Young Guns
Young Guns is a portfolio competition awarding creative professionals 30 years and under, including designers, illustrators, entrepreneurs, and more!
Category
YG20
Annual ID
YG20_Yu_0
Adrian Yu
Director / Creative Director / Artist
Hometown: New York, United StatesCurrent City: Los Angeles, United States
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Adrian Yu is a Chinese-American new media artist, director, and creative director.
Born in NY and growing up in LA from a family of Hong Kongese immigrants, Yu was taught graphic design at a young age from his father's motion graphics studio. While studying film writing at NYU's cinema studies program, he began his career directing fashion films for BULLETT Magazine before graduating early to become a copywriter-art director at SID LEE.
Riding the line between fine art and commercial work, Yu became the lead creative at the agency's in-house production studio, where he directed his first spots for Adidas, Porsche, and Def Jam. In 2016, he founded his own creative studio Offline Projects where he's gone on to creative direct, design, and produce campaigns, experiences, and digital platforms for cultural clients such as Sega, Adidas, 88 Rising, and Amazon Music. Since, he's directed TV spots, content, and music videos for clients such as Nike, One Plus, and Spotify ? as well as directed promos and title sequences for Zack Snyder's Justice League and Tokyo Vice. He recently started a new agency called Excetera (merging Offline Projects with design studio Seriously Fun) and is releasing a board game called Blabbi.
In his fine art work, Yu has also shown new media installations at Art Basel Hong Kong, Wallplay NY, and Oi! Art Center HK. His work has been featured in publications including Fast Company, Pitchfork, and PAPER.
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Title
Tokyo Vice
Agency
Adrian Yu
Client
HBO
Annual ID
YG20_15_01
Category
2022 YG Work: YG20
Title
Zack Snyder's Justice League: Mother Box Origins
Agency
Adrian Yu
Client
HBO
Annual ID
YG20_15_02
Category
2022 YG Work: YG20
Title
Blackground Records - Release Campaign
Agency
Adrian Yu
Client
Empire
Annual ID
YG20_15_03
Category
2022 YG Work: YG20
Seriously Fun Studio - Design studio
Title
Future History: Russell Westbrook
Agency
Adrian Yu
Client
Nike Jordan
Annual ID
YG20_15_04
Category
2022 YG Work: YG20
Future Deluxe - VFX studio
Title
Dreamrave
Agency
Adrian Yu
Client
Eaton Hong Kong
Annual ID
YG20_15_05
Category
2022 YG Work: YG20
Title
Goldlink
Agency
Adrian Yu
Client
RCA Records
Annual ID
YG20_15_06
Category
2022 YG Work: YG20
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