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YCN success
Our guys got an A for advertising at this years YCN awards.
The Creative Advertising course here at the University of Lincoln has been successful again at this years Young Creative Network awards. Six students picked up awards in a highly contested competition. The YCN awards opened up to European entries this year as well as British students so our guys did particularly well in the face of such high quality work.
Sarah Wisher & Molly Barnes won for the Sage brief. Ellen McGettigan & Mirella Spina, won in the Syfy UK category and Matthew Holmes & Carys Thomas won with their entry for The England and Wales Cricket Board.
Many congratulations to the winners and we'll see you there at the awards ceremony in September, hoorah.
YCC visit third years
Andy gave some great advice on how to find placements, portfolio content, life after graduation, networking tips and some of the differences between regional and London agencies.
Not only that, he showed us some of the latest work he's completed at a range of agencies as well as showing us some of the recent activities of the wonderful YCC.
Thanks Andy - very entertaining and very much appreciated!
Lincoln students attend YCC's Unite VI
A post from level three student Lucy Everett:-
The event is for young creative advertisers to show off their work in order to catch the eye of creative directors and make contacts with other creatives in the industry, senior and junior alike.
Third years Lucy, Vicky, Mike and Lexi
Work was on show from creatives currently on agency placements and those looking for placements. The night consisted of a small room, lots of people, a little alcohol, lots of portfolios and plenty of chatter and sound advice.
Our day trip visit resulted in catching up with fellow Lincoln Creative Advertising students, which helped us make even more contacts, as well as see how they were getting on.
Past Lincoln graduates Dom, Björn and Christina
Overall the night was a great success! Lots of new faces, new contacts and new friends as well as filling a room with mainly Lincoln students past and present.
Thank you YCC – looking forward to seeing you at Unite VII!
UNITE success for Rob and Sam
Twice a year the Young Creative Council (YCC) run their ‘Unite’ events giving students and aspiring creatives the opportunity to display their work and mingle with top London creatives. This year they asked students to do something a little different; here are third year team Rob Greaves and Sam Daly to tell us all about it and their charismatic success:-
“The application process involved us sending three pieces of work to be judged and over 90 applications were narrowed down to just 20 including Rob and myself and another Lincoln team Sam and Maria. As a new challenge the YCC asked all successful applicants to prepare a 2 minute presentation/performance to be delivered on stage at the start of the night before the book crits began.
“Me and Rob decided to do something different and attention grabbing so that we would without doubt be remembered by everyone there. We settled on the idea of auctioning off the chance for someone to choose a tattoo that me and Rob would both get (risky I know). The auction was a huge success and Rob Butcher, a senior creative at London agency Brave, won the auction with a bid of £70.
“We are yet to find out what he has chosen but were pleased when he offered us a placement as part of the deal. We were awarded ‘Best team’ on the night based on our originality and we were presented with prizes including a Harry Potter poster and candy necklace. Overall the event was hugely useful helping us to meet a lot of new contacts and was a great experience as we prepare to move to London permanently.”
Well done guys, for those of you with eager eyes you'll have noticed just how many current and former Lincoln Creative Advertising students were at the event. It is always so wonderful to see just how well our students integrate themselves with the industry and how their confidence continues to bring them success.
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