LONDON, UK: Last night, Thursday, 3 June 2010, South Africa took home its first D&AD Black Pencil, in Graphic Design, for TBWA\Hunt\Lascaris Johannesburg's Trillion Dollar campaign that turned money into a medium to promote exiled newspaper The Zimbabwean. SA Promo Magazine was there on behalf of Bizcommunity.com.
Proudly South African in his Bafana jersey, TBWA ECD Damon Stapleton gets up close with South Africa's first ever prestigious Black Pencil
Damon Stapleton, Executive Creative Director and Wilf Mbanga, Editor of The Zimbabwean
Nadja Lossgott, Art Director and Damon Stapleton, Excutive Creative Director
The Yellow Pencil of which 42 were awarded on the night
The TBWA team collecting on stage from UK comedian Jimmy Carr at the D&AD awards
The TBWA creative team collecting the coveted Black Pencil, a first for South Africa, as they displayed the SA flag with pride
Raphael Basckin, Nadja Lossgott, Shelley Smoler and Nicholas Hulley
Raphael Basckin, Nadja Lossgott, Shelley Smoler and Nicholas Hulley
A plethora of pencils, TBWA's collection of Yellow and Black Pencils
The TBWA team proudly showing off their pencils of the evening
The TBWA team proudly showing off their pencils of the evening
The TBWA team proudly showing off their pencils of the evening