From left, Amar Salim and Ahmed Shohoud.A pair of talented young creatives based in Dubai and Riyadh are among four from around the world who have been named 2025 Portfolio Night All-Stars Grand Prize winners.
Amar Salim, an art director, graphic designer, and photographer based in Dubai, and Ahmed Shohoud, an art director and graphic designer in Riyadh, were selected as winners at the Portfolio Night events hosted on 30 October 2025 by Impact BBDO.
They both will receive a free trip to The One Club for Creativity‘s Creative Week 2026 in New York, 11-15 May 2026.
What are the Portfolio Night All-Stars?
Established by The One Club in 2003, Portfolio Night has long been recognised as one of the world’s largest advertising portfolio review programmes, taking place in dozens of cities around the world on the same date to help the next generation of creative talent in the industry.
A highlight of the programme is Portfolio Night All-Stars, where industry professionals from each host city select one young creative in their market with the best portfolios.
This year, the All-Stars were assembled into teams and worked virtually on a brief, provided and judged by Google, who served as the exclusive global sponsor of this year’s edition of Portfolio Night.
Other Grand Prize winners are Kaisa Kettunen, art director and graphic designer based in Helsinki (hosted by DDB Nord), and Roberto Schettino, copywriter based in Milan (hosted by SBAM).
The Google team managing the Portfolio Night partnership. Judging the brief were Sheila Larkin, Google Creative Lab’s Talent Lead, Natalie Dennis, Group Creative Lead, Greg Calvert, Visual Designer, and Kevin Koller, Group Creative Director.
“This year’s All-Stars showed incredible craft, hustle, and heart,” said Google’s Dennis. “The speed at which they came together from around the world, fusing their unique creative perspectives to tackle our Gemini brief, resulted in a showcase that was both insightful and a total joy to watch.”
Creative Week 2026 in New York
While at Creative Week 2026, the PN All-Stars Grand Prize winners will attend The One Show 2026, ADC 105th Annual Awards, Young Ones Student Awards, and One Show Indies awards ceremonies, AI Creative Challenge, and industry networking events.
Since starting 22 years ago, Portfolio Night has taken place in 70 cities across 45 countries, with more than 13,000 portfolios reviewed.
This important event, presented by the global non-profit One Club for Creativity, serves as the gateway for young talent to enter the ad industry or find a new job. It enables the best of the present — hundreds of renowned international creative directors at host agencies — to meet and mentor the leaders of the future in industry hubs around the world.
Portfolio Night has also become a crucial tool for agencies in recruiting top young talent, providing a platform for recognition from local industry peers, and giving agencies a place on the global stage as the ad world tunes in to this one-of-a-kind event.
Branding for Portfolio Night 2025 was created by 2022 Young Guns Winner, Ana Miminoshvili represented by Glasshouse Artists in North America.
