2025 young ones student awards
regular entry deadline: february 28, 2025
Young Ones is The One Club for Creativity's competition for students and recent graduates across creative disciplines. Young Ones is home to four unique competitions — Young Ones ADC, One Show, Portfolio, and TDC.
For countless creatives worldwide, winning a One Show Pencil or ADC Cube is a dream come true. But dreams have to start somewhere, and for that, we have the Young Ones Student Awards. This global creative competition challenges students in creative studies to put their best foot forward in hopes of winning one of the first honors of their burgeoning careers.
Four Disciplines, One Competition
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ADC
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One Show
Young Ones One Show is our brief competition, where young creatives show their ability to conceptualize a campaign and answer real briefs from a variety of clients.
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Portfolio
Young Ones Portfolio gives young creatives the opportunity to be judged by their entire body of work.
Students submit six of their best projects in one of our disciplines.
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TDC
Young Ones TDC is our student-specific typography and lettering show under the Type Directors Club Annual Competitions, celebrating creative and novel use of lettering, type design, and typography.
What's New In 2025?
Returning from its multi-year hiatus, the Young Ones Client Pitch Competition is back and better than ever. Entrants into the Young Ones One Show Brief Competition can opt to add an additional (free) entry into the Client Pitch competition. You can learn more here.
For 2025, Individual Students & School Groups/Classes can apply for a Young Ones Next Up entry fee subsidy. These applications are due no later than December 13 and are limited in quantity. Learn more about eligibility by clicking below.
Who Is Eligible?
Young Ones celebrates the cutting-edge creativity of students, which means in order to submit, you must meet the following eligibility criteria:
- Currently enrolled in or recently graduated (March 2024) from an undergraduate or graduate university program, or portfolio program. PhD Candidates are not eligible.
- No more than two years of industry experience – students enrolled in a graduate or portfolio program with more than two years of professional experience are not eligible for this competition.
- Work must be created during your university career – this includes coursework or personal projects.
- Work created for an internship is ineligible.
- Entrants must be 18 years or older.
When Can I Enter?
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Regular Entry
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Want to save 10% on your entries? Student and Faculty members of The One Club for Creativity and TDC save 10% on all entries during the Early Entry and Regular Entry Deadlines.
Plus, regional discounts! Automatic discounts will be applied to entries from specific countries and regions to account for differences in local currency value in comparison to the US Dollar.
2025 Young Ones Brief Sponsors
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