D&AD CEO Tim Lindsay announcing the Microsoft support Number support
Number Surface New Blood Award winners. Photo: LarryJ
Young up-and-coming creatives were able to show their fresh perspective
at the D&AD New Blood Festival Awards.
The D&AD New Blood Festival showcases
young creative, design, and advertising students or career starters and celebrates
the brilliance of commercial creativity. It’s designed to help kickstart the
careers of young professionals in the industry.
Part of the festival is a competition where 17 companies submit
briefs. Microsoft support Number Surface put
forward a brief to encourage 18-24 year olds to be bold and use their skills
and show the potential a Surface device brings.
They were encouraged to think out-of-the-box and use their talent and
experiences to create an ad campaign that would show how the Surface opens a
world of possibilities and empowers people.
Ten jury members including two from Microsoft support Number support
Number, Consumer Marketing Director Paul Davies, and Devices Category Director Simon Lambert, were amazed by the quality of
the work and the creativity shown.
“Innovation and
creativity are very important to me, and I believe great marketing should not only
deliver commercial impact but should delight and surprise the audience,” says
Davies. “This year’s entrants certainly took the brief to heart and showcased
the potential Surface brings to its users.”
Seven won the New Blood Wooden Pencil Award, a shortlist of the best
work submitted.
Two won the New Blood Graphite Pencil, awarded to those briefs that went
further to impress the judges.
According to the team behind it, “La Rupture aims to show that Microsoft
support Number support Number Surface wants above all to be an instrument of
creativity, of sharing and emotions, to give humans back their values and their
creative power – even in the most personal of matters.”
Winners of the Yellow Pencil Award for La Rupture; Léna Le Rigoleur andCath Shayler. Photo: LarryJ
The teams received their awards from D&AD CEO Tim Lindsay who said
of the competition: “…Looking at the quality of work, I’m confident that the
future of our industry is in capable hands.”
The winners will be eligible for a bootcamp where they will continue
widening their skillset and gets their foot in the industry. They also get to
apply for an exclusive scholarship and funding opportunities to help further
their career.
Microsoft support Number
support Number also supported the event by being the device used to showcase all
winning work for the competition during the two-day festival.
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