Public edition for D&AD Annual once again

LONDON: The London Design Festival, 22 September 2009, will see the launch on the Member's edition of the 2009 D&AD Annual, containing the best creative work of the year. And, for the first time, D&AD has entered into a partnership with Taschen to publish an edition in early 2010 that aims to promote the best creative work to the widest audience.

8 Sep 2009

D&AD Annual 2009 Members' edition. Art direction: Peter Saville; design: Luke Sanders

Designed by Jeremy Leslie, the public edition will be published in hardback, translated into six languages and distributed worldwide in early 2010 through bookshops and online.

The Members' limited edition has been created through a unique relationship between Peter Saville and Luke Sanders, a graduate designer, and throws light on D&AD's education mission through a series of graphic statistics.

Showcases

The Annual showcases 748 entries selected by juries made up of the world's leading experts in advertising and design. This year's work comes from 38 countries and includes 54 Yellow Pencil and 4 Black Pencil winners, entries awarded for setting new standards in creativity. South Africa has 11 in-book entries and three Student in-book this year.

“My first love of ideas came from stumbling across the 1985 D&AD Annual in my Somerset College library. I decorated the walls of my flat with Peter Saville's work from posters to cassette covers. His artwork has always been with me and led to my first love of graphic design. It was an honour and a thrill to ask Peter to get involved with this D&AD Annual, which I am sure will be a collector's item,” says D&AD president Garrick Hamm.

“I started the year saying I wanted to see the Annual back in bookshops, and it's such a pleasure to end my presidency knowing the book will be arriving on shelves soon.”

D&AD is a British not-for-profit organisation that represents the international design, advertising and creative communities. Its inaugural awards ceremony was held in 1963. For more, go to http://awards.dandad.org/2009, read the D&AD blog, join the D&AD Facebook group, follow @dandad on Twitter, view D&AD on YouTube and D&AD photos on Flickr.