Media Design School AdSchool graduates score Silver + Bronze at International Young Glory comp

Media Design School finished last year with 100% of its AdSchool teams from 2016 in the creative departments of agencies, and it’s fresh back at work today with the good news that two of those teams scored Silver and Bronze in the International Young Glory competition.

The brief, set by Matt Clark, creative lead, Google Brand Studios, San Francisco, was difficult, because the students had to think hard about how to ‘motivate people to share their medical data to help cure cancer’.

Josep Jover and Jacob Newton (now working at DDB Auckland), won silver for ‘Your Undies Cure Cancer’ and Aiken Hutcheson and Stan Lee (who were recently flown over to begin working at Innocean Worldwide in Sydney) scored Bronze for ‘Nobel for Everyone’.

Says Kate Humphries, programme leader creative advertising, Media Design School: “It tops off a brilliant 2016 for our creative advertising students who also won two Crystal Awards for Innovation at AdStars; two finalist places at Future Lions; and nationally, both NewsWorks student awards and all four finalist places for the-soon-to-be-announced Google Student Axis.

“On the subject of awards, we’d also like to send huge congratulations from MDS to AdSchool graduate Tom Paine at Y&R, who the Directory’s Big Won last week ranked as 2016’s most awarded Creative Director in the world, and McWhopper, the most awarded campaign of 2016. That, Mr. Paine is world domination.

“And just a heads up to all those last-minute-would-be creatives who keep phoning or emailing us up wanting to know the deadline for applications to our creative advertising course: 2017 kicks off in exactly 20 days. Yes, before you ask, that is an earlier start than your traditional university, but if you want results like the ones above my friends now’s the time to start getting up early.”