The One Club for Creativity announced 101 creatives from 45 countries and regions who will serve on the jury for the global Young Guns 22, celebrating creative professionals ages 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. The program is open to creatives ages 30 and under who have been working for at least two years, full-time or freelance. Eligible entrants can submit a combination of professional and personal work.
A sampling of jury members, including past YG winners as indicated, includes:
- Atlas Acopian, director, conceptual artist, Atlas Studio Inc. Los Angeles (YG18)
- Tarek Atrissi, founder, creative director, Tarek Atrissi Design Barcelona
- Maan Bautista, ECD, VML Manila
- Will Campbell, CEO, Quantasy Los Angeles
- Carolina Cantante, creative director, C-Studio/The Other Studio Lisbon (YG13)
- Joaquin Cubria, CCO, partner, GUT Buenos Aires
- Amélie Ebongué, founder, Gamma & Gemini Paris
- Wendy W Fok, architect, WE-DESIGNS New York (YG11)
- Peter Jaworowski, founding partner, CCO, Ars Thanea Warsaw
- Kate Kagawa, producer, partner, KIND Copenhagen
- Kateryna Korolevtseva, type & brand designer, art director, Kyiv
- Samar Maakaroun, partner, Pentagram London
- Precious Mahaga, global head of music video, Riff Raff Films London/Los Angeles
- Mischelle Moy, photographer, digital artist, Studio Misch Brooklyn (YG21)
- Morag Myerscough, artist, Woldingham, Caterham (UK)
- Brian Njagi, creative director, Ogilvy Africa Nairobi
- Adam Okrasinski, ECD, creative & creative technology, The New York Times New York
- NiRey Reynolds, global director creative excellence, Momentum Worldwide New York
- Jayde-Olivia Sandy, senior product designer, Delivery Hero Dubai
- Sabaa Quao, chief creative and innovation officer, Cossette Montreal/Toronto
- Derrick Rivers, creative director, NBC Universal Studios Tampa
- Szymon Rose, CCO, partner, Jung von Matt Hamburg
- Neha Tulsian, ECD, NH1Design Delhi
- Deacon Webster, co-founder, CCO, Walrus New York (YG2)
- Nikola Žinić, co-chairman, CCO, Bruketa&Zinic&Grey Zagreb
The complete list of Young Guns 22 judges can be viewed here.
The online entry system is open, with the reduced-fee early deadline of June 27, 2024, regular deadline July 11, 2024, and final deadline July 25, 2024. Winners will be announced in the fall.
The submission deadline for COLORFUL, a separate YG grant program to help young BIPOC creatives around the world advance their careers, is June 27, 2024. There is no fee to apply, and the grant is open globally to BIPOC creatives who qualify for YG22.
Program branding and design of the YG Cube award itself is reimagined each year by a past Young Gun winner. This year’s YG22 branding was created by New York-based designer, illustrator, muralist, and author Timothy Goodman (YG7).
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 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.
Past Young Guns include rising stars who went on to become leaders in their chosen fields, including Oscar-winning film director duo DANIELS (Daniel Kwan and Daniel Scheinert) (YG14), “Top Gun Maverick” director Joseph Kosinski (YG4); graphic designers James Victore (YG1), Stefan Sagmeister (YG1), Natasha Jen (YG4) and Jessica Walsh (YG8); artist/designer Rich Tu (YG8); ad creatives Rei Inamoto (YG4) and Menno Kluin (YG6); illustrators Christoph Niemann (YG2) and Deanne Cheuk (YG4); fashion designer Kerby Jean-Raymond (YG14); artist/filmmaker Calmatic (YG16); director/photographer India Sleem (YG17); photographer Ryan McGuinness (YG2); typographers Alex Trochut (YG6) and Gemma O’Brien (YG13); and animation artist Todd St. John (YG1).
For the 10th consecutive year, international artists management agency and Young Guns sponsor Levine/Leavitt will bestow one talented winner with the Artist In Residence Award.
The honor is presented annually to a newly crowned Young Gun whose body of work truly stands out, as judged by an advisory board of industry professionals across a range of disciplines. The winner receives a full year of professional development, guidance and mentorship from Levine/Leavitt to help advance their career.
Harvey Weinstein hit with new sex crime charge in New York
Harvey Weinstein pleaded not guilty Wednesday to a new sex crime charge in New York, as he awaits retrial in his landmark #MeToo case.
Details of the new allegations were not immediately available. He was charged with committing a criminal sex act.
The jailed ex-movie mogul has long maintained that any sexual activity was consensual.
Prosecutors revealed last week that Weinstein had been indicted on additional sex crime charges that weren't part of the case that led to his now-overturned 2020 conviction. But the new indictment was sealed until his arraignment.
Prosecutors have said that the grand jury heard evidence of up to three alleged assaults — two in hotels in the Tribeca neighborhood and one at a lower Manhattan residential building. The purported incidents took place from the mid-2000s to 2016, prosecutors said.
But it's not clear whether any of those allegations underlie the new indictment.
While bracing for the new charges, Weinstein also is awaiting retrial after New York state's highest court this spring overturned his 2020 conviction on rape and sexual assault charges involving two women. The high court, called the Court of Appeals, ordered a new trial, which is tentatively scheduled to begin Nov. 12.
The Court of Appeals ruled that the then-trial judge unfairly allowed testimony against him based on allegations that were not part of the case. That judge's term expired in 2022, and he is no longer on the bench.
Prosecutors have said they'll seek to fold the new charges into the retrial, but Weinstein's lawyers say it should be a separate case.
Weinstein, who also was convicted in 2022 in a Los Angeles rape case, remains behind bars while awaiting his New York retrial.
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