
D&AD New Blood Awards 2022
Kick start your career in advertising and design with an award for students, graduates, and aspiring creatives.
The 2022 winning work, with Pencil levels, has been announced. See the Winners below.
New Blood: The Portfolios
The Portfolios competition recognises excellent portfolio websites across a number of disciplines including Advertising, Animation, Illustration, Graphic Design, Digital and Commercial Photography.
The winners have been announced.
Real briefs, set by real clients, judged by the industry's top creatives
New Blood Awards is open to advertising, design, digital and marketing students, recent graduates and emerging creatives worldwide. It's your opportunity to land a job in the creative industry by getting a head start while you're still at university or gaining the exposure you need to kick start your creative career.
Free Entries Initiative
D&AD are committed to ensuring that the New Blood Awards are inclusive, enabling everyone with the talent and drive to succeed to be recognised. We are conscious that some participants may not have access to funds making it difficult for them to pay the fee that enables them to enter the awards. D&AD can offer a limited number of free entries for individuals who match the following criteria:
• Not currently studying and are unemployed
• Receiving government benefits
• Have received a University/College hardship grant
• Receiving means tested bursaries for study
If you do not match the above criteria however believe you have mitigating circumstances to allow you free entry for other reasons, please let us know and we will assess your case.
Please note even if you meet the criteria above, we cannot guarantee free entry as this will be allocated on a first come, first served basis.
New Blood Awards 2023
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See who picked up a Pencil at the ceremony

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Key dates
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19 October 2021 — D&AD New Blood briefs launch
D&AD New Blood briefs launch
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Top brands issue real world briefs
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January 2022 — Entry site opens
Entry site opens
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Enter your response to the brief
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22 March 2022 — Entry deadline
Entry deadline
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Enter your work by 5pm GMT
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April–May 2022 — New Blood judging
New Blood judging
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Judges decide on Pencils
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Late May 2022 — Winners revealed
Winners revealed
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Winners will be announced without Pencil levels
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14 July 2022 — D&AD New Blood Ceremony
D&AD New Blood Ceremony
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Pencil levels revealed at the ceremony
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Creative Directors reveal where they look for inspiration, and where their ideas come from.
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L.A. Ronayne shares her killer tips on how to make your ideas next-level
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Your step-by-step guide to making your work more brave, and more ballsy.
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Stuck for ideas? Try these 6 tips to get you back on track
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Before you find that winning idea, craft it and enter it – you have to do the hardest part. Start.
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Henry Hicks knows just what it takes to create work for change
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What makes big ideas 'big'? Simple. It’s the fact that they’re, simple.
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Use real connections and tangible experiences to bring your experiential activations to life.
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Keep your eyes on the prize, with tips from New Blood Alumni
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Have you got the creativity and entrepreneurial spirit that’ll drive our industry forward?
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Are you onto a winner? Try asking yourself these five key questions
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Brief asking you to rebrand, refresh or reimagine? Be inspired by these makeovers.
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These ideas created more than just a reaction. They provoked real action.
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We’re throwing a spotlight on purveyor of ‘mammamerch’, Mère Soeur
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Tech got you feeling like a robot? These big winners prove the power of tech when it’s driven by emotion.
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Here's how to turn that difficult creative challenge into a chance to shine
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Keen to impress? Get the inside scoop on what the Judges want
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Ready to get the Judges’ attention? This is how you do it
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Vikki Ross reminds us why words are the copywriter's weapon of choice
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The best creative work knows what’s next and how to change it up
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Get down to the nuts and bolts with a brief-busting exercise
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Understand the issue that's affecting the industry as a whole
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Learn how to turn facts and figures into creative building blocks
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How about using your New Blood entry to get people talking?
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See our handy cheat sheet to find out what each Pencil represents
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Discover the organisations and initiatives bringing new blood into the industry
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