By Stephen Foster on June 13, 2013
Channel 4′s “Meet The Superhumans’ Paralympics campaign (left) by 4Creative (C4′s in-house agency) and Metro Trains’ ‘Dumb Ways To Die’ from McCann Melbourne won black pencils, the top prizes at the UK’s D&AD Awards last night. Both of these have been picking up gongs all year and must be among the favourites for the big [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 4creative, awards, bmp, cannes lions, collett dickenson pearce, d&ad, designers and art directors, dumb ways to die, mccann melbourne, meet the superhumans, music row
By Paul Simons on June 13, 2013
A D&AD (Design & Art Direction) member recently posted a blog about the challenges facing older people in the whacky world of advertising, in particular once 50 comes and goes. The comments have been broadly interesting, some just plain grumpy old men (no women) complaining about the state of the industry today. It is worth [...]
Posted in Agencies, Analysis, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 1960s, cadbury, creative revolution, d&ad, internet, Lord Bell, Lord Saatchi, mars, Paul Simons, Sir John Hegarty
By Stephen Foster on May 13, 2013
UK-based D&AD (Designers & Art Directors as was) has paid Wieden+Kennedy London a pretty big compliment by appointing the agency to develop ‘promotional projects’ over the remainder 0f 2013. These days D&AD, a charity, describes itself as an ‘education-led’ organisation as well as an awards body and W+K has been charged with boosting awareness and [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged agency appointment, awards, cannes lions, d&ad, desgners & art directors, education, Tim Lindsay, Tony Davidson, wieden+kennedy london
By Staff on April 25, 2013
More awards stuff: The UK’s D&AD Awards is now open to the world and New Zealand seems to have made a strong early showing with, among others, this campaign from DraftFCB (of all people) for NZ animal charity the SPCA. The campaign is intended to find homes for thousands of mutts and sets about this [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged d&ad, draftfcb, driving dogs campaign, new zealand, spca
By Stephen Foster on September 20, 2012
The UK’s D&AD, once the world’s premier ad awards but now much diminished, has just celebrated its 50th birthday and dished out various gongs. I can’t give you the details as D&AD doesn’t see fit to send them to us – so they can fuck off. But I can’t help noticing that Tony Kaye (pictured), [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 50th anniversary, d&ad, dunlop, Frank Budgen, Paul Weiland, ridley scott, Tony Kaye
By Stephen Foster on April 27, 2012
UK-based awards fest D&AD is 50 this year and has produced the following film showing some past winners, all crammed into less than two minutes. They’re not all ads. D&AD is evidently a pretty dozy organisation as it didn’t send us its first list of winners announced earlier this week but here are two, the [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged 50 years, awards, betc paris, canal+, d&ad, Euro RSCG, vo5
By Staff on January 24, 2012
Kevin Roddy, chairman and CCO of Publicis & Hal Riney in San Francisco, is to chair the advertising jury at the 37th annual One Show to be held at the Lincoln Centre during New York’s Creative Week from May 7-13. In all the organisers The One Club have named 56 judges from around the world [...]
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By Staff on September 8, 2011
Ambitious digital marketing firm SapientNitro, owned by the Boston-based and Nasdaq-listed business services company Sapient, is buying former London rival DAD for £26m plus earnouts. Sapient also operates business in financial services and general management. It moved into direct marketing with the acquisition of London agency Nitro in 2009. DAD began as a conventional direct [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Finance | Tagged Alan Herrick, boston, d&ad, digital channels, direct marketing, London, Nigel Vaz, Ray Fine, sales generation, sapient, sapientnitro, sky, Vodafone, £26m acquisition
By Angie Dean on June 17, 2011
You can’t win the Cannes Lions Film Grand Prix two years’ running with the same campaign can you? If you can Wieden+Kennedy Portland’s Old Spice campaign (‘the man your man could smell like’) will give it a good shot as it won nine awards at London’s Designers & Art Directors Awards last night, including two [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative, News | Tagged apple ipad, awards, black pencils, burma human rights watch, cannes lions, d&ad, designers & art directors, jwt new york, old spice, the man your man could smell like, wieden+kennedy
By Staff on March 2, 2011
And somewhat low profile they are too (they didn’t even bother to send us the winners). But the dear old Creative Circle has been hanging in there for what seems like half a century and it’s still a decent guide to the bigger events to come at D&AD and Cannes. Anyway the winners are in [...]
Posted in Agencies, Clients, Creative | Tagged cannes, creative circle awards, d&ad
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