D&AD Blog

Heading back to Tokyo

The Advertising Museum Tokyo (ADMT) is about to launch its second annual exhibition of the D&AD Awards and Student Awards.  Winning and nominated work from 2008 will be on show from 3 March - 4 April and entry is FREE.

A team from D&AD is heading over there this weekend to hold a series of events to coincide with the launch, including seminars for students and clients.  Activities will be blogged & tweeted - excuse any jetlagged ramblings, and let us know if you'll be there.

Student Awards - YouTube Brief Workshop

YouTube recently hosted a workshop for their Student Awards brief which asks for entrants to create a branded YouTube channel for the Ford ECOnetic range.

Our first posting is of a presentation by Giles Tuck from the creative agency Tango Zebra. Giles looks at some of the best examples of brand channels which have best used the capabilities of YouTube.

Parts 2 and 3 will follow soon. Here are part 2 and part 3.

D&AD Student Awards - Design Council Workshop

As part of this year’s Student Awards, we last week held a workshop based around the Design Council brief which invites students to 'entice consumers to drink sustainable tap water rather than bottled water'.

The video features a presentation from Sophie Thomas of sustainable design agency Thomas Matthews taking a look at some of the issues surrounding our attachment to bottled water.

Everyone starts somewhere - videos

Here are the videos from the Everyone starts somewhere event we put on last month. It mainly involved designers talking about mentoring and introducing the young creatives they champion. What advice do they choose to pass on and how do these relationships help their work?

Youtube Workshop - new date

The previously announced Students Awards Youtube Workshop is now scheduled for Tuesday 10 February, 4-6pm. Fingers crossed it won't be snowed off this time.

President's Lectures Spring 2009

We've a brand new series of President's Lectures to bring you. And very exciting they are too.

First up is Peter Saville, creator of all those seminal Joy Division and New Order covers for Factory Records and later Creative Director of Manchester.

Next is Jan van Toorn, one of the most influential Dutch graphic designers of the past 50 years.

David Hillman has designed a host of award winning magazines and newspapers, including The Sunday Times magazine, Nova and The Guardian.

In Manchester, Luke Williamson, joint Creative Director of WCRS, will be taking us through his work.

Graphic design, book design and publishing, art - Jonathan Ellery is a dab hand at all of them.

And lastly, Sir John Hegarty (BBH), Malcolm Venville and Joel Gethin Lewis (This Happened, YesYesNo) will be dusting off their portfolios to show us some of their early work at an evening Everyone starts somewhere.

You can buy tickets online here.