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

Elana Schlenker

Creative Director & Graphic Designer

Studio Elana Schlenker & Out of Office

Pittsburgh + Brooklyn

Elana is the principal of Studio Elana Schlenker, a medium agnostic design practice established in 2011, and co-founder (with Mark Pernice) of the cooperative creative studio Out of Office. She is the creator of Gratuitous Type, an occasional design magazine, and Less Than 100, a traveling pop-up shop for gender wage parity. Elana has been a Strange Foundation Fellow (2018) and Designer in Residence at the Facebook Analog Research Lab (2018). Since 2016, she has also lectured at the Image Text Ithaca low-residency MFA program at Ithaca College. She has received the Art Directors Club Young Gun Award, been named to Print Magazine‘s annual New Visual Artist list recognizing 20 of the world’s top creative talents under the age of 30 (she is now over 30), and was shortlisted for the prestigious Paris Photo/Aperture Photobook Award in 2018 and twice in 2016.

 

 

 

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