The 2023 D&AD Awards are open for entries. Since 1962, D&AD Awards have been regarded as one of the world’s most prestigious awards for design and advertising. Each year D&AD invites the commercial creative industries to enter their work to be judged by more than 330 of the world’s leading creatives. Winning a D&AD Pencil will earn your work exposure to an audience of millions in the creative industries around the world through international press coverage, exhibitions, promotion on the D&AD website, social platforms, and newsletters, and the opportunity to be featured in D&AD content unpacking creative excellence within the D&AD Annual.

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D&AD Awards, the most prestigious benchmark for creative excellence in design and advertising, are soon opening entries for 2022. The Awards exists to identify the world’s best creative work of the year, to elevate it above its context onto the global stage to inspire the international creative community to learn, grow, and set new benchmarks for creative excellence. Winning a D&AD Pencil will earn your work exposure to millions of people in the creative industries around the world through international press coverage, exhibitions, promotion on the D&AD website, social platforms and newsletters, and the opportunity to be featured in articles and films on creative excellence insights and trends in the D&AD Annual.

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D&AD has revealed its global brand partners as it opens the call for entries for the 2016 New Blood Awards with another fantastic line-up of briefs. Amnesty International, Dazed, and Ford are among the 17 brands setting challenges as part of the world’s leading programme for new creative talent. With a hugely successful response to the 2015 awards, brands that are returning for a second year include John Lewis, BBC, Monotype, WWF and Nationwide. Open to any young creative aged 23 or under, in addition to current students and those within two years of graduation, the New Blood Awards offer tomorrow’s creative superstars a chance to tackle real briefs, set by real clients and judged by top industry creatives.

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The D&AD Awards program has recently started accepting creative design and advertising work in its competition categories for 2016. The Competition is divided into three main categories: Professional, Next (Photographer and Director) and New Blood and recognizes the finest creative work from around the world. A D&AD Pencil is recognized the world over as a symbol of the very highest creative achievement. Winning a D&AD New Blood Award puts people under 24 on the path to the brightest of creative futures. Budding film directors and photographers also get the opportunity to be recognized with a D&AD Pencil and have their talent promoted back to the industry – in the Next Awards.

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D&AD is partnering with Getty Images to create a global photography award for professionals and freelancers in the first three years of their careers. Through the Next Photographer Award, new photographers will have the chance to win mentorship from a wide portfolio of acclaimed photographers, agents and advertising agencies, offering a considerable launchpad for a young creative looking for that big break. Launching 15 September, the Next Photographer Award is the second in the D&AD Next series, following the launch of the Next Director Award in partnership with YouTube earlier this year. The Next series aims to bridge the gap between the D&AD Professional Awards and New Blood programme by identifying and showcasing new talent in the initial stages of their careers.

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The D&AD Professional Awards have opened for entries for the 2015 competition and all professionals working in Design, Advertising or Digital are officially invited to participate. These Awards are entered and attended by the best from around the world. Set to reward, promote and enable brilliance in all areas of creative communication, a Yellow, White or Black Pencil remains the pinnacle in many careers. D&AD only awards work of the highest standard, meaning that the quantity of top Awards given fluctuates year on year. The scrutiny and rigour imposed by the internationally acclaimed judges is legendary, and ensures that only the very best work receives the coveted Yellow, White and Black Pencils. All awarded work appears in the D&AD Annual, released annually in September and is available to purchase exclusively through D&AD.

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D&AD has recently announced its 2014 Professional Awards, to once again celebrate and nurture outstanding work in design and advertising. The competition selects the best Design, Advertising or Digital work around the world. Companies and freelancers from all over the world are invited to enter work commercially released for the first time between 1 January and 31 December 2013. D&AD’s Professional Awards are all about brilliant commercial creativity, wherever and however it’s produced. The Yellow Pencil is recognized the world over as a symbol of the very highest creative achievement.

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Over the last 50 years, D&AD has celebrated the outstanding design and advertising that has influenced future generations of creative talent. In its 50th year, the Awards are looking forward to nurture, support and champion the brilliant design and advertising of the future by aiming to make the 50th D&AD Awards and Annual the ultimate benchmark in commercial creativity, setting the standard for new generations of commercial creatives. The D&AD Awards have been running since 1962. While the UK still leads the way in submissions and awarded work, the 2011 D&AD Awards received work from 64 different countries.

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