Young Guns
Young Guns is a portfolio competition awarding creative professionals 30 years and under, including designers, illustrators, entrepreneurs, and more!
A diverse group of 32 talented creatives in 14 countries and regions have been named winners in the prestigious Young Guns 19 competition, celebrating creative professionals age 30 or younger.
A program of The One Club for Creativity, the world's foremost non-profit organization recognizing creative excellence in advertising and design, Young Guns is the industry’s only global, cross-disciplinary, portfolio-based awards competition that identifies and celebrates today’s vanguard of young creatives.
This year’s entries were received from 38 countries, and judged by a diverse jury of 88 top creatives, nearly half of whom are past YG winners.
Winners were celebrated at Sony Hall in New York City on Wednesday, November 17th.
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Young Guns 19

Erik Berger Vaage
Graphic Designer
Erik is a Norwegian designer and art director based in San Francisco.
Prior to going freelance, Erik was Senior Designer at COLLINS, where he over five years helped build and grow the COLLINS SF office.
Focusing on visual identity systems, typography and art direction, Erik has worked on wide range of projects for global and local clients like Apple, Robinhood, Bose, Dropbox, Mailchimp, Nike, Netflix and the San Francisco Symphony.
He previously spent time at Bielke&Yang, and he's a graduate of Berghs School of Communication and Academy of Art University.
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Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Erik Berger Vaage
Client:
San Francisco Symphony
Title:
San Francisco Symphony Visual Identity
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_15_10

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Erik Berger Vaage
Client:
Robinhood
Title:
Robinhood Visual Identity
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_15_20

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Erik Berger Vaage
Client:
Flash Festival Tuscany
Title:
Flash Festival Tuscany 2019
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_15_30

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Erik Berger Vaage
Client:
Bose
Title:
Bose Frames
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_15_40

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Erik Berger Vaage
Client:
Mailchimp
Title:
Mailchimp Visual Identity
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_15_50

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Erik Berger Vaage
Client:
The East Cut
Title:
The East Cut neighborhood, name and visual identit
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_15_60