If you’re looking for inspiration, commentary or guidance into the design industry, take a look at the resources on the D&AD website.
D&AD Awards
The annual D&AD Awards are recognised worldwide as the standard for creative excellence. Awarded across 25 disciplines, such as Graphic Design, Digital Design and Writing for Advertising,
- Yellow Pencils are awarded for exceptional creative excellence in their discipline
- Black Pencils are extremely rare, and award those pieces of truly ground-breaking work (sometimes none are awarded)
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The White Pencil award is for a creative idea that changes the world for the better. It is a challenge to the world’s creative community - find out more about how to enter the competition.
Check out the latest winners of the D&AD Awards.
Explore the design archive
These Awards have been collected into an online archive. Over a decade of outstanding work in design and advertising is available as a source of creative inspiration.
If you’re looking for some direction through this vast resource, try the Archive Dive, a regular guide from some of the UK’s best copywriters.
Inspirational design case studies
Creativity Works features inspiration case studies of award-winning campaigns and designs from the last decade:
- The Guardian newspaper’s ‘Berliner’ redesign
- IKEA ‘s online interactive site for closets
- The world’s most valuable brand: Coca-Cola
Join the design community
D&AD Events exist to inspire, stimulate discussion and fuel debate. Check out the calendar of D&AD Events.
- President’s Lectures represent the best in their creative fields
- Sharp’ners offer the opportunity to exchange ideas in an informal setting
- Join the online debate on the pressing issues facing the design world.
President's Lectures and Sharp'ners are also available to watch for D&AD members. Sign up for a free 6-week membership trial to sample this content.
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