With the support of DesignSingapore Council, D&AD will be delivering a series of inspirational talks at the Singapore Design Festival including:
How to get into the Industry
Imagine rising above your peers and finally being noticed. In these sessions, D&AD shows you how.
D&AD's Education and Professional Development Director, Laura Woodroffe and British Creative Director of Design Bridge Singapore, Jason Glassick, will be inspiring you and giving you the inside track on how to get your work noticed in this competitive industry. You will see examples of international award-winning work from the D&AD Student Awards and hear insights into the industry trends.
Date: 29 November 2007
Time: 10am-11.30am and 12.30-2pm
Venue: LASALLE College of the Arts
1 McNally Street
S(187940)
Lecture Theatre F202
Admission: Free
Open to all students on creative courses.
Spaces are limited so please register by emailing your name, college, course and which session you would like to attend to events@dandad.co.uk
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In association with DesignSingapore Council
DMI Conference: D&AD and The Digital Landscape
Simon Waterfall, President D&AD; Creative Director, POKE
Date: 28 November
Time: 1.30-2.30pm
Venue: The Grand Hyatt
This is a closed event
Simon Waterfall will share his insights into the ever-changing digital world and its impact on creativity. The most inspirational and D&AD award winning digital campaigns will be featured, along with Waterfallâs vision of the future of creativity within the digital space. D&AD is an awards body and educational charity whose mission is to inspire and nurture creative standards worldwide, as D&AD's president, Waterfall's agenda is to bring D&AD to a wider audience via the digital platform. At international digital agency Poke, Waterfall challenges everything that they learn, practice, and preach in order to define and make the web better.
Partner of the Singapore Design Festival
In association with DesignSingapore Council
D&AD: The best advertising and design in the world
Urbis, Manchester
October 22 2007 February 2008
Today sees the launch of our exhibition at Urbis, Manchester, showcasing the best of the nominated work from The D&AD Awards 2007.
The exhibition will not only have a strong visual impact, but will also highlight the important role design and advertising can play in raising awareness of societal issues such as health, childrens welfare and war.
Visit Urbis website
Visit D&AD North
View the 2007 Awards winners
Published every year for 45 years and designed by a different creative team each time, the Annual has an important place in studios, agencies, colleges and universities alike. This year it has been designed by Fabrica, the Benetton research centre on communication, based in Treviso, Italy.
Fabrica began thinking about the Annual by highlighting a part of the D&AD ethos that is very close to their hearts; the belief that a great idea that is well executed has the ability to transcend cultural and geographical boundaries. With this at its core the Flag Project was born. The D&AD flag was sent to an international selection of 500 leading creatives who were asked to use it in the freest and most original way they could: You can burn it, stab it, wrap it, fold it, tear it, drape it over a coffin, use it as a cape, as a banner, as a kite, as a water filter, as a declaration for peace, as a pirate flag, to aid your rescue from a desert island, as a patch in a quilt, as a trophy, as a tool to strangle your mistress, as a towel to protect your decency...
The result is a collection of images about creativity and about personal and cultural differences rather than sameness. Selections feature in the 2007 Annual and are being exhibited in both London and Manchester (see below for details).
View the gallery
Thank you to all who participated and we hope you enjoy them.
The Flag Project exhibition:
4-8 September 2007
Getty Images Gallery
46 Eastcastle Street
London
W1W 8DX
4 September 25 October
Urbis
Cathedral Gardens
Manchester
M4 3BG
When the creative team at Ogilvy & Mather Toronto first came up with the idea of creating a series of viral films for Dove, no one could have estimated just how big an impact they would have
Come to the D&AD Creativity Works Breakfast on 21 September to hear the story of Evolution from Janet Kestin, Creative Director at Ogilvy & Mather Toronto and Sharon MacLeod, Brand Building Director at Unilever Canada.
Held in association with the London Design Festival, this breakfast explores how the marketing and creative minds behind a D&AD Yellow Pencil winning project worked together. This is your chance to interrogate the team behind one of the best pieces of creative work in the world. Spaces are limited.
D&AD builds understanding of the important contribution of creativity, ideas and innovation to business performance through Creativity Works.
D&AD is grateful to the RCA for the kind donation of the space to hold this event.
D&AD Creativity Works Breakfast
21 September
8.30am -10am
Venue: Upper Gulbenkian Gallery, Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore, London SW7 2EU
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D&AD will be hosting two events during New York's Advertising Week.
