Ad Age's 2015 Cover Contest Finalists: Which Is Your Favorite?

Ad Age invited young creatives from all over the world for the sixth year to design the cover of our Cannes Issue that is distributed at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. The team that created the winning cover is awarded a trip to the festival, and will be celebrated at Ad Age's cocktail party at the Grand Hotel lawn. (See winner's story here). This year's winners, the first from Europe, are Portuguese. Nuno Gomes is an art director at Ogilvy & Mather in Lisbon and Pedro Eloi is a senior director at AKQA in London. It was a tough choice, and we also want to highlight and salute the 12 finalists we selected after great deliberation. They are from Bangladesh, India, Japan, South Africa, the U.K. and the U.S. They are talented young creatives working at global networks including Publicis Worldwide, J. Walter Thompson, FCB and Ogilvy, digital agencies R/GA and RED Interactive Agency, smaller shops like Allen & Gerritsen, Pitch and WPP's Johannes Leonardo, and the world's biggest agency, Dentsu. One 2015 finalist is a student, at Bangladesh University of Engineering and Technology. The winning design and all 12 finalists' work will be featured on billboards outside the Majestic Hotel during the Cannes Lions festival. Cassandra Johnson "A Beautiful Mess" Publicis Machine, Cape Town, South Africa Verenice Lopez, Devin McGillivary & Dana Kase "Our Connected Nervous System" Johannes Leonardo, New York, N.Y., USA Shane Walsh "Thought Full" Allen & Gerritsen, Philadelphia, PA, USA Farid Bawa "Write to Express" Ogilvy Mumbai, Mumbai, India Joseph Kibria & Matt Watkins "Horizons" J. Walter Thompson London, London, U.K Esteban Izquierdo "Fly" FCB Chicago, Ill., USA Ajinkya Bane & Siddharth Joglekar "Chemical Reaction" Publicis Ambience, Mumbai, India Jesseca Dollano & Chris Cyran "Tools Will Change" R/GA, New York, N.Y., USA Becca Caspe "Humans Need Not Apply" RED Interactive, Santa Monica, Calif., USA Navid Hasnain "Creativity Is Risk Taking" Student at BUET, Dhaka, Bangladesh Miharu Matsunaga "The Hand of Creativity" Dentsu, Tokyo, Japan David Dubois & Jake Matthews "Create With What You've Got" Pitch, Culver City, Calif., USA

Ad Age's 2015 Cover Contest Finalists: Which Is Your Favorite?

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