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 ...
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It’s the UK’s D&AD Awards tomorrow and Cannes, as ever, is looming. In our ceaseless examination of the springs of creativity it may be instructive to look at some blasts from the past in this (mostly Mad Men era) compilation ...
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Which is the best awards show in the world? “Search me guv,” is the only realistic answer but the UK’s venerable D&AD (Designers and Art Directors as was) is putting in a challenge to the likes of Cannes and The ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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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. ...
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