Peter Saville to design 2009 D&AD Annual

Peter Saville’s album cover design for Unknown Pleasures by Joy Division.

Saville is reputed to be one of the most influential designers of our time, and is known for pushing design boundaries. Most recently, he spoke to an audience of over 1000 at a D&AD President's Lecture in London. In keeping with the charity's educational mission, a graduate will work with the renowned designer on the project.

“I wanted to give a graduate the chance of working as an apprentice along side a master like Peter Saville. The Annual's theme this year is about communicating D&AD's education mission, but delivered in a away only Peter can do,” said D&AD president Garrick Hamm last week. “The design, so far, is immaculately styled but there is a depth there that I think a lot of other designers miss about Peter's work.”

Over 400 of the world's advertising and design greats will arrive at London's Olympia 20 - 24 April 2009. They'll judge entries into the Awards & Student Awards on the hunt for the best work of the year and, hopefully, a Yellow Pencil award winner or two along the way. For the first time, this year, each judge will use an iPod touch to scroll through the thousands of entries in the 30 award categories and cast, review and amend their votes in real time.

The three SA judges are:

• Ivan Johnson from Net#work BBDO Cape Town: Radio Advertising
  
• Vanessa Pearson from McCann-Erickson South Africa: Ambient Advertising
  
• Glynn Venter from Draftfcb Cape Town: Direct Advertising

Go to the D&AD blog for daily updates from judging.

Nominations for the awards will be announced 4 May and winners will be announced at the ceremony on 11 June. Nominations for the Student Awards will be announced on 11 May and the winners will be announced at the ceremony on 2 July. The D&AD Annual will be launched at the end of September. For more, go to www.dandad.org.