D&AD: How to get into the industry
Leading creatives will pair up with D&AD to inspire and give the inside track on how to get your work noticed in this competitive industry. Attendees will see examples of international award-winning work from the D&AD Student Awards and hear insights into industry trends with an emphasis on integrated and digital.
Wednesday 26 September
10.00am 12.00pm
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street
NY 10013
Register for this event
D&AD and the Digital Landscape
D&AD President and Creative Director of leading international digital agency, POKE, Simon Waterfall will share his insights into the ever-changing digital world and its impact on creativity.
The most inspirational and award-winning digital campaigns will feature, along with Simon's vision of the future of creativity within the digital space.
Thursday 27 September
10.00am 12.00pm
Tribeca Cinemas
54 Varick Street
NY 10013
Register for this event
We're proud to announce a new season of President's Lectures. Kicking off with Tony Davidson (Wieden + Kennedy and outgoing D&AD President), the season also features designer Irma Boom, illustrator Paul Davis, Ivan Chermayeff (Chermayeff & Geismar) and Paul Lavoie of TAXI.
Tickets can now be purchased online (as well as by phone or booking form), so what are you waiting for?
See the President's Lecture programme
Buy online now
Congratulations to Scott Evans, this year's Student of the Year, and everyone who took home a commendation, second or first prize from the D&AD Global Student Awards ceremony!
Download the winners (pdf)
View the winning moving image work
After a hugely exciting Congress Week 2, we're gearing up for Week 3 which culminates in the D&AD Student Awards Ceremony and Dinner on June 28th.
This year we received over 3600 entries from 41 countries, of which there are over 200 entries in book and over 120 nominations for an award.
Download the nominated and in book entries (pdf).
In her own inimitable style, Gwen Yip is documenting Congress 2. Catch up with her adventures on the D&AD Blog.
As part of D&AD and Adobe's joint commitment to facilitate creativity within the industry. D&AD will be hosting an annual review of the creative year at Adobe Live.
Top D&AD judges will present examples of winning work and discuss the trends revealed by this years D&AD Awards. The free session will run from 3 - 4pm on Tuesday 5 June.
The wait is over. After a week of gruelling, meticulous judging, the 25,000 pieces of work originally entered have been whittled down to 715 entries for the 2007 D&AD Annual, with 151 Nominations for Yellow Pencils.
The nominated work will be showcased at www.dandad.org/awards2007/ from April 30.
The winners will be announced at the D&AD Global Awards 2007 Ceremony and Dinner. Be the first to find out who won what by booking your place there now!
Download the Nominations and In-Book entries (pdf)
Rachel Wood explains how the partnership between D&AD and Royal Mail works for both sides.
Read more
Congress Week 1 is well under way, with judging over half completed and the Branding and Environmental Issues Forum just hours away.
We've invited art director, illustrator and blogger Gwen Yip to keep a visual diary of the week. You can see her impressions of Congress on the D&AD blog.
We are pleased to offer the first installment of Creativity Works 6
D&AD's Creativity Works Programme examines the business-creative relationships behind some of the most successful projects around.
This year, we analyse the renaissance of the Guardian newspaper and the inauguration of the Churchill Museum. These two very different briefs both scooped D&AD Pencils in their fields.
Spring's D&AD President's Lectures are now booking - and tickets are selling fast!
The season kicks off in Manchester with ex-D&AD President and design standard bearer Dick Powell. Prodigal son Vince Frost returns from Sydney in March, followed by the Branding and Environmental Issues Forum featuring a hard-hitting line-up of panelists. Dutch design icon Wim Crouwel visits in May, when we also stage retrospectives from Pentagram and Wieden + Kennedy. The season draws to a close with New York's doyen of new media and online video, Hillman Curtis.
Find out more
We were saddened to learn recently of the passing of Barry Trengove, one of D&AD's founding members. His partner has been unable to notify many of Barry's friends and colleagues as the address book on his computer was inadvertently erased.
Click here to read a tribute by Keith Milligan, who worked with Barry for several years.
An updated schedule for 2007 Workout sessions has just been released. D&AD Workout is a programme to assist creative practitioners in their continuous professional development. Find out more
Sir John & Lady Frances Sorrell were presented with the Presidents Award for their outstanding contribution to creativity at the D&AD Awards Ceremony last week.
D&AD President Simon Waterfall had this to say about the couple: The Sorrells have taught my peer group & I so much and across so many disciplines from the formation of branding agency, Newell & Sorrell, to their founding of two major sources of inspiration in design today The London Design Festival and The Sorrell Foundation. The foundation in particular has benefited so many. Its joinedupdesignforschools programme has given the children, teachers and designers who take part the ability to understand each other and to collaborate at all levels of education. It has motivated and created work that will inspire a generation of designers & clients to come.
