It’s been one of those weeks. It started on Monday night at the D&AD President’s Dinner, which takes place every September and sees the outgoing president hand-over to the new. So this year it saw a rather relieved Bruce Duckworth from Turner Duckworth pass the baton to Steve Vranakis, Executive Creative Director of Google’s Creative Lab.
The dinner gathers the industry’s great and good, and every ex-president is also invited, which can lead to an inordinate amount of heckling of speeches. But all well-intentioned, of course.
Here are a few snaps from the evening.
The week then lurched on to the next social engagement, the Brand Impact Awards. Johnson Banks had just two projects shortlisted, for Action for Children and Mozilla and to be honest hopes weren’t that high that we would repeat the Best of Show accolades that had come our way in previous years.
As it happens, those two projects performed pretty well, being highly commended in three different categories, and Mozilla won the Collaboration award by dint of its being commented on by all and sundry (and receiving 3,000 blog comments) on its long journey to a final product.
As ever, the pre- and post-do drinks were the most entertaining bits, and here are some snaps as evidence.
Our congratulations to the big winners of the evening, including The Partners, Design Studio, Studio Sutherland and to Taxi Studio for winning as best non-London agency.
Main photography by Michael Johnson