Young Guns

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

2015: This is remembered as being the "tough" year; while the number of submissions remained high, the jury was very unforgiving when it came to work that displayed the slightest hint of mediocrity They held up every entry to the highest possible standards, and in the end, only nineteen Young Guns 13 winners were selected — the smallest list in Young Guns history.

The Young Guns 13 Cube, designed by YG10 winners Dark Igloo alongside design studio Chen&Kai, is comprised of personal and professional objects acquired from all twelve previous Young Guns classes, broken down and embedded into a truly individual trophy. When the winners received their hard-earned honors on September 17, 2015, they weren't just making history, they were taking home a piece of it too.



Young Guns 13

Catarina Carreiras

Creative Director
This Must Be the Place Unipessoal
Cascais, Portugal

Catarina (1985, Lisbon) graduated in Communication Design from Faculdade de Belas Artes de Lisboa and started working as an independent designer. Her work encompasses different mediums and contexts, switching smoothly between print and screen based media. Driven by curiosity, she’s always looking for a fresh perspective on things. Poetic too. She enjoys collecting colors, shapes, and ideas to compose her personal visual archives which she after uses in her work.

Catarina has been working with Sam Baron, her mentor and flesh-and-blood alter ego, since 2008, first in Fabrica’s Design Studio (Treviso, Italy) and then in Lisbon. After spending a year in NYC at Karlssonwilker Inc., in 2011 she returned to her hometown to set up Studio AH HA, which lasted until 2018. Spanning the globe, her list of clients includes Benetton, Opera de Paris, Vitra, Amazon France, Foam, Gulbenkian, among many others. In 2020, she started this project, This Must Be the Place. Although it’s probably her wildest adventure so far, it’s also where she feels at home.

This Must Be the Place is a creative studio founded in Cascais by Catarina Carreiras, stout-hearted designer and visual flâneuse. Working across disciplines, we believe in a human, culturally-rooted, holistic approach to design, combining strategic thinking with powerful creative resources. The focus of our work is communication, finding the most pure and clear way to speak about a brand, a project, a product, a thing you love. Our conviction is that good design should always be holistic and is inherently dynamic. We bring visual identities and brand stories to life, partnering with clients at every stage of the process to produce beautiful, significant work that will respond to their goals and engage their audiences.

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