Thirty-one talented creative individuals and teams in 10 countries and regions have been named winners in the Young Guns 20 competition, honoring international creative professionals age 30 or younger.
A program of The One Club for Creativity, Young Guns is the industry’s only global, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies and celebrates today’s vanguard of young creatives.
The diverse group of Young Guns 20 winners consists of:
- Amara Abbas, director, Brooklyn
- Sindha Agha, director, the corner shop, Los Angeles/London
- Felix Brady, director, Stink Films, London
- BRTHR (team of Alex Lee, Kyle Wightman), directors, Serial Pictures, New York (Lee originally from Tokyo)
- Angelo Cerisara, director, London (originally from Sichio, Italy)
- Ryan Takashi Chun, director, Off-Site Works, Brooklyn
- Imraan Christian, director, artist, Arcade, Cape Town
- Maria Jesus Contreras, illustrator, designer, Santiago
- Talia Cotton, designer, coder, educator, New York
- Alexander Farah, director, editor, Vancouver
- Max Friedman, graphic designer, New York
- Eric Hart Jr., photographer, Brooklyn
- Princess Hฤฑdฤฑr, illustrator, Istanbul
- Jump Jirakaweekul, graphic designer, New York (originally from Bangkok)
- Angela Kirkwood, illustrator, animator, Edinburgh
- Nik Kohler, editor, Cabin Edit, Berlin/Munich
- Enle Li, animation director, visual artist, New York
- Danica Tan Lijun, animation director, Los Angeles (originally from Singapore)
- Xinmei Liu, illustrator, Harrison (US) (originally from Shanghai)
- Beatriz Lozano, designer, typographer, educator, New York
- Kelia Anne MacClusky, photographer, director, Los Angeles
- Megacomputeur (team of Camille Jalabert, Oscar Malet, Corentin Yvergniaux), directors, Passion Pictures, London (originally from Paris)
- Jenny Lucia Mascia, director, animation, New York (originally from Urbino, Italy)
- Jackie Molloy, photojournalist, visual storyteller, New York
- Sarah Beth Morgan, director, illustrator, Cleveland
- Hiromu Oka, motion designer, London (originally from Tokyo)
- Vincent Renรฉ-lortie, director, the corner shop, Montrรฉal
- Marko Roth, director, Frankfurt
- Lysa Thieffry, photographer, collage artist, director, Paris
- Kurt Woerpel IV, graphic designer, art director, Brooklyn
- Adrian Yu, creative director, director, artist, Offline Projects, Los Angeles
This year’s entries were judged by a diverse jury of 96 top creatives — many of whom are past YG winners–from 41 countries.
Young Guns 20 winners will be celebrated at a special in-person event on November 16, 2022 at Sony Hall in New York, co-hosted by noted artist, author, and designer Timothy Goodman (YG7), and designer Zipeng Zhu (YG13), founder and creative director at Dazzle Studio New York.
The One Club is also holding the Young Guns 20 Creative Choice Award, where the global creative community can explore the work of this year’s winners and vote on which one they believe stands above all others. Voting is open now through November 11, 2022, 11:59 pm ET, with the winner announced at the Young Guns 20 awards ceremony.
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 get a complimentary one-year One Club for Creativity 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 Cube award is reimagined each year by a past Young Gun winner. This year’s YG20 branding and award are designed by Zipeng Zhu, with branding font created by NaN Berlin.
Young Guns 20 and other One Club activities are made possible in part through the support of sponsors including Shutterstock.
