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= YoungGuns International Award =



(also referenced as "Young Guns Award) is a global award show for young and emerging creative talent in the Advertising and Communication industry. The award recognizes the best young commercial practitioners and students across the fields of Advertising, Communication design, Digital Creative, Advertising media and Public relations from around the world. Entrants into the award must be aged 30 or under.

Entrants for the award compete for gold, silver and bronze awards across 8 divisions and 40 categories. Every year, two ultimate winners will be determined and named YoungGun of the Year and YoungGun Student of the Year.

History
Kristian Barnes, Jason Williams and Michael Kean founded YoungGuns Award in 2001 from Sydney, Australia with the goal to recognize and promote upcoming talent and not reward years of experience. They noted that the reason for starting the award was because they were getting frustrated that major awards at the time were typically won by well established individuals within the industry.

Call for Entry
YoungGuns was the first international award to produce an advertising campaign for its call of entries and since then it has become a yearly tradition. The campaigns are renowned for being controversial. Most notable include "Peak Early" which focused on child prodigies and "Quit in Style" which allowed anyone to upload content such as videos and feedback to demonstrate how they would quit their jobs. Despite the controversy the yearly campaigns have proven to be quite appealing to the creative industry. Some campaigns have managed to receive recognition in other creative awards such as the New Zealand Grande Axis and Cannes Lions International Advertising Festival.

The call for entries campaigns are usually created by selective advertising agencies or creative collaborations from all around the world. Some of the past Call for Entry campaign creators included Droga5, The Glue Society, Taxi, Crispin, Porter + Bogusky and Saatchi & Saatchi (New Zealand).

Judging
The jury consists of an international panel of over 50 designers, art directors, creative directors, and writers as well as previous year's winner of ‘YoungGuns of the Year’.

Award Trophy
The award trophies weigh 1.2kg and are in bronze, silver and gold

Past Winners

 * 2003 Trevor Clarence
 * 2004 Travis Sorge
 * 2005 Juan Cabral - most notable for creating and directing Cadbury Dairy Milk's Gorilla (advertisement) in 2007
 * 2006 Matt Devine and Luke Crethar
 * 2007 Jeff Anderson
 * 2008 Craig Allen