Young Guns

Young Guns is a portfolio competition awarding creative professionals 30 years and under, including designers, illustrators, entrepreneurs, and more!

2017: Now under the umbrella of The One Club for Creativity, Young Guns 15 returned the competition to an open entry process, encouraging young creatives from a broad range of disciplines to apply. By seeking out talent from beyond the design and advertising worlds, Young Guns 15 received a record number of entries from more than 40 countries.

The YG15 Jury was made up of nearly 50 acclaimed creatives, equally balanced between men and women, and with just over half of them past Young Guns winners themselves. After nearly two months of careful deliberation, the jury selected 84 entrants for a finalist list — the first time in Young Guns history that the finalists were publicly revealed. The final round of judging resulted in 32 new Young Guns, who were awarded a colorful translucent Cube designed by YG9 winner Roanne Adams and RoAndCo.



Young Guns 15

Ben J. Crick

Creative Director / Partner
COLLINS
San Francisco

Based In: San Francisco, CA
Originally from: Sydney, Australia
bencrick.com

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Ben Crick is a designer.

Originally from Australia, Ben relocated to the United States almost a decade ago in pursuit of a specific vision for brand — to bring the creative quality and craft usually reserved for small practices to projects and clients of intimidating scale and complexity. He believes that at the heart of all good design is an equal marriage of concept and craft. A provocative and insightful idea, brought to life with art and finesse.

His portfolio spans a diverse range of brands, from luxury companies to global giants including Spotify, Instagram, and Coca-Cola — garnering particular recognition for his development for uncommonly compelling, far-reaching, systemic identities. The resulting work has been internationally recognized by D&AD, Graphis, Cannes, AGDA, Communication Arts, the Type Directors Club, The One Club for Creativity, the ADC, Print Magazine, and FPO — among others. Designweek named his work for Spotify as some of the most globally defining to date. In 2019 Fast Co named the Mailchimp rebrand one of the best prices of design in 2019. Just recently he launched a provocative evolution for investment app Robinhood, which has (so far) received a warm reception on Twitter.

He lives in abject fear of speaking publicly, and has done so only three times. Once in Cairo​. Once at the One Club for Creativity's leadership conference in Arizona, and most recently at Brand New's First Round in San Francisco.

In 2017 He was honored to be named an ADC Young Gun (Class 15), joining some of graphic designs most terrifyingly talented individuals. This has not done anything improve his impostor syndrome.

Ben moved to San Francisco in 2018 as Creative Director of the COLLINS SF office and has begrudgingly accepted that hiking is now a part of his life.

Rebirth of the Cool Agency: Benjamin Crick Category: YG15 / YG15 Year: 2017
Cocktail Posters Agency: Maud Category: YG15 / YG15 Year: 2017
Vitaminwater Visual Identity System Agency: Collins Category: YG15 / YG15 Year: 2017
Room Essentials Visual Identity System and Packaging Agency: Collins Category: YG15 / YG15 Year: 2017
Graphic Advocacy Event and Poster Design Agency: Collins Category: YG15 / YG15 Year: 2017
Spotify Global Visual Identity System Agency: Collins Category: YG15 / YG15 Year: 2017

 

 

 

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