D&AD Menu Search Basket Events D&AD Events exist to inspire, stimulate discussion & fuel debate. What's coming up Watch and Listen Featured events Ideas, Ideas, Ideas Writing for Advertising How to Make Your Organisation More Innovative The Quick Start Guide to Being a Creative Director Upcoming events May 30th 2014 9:30 Designing Digital Products Tom Evans, former ECD at TBWA takes you through a step-by-step process for designing, creating and developing digital products. June 3rd 2014 14:00 Where do Ideas Come From? This session looks at one of the most crucial, but least analysed, areas of the creative industry: how to have ideas. June 10th 2014 9:30 The Truth About Branding This session takes inspiration from Johnson Banks’s portfolio and wide-ranging experience, looks at the terminology around the business of branding, and includes brand communication exercises with discussion. July 1st 2014 10:00 New Blood Exhibition A one stop shop to explore creative career pathways. July 1st 2014 10:00 New Blood Festival London’s most exciting creative agencies and studios are opening their doors to give you the chance to find out what really goes on inside. July 4th 2014 9:30 Talking Digital Learn how to create engaging brand experiences using digital. Master digital language, understand the channels and get inspired by the latest innovations. July 7th 2014 9:30 Briefing Your Creative Team A good brief can make or break your project. In this session you’ll learn how to craft an inspiring brief and manage the client, saving you time and money. July 11th 2014 9:30 Storytelling for Film This is a chance to learn practical techniques to make your storytelling more effective. July 14th 2014 9:30 Proven Techniques for Creating Ideas that Sell Using a real case study, you'll learn to dissect the brief, come up with original ideas and turn those ideas into solutions that your client will not only love, but also buy. July 15th 2014 9:30 Writing for Advertising If you’re interested in tapping into the creative power of language, this session is the place to start. It includes individual and group exercises addressing long and short copy. July 17th 2014 9:30 Presenting Creative Work Presenting creative work either internally or to the client can be a challenge for even the most experienced creative. Learn how to present your work and ideas persuasively. August 6th 2014 9:30 Crafting Relationships Dealing with a creatives, clients and budgets can be multitasking hell. Learn how to master the psychology that will help you manage this and ultimately influence and inspire. August 15th 2014 16:30 Creative Director's Clinic An informal evening dinner party puts you on the table with several leading creative directors, ready to share experiences, answer your questions and lead exercises. September 17th 2014 9:30 How to Make Your Organisation More Innovative The ability to innovate is crucial. In this session you'll get an interactive and inspirational day on how to inject innovation into the heart of your organisation. September 18th 2014 9:30 Designing for Mobile Even the most experienced designer can come a cropper when designing mobile applications. This session will help avoid the costly mistakes made by others and give you the chance to make your app really stand out from the crowd. October 2nd 2014 9:30 The Art of Art Direction Drawing on Alexandra Taylor's extensive experience, learn the golden rules of art direction through individual and group exercises with plenty of constructive feedback. What's coming up? Speakers at D&AD President’s Lectures represent the best in their creative fields whilst exhibitions allow people from around the world to experience winning work in person. Our Training sessions give anyone the chance to learn from industry legends and our Awards ceremonies are the stuff of legend. Take a look at what's happening near you and get involved. Watch and Listen Horror Stories and Industry Fuck-ups (coming soon) Q&A with Tony Kaye (coming soon) White Pencil Laboratory (coming soon) A Future for Creative Education? (coming soon) John Warwicker (coming soon) The Digital Revolution 2.0 (coming soon) Hegarty on Advertising (coming soon) PechaKucha: Japan (coming soon) Q&A with David Bailey (coming soon) 50 Years of Looking Forward: Bob Gill, Sir Alan Parker and Lord David Puttnam (coming soon) Jaime Perlman (coming soon) Alexandra Taylor Wayne Hemingway - Spatial Fashionista (coming soon) North Kingdom - Digital Monarchy (coming soon) School of Life - Ideas to Live By (coming soon) Shane Walter - Adventurer in Motion (coming soon) Harry Pearce with guest Peter Gabriel - The Schizophrenic Road Part 2 (coming soon) Pecha Kucha - Everything is more interesting than your desk (coming soon) KiBiSi - What happens when design, architecture and ideation collide (coming soon) Daniel Eatock - 'Never judge a book by it's cover' (coming soon) Collett Dickenson Pearce - Slow, arrogant and expensive? Adrian Shaughnessy & Tony Brook, Unit Editions (coming soon) Neville Brody - Genius or Wanker? (coming soon) Paula Scher Michael Wolff - Branding the City (coming soon) The Journey From Graduate to Experienced Professional (coming soon) A Sought-After Purveyor of Original Thought (coming soon) Jonathan Ellery - Design / Publishing / Art (coming soon) David Hillman: A Life in Print (coming soon) Dutch Graphic Design (coming soon) Peter Saville: Unknown Pleasures (coming soon) Sanky: How technology can be used alongside more traditional practices (coming soon) Michael Peters: The Relationship Between Design and Business (coming soon) Universal Everything (coming soon) Kyle Cooper: Quite an Imaginary Force (coming soon) Printed Matter, Installation Work and T-Shirtism (coming soon) Winning almost every award going (coming soon) 20 images X 20 seconds (coming soon) Nick Bell: Design to Help Engage and Influence (coming soon) TAXI!!! (coming soon) The Pioneer of Abstract Corporate Symbols (coming soon) Paul Davis: Subversive and Culturally Significant (coming soon) Irma Boom: The Most Beautiful Book in the World (coming soon) Tony Davidson: The Power of Dreams (coming soon) Pentagram: Ideas make Design Distinctive (coming soon) Audio-only archives Terry Jones Milton Glazer: The Road to Hell Michael Beirut: Learning from Wilson Pickett (coming soon) Rankin - How To Get Your Own Way Bob Gill Terry Gilliam Michael Palin: A few of my favourite things Vaughan Oliver: This Rhymy River Peter Greenaway Paul Weiland John Hegarty D&AD Britannia House 68 – 80 Hanbury Street London E1 5JL © 2010 D&AD. All Rights Reserved. No part of this site may be reproduced without our permission. Accessibility Privacy Terms & Conditions Careers Contact Us Press Office Facebook Twitter Google+ Flickr YouTube Instagram Back to the top. We have placed cookies on your computer to help make this website better. 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