Kinsale Young Sharks Winners Announced

Memac Ogilvy copywriter Aditya Hariharan has been named winner of this year's Young Sharks competition for creatives under-26.

Beating entries from across 16 countries, who were all asked to create a poster for the Irish advertising awards. Hariharan's winning design [left], chosen by Ogilvy Ireland ECD Mike Mesbur, used a visual pun, with a shark fin turned around to create the base of a speech bubble, with the copy saying 'what does your work say about you?'

"I doodled around with different shapes and stumbled upon the shark fin/speech bubble layout, that I thought was quite interesting. After exhausting all shark-related puns, I decided to keep the headline simple too, so I put everything together, crossed my fingers, and hit submit!” said Hariharan of his winning poster.

The 24-year-old copywriter wins a trip to the Kinsale Shark Awards & Festival, taking place Thurs 21st - Sat 23rd Sept 2017.

Second and third places, meanwhile, went to Chris Kennedy's Carnival Winner [right], another visual pun-based poster that sees a Shark award being carried in a bag of water, fairground goldfish-style. Third place (which you can see on our Pinterest) went to João Vaz and Sebastião Seguro's illustrated SHAAAAAAAAARK.