Young Guns
Young Guns is a portfolio competition awarding creative professionals 30 years and under, including designers, illustrators, entrepreneurs, and more!
2018: Building on the tremendous successes of the previous year, Young Guns 16 strived to be better than ever before, with the largest jury in Young Guns history. More than 60 creative men and women — slightly more of the latter than the former — made up of both past YG winners and industry luminaries, volunteered their time to select this year's class.
After several weeks of poring over hundreds of entries from nearly 40 countries, the jury selected an incredible shortlist of 82 finalists. From this list, the jury continued to debate and discuss, finally choosing 30 new Young Guns to join the family. These new Young Guns are set to receive this year's reinvented trophy, a floating Cube designed by YG11 winner Juan Carlos Pagan and his studio Sunday Afternoon.
Young Guns 16
Joel Plosz
Illustrator
Joel Plosz is a Brooklyn-based illustrator and animator. His work has been described as “horrible, inappropriate, and distracting” and “something else!” by some Youtube commenters, and has appeared in the New York Times, Fivethirtyeight, Bloomberg Businessweek, and on MTV and VICE News Tonight.
His work for VICE News Tonight has earned three ADC cubes and two D&AD Pencils in 2018.
Award:
2018 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Joel Plosz
Client:
Mashable
Title:
Snapchat Supacut
Category:
YG16
Annual ID:
YG16_127
Award:
2018 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Joel Plosz
Client:
Mashable
Title:
Snapchat Supacut 2
Category:
YG16
Annual ID:
YG16_128
Award:
2018 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Joel Plosz
Client:
Mashable
Title:
Even more Snapchat animations
Category:
YG16
Annual ID:
YG16_129
Award:
2018 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Joel Plosz
Client:
MTV International
Title:
MTV Ident
Category:
YG16
Annual ID:
YG16_130
Award:
2018 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Joel Plosz
Client:
Vice News
Title:
North Korea
Category:
YG16
Annual ID:
YG16_131
Award:
2018 YG Work YG Work
Agency:
Joel Plosz
Client:
Vice News
Title:
Cryptocurrency
Category:
YG16
Annual ID:
YG16_132