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

Kathryn Kvas
Creative Director, Writer, Filmmaker
Kathryn’s is an award-winning Creative Director, writer and filmmaker, currently at Spotify.
Her writing has appeared in The New Yorker, The Onion, McSweeney’s and more. Her work was selected for The New Yorker’s Best of 2019.
She is Canadian, but don’t hold that against her.

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Spotify
Client:
Spotify, The Weeknd
Title:
The Weeknd: Alone With Me
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_20_10

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Spotify
Client:
Spotify
Title:
Today's Top Hits: The Hit Station
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_20_20

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Droga5
Client:
Under Armour
Title:
Under Armour: Rule Yourself
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_20_30

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
No Tricks
Client:
Boys Noize, Kelsey Lu
Title:
Ride Or Die Music Video
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_20_40

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Spotify
Client:
Bon Iver, Spotify
Title:
Bon Iver's "Viisualiizer"
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_20_50

Award:
2021 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
N/A
Client:
The New Yorker
Title:
Satire for the New Yorker
Category:
YG19
Annual ID:
YG19_20_60