Advertising Alum Named YoungGun of the Year

AUSTIN, Texas — Dec. 13, 2007 — A University of Texas at Austin advertising graduate has been named “YoungGun of the Year” by YoungGuns, an international advertising competition for creatives and students under the age of 30.

Art Director Jeff Anderson (BS ’02) and his copywriter partner Isaac Silverglate from TBWA\CHIAT\DAY New York were named the 2007 YoungGuns of the Year for their advertising campaign “What Your Mom Would Feed You — If Your Mom Were A Man” for Combos®.

Anderson and Silverglate also won $20,000 and a place on the 2008 YoungGuns jury.

Department of Advertising graduate and TBWA\CHIAT\DAY New York art director Craig Allen (BA ’03, BS ‘03), along with partner Eric Kallman, took second-place honors for their Skittles campaign.

The ongoing humorous campaigns that Anderson and Allen create for Combos, Skittles, Snickers and other Masterfoods Brands have won every major advertising award on the planet.

According to Advertising Age’s Creativity, a trade magazine, in 2007 the Skittles and Combos work ranked as the top two award-winning campaigns worldwide. Anderson and Allen were both ranked in the top five award-winning art directors of any age.

An academic sequence within The University of Texas at Austin’s Department of Advertising and Public Relations, Texas Creative is one of the leading creative advertising education programs in the country. Rooted in sound strategy and conceptual process, Texas Creative molds students into intrepid experimental thinkers who are primed to create innovative advertising, branding and social messages that are delivered through a variety of integrated traditional and nontraditional media. For more information at the Department of Advertising at The University of Texas at Austin, visit: http://advertising.utexas.edu

For more information about the YoungGuns International Advertising Award, visit: http://www.ygaward.com/

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