30UNDER30
Brand
CHANGE THE REF
Entrant Agency
FOUNDERS
Category
Print & Publishing
Award
Bronze
Festival & Year
Cannes Lions (2026)
Presentation Board
CONTEXT
‘UNDER 30 lists are a cultural shorthand for promise,
young people with momentum, visibility, and a futu
worth watching. But in the US, with gun violence as the
#1 cause of death for children, an entire generation of
futures is being stolen,
CHALLENGE
‘ ow do wemake the invisible loss feel as culturally)
undeniable as the success stories America cele-
brates, without statistics or calls to action that
audiences have learned to tune out?
SOLUTION
¢ claimed one of culture's most recognizable formats and
inverted it. A physical magazine with 3,800 copies printed
and placed directly in the hands of the Forbes 30 Under 30
Summit audience that looks and
exactly like the
aspirational publication it mirrors. Each story, built with families,
shows not how they died, but who they were becoming. A printed
object engineered to demand to be held, turned, and read by the people:
least able to look away from what it said,
30 UNDER 30
LIVESCUT SHORT
AN EDITION HONORING THE FUTURES STOLEN BY GUN VIOLENCE
SPECIAL EDITION
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30 VICTIMS OF GUN VIOLENCE
UNDER THE AGE OF 30
RESULTS
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‘Tue Forses Hack
Kahlil Greene, an actual Forbes honoree, hijacked
his own stage time to speak about gun violence.
Security escorted him out.
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‘THE OSCAR STAGE
Jackie Cazares, profiled in the
magazine, was featured in the
documentary short that won the
Academy Award for Best Docu-
mentary Short.
