The One Club for Creativity announced the diverse group of 33 talented young creative individuals and teams based in 10 countries who are the winners in the prestigious 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, TBWA\Media 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, 2024 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).
The One Club for Creativity, home of The One Show, ADC Annual Awards, Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE), ONE Asia Creative Awards, Type Directors Club and competition, TDC Ascenders, Young Guns, Young Ones Student Awards, Next Creative Leaders, ONE Screen Short Film Festival, and more, is the world’s foremost non-profit organization whose mission is to support and celebrate the global creative community. Revenue generated from entries to its global awards shows goes back into the industry to fund programming under the organization’s four pillars: Education, Inclusion & Diversity, Gender Equality, and Creative Development.
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