Jury Insights | D&AD Festival 2026
- Date
- Location
- South Bank location, TBC after booking
Tickets
20 May 2026
Free for Festival ticket holders
Southbank Centre, London
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20 May 2026
Price
Free for all Festival ticket holders
Location
Queen Elizabeth Foyer, Southbank Centre, London, SE1 8XX
From Coca-Cola and Hershey’s to Toblerone and Smirnoff, the world’s most iconic brands are turning packs and labels into brand building moments and ideas people want to keep, share and talk about.
Agenda
How can packaging shape culture and create real impact?
Mondelēz join HP on stage to reveal the thinking behind the Suchard Christmas campaign, a playful twist on a national ritual that turned 7 million chocolate bars into 7 million chances to win the lottery, transforming a familiar festive format into an interactive cultural phenomenon.
Then hear from Hershey’s, where 320,000 wrappers became a canvas for female artists, showing how packaging can move beyond the shelf to become a platform for creativity, representation and meaningful cultural impact – and where creativity is alive not just in the idea, but in its impact on the world.
Penny Thomas - Design Operations Manager MEU, Mondelēz International
What does Pencil-winning packaging really take?
Join Diageo’s Global Head of Design, Jeremy Lindley – fresh from the D&AD Packaging Jury – as he unpacks the ideas, craft and collaboration behind today’s most awarded work, before joining HP for a deep dive into their Pencil-winning Smirnoff campaign, “Every One the Same, Every One Different”, where personalization celebrated diversity by transforming a design system into millions of unique expressions of identity.
Jeremy Lindley - Global Head of Design at Diageo
How do you design for millions, but speak to one?
Join Bulletproof and HP as they explore the rise of personalisation at scale, unpacking Toblerone’s “That’s So You” campaign, which transformed packaging into 180,000 unique reflections of the personality quirks that make us, us. A sharp, insight-led session revealing how creativity now connects one-to-one, and why print is leading the way.
Beth Drummond - Creative Director at Bulletproof