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D&AD is marking its 50th birthday this year, with celebrations due to culminate on 18 September, when it will hold a ceremony to award the 2012 Black Pencils and President’s Awards.
To celebrate its half-century, D&AD is also dishing out awards to the most-awarded agencies in its history, across categories including designer, design studio and advertising agency.
In advance of this it has released a list of the top ten most-awarded consultancies or individuals in each category. At the moment these are in alphabetical order, not order of rank – which will be revealed on 18 September.
So without further ado, here are the top ten most-awarded designers in D&AD’s history, with a sample of some of their award-winning work:
Design studio
Apple
Carroll Dempsey & Thirkell (including Carroll & Dempsey)
Casson Mann
Crosby/Fletcher/Forbes (including Fletcher/Forbes/Gill)
Farrow Design
Michael Peters & Partners
Minale Tattersfield & Partners
Pentagram Design
Studio Dumbar
The Partners
Designer
Brian Tattersfield
David Hillman
David King
Gilvrie Misstear
John McConnell
Marcello Minale
Michael Johnson
Michel De Boer
Mike Dempsey
Tony Meeuwissen
D&AD has also compiled lists of the most-awarded ad agencies, production companies, art directors, directors, copywriters, and brands. These are:
Advertising agency
AMV/BBDO
Bartle Bogle Hegarty London
Collett Dickinson Pearce
DDB London (including BMP pre-1989 merger)
DDB London (pre-1989 merger)
DLKW Lowe
Saatchi & Saatchi London
TBWALondon
Wieden + Kennedy Portland
Wieden + Kennedy UK
Production company
Academy
Alan Parker Film Company
Gorgeous Enterprises
MJZ
Park Village Productions
Partizan
Paul Weiland Film Company
Ridley Scott Associates
The Mill
Tony Kaye Films
Art director
Axel Chaldecott
Bob Isherwood
Craig Allen
David Horry
John Gorse
John Hegarty
John Webster
Neil Godfrey
Tony McTear
Walter Campbell
Director
Alan Parker
Chris Cunningham
Chris Palmer
Frank Budgen
Hugh Hudson
Jonathan Glazer
Michel Gondry
Roger Woodburn
Tom Kuntz
Tony Kaye
Copywriter
David Abbot
Eric Kallman
John Salmon
John Webster
Mike Cozens
Nick Gill
Nick Worthington
Steve Henry
Tom Carty
Tony Brignull
Brands
Apple
BBC Television
Benson & Hedges
Channel 4
Guinness
Honda
Levi Strauss
Nike
Sony
Sunday Times Magazine
During its 50th year, D&AD is also launching a new award, the White Pencil, which will be awarded to ‘a creative idea with the potential to effect real and positive change in the world’.
Each time the White Pencil competition runs, D&AD will set a brief to solve a problem for a not-for-profit organisation or an established cause.
This year the brief is to grow awareness of Peace Day, which will establish 21 September as a global, annual day of peace.
The deadline is 24 October, for more information and to apply visit www.dandad.org
Congratulations to all on the lists – glad to see you have managed to find at least one woman.
A very male-dominated list of winners.
The D&AD is becoming irrelevant in todays world.
Its basically an old boys club.
Rubbish.
If you are in the creative business, you should be doing creative work.
If you’re doing good creative work, your peers at the annual D&AD judging will recognise it.
Sounds like the definition of an old boys club to me.
Some guys here are just being jealous…