In 1962, a group of designers and art directors including David Bailey, Terence Donovan, and Alan Fletcher formed British Design & Art Direction to celebrate creative communication and raise industry standards. The following year, they organized their first awards event and awarded only 16 entries out of 2,500 with the prestigious D&AD Yellow Pencil. Today, the organization is known simply as D&AD and has expanded globally to represent the creative, design, and advertising communities worldwide.
Website: https://www.dandad.org/
General Eligibility/Rules:
To qualify for the D&AD Awards, the submitted work must meet the following criteria:
The work must have been created in response to a genuine client brief or approved by a client.
The work must have been made available to the public through legal channels and paid for by the client.
The work must have been commercially released between January 1, 2022, and April 18, 2023, with alternative eligibility windows for certain categories.
The categories with alternative eligibility windows include Digital Design/Incremental, Digital Design/Beta, Product Design/Prototypes, Integrated/Established Campaigns, PR/Established Campaigns, Creative Transformation, Side Hustle, Impact, Future Impact, and Collaborative.
Categories:
Animation
Art Direction
Book Design
Branding
Casting
Cinematography
Creative Transformation
Digital Design
Digital, Direct
Direction
E-Commerce
Editing
Entertainment
Experiential
Film
Future Impact
Gaming
Graphic Design
Illustration
Impact
Integrated
Magazine & Newspaper Design
Media; Music Videos
Packaging Design
Photography
PR
Press & Outdoor Design
Product Design
Production Design
Radio & Audio
Side Hustle
Sound Design & Usage of Music
Spatial Design
Type Design
Typography
Visual Effects
Writing for Advertising
Writing for Design
Tentative Schedule:
Entries Open: March/April
Announcement of Awards: May
*Please note that the list provided is not comprehensive and may not include all relevant details about the event. For complete and up-to-date information, we encourage you to visit the official website*