D&AD

Executive Committee: Elections 2010

Voting is open for elections to the D&AD Executive Committee. Each year D&AD Members credited in the Annual are invited to stand for election to the Committee for a 3 year term.

Seats are available for Members working in the following areas:

1. Advertising agency x 2
2. Design company x 2
3. Other creative industries x 2
4. Creative practitioners working in business x 2
5. Creative practitioners working in museums & galleries x 1

The following Members are standing for election:

The election closes at 5.30pm, 31 August 2010. Results will be announced in early September.

Only Members credited in the D&AD Annual can stand for election or vote.

Cast your votes

If you’re not eligible to vote this year, post a comment below to let the Executive Committee know what you’d like to see D&AD doing.

About D&AD Membership

Since 1962, D&AD has represented the world’s creative community, supporting and nurturing its Members at every stage of their careers.

Simply put, D&AD works tirelessly to ensure that you have creative opportunity, that creativity itself is valued, and that the brilliance you achieve in your own work is recognised. That goes for everyone, from students at the early stages of their career to established creative practitioners.

Membership of D&AD will give you a selection of tailored benefits to support you in your professional life from learning new skills and finding inspiration to building your own creative network. We are also looking to provide an increased online profile for D&AD Members to showcase their work via the new D&AD website when it goes live later this year.

There are a myriad of benefits including

Access to exclusive online content on the D&AD website, including member-only previews of D&AD President’s Lectures, postings of articles and opinion pieces

Free high resolution downloads of still and moving images from the D&AD Winners Archive

Invitation to members’ events such as Sharp’ners and D&AD Awards judging week walkaround

Free President’s Lectures tickets

Individual online profile on the new website (Awarded Members only)

Discounts on

5-10% off Apple products

20-30% off design and lifestyle magazines such as Creative Review and Wallpaper

20% off publications by Taschen and Phaidon

15% off studio materials from London Graphic Centre

2 for 1 on tickets for the Barbican, Design Museum and V&A

25% off clothing from howies

10% discount on the D&AD creative professional development programme D&AD Workout.

If you already are a member you can access your exclusive membership benefits here.

If you are an educator at a creative course D&AD University Network membership could benefit you and your students. Get an overview here.

Visit our online shop to become a member today.

Should you have any questions please get in touch with Emma Law emma.law@dandad.co.uk or +44(0)20 7840 1166.

University Network Testimonials

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“We’ve benefited in so many ways – visiting speakers, work placements, building relationships with other courses and inspirational online presentations. If anyone is looking for guidance on delivering professional practice to students this is one hell of a starting place – if not all you need.”

Olwen Moseley, University of Wales Institute, Cardiff

New Blood was a grand success and all my students benefited from the experience and will continue to benefit exponentially!

Judy Coulton, Thames Valley University

“Thank you  for the day at D&AD Judging – it was a fantastic experience for us, we had such an amazing day. We spent the whole train journey home talking about everything & re-writing our courses based on what we saw & heard. It was a real privilege to see and feel part of the whole thing, and by far the best staff development we have had for years.”

Mark Jackson, University of Wales Newport

“Thank you for a really good New Blood this year – it was great. The venue and its “environs” were great, there was … a buzz and a steady flow of punters over the four days. I am also looking forward to using the developing website as a teaching resource.”

Peter Jones, University of Plymouth

“Thank You for this year’s D&AD for students:
I have been a student, professional and now academic growing up with D&AD over more years than I care to think about.
This year felt RIGHT.
The briefs and clients met student expectations.
The campaign to promote the events supported our delivery.
I had the privilege of attending the judging for the professional categories.
The New Blood venue is in the right place for our receiving community (the professionals).
We met many, many professionals, serious about engaging with students.
The team at D&AD were helpful and supportive.
The industry values D&AD, the students value D&AD and the academics I speak to do too.”

Don Parker, University of Wales Newport

University Network Benefits

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University Network Members are associated with the leading global creative standards organisation – us. We want you to join the debate about creative education and help us to build a powerful voice to influence change.

But you also get a lots of very tangible benefits. Here’s a list and links to some examples. In the Summer of 2010 all online benefits will be available through a brand new D&AD web presence that will seriously ramp up their value even more.

Benefits to make your teaching life easier:
- Free high resolution downloads from the D&AD Archive of award winning work
- Access to exclusive learning content such as case studies, an archive of talks, and industry and education commentary
- 3 free tickets to D&AD President’s Lectures
- 3 copies of the D&AD Annual showcasing the best creative communications of the year
- Access to a pool of professionals
- 20% discount on D&AD Workout professional development
- Access to events for you and your students, for example D&AD Judging

Benefits to help you promote your course and your students:
- Discounted entry plus two free entries to the D&AD Student Awards
- An online profile of your course promoted by us to prospective students and industry
- Events putting your students in front of industry
- The exclusive opportunity to exhibit at D&AD New Blood in London, watch the film below to hear about it:

They’re here, they’re there, they’re every ……. where

Hexagons, of course. We’ve been doing a lot of work on all kinds of different bits of D&AD lately and we’re starting to see the brand everywhere.

