Young Guns

Young Guns is a portfolio competition awarding creative professionals 30 years and under, including designers, illustrators, entrepreneurs, and more!

1996: Art Directors Club Members Jeffrey Metzner and Bill Oberlander proposed the creation of an award which would identify and honor young creative professionals. The multi-disciplinary group would be known as the Young Guns, and would be evaluated on the strength of their entire portfolios, rather than a single piece of work.

The first class of Young Guns was curated by a selection committee of seven esteemed creatives who hand-picked 140 New York-based creative professionals 35 years of age and younger from among scores of nominees. The winners were honored with a five-week exhibition beginning on December 10, 1996.



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Emily Oberman

Partner
Pentagram
New York

Emily Oberman founded Number Seventeen—a multidisciplinary design studio working in television, film, print, and the Web—with Bonnie Siegler, in the summer of 1993.

Some of their recent work includes Typography 28, the Annual of the Type Director's Club; the logo and collateral for the National September 11 Memorial & Museum; the new titles for Saturday Night Live (which they have been doing for 12 years); the titles for Shut Up and Sing, the documentary about the Dixie Chicks; the conceptualization and design of the culture Web site veryshortlist.com; the Daily Candy book; creative direction and design of Colors magazine; advertising and design for New York's River to River Festival (for 5 years); and the identity/packaging for Homemade Baby, a new line of organic baby food.

Other clients include NBC, IAC, Nickelodeon, Hyperion, MTV, HBO, The Mercer Hotel, the Chateau Marmont, and Starwood Hotels.

 

 

 

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