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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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 …
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 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 …
The D&AD Awards are done and dusted for 2020, a year in which a virus was the most potent influence in advertising - what advertising was made of and how it was made. Jonathan Kneebone …
The 58th D&AD Awards Ceremony has taken place virtually. 4 Black Pencils were awarded to work considered by the judges to be truly ground-breaking. Black Pencil winners: INGO Stockholm/David Miami/Publicis Bucharest in PR for Moldy Whopper …
It has been a long wait for those who entered the D&AD categories that could not be judged fairly online. D&AD decided to postpone judging until it could be done in-person adhering to social distancing …
The D&AD Black Pencil is not just another ad industry award. It stands on a higher tier. A Black Pencil is reserved for work that is truly ground-breaking in its field. Only a handful are …