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D&AD Festival 2019
D&AD Festival is a three-day creative spectacular celebrating the world's best in creativity, hosted at The Old Truman Brewery, London on 21, 22 and 23 May next year.
The festival runs alongside our world renowned awards programme, there will be three-days of keynotes, fireside chats, workshops and masterclasses from the world of advertising, art, design, fashion, film, and much more.
D&AD x Guardian Media Group
D&AD announces a revision to the timings of its partnership with Guardian Media Group, announced at this year's D&AD Festival. In order to put clear water between GMG's long-standing involvement with Cannes Lions and its new partnership with D&AD, GMG and D&AD’s new collaboration will start in June 2019. An inaugural event is planned for September 2019, while the new festival of creativity will take place in April 2020. The 2019 D&AD Festival will go ahead as usual. We look forward to creating a great event next year, and thereafter in partnership with GMG.
Let's talk. If you would like to be involved in next year's event please contact our Festival Director Bindi or Festival Head of Content Luke:
Bindi Houghton
D&AD Festival Director
bindi.houghton@dandad.org
Luke Wilcox
D&AD Festival Head of Content
luke.wilcox@dandad.org
Top Talks
2018 Speakers
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Blade Runner 2049: Building a New World:
David Sheldon-Hicks
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Impossible Foods - Sasha Markova:
Creating a new Paradigm
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Leila Fataar:
A Cultural State of Mind
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Trevor Eld:
Cultural Bankruptcy in the Attention Economy
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Joy Howard:
Mad Men, Mad Scientists
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Adam Smith:
Eliza Williams from Creative Review will interview Film Director Adam Smith
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Designing for Wes Anderson's Isle of Dogs:
With Rachael Steven & Erica Dorn
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Past, Meet Future:
D&AD Awards Winners 2018
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Party at Village Underground:
The closing party is a chance to celebrate with this years D&AD Award Winners fresh off the stage
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Guardian Masterclass:
How to Create a Successful Podcast
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The Copy Book Session:
This Festival sees the launch of a new edition of The Copy Book
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#MakeItHard:
1stAvenueMachine with Cut + Run and Massive Music
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Pixels of Fury:
Design Competition and Party
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D&AD Festival Shop:
In collaboration with Material
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The Talent Business:
How to not, not get a job as a creative
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Bo Hellberg:
Prototyping Your Creative Ideas
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Daniel Fox-Evans:
Being you in the industry
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Tom Evans:
The 1 hour Creative MBA
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Eat, Drink, Connect:
Explore the food and drink at this years Festival
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Creative Mentor Network:
Don’t just talk about diversity and inclusion. Do something.
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Happy Finish:
95 Story High VR Slide
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The Talent Business:
“Under Pressure” - Developing resilience for aspiring creative leaders
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Creating Tools for Creatives:
Machine Learning Workshop
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Arif Haq:
What makes a good idea? And four and a half other irritating questions
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Creative Debuts:
Introducing the ‘Buy Art From Living Artists’ Concept Wall
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Kite Eyewear:
Kite Night: See Differently - Fringe
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RARE:
Let's take a second to not talk about diversity
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Portfolio Surgeries with Wix:
Get your portfolio reviewed by industry’s leading creative professionals
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Pitch & Sync:
10 Octave Piano Installation + Vinyl Pop UP
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Patrick Collister:
Oh shi*! I’m in charge!
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Leila Fataar:
A Cultural State of Mind
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LABS:
Co-working Lounge
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D&AD Clubhouse:
Take a break from the festival action
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Pitch Futures @ D&AD Festival:
School children explore creative careers
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magCulture:
Offering a unique insight into the independent magazine scene
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Shaping Language:
Bruno Maag - Dalton Maag
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Guardian Masterclass:
The Essentials of Infographic Storytelling
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Eliza Williams:
Eliza Williams from Creative Review will interview Film Director Adam Smith
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Straight 8:
Film Workshops - Fringe Event
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These Are Not The Droids You Are Looking For:
How To Be More Persuasive
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Nick Eagleton & Katherina Tudball:
Old and New Collide: Reinventing Shakespeare's Globe
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Sky Creative:
COME AND KNOCK US OUT
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Acrylicize:
The Constant Need for Approval
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L.A. Ronayne:
Digital Storytelling: Core Habit Crash Course
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The Nzinga Story Lab:
The future is here, but did you miss it?
