Research Studios are proud to announce that Neville Brody, our Creative Director, has been elected to the D&AD Executive Committee. You can find out more about the D&AD here.
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Defined by the D&AD as one of their most successful campaigns and events to-date, several of the Research Studios team enjoyed an afternoon of seeing the next wave of new young creative industry talent and the opportunity to meet with educators and industry in support of the invaluable work the D&AD, an educational charity, undertake.

Perhaps one the most successful elements was the D&AD Student Awards newspaper which was free to all enabling the charity to give more space and exposure to the successful students’ work and reach greater numbers with its free distribution.

More images below and click here for more information about the D&AD Student Awards 2010.
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With a client publication brief to give more space and impact to each category, bring vitality to the publication, add context to how important the awards are and get the message out further and wider than before; a newspaper seemed the perfect approach this year. The empty dispensers and much thumbed copies clutched by the students, award attendees, passers by in Spitalfields Market (London) and very happy clients at the D&AD gave us a warm fuzzy feeling of a job well done.

More images below and click here for more information about the D&AD Student Awards 2010.
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Research Studios has begun rolling out the new look material for the D&AD student awards. The infographic theme has been applied to both print and digital materials as the call for entries to both tutors and students builds over the next couple of months. As promised in an earlier post on this blog we wanted to share it with you.

Core to the campaign are the postcard call for entries and a new approach to engaging both tutors and students with a striking double-sided poster “calling tutors with extra oomph” for the academic audience and “wanted students with excess talent” developed on the client side.

Research Studios will be working with the team as the campaign develops and on the materials for both closing entries and the awards night collateral. More to follow on this blog at a later date.

Tutor poster

Tutor poster detail

Tutor poster detail

Tutor poster detail

Student poster

Student poster detail

Student poster detail

Student poster detail

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Neville gave his D&AD Presidents Lecture last night entitled “Wanker or Genius” to a packed house at the Logan Hall in London. Questions were tweeted from near and far to help steer a conversation which was warmly received as more a call for a design education/industry revolution than retrospective. The conversation touched on recent work, creativity, education and politics and a filmed version of it will be posted here soon.

Our post before the talk;

Be part of Neville’s D&AD Presidents Lecture tomorrow by “tweeting” a question through the Creative Review twitter feed using the hashtag #Brodydandad or, if you’re not into twitter, you can post your question on the CR blog.

The lecture will be more of a conversation between Brody and design writer Adrian Shaughnessy. Twitters will be streaming live to a monitor during the lecture with the opportunity for both Neville and Adrian able to pick out the best questions and potentially steer the conversation.

The audience of the now sold out lecture which supports the D&AD will also get the opportunity to take the vote with special Wanker/Genius flash cards. The cards use two 2009 Brody fonts, Popaganda and Peace Version 2 printed by our friends at The Colourhouse.
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The lecture theatre

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Neville Brody is to give President’s Lecture for the D&AD with a title inspired by comments posted about him on Creative Review’s blog earlier in the year which divided opinion about not only his work but the man himself. This will be a unique opportunity to see Brody in conversation with designer and writer Adrian Shaughnessy.

Joining design luminaries Michael Wolff and Paula Scher in this year’s series each lecture supports the D&AD, an educational charity, in continuing it’s work, much of which helps young and emerging designers. You can find out more about the series here. or buy tickets online here

Neville Brody – Wanker or Genius?
Wednesday 25th November 2009
£15.00 per ticket

Logan Hall
Institute of Education
Bedford Way
London
WC1H 0AL
Tube: Russell Square

Research Studios are in the process of creating the marketing campaign for the 2010 D&AD Student Awards. Having been appointed earlier in the year, the campaign creative has been agreed and will roll out over the coming year across both print and digital media.

The D&AD student awards are the opportunity for international students to kick start their careers in design and advertising. They are also a great platform for students of all disciplines to engage with industry set briefs and have their work assessed objectively by creative professionals. You can find out more about the D&AD student awards and see 2009 winners here.

The D&AD student awards form a core part of the charity’s educational programme which also includes industry led support for students, tutors, colleges and universities. Research Studios are involved in this years Clinic a partnership between creative professionals and the D&AD University Network. You can find out more about the D&AD Clinic here.

We’ll be posting more on the campaign as it develops.
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D&AD Annual 2008 Front Cover

Neville Brody and Research Studios have designed the 2008 D&AD Annual. Invited to undertake the prestigious annual by the president, Simon Waterfall, 2008 was the first time that ‘the book’ also went online.
If you are interested in the bigger story and 45 years of the D&AD annual check out: www.dandad.org/news/pencil-exhibition.html >
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Slip Case

Page Edges

Annual Spreads

D&AD Annual Poster