D&AD has a strong track record working constructively with the business sector. We work on an ongoing basis with over 50 leading international and UK companies who support our projects and involve themselves as sponsors and partners.

Sponsor Testimonials

"Haymarket has always prided itself on having an unrelenting focus on the quality of its products and people. Our relationship with D&AD is natural fit to that ethos. We're very proud to be involved in this year's New Blood exhibition; only by supporting the highest quality individuals can you produce the highest quality results. New Blood is a great opportunity to engage with tomorrow's readership today."
Gary Briggs, Campaign Subscriptions, Haymarket

"YouTube is thrilled to be supporting the D&AD Awards and the larger creative community. D&AD nurtures innovation, creativity and excellence in design and advertising. These are the same principles that guide YouTube. We want to foster break-through innovation and creativity in video, from users and advertisers, and look forward to nurturing such creative pursuits with D&AD."
Henrique de Castro, Managing Director, European Sales and Media Solutions/YouTube

"D&AD and Channel 4 have a lot of shared values and beliefs. D&AD nurtures talent and supports creativity across a wide range of visual fields. And Channel 4 is focussed on bringing through the next generation of new talent both from its own wide range of talent initiatives and by supporting organisations such as D&AD. We are delighted to be one of its sponsors again in 2008."
Channel 4

"We are very pleased to give the New Blood exhibition our CarbonNeutral® brand award. Education, inspiration and promotion of excellence are core to D&AD’s work – the same principles which reflect the efforts necessary to tackle climate change. Everyone has a role to play and D&AD has demonstrated their commitment by working with us to reduce the carbon footprint of this event to net zero."
Sue Welland, Founder & Creative Director, Carbon Neutral Company


"The opportunity to develop the creative appeal of Mail media is a key element of our business strategy. To do this with authority we need to immerse ourselves in the creative community, who are a key audience for us. D&AD have provided some of those touch points and our strategic partnership with them has helped us to flag mail media as a vital part of today's marketing mix. Our long association with them has helped us to achieve positive change in creative attitudes towards mail media."
Richard Roche, Head of Media Markets, Royal Mail

"We market Kirin Ichiban selectively. It has no pretensions to be a mass market brand. Rather, we are aiming for a niche position in the high end, high spending, fashion conscious, discerning sector of the bottled beer market. Our aim is to seek out a group of core drinkers who appreciate quality, style and sophistication and D&AD fits with this perfectly."
Justin Horsman, Brand Development Executive, Kirin Ichiban

"The Guardian has a long association with D&AD. It has a strong partnership as a result of our shared values - creative leadership, innovation and forward thinking. It is particularly rewarding to work with an organisation that shares our belief in the importance of encouraging and showcasing which offers graduate opportunity."
Alison Hall, Deputy Marketing Director, The Guardian