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The UK’s D&AD awards is an international affair these days and for the first time this year the UK was displaced as best performing country by the US. As such it may be a useful guide to Cannes for those ...

The UK’s premier awards show – and a growing international force – D&AD has made its choices and the highest awards, Black Pencils, have been awarded to ‘We’re the Superhumans’ by 4Creative for Channel 4/Paralympics (Film Advertising) – United Kingdom; ...

It’s the D&AD Awards on Thursday and the charity has released the top performing countries and agencies so far (judging is still going on) although not the nature of the Pencils it’s awarded (the somewhat absurd wooden ones used to ...

What do about D&AD, the British based international design and advertising awards (it used to be called Designers and Art Directors)? Under CEO Tim Lindsay it’s got itself back on the map even as the Cannes International Festival of Creativity ...

Britain’s D&AD has given its first batch of Impact Awards at Advertising Week in New York. The awards are given to companies who benefit society as well as themselves. 87 Impact pencils in shades from wood to black were awarded ...

To Rome for M&M Global’s Festival of Media, which meant I missed the D&AD Awards in London. D&AD’s big winner was Y&R New Zealand for its ‘McWhopper’ campaign, an effort to get McDonald’s to join with its client Burger King ...

As last Thursday’s D&AD awards confirmed, advertising has become obsessed with ideas that have a positive social message. Forget airbrushed models and ripped guys. Girls no longer need to throw like a girl, they have our permission to throw like ...

“Shell will let the world burn to drill in the Arctic,” says Greenpeace in this new polemic. Sounds a touch over the top but nobody really knows the consequences of such activity, on temperatures for example. So agency Don’t Panic ...

To this year’s Designers & Art Directors Awards (D&AD) at Evolution in London’s Battersea Park. On a perfect summer’s evening too, perfect too for the Chelsea Flower Show across the river – which meant that lots of D&AD guests turned ...