Young Guns
Young Guns is a portfolio competition awarding creative professionals 30 years and under, including designers, illustrators, entrepreneurs, and more!
2014: The theme for Young Guns 12 was "Creativity Never Dies", best exemplified in a video game created by dozens of past Young Guns winners where the game character would live forever. This year’s Young Guns Cube was definitely a show stealer at the October 9, 2014 ceremony. Designed at Deutsch Inc. by Young Guns winners Menno Kluin (YG6) Juan Carlos Pagan (YG11) and Brian Gartside (YG12), this laser-etched and hand-polished beauty now sits on the shelves of 31 young creatives around the world.
Young Guns 12
Alexander Kalchev
Executive Creative Officer DDB Paris Paris
Alexander Kalchev is the Executive Creative Director of DDB Paris, where he oversees a variety of brands such as Volkswagen, Hennessy, Ubisoft, Uber, Honda, Amnesty International among others.
Since taking over the creative leadership of DDB Paris, the agency has been named agency of the Year at the French ADC and in 2018 was the most awarded French agency at D&AD, One Show and ADC New York.
In 2011 Alexander was profiled in Creativity’s “Creatives to Know” and in 2014 he was chosen as one of the ADC New York’s Young Guns 12 class.
His work has been multi-awarded at the Cannes Lions, D&AD, One Show and all other major advertising festivals. “The Centaur” for Honda - the first film he directed – was awarded a silver film lion in Cannes.
Alexander hates bios written in third person and bios that are too funny for their own good.
Award:
2014 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Alexander Kalchev
Client:
Title:
The Centaur
Category:
YG12
Annual ID:
YG12_001
Award:
2014 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Alexander Kalchev
Client:
Tropicana
Title:
Natural Energy
Category:
YG12
Annual ID:
YG12_002
Award:
2014 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Alexander Kalchev
Client:
SNCF
Title:
Welcome / Goodbye
Category:
YG12
Annual ID:
YG12_003