Examples of Outdoor Advertising

The Young Creative Network have now made the new briefs available for their latest competition and they look as interesting and challenging as ever. The YCN student awards are a great test of a students abilities and really set a benchmark of excellence for advertising and design students.

The Creative Advertising course at the University of Lincoln has been fortunate enough to do very well in this competition and last year was no exception with no fewer than eight students picking up a highly coveted YCN award. Joe Lovett, Jonathan Salm, Ellie Hogarth, Lucy Cowlin, Gaz Hunt-Sutherland, Linda Klassens, Jenni Trotter and Gabi Kirwin were all winners.

Here's what Lucy thought of the evening. 'Situated in the impressive surrounds of the Marriott Hotel in Grosvenor Square, the YCN Student Awards ceremony held on September 10th was a great occasion. Given there were eight students from level 2 and level 3 of Creative Advertising commended, it was a fantastic night for showcasing the work of Lincoln's aspiring advertisers!

With exquisite food, (far superior to the student standard) engrossing entertainment, good company and copious glasses of Prosecco, it was a brilliant way to celebrate. It soon became apparent just how highly acclaimed YCN is within our industry so it felt like a real achievement to be collecting our awards in the presence of such talented individuals!'

So whilst the current students get down to working on the new briefs we thought that it would be a good time to show some pictures of Septembers awards ceremony and remember that all of the hard work is worth it.

The Level 2 Lincoln Creative Advertising students will be working on the YCN competition soon and will no doubt be dreaming of victory. We're very proud of our students success in this competition and have always featured strongly which is very satisfying considering the high standard of the entries.

The Young Creative Network recently held their annual awards ceremony in London to honour the winners of this years YCN Student Competition. Amongst the successful entrants were University of Lincoln Creative Advertising's  Liam Nicholson and Vicki Thompsom. Liam and Vicki collected a gong for the work they submitted for the Triumph Bra's brief. They were second year students when they entered this national competition and it is very satisfying for the staff team to see them compete and win against students more experienced than themselves. I'll let Vicki explain how the night went in her own words.

"On September 4th, Liam and I ventured down to London to Shoreditch Town Hall for the YCN awards 2012. We were both thrilled that our work for the Industry Trust brief was commended, and even found ourselves sitting with their representatives for the ceremony. Going into the entrance area we were greeted with strange cocktails and steel drummers, and on moving into the main hall found plenty more decoration along a tropical theme. The ceremony itself was exciting and entertaining with guest speakers and clever animation shorts about their work, each speakers presenting a few different briefs' awards. After dinner our group was next up. We were presented on stage with our 'A's, our group being congratulated by guest speaker Toby Triumph. Following on from the ceremony we were directed downstairs for something 'special', which was in fact being showered with bits of jelly as it was blown up in the centre of the room... (yes, really).

Overall an amazing evening to celebrate everyone's success, and a reminder that hard work, taking risks and enjoying your work can pay off. Thank you to everyone that congratulated us and thanks to YCN for putting on such a great evening".

The Young Creative Network competition results were announced recently and we're very glad to say that second year students, Liam Nicholson and Vicki Thompson won in their category for The Industry Trust. The brief asked the students to persuade movie lovers to stop watching pirated films and watch the real thing instead.

The judges thought that the pair of them got this very tricky brief just right, so hearty congratulations to Liam and Vicki. They have been invited to the YCN Student Awards Ceremony at Shoreditch Town Hall, London in early September were they can collect their gong and mingle with their fellow winners.

We'll bring you pictures of the awards evening when Liam and Vicki step up on to the stage in September but in the meantime, well done.

And the first one, is University of Lincoln Creative Advertising's very own Sophie Browness.

Sophie graduated from the Creative Advertising programme last year and is currently working at Brothers & Sisters.

Once again, it's great to see how our graduates are being identified as some the best new talent coming out of university and that they are working in the best places in the industry.

Here's yet another update on a past University of Lincoln Creative Advertising graduate.