YoungGun Student of the Decade Awards

www.ygaward.com Media Release Monday July 12, 2010

YoungGuns Student of the Decade Vote for the best of emerging talent.

Support your country, your friends, your agency and good ideas by casting your vote for the YoungGun Student of the Decade, the second in a series of special one-off rankings released for this year’s 10th International YoungGuns Awards.

Entries are now open across the board from the world’s best young professionals and students to enter this year’s awards, which recognize emerging creative talent in a number of fields and are the premier global platform for defining creative talent - http://www.ygaward.com/10years. Like the Professional YoungGun of the Decade voting, which was released last week, the Student YoungGun is decided by public vote. Users can vote once per day and check in to see the leader every day.

The previous Student YoungGuns of the Year are:

2001 - Nick C Tamburri & Lina Yoko Hitomi, Art Centre College Of Design California, USA 2002 - Mikael Strom & Yasin Lekorchi, Berghs School Of Communication, Sweden 2003 - Satoko Takada & Patwin Lawrence, Miami Ad School, USA 2004 - Christina De LA Cruz, Tom Zukoski & Matt Burgess, Miami Ad School Minneapolis, USA 2005 - Menno Kluin, Miami Ad School Europe, Germany 2006 - Eleanor Bullen & Angie Bird, RMIT University, Australia 2007 - Nate Virnig, Jesse Synder & Rene Delgado, Miami Ad School Minneapolis, USA 2008 - Savina Mokreva, Voldemars Dudums & Mihnea Gheorghiu, Miami Ad School Europe, Germany 2009 - Duncan Munge, Zoe Sys Voglius & Amadeus Henhapl, Miami Ad School Europe, Germany 2010 - Would your name look good here. Over the next two months, YoungGuns will release a number of Top 10 rankings on a specially designed, and extremely hot, website - http://www.ygaward.com/10years - that celebrates the young talent and incubator organizations that have nurtured those creative aspirations across YoungGuns last 10 years. Some of the rankings are just straightforward, one to ten and others will be decided by public vote.

They will be released on pre-determined dates across the next few months. The other rankings to be released, in the order below, are: Top 10 Awarded Countries, Top Awarded Networks, Top 10 Awarded Schools, Top 10 Innovative Ideas (Public Vote), 10 Years of Call for Entries (Public Vote), Top 10 Awarded Agencies and Top 10

Awarded Young Creatives. YoungGuns will re-release select virals from its last 10 years of Call For Entry Campaigns to coincide with each new ranking being revealed. These were created across the years by the following agencies: 2001 - DÁrcy Sydney; 2002 - Mother, London; 2003 - Fallon, London; 2004 - Leo Burnett, Chicago; 2005 - CP+B, USA; 2006 - Saatchi & Saatchi, New Zealand; 2007 - TAXI, Canada; 2008 - Droga5, Global; 2009 - YoungGuns. www.ygaward.com YoungGuns will open 2 NEW DIVISIONS in 2010 - YoungGuns PR and YoungGuns Design. These will open on Wednesday July 14, 2010. The 2010 YoungGuns Jury will consist of all the previous jury members since 2001. The talent and experience in this jury is outstanding and truly global in its representation and we are delighted for our entrants in this 10th year. YoungGuns believes that 'Almost everything that is great has been done by youth' and our 10th Birthday celebrates and proves this fact. YoungGuns is the future, and the future is here although not widely distributed yet. –

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