President's Award
Spike Jonze
The President selects the recipient each year in recognition of an outstanding contribution to creativity. Past recipients include Sir Alan Parker, Jonathan Ive, and Sir John Hegarty.
Jonze has been awarded 6 D&AD Yellow Pencils since 1995 for his TV commercials and music videos.
‘The term maverick is often overused. But I don’t think anyone would deny that Spike Jonze is a true creative maverick. And I am delighted to give him the D&AD President’s Award.’
‘The breadth of his work is staggering, covering everything from music videos and advertising, to TV and feature films. Yet he seems to have an inexhaustible supply of original ideas, no matter what medium he works in. Although each project is distinctive in its own right, they are all marked by one thing. To watch Jonze’s work is to enter a world just like, and yet completely unlike, our own.’
- Paul Brazier, D&AD President
Spike Jonze at D&AD
- 1995: Yellow Pencil, Pop Promo Videos / Direction: ‘Buddy Holly’ Weezer, The David Geffen Company
- 1997: Yellow Pencil, TV & Cinema Advertising: ‘Doctors’, Levi Strauss & Co, Foote Cone & Belding San Francisco
- 1998: Yellow Pencil, Pop Promo Video Crafts / Direction: – ‘Da Funk’, Daft Punk, Satellite
- 1998: Yellow Pencil, Pop Promo Video Crafts / Direction: ‘Elektrobank’, The Chemical Brothers, Satellite
- 2004: In-Book, Editorial & Book Design / Magazine Covers: ‘BIG – V.I.P. Special Los Angeles Issue’, Big Magazine, Marc Atlan Design
- 2005: Yellow Pencil, Music Videos / Direction: ‘Y Control’, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Morton Jankel Zander
