Young Ones Student Awards

The Young Ones competition is one of the most acclaimed advertising, interactive and design student competitions. It has a tradition of excellence dating back to 1986.

Young Ones 2017 Brief - Advertising Professionals Jury

Wes Whitener

ECD

Fitzgerald & Co.

Atlanta/USA

Wes is Executive Creative Director at Fitzgerald & Co. in Atlanta where he’s slowly eating all the biscuits in town while also working with fun people making fun work for clients like Coca-Cola, Quikrete, Synovus Bank, Mellow Mushroom Pizza and more.

Before that, he was a creative director at GSD&M in Austin on brands like Goodyear, AT&T, and Southwest Airlines before leaving promptly when the town ran out of tacos. If you follow his trail of aluminum wrappers back to McKinney in North Carolina you will find people with vaguely positive memories of his time working on Sony and Travelocity.

His work has been recognized by Cannes, One Show, Communication Arts, Archive, Radio Mercury Best in Show, as well as Adweek’s Ads of the Year.

His hair is notoriously hard to clip out in Photoshop.

 

 

 

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