D&AD Shift is a free, award-winning, industry-led night school that helps those without a university background to enter the creative industries.
Across six cities, Shift has launched hundreds of careers. Shifters go on to write for Apple and design for Disney, create content for Adobe and co-design adverts with Delta. They win Pencils and sit on the board at D&AD.
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You don’t need a portfolio to apply — we want to find out about you, how you think, and your ideas.
Everything you need to know
Why Shift?
Ideas you won’t find anywhere else
Shift Studio connects brands and agencies with talented creatives who bring bold ideas, lived experience, and fresh perspectives to any business challenge
Shift stories
From penning poetry to editing a magazine
Testimonials
From the industry
"We've had a multi-year partnership with Shift because we believe in D&AD's mission – to broaden the talent pool that is able to contribute to the industry, and therefore the culture at large. We're inspired every year by the talent we encounter, and it's proved to be a great mentorship experience for members of our team as well."
Alex Bodman
VP, Global Executive Creative Director at Spotify
"Every creative business should engage with the Shift programme. They would be mad to ignore it. It is our future."
Kate Stanners
Chairwoman & Global Chief Creative Officer at Saatchi & Saatchi
"The most valuable part of Shift has been meeting people from different spectrums of the creative world. It's given me a real opportunity to build relationships and relativise different schools of thought in order to improve my own. This skill set and my unique experience will continually enable me to provoke, challenge and question, using words as my weapon."
Seun Areoye
New Blood Shift alumni