D&AD kicks off Awards and Festival 2019 – deadline for entries is Wednesday, Feb 20

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The 57th Annual D&AD Awards launch today and are now open for entry, with eleven categories reimagined to highlight the best of the modern creative industries. To mark the opening of the Awards and Festival, Dazed Media CEO and co-founder Jefferson Hack is speaking to Patrick Burgoyne of Creative Review about his career in creativity at an event hosted tonight in London at D&AD HQ.

D&AD’s mission is to recognise creative excellence in design and advertising around the world, in the belief that creativity can contribute to a better future for business and society. At the heart of this belief is the pursuit of a fairer, more diverse and more inclusive industry, adapted to the rapidly evolving needs of our changing world. 

D&AD has announced the jury presidents. Aussie expats Nick Law, chief creative officer and president Publicis Communications, Publicis Groupe is jury president on the Creativity for Good jury and John Mescall, global executive creative director and Global Creative Council president, McCann Worldgroup will chair the Integrated jury.

This year sees eleven categories reimagined specifically to represent the craft disciplines Animation, Casting, Cinematography, Direction, Editing, Illustration, Photography, Production Design, Sound Design & Use of Music, Typography and Visual Effects. The Jury Presidents of the craft categories will then form the Black Pencil Craft Jury to better spotlight standalone crafts to be judged in context at the highest and most prestigious level.

Additional changes to this year’s Awards include the opportunity for budding professionals to submit their work into newly formed ‘Next’ subcategories, a platform for emerging creatives, designers and crafts practitioners to showcase their individual talents.

The Collaborative category will move from fee-based to a “special” award to honour the design, advertising and production companies that maintain long-term successful relationships with their clients.

Shortlists will also be announced following the first round of live judging on 20 and 21 May 2019 in order to acknowledge the good work that nearly made it to a Pencil.

The deadline for entries is 20 February 2019, and entries received by 12 December 2018 will be eligible for a 10% discount on the entry fee.

D&AD Festival, where craft, creativity and culture collide, returns to The Old Truman Brewery, London, as the UK’s largest event for global creative talent. It will be held 21 – 23 May 2019.

To coincide with D&AD’s mission, the chosen theme for this year’s Festival is Shaping the Future. This theme is reflected in the Festival’s identity, designed by Village Green, and constructed around the dynamic interchange between 2-D and 3-D elements inspired by D&AD’s iconic brand and speaking to the foundations of creative expression. The identity will be revealed in three stages using experimental graphic forms and motifs that will evolve over the course of the campaign, with forms and objects ‘reshaping’ in a dynamic and unexpected way to highlight the inter-connection between the disciplines celebrated at the Festival.

Throughout the three-day event, leaders in creativity will share their thoughts and insights on the future, while attendees will enjoy a bigger series of talks, debates, briefs, workshops and parties all culminating in the 57th annual D&AD Awards Ceremony on 23 May 2019.

 

While the Festival has moved to May, the Awards entry deadline remains in February with final close in March.

Says Harriet Devoy, D&AD president: “In line with this year’s Festival theme, we’ve reshaped our Awards and Festival to better represent our industry and the creative talent within it. We have reimagined the role of craft into specialised categories within the Awards, and as champions of emerging talent within our industry, we welcome the addition of the ‘Next’ category to recognise the creative stars of tomorrow. We can’t wait to see the range of high quality entries representing the full creative spectrum this year.”

Says Tim Lindsay, CEO, D&AD: “The belief that creativity is integral to building a better future is key to D&AD Awards and Festival. Each year we focus our efforts on stimulating those who are excelling in their creative fields and looking to shape the future of this industry. We’re glad to unveil this year’s identity created by design agency Village Green, which captures D&AD’s mission to become an organisation for the future. In the meantime, we wish all those applying to the Awards the best of luck.”

For more information on D&AD Awards, the categories and how to enter, visit dandad.org/awards.

For D&AD Festival 2019 programme details and to purchase passes, visit dandad.org/festival.

Jury Presidents for D&AD Awards 2019:

Animation

Heather Wright, Executive Producer / Head of Partner Content, Aardman Animations

Art Direction

Kalpesh Patankar, Executive Creative Director, VMLY&R

Book Design

Johanna Neurath, Design Director, Thames & Hudson

Branded Content & Entertainment

Alice Chou, Chief Creative Officer, Dentsu

Casting

Leanne Flinn, Casting Director, Leanne Flinn Casting

Creativity for Good

Nick Law, Chief Creative Officer & President Publicis Communications, Publicis Groupe

Digital Design

Joanna Peña-Bickley, Head Of Design and Internet of Things, Amazon

Digital Marketing

Adam Kerj, Chief Creative Officer, Accenture

Direct

Per Pedersen, Global Creative Chairman, Grey WW

Direction

Antoine Bardou, Director, Partizan

Editing

Eve Ashwell, Senior Editor & Partner, The Assembly Room

Experiential

Kate Dawkins, Founder & Creative Director, Kate Dawkins Studio

Film Advertising

Tony Davidson, Global Partner & ECD, Wieden + Kennedy

Graphic Design

Sagi Haviv, Partner & Designer, Chermayeff & Geismar & Haviv

Illustration

Hattie Stewart, Illustrator

Integrated

John Mescall, Global Executive Creative Director & Global Creative Council President, McCann Worldgroup

Magazine & Newspaper Design

Graham Rounthwaite, Creative Director, i-D magazine

Media

Jacqui Lim, Chief Executive Officer, Havas Media

Music Videos

Semera Khan, Video Commissioner, Polydor

Packaging Design

Ashwini Deshpande, Co-founder &  Director, Elephant Design

Photography

James Day, Photographer, James Day Photography

PR

Amanda Galmes, CEO, Hill+Knowlton Strategies and Colloquial

Press & Outdoor