Two editions of the D&AD annual to be launched

This year, two versions of the D&AD Annual will be published over the coming months. The editions will contain the best creative work of the year. The Annual showcases 748 entries selected by juries made up of the world’s experts in advertising and design.  This year’s work comes from 38 countries and includes 54 Yellow Pencil and 4 Black Pencil winners; entries that were awarded for setting new standards in creativity.

For the first time, an edition published by TASCHEN, is slated to go on sale in early 2010. The D&AD Annual 2009 Members’ edition was created through a relationship between Peter Saville and Luke Sanders, a graduate designer. The design process throws light on D&AD’s education mission through a series of graphic statistics.

Said Garrick Hamm, D&AD president, “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.’ 

Members of the D&AD will receive their limited edition book from D&AD from 22 September, the day it will be launched at the London Design Festival.