brooklyn
Sam Whitney, art director, The New York Times, Brooklyn
This year’s winners will be celebrated at a special in-person party on November 13 at Sony Hall in New York.
At the event, The One Club will also announce the Young Guns 22 Creative Choice Award winner, as voted by the global creative community. Anyone can view the work of this year’s winners and vote on which one they believe stands above all others. Voting is open now through November 8, 2024, 11:59 pm PT.
All Young Guns winners receive a unique version of the iconic Young Guns Cube, designed exclusively for this year’s incoming class, and have their permanent profile page added to the Young Guns website.
Winners also receive a complimentary one-year One Club membership, permanent membership in the Young Guns network, a chance to be featured in Young Guns events and an assortment of career-boosting opportunities from Young Guns sponsors.
Program branding and design of the YG Cube award itself is reimagined each year by a past Young Guns winner. This year’s YG22 branding was created by renowned New York-based designer, illustrator, muralist, and author Timothy Goodman (YG7).
Review: Writer-Director Jesse Eisenberg’s “A Real Pain”
It's part comedy, part tragedy. It's part road-trip saga, part odd couple-buddy flick, and part Holocaust film. What could possibly have gone wrong?
Yup – everything could have gone wrong. So the first miracle about "A Real Pain," writer-director Jesse Eisenberg's remarkably accomplished film about mismatched cousins on a somber trip through Poland, is how it pulls off the most delicate of balancing acts.
That it does so while also asking intriguing questions about the nature of pain – personal vs. universal, historic vs. contemporary – is all the more impressive. So is the fact that it showcases an Oscar-worthy performance.
That stunning performance comes from Kieran Culkin, and what's striking is that it doesn't overpower the rest of the ensemble. That's a testament mostly to the careful way Eisenberg, who co-stars in the less flashy role, has constructed and paced his film. And as for Culkin, well, if you needed proof that his searing, Emmy-winning work as tortured live-wire Roman Roy in "Succession" wasn't a fluke, here you have it.
The movie, which is only Eisenberg's second directorial effort, stems from a trip the "Social Network" star took some 20 years ago to Poland. There, he found the tiny house his aunt had lived in before the Holocaust uprooted the family. He wondered what his own life would have been like had World War II never happened.
And that's one of the many conversations that David (Eisenberg) and Benji (Culkin) have as they travel through Poland on a mission to visit the house where their grandmother, who has recently died, once lived. (Eisenberg used the exact same house, which tells you just how personal this film was for him.)
It's a poignant but also awkward reunion for the cousins, who were... Read More