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Ollie Olanipekun:
The Great Power Shift
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Creative Collaborations:
Behind every groundbreaking creative idea is a brave client
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Meet the Makers:
D&AD Festival + Agency tours
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Michael Albers:
The Digital Renaissance: A Design-led Approach
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Craig Oldham:
Oh Sh*t… What Now?: Honest Advice for New Graphic Designers
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Nadya Powell & John Owen:
D&AD Leadership Accelerator
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Creative Use of Technology:
Understand what fresh opportunities tech has coming up
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Design Insights:
Ever wondered what a design super group would look like?
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Will Awdry:
Copywriting: Sorry is the hardest word
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Andrew Missingham:
Life beyond art-working another f**king toothpaste ad
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The VOWSS:
SheSays and The Voice of a Woman present a film festival featuring work made by women over the last year
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The Mill:
Mimetics - gesturally responsive robotic installation
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Nucco Brain:
Discussing Content Production - Fringe Event
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Nick Eagleton:
Ideas, Ideas, Ideas
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Shake:
The Easy, Friendly, Drinky Networking - Fringe Event
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Type Tasting:
Pop-up Typography Lab
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ChromaYoga:
Ganzsound Meditation - Fringe Event
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Global Trends Insights:
Highlighting inspirational worldwide communications
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Jelly x Boxpark:
#TurnUp - Fringe Event
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Aesop:
Breakfast & Skin Consultation - Fringe Event
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Joel Flory:
The Creative Industry's Missing Link
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Mother:
Not For Sale - Fringe Event
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Zone:
CX SELLS - Fringe Event
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The Acrylicize Party:
An evening of drinks and short talks by the Acrylicize team - Fringe Event
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Psycle Shoreditch:
Spin Class - Fringe Event
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Creativity & PR:
How do you keep coming up with innovative, PR-first creative ideas?
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The art and soul of Karma Cola:
How to make money without loosing your soul - Fringe Event
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Pitch & Sync. x BLOK London:
An immersive hour of music and fitness - Fringe Event
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Wieden+Kennedy:
Exquisite breakfast - Fringe Event
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Jade Tomlin:
Business Acumen for Creatives
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Naresh Ramchandani:
The Creative Industry and Sustainability Panel
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MPC:
"Tosser VR"
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Robert Montgomery:
Over-Emotional Billboards
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FITCH x Mastered:
How Gen z will force us to transform education and the creative industries
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Animating for Change:
From Brazil to the World
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Happy Finish:
A New Dimension: Creative and Commercial Possibilities of 2.5D Imagery
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Yoga & Mindfulness:
The Museum of Happiness
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Chloe Gottlieb:
Why Dimensional Diversity Drives Innovation
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Julia Blomquist:
How to be Human
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James Burke:
Beyond Convention
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Federico Gaggio:
Ideas that do, ideas that don’t – how to tell purpose from bullshit
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Jeff Goodby:
How Vandalism Will Save Advertising
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Thomas Kolster:
Everyone will be world-famous for 15 minutes – what can you do about it?
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Ted Harry Mellström:
How to be Human
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Marsha Meredith:
The Company You Keep
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Crafting Winning Work:
This session celebrates the winners setting an envy-inducing standard
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Debbie Millman:
Why Design Matters
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Caroline Pay:
Do Not Watch This Talk!
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Ben Priest:
The Importance of Getting Things Utterly Wrong
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Designing the Tangible:
What makes design for the physical world really stand out?
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Pablo Rochat:
Low-fi High-fun
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Ciro Sarmiento:
Tales from the Mail Room
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Me & EU:
Post Brexit Post Card Exhibition
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Dave Trott:
How to do what you’re not allowed to do
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Creativity & Media:
How we can harness the power of media
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Zen: Heaps + Stacks:
Minature zen garden making workshops
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Festival Partners
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