See what the Portfolio Night All-Stars can do

The One Club for Creativity has announced the new group of Portfolio Night All-Stars, the top young creatives as selected by industry professionals from each of the cities around the world who participated in its Portfolio Night 2021, held virtually in May for the first time.

Portfolio Night is the world’s largest advertising portfolio review program, an evening of advice, networking and recruitment that takes place in numerous cities all across the globe to help the next generation of creative talent enter the industry. Since it began in 2003, Portfolio Night has taken place in 70 cities across 45 countries, with nearly 10,000 portfolios reviewed, helping young people to enter the industry and industry professionals to find new talent with potential.

Portfolio Night All-Stars is the program’s highlight. Industry professionals from each host city select young creatives in their market with the best portfolios. Portfolio Night All-Stars are usually flown to New York, courtesy of The One Club, to spend a week working as a team on a creative brief for a major global brand.

Portfolio Night 2021 All-Stars, as selected by leading professional creatives from their city hosts, are:

Adam Dellavecchia, copywriter, Detroit
Lorenzo Colnaghi, copywriter, Berlin
Savio Hatherly, art director, Lisbon
Milo Krimstein, art director, Chicago
Emma Laberge, graphic designer, Montreal
Raphaelle Lavoie, illustrator, graphic designer, Montreal
Toan Mai, copywriter, Dubai
Catarina Marques, graphic designer, Lisbon
Saymon Medeiros, art director, Dubai
Muhamed Mostafa, art director, Cairo
Amr Nashat, copywriter, Cairo
Fran Pascual, art director, Madrid
Mike Dinesen Petersen, art director, Copenhagen
Bikram Saggoo, art director, Chicago
Deborah Ten, copywriter, Brooklyn
Din Terpuni, art director, New York
Kendall Werra, art director, New York
Henry White, art director, Los Angeles

Portfolio Night 2021’s host agencies and organisations were Alma DDB Miami, Cairo Ad School, Chicago Portfolio School, Clube Criativos de Portugal Lisbon, Goodby Silverstein & Partners San Francisco, GTB Detroit, Tank Montreal, The One Club-Austin chapter, VMLY&R London and ‿ and us Dubai.

The All-Stars competition will also take place virtually. The event is sponsored by FCB, which will provide mentors and judges for work on the creative brief for Wal-Mart.

“As a global non-profit organisation with a focus on professional development, it’s a highlight of our year to see the next generation of creatives show their talents at Portfolio Night,” stated Kevin Swanepoel, chief executive officer, The One Club for Creativity. “The program also provides advertising and design professionals with the opportunity to give back to the industry and their local creative community by mentoring this young talent.”