He continued, Through many ups and the downs the Sorrells have consistently shown resilience, tenacity and faith in the value and power of good design for all. I truly thank you both and can only offer you the worlds heaviest pencil as compensation for the incredible energy you have tirelessly given. If you ever want to blunt a diamond, rub it on a Sorrell.
Adobe is inviting D&AD members to an exclusive series of lunchtime lectures in their central London office near Regents Park. The aim of these is to educate and inspire creatives in the advertising, publishing and broadcast industries with insights and ideas about new ways to deliver engaging experiences in any medium.
To register and to learn more go to www.adobe.co.uk/lunchandlearn
Tonight sees the first in our Spring 2007 series of President's Lectures. Dick Powell, partner of Seymour Powell and one of Europe's best known designers will be reviewing his career and revealing his inspirations at the Print Works, Manchester.
Tickets will be available on the door.
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In the last of the Autumn 2006 season of President's Lectures, we are proud to present writer, poet, performer and broadcaster Ian McMillan and seasoned image maker Andy Martin, who together have produced a book, Ideas Have Legs. In this book, beautifully designed and published by FUEL, McMillan's poetry and prose is visually interpreted by Martin. More...
Wednesday 6 December
7.459.15pm
Logan Hall
NOTE: This lecture will now begin at 7.45, later than previously advertised.
Tonight's President's Lecture features Lance Wyman. The New York based environmental graphic designer is a specialist in branding and way finding systems for public spaces. His graphic system, undertaken when he was just 29 years old, for the Mexico 1968 Olympic games is cited as one of the most successful in the evolution of visual identification. More...
Tickets will be available on the door.
Logan Hall, London
7-8.30pm
Join D&AD and a superb guest panel for an evening of lively discussion. Take a retrospective look at brave creative examples in direct mail, TV, digital and outdoor, and join the debate on what sets these pieces of work apart from the norm and what has made these campaigns so successful.
Venue: Urbis
Please register to reserve your place.
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Pecha Kucha, the sensational Japanese meeting of minds and slides comes to The Print Works, Manchester this evening courtesy of D&AD. A few tickets will be available on the door - so come on down if you're in the area.
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As part of their sponsorship of D&AD talentpool, Boxfresh have set a creative competition to identify and celebrate the latest emerging creative talent. Boxfresh are giving new creatives the opportunity to create their new advertising campaign for Autumn/Winter 2007.
To find out more and to enter the competition visit talentpool .
The quest for a coveted D&AD Student Yellow Pencil gets underway again this week with the launch of
the D&AD Global Student Awards 2007. New categories this year include 'Music Videos' and the truly open 'What Else Do you Do?'
For more information visit D&AD Global Student Awards 2007
D&AD have launched a blog to document the Global Tour which various D&AD representatives are undertaking. The Tour aims to give the global creative community a better insight into our activities.
You can view the blog at: http://dandad.typepad.com/dandad/
Call for Entries was officially launched on Monday 9 October. Based on a new bespoke entry system built for us by ChilliBean, we hope that this year's Awards will be easier to enter than ever.
There is a an early-bird discount of 10% on all submissions entered before 6 November, so get in quick!
Visit the Call for Entries microsite for more information and instructions on how to apply.
Members of the Creative Administrators Network together with past entrants gathered at Wieden & Kennedy to get a glimpse of the new entry system for 2007 and hear about the Call For Entries campaign.
We held a special evening for Training Managers and HR Professionals in our Business Relations Group to launch the new Workout Brochure at 6 Fitzroy Square.
We presented on the nine new sessions this year which we have introduced this year, along with explaining about our sessions designed exclusively for members of the Education Council.
Find out more about Workout
Find out more about the Education Council
It's your last chance to get discounted tickets for next year's Ceremony & Dinner.
Yes, you did hear that right - 500 people have booked already for the 2007 Global Awards Ceremony & Dinner.
Until 31st October you can save 10% on your booking and choose where to sit.
Front, middle or back - you decide. Call Claire on 0207 840 1127 for more details
The D&AD Annual, designed by Design Project, was officially launched at a party on September 27, kindly hosted by Channel 4.
Why not become a member and claim your copy?
The autumn season of D&AD President's Lectures kicks off on 3 October with Joel Meyerowitz, whose haunting images of the World Trade Centre in the aftermath of 9/11 remain the definitive record of the demolition and excavation of the site.