Send in your own pictures of hexagons and ampersands over the summer and we’ll award a free one-year membership (or a renewal for our current members) and a limited edition D&AD Annual 2010 to the best submission. We’ll announce the winner on 1 Sept, when everyone’s back at their desks.

Email press@dandad.co.uk.

Here’s what we’ve found just looking around Graphite Square.

Lürzer’s Archive Special: 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide 4

Lürzer’s Archive are offering a special rate for Members on the fourth edition of 200 Best Ad Photographers Worldwide. It features exceptional work from the very best advertising photographers across the globe, including 14 D&AD members.

Leading Art and Creative Directors from around the world independently nominate each photographer included, with work submitted being drawn from advertising campaigns published within the last 24 months. An international jury made the final selection regarding who would be included in the 200 Best.

The 480 page special is in the familiar Archive Format (285mm x 250mm) and features hundreds of outstanding images, all printed in colour on high quality art paper; an outstanding resource book costing just £38.00 inc. p&p.

As a special offer for our members, the first 30 orders will include free P&P – saving £5.

The last 3 editions have had really positive feedback and have sold out.  If you want to get hold of a copy of this brand new 4th edition we recommend you order straight away!

To place your order, contact Kate Brown on +44 (0)20 8877 7920 or kb@luerzersarchive.com.

Click on the names below to view our featured member’s websites.

Alex Telfer

David Stewart

David Sykes

Guy Farrow

James Day

Jonathan Knowles

Manu Agah

Martin Sigal

Nadav Kander

Robert Wilson

Sharad Haksar

Simon Stock

Stuart Hamilton

Tif Hunter

University Network Profiles

If you are a University Network Member you can upload the work of the best students on your course to a profile page, promoting your course to industry and potential students.

Before you go any further please download the pdf attached to this blog post, it contains the URL link and all the instructions you need to upload your profile. We advise reading it quickly first as that will prevent you from wasting time trying to work it out.

Once you have uploaded your profile people can view it at www.dandad.org/network/profiles.

UN profile instructions

Great content isn’t hidden

Simon Cliffe, Executive Director of BAPLA on changes in the picture buying world:

There’s a trend growing in the world of commercial picture buying, especially from within the Design Sector.

In today’s world it’s easy to find and use pictures for your work, but what’s not so easy is the art of finding the RIGHT picture – and at the British Association of Picture Libraries and Agencies (BAPLA), we’re finding more and more people asking if there’s content out there beyond the results of an online image search.

Amazing content isn’t hidden, you just need to know where to look. There are hundreds of picture libraries out there with some incredible content – but a lot of these libraries don’t have access to huge marketing budgets which means a big chunk of the newer generation of image buyers probably don’t know they exist. That’s a problem for all concerned.

BAPLA helps buyers access specialist libraries who hold nothing but golf pictures, or volleyball pictures, or railway pictures or architecture or anything you can imagine – all amazing content which could be used commercially in so many ways.

A bit part of my role is to act as a messenger to image buyers. No, not all content is free – that’s true; you might have to pay for great pictures!

I’m finding that, as more people find these great new sources of content, they are adapting their budgets to ensure a percentage is put to one side to ensure they can buy the very best pictures.

The Picture Buyers Fair, on in London later this month, gets a lot of these people out into the open, so image buyers can see there is more to life than simple online searches or the bigger stock libraries. They can actually meet the rights holders and understand how to access this content.

And for those who can’t get to the Fair – the BAPLA website acts as a 24/7 PBF (without the people or the travel!). All our members have profiles and galleries and links to their websites – and our category search helps find the libraries hosting the content buyers need. We have a themes page for inspiration – and we have an image request for those who still find themselves stuck.

Picture Buyers’ Fair, Barbican Exhibition Hall 1, London; May 19th and 20th
Entry is Free. Register: www.pbf.org.uk

Northern Lights

Swedish stereotypes? Blonde hair, blue eyes, ABBA, cold weather, long days, long nights, and for the past fifteen years, digital gurus – largely thanks to Hyper Island.

Hyper Island has now broken through the ice cap, volcanic ash, and our Internet connections to team up with D&AD to challenge the perceptions of what we know about digital.

read more…

Fresh from the Inspiration Channel

Musuta is a Finnish and Japanese multi-disciplinary design agency.  They brought Urban Abstract to life in collaboration with Shun Kawakami and Artless Inc.

Points and lines develop into one, two or three-dimensional elements of an urban landscape.  The 200-second piece can be viewed in 40 five-second parts or as a whole, beautifully changing scenes and depicting anything from raindrops to plants and buildings. A nicely designed website complements the project urban-abstract.com.

If you have any work that you’re really proud of, we want to see it.  Submit at youtube.com/dandad.