D&AD AWARDS
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- mimeartist0
Its a very short pencil... i know a couple of people who won one... One now runs de-construct...
dunno what happened to the other! :)
Me and my mate did loads of work for the entry but were so poor we couldn't afford to enter :(
- neue75_bold0
thanks nick...
- neue75_bold0
we one won, er won one, back at concrete for something er, or other, but it just got thrown in the closet with all the others, and the unlucky soul whom once asked where all the awards were kept...
- Eiv0
No good news, Oldelpaso? My girlfriend got in the annual with the Dyan Sheldon book-covers, I'm still waiting to be put out of misery, as my tutor appears to be amiss.
- Eiv0
I swear... This life throws me some odd balls, two moments ago I was depressed about not getting any D&AD and a bird even shat on me. Now this:
Eivind,
I just sent you an email with the incorrect information!!!
I have just got a second list with more D & AD nomiations on it and you HAVE BEEN NOMINATED for the Typography Horror poster.
Congratulations!
I will put it up on Blackboard now.
Amanda
- BaskerviIle0
Eiv,
Amanda, Blackboard. If I didn't know better I'd say you were a fellow CSM student!
- arthur0
Got a silver one last year - yep.
What the hell is the point of these things?
- oldelpaso0
hows ur life been since?
a friend of mine just got a student one.. for the dont panic postcards..
he did a greeting card to be sent by Hezbola (?????????) or something of the like... im a bit preplexed .. but dead chuffed for him!
- oldelpaso0
nice on Eiv!!..
i love it when shit like that happens
"nah ur shit.. :( - but wait... what the fuck??? you've won it!!!"now go have babies and spawn super designer children :) :) :P
- arthur0
How's my life been since?
No difference, at least not from that award. I guess it was good to get, but it's not like I expected anything to change.
- r_mutt0
awards are bullshit, surprised nobody has pointed that out yet.
is these UK student awards or something?
- neue75_bold0
I hinted at that...
- neue75_bold0
you little minx you...
- Eiv0
Baskerville, you're right bout that, for good and bad:)
Olselpaso, thanks! I somehow I think its not real and I'm really just mentally ill, imagining things. Fingers crossed..
R_Mutt, awards are great, its like a carrot for the creative industry to push themselves forward. Also, in our industry its rare to get any significal recognition from non-designers so we have to make it ourself. The army have medals, etc. D&AD are UK based, but international.
- neue75_bold0
or maybe you deserve a pat on the back from a non-designer and a kick in the teeth from your peers?
- r_mutt0
awards are great, its like a carrot for the creative industry to push themselves forward. Also, in our industry its rare to get any significal recognition from non-designers so we have to make it ourself. The army have medals, etc. D&AD are UK based, but international.
-a carrot, just what the so-called creative industry needs! pushing each other forward by making work to win awards over each other, great! i think that us designers a bit like the army too, but instead of fighting for 'freedom' we fight for the poor defenseless corporation! this type of work deserves recognition!
- r_mutt0
i think my knee just jerked, sorry!
- neue75_bold0
I'm just a squirrel trying to get a nut!
- arthur0
I didn't even know I was entered for the D&AD award I won last year - the agency I did the illustrations for entered the competition.
I opened the mail one day and there's this big envelope with this poster inside. I had no clue, as usual.
From Bruce Mau's Incomplete Manifesto:
"26. Don’t enter awards competitions. Just don’t. It’s not good for you."It's taken me years of rejection from Comm Arts to finally get this.
- Dancer0
r_mutt = obviously frustrated at not being recognised how great a designer he/she is.
To be honest though what is wrong with gaining an award for work you have done. Yes it may amount to nothing but at least you gain recognition for all the hard work you put it. Most of the time clients hardly notice how long you have spent deisgning their fucking DM piece :|