The fifth year of Shift, D&AD’s free four-month industry-led night school to break down barriers to entry for emerging creatives outside of formal education, has concluded. D&AD New Blood Shift New York has held its …
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D&AD New Blood Quickfire, short-form versions of traditional New Blood briefs, is well underway. These briefs are set over 6-week periods with accompanying short courses, to offer more flexible opportunities for emerging talent to impress …
D&AD 2021: Judges and new categories finalised (18 judges from Aus)
January 29, 2021
D&AD has announced the judges for its 2021 Awards, who will choose the exceptional work created within the past year. Fourteen judges come from Australia and four from New Zealand, including Allison Brownmoore, creative director …
This year’s creative campaign for the D&AD New Blood Awards, ceremony, festival and academy comes from creative consultancy, Studio NARI. The campaign, Your Butterfly Effect, celebrates the importance of creative growth and highlights the idea …
D&AD: Laura Havlin becomes D&AD head of content
January 6, 2021
D&AD has appointed Laura Havlin, editor-in-chief of D&AD’s first digital annual, as the organisation’s new head of content. Havlin steps up from her previous role as freelance content strategy consultant and will now join the …
The D&AD digital Annual: Wow!!
November 16, 2020
Do NOT imagine that the D&AD digital Annual is in any way a pale version of the book that has been published for the last 57 years. Do NOT imagine that it’s second best. It’s …
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D&AD has re-launched its New Blood Shift program in New York, a free opportunity for aspiring creatives without college qualifications to get a foothold in the creative industries. As the next generation of creative talent …
D&AD New Blood Awards launches its 2021 briefs
October 14, 2020
Celebrate 100 years of the imagination of Disney; diversify the secondary school curriculum with Penguin; change the way that skin cancer is diagnosed in people of colour with 21Grams; reposition menopause as an issue affecting …
Naresh Ramchandani, Pentagram partner and one-time founder of both St Luke's and Karmarama, will succeed Kate Stanners, Saatchi and Saatchi Worldwide chief creative officer, as D&AD president for 20/21. The D&AD President is elected annually from …
D&AD Annual 2020: Digital and free to explore
October 2, 2020
There has always been something very special about the D&AD Annual - its promise that creative excellence endures, its challenge to outdo the world’s best ideas…even the grandeur of its weight. This year, there will be …
Host/Havas: The making of Australia’s D&AD Black Pencil of the Decade
September 24, 2020
This year, the creative industries were invited to vote in a special edition of the D&AD Awards, the D&AD Black Pencil of the Decade. Four winners were chosen. Host/Havas' Palau Pledge "stood on the podium" …
D&AD: 14 Future Impact Pencil winners
September 23, 2020
D&AD has announced its 14 Pencil winners for this year's Future Impact category, which supports and accelerates ideas with the potential to create positive change. The category recognises newly released or prototypical designs and initiatives …