GREAT ADVERTISING & DESIGN RETURNS TO ADMT

An international exhibition of work selected from the D&AD Awards will open at the Advertising Museum Tokyo (ADMT) on 3 March 2009. D&AD: Creative Excellence in Advertising & Design will include work from some of the world’s most famous brands. A highlight of the show is ‘Uniqlock’ by Projector, Inc, the first Japanese company to win a Black Pencil; D&AD’s highest accolade.

The D&AD Awards recognise the most outstanding creativity in advertising and design from around the world each year.  Categories include copywriting, art direction, graphic design, environmental design, music videos, branding, and digital communication.  Nominees and winners from the 2008 awards will be showcased.  The exhibition will remain open until 4 April 2009.  Further information is available here.

A team from D&AD, including President Garrick Hamm & Acting Chief Executive Dara Lynch will visit Tokyo to hold seminars for marketers and students during the opening week of the exhibition:

3 March – Creativity Works, 15:00 – 17:00

How and why creative excellence leads to business success. Brands in the consumer savvy world today are able to achieve success through creativity.  Companies should find a ‘brand truth’ and then express this via an original idea and across a variety of applications.

Dara Lynch, D&AD Acting Chief Executive and Garrick Hamm, D&AD President and Creative Partner at international award-winning branding agency Williams Murray Hamm, will use examples from the D&AD Awards and Williams Murray Hamm.

4 March 2009 – D&AD Winners: Great Ideas, Brilliantly Executed, 15:00 – 17:00

Laura Woodroffe, D&AD Education Director and Joe Ferry, Head of Design at Virgin Atlantic will present inspirational work from both the D&AD Professional Awards and Student Awards, discuss what makes a ‘good idea’ and show you how to get your work notices. The seminar will be followed by a Q&A session. This seminar is for anyone studying or teaching adverting or design disciplines and new employees.

D&AD: Creative Excellence in Advertising & Design, 3 March – 4 April 2009

ADMT  Caretta Shiodome 1-8-2 Higashi-Shinbashi, Minato-ku, Tokyo 105-7090

Opening Hours:

Tuesday – Friday – 11:00 to 18:30 (last admission 18:00)

Saturday, holiday – 11:00 to 16:30 (last admission 16:00)

Closed Sunday and Monday (Sunday and Tuesday if Monday falls on a holiday)

*Admission free

Subway: JR Shimbashi Station; Shimbashi Station (Subway Ginza & Asakusa Line); Shiodome Station (Subway Oedo Line)