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D&AD New Blood Awards 2023
Kick start your career in advertising and design with an award for students, graduates, and aspiring creatives.
The 2023 winning work, with Pencil levels, has been announced. See the Winners below.
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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.
The Portfolios competition recognises excellent portfolio websites across a number of disciplines including Advertising, Animation, Illustration, Graphic Design, Digital.
The winners have been announced.
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October 2022 — 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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February 2023 — Entry site opens
Entry site opens
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Enter your response to the brief
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21 March 2023 — Entry deadline
Entry deadline
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Enter your work by 5pm GMT
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April–May 2023 — New Blood judging
New Blood judging
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Judges decide on Pencils
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Late May 2023 — Winners revealed
Winners revealed
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Winners will be announced without Pencil levels
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6 July 2023
D&AD New Blood Ceremony
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Pencil levels revealed at the ceremony
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5–6 July 2023 — New Blood Festival
New Blood Festival
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Bringing industry and new creative talent face to face
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Late July — New Blood Academy
New Blood Academy
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Helping selected awarded creatives hit the ground running with a ready-made network of contacts, collaborators, mentors and more
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New Blood Academy 2022
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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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