Jesse Young has been awarded Top Student at Victoria’s 2017 AWARD School graduation ceremony, which took place at Smart Artz Gallery in Melbourne tonight.
Young was tutored by copywriter, James Willis; senior creative, Kieran Moroney; copywriter, Aaron Pepper; and creative director, Jake Barrow from Y&R, plus senior art director, Pete Cvetkovski, and senior copywriter, Adam Ferrie, of Publicis.
His work joins Top NSW Student, Tom Lawrence’s, to be judged by AWARD School’s Super Jury to win the top prize, meeting David Droga in New York.
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The national winner will be announced on Monday 7 August in Sydney.
#2 AWARD student in Victoria is Oliver Brock, who was tutored by senior creative, Adam Barnes, and creative, Ray Ali, of Clemenger BBDO; plus DDB copywriters, Anna Yates and Locki Choi.
#3 is Kate Foley, who was tutored by senior copywriter, Michael Punton; and art director, Lars Wannop, from Isobar; – plus senior creative, Alex Metson and head of art, Blair Kimber, from Leo Burnett.
Victoria’s top 10 students are:
- #1: Jesse Young
- #2: Oliver Brock
- #3: Kate Foley
Plus, in no particular order;
- Katarina Matic
- Ben Grant
- Jack Harrison
- Matthew Bladin
- Harrison Robbins
- Aaron Bethune
- Keir Telfer-Williams
View all the Victorian AWARD School tutors here.
The Victorian AWARD School heads were Elle Bullen (creative director & partner at SDWM), James Orr (creative director & partner at SDWM) and Michael Mulcahy (senior copywriter at JWT)
Bullen commented, “We’ve been blown away by the effort and enthusiasm shown by this year’s students. The briefs continue to get tougher and more challenging every year, but the ideas only get better and better. The level of innovative thinking, particularly in non-traditional media, has been exceptional. Bravo to all.”
AWARD School Victoria judge andJ. Walter Thompson Melbourne creative director, Annie Price, noted, “In previous years, it’s been quite a clear gap between great, good and average. But this year, the gaps had closed significantly and it was tough to pick. We deliberated over those top spots, and there were a lot of fantastic contenders. So well done, class of 2017. Hopefully agencies will be snapping up this wealth of fresh talent at graduation night.”
Find full details about, and dates for, this year’s graduation honours here.
