The Awards exists to identify the world’s best creative work of the year, to elevate it above its context onto the global stage to inspire the international creative community to learn, grow, and set new benchmarks for creative excellence.
Winning a D&AD Pencil will earn your work exposure to millions of people in the creative industries around the world through international press coverage, exhibitions, promotion on the D&AD website, social platforms and newsletters, and the opportunity to be featured in articles and films on creative excellence insights and trends in the D&AD Annual.
Awards’ categories span the full spectrum of disciplines from graphic design to product design, book design, and magazine and newspaper design; art direction to writing, editing, illustration, photography, typography and animation; creative coding to UX, e-commerce and gaming; PR and media to social good, and much more. There are special categories for rising stars who are making waves in the early days of their career and for side projects that are ready to start-up or scale-up.
D&AD is an education charity that promotes excellence in design and advertising. Each year, the Awards gather the world’s best creative work from across the commercial design, advertising, production and craft disciplines to be judged by more than 400 global creative leaders, practitioners and innovators.
Please visit the official website for additional information.
D&AD Awards 2022 – Entry Fees
Entry fee information for 2022 are yet to be announced on the official website.