BrandedLogoDesign Compliants | New Blood Awards By DA&D, are you ready?

If you're a recent graduate or under the age of 24, then it is the right time you some the world's leading brands what you have got.

Every year D&AD, the universal association for creative advertising and design, hold the New Blood Awards in order to set young designers the real world challenge for a top, global brand.

Whether you’re a copywriter or a digital specialist, photographer, product designer or something in-between – they have a category for you. Interested creatives under 24, and recent grads, are being set briefs by all 14 big brands that can be downloaded from here.

No matter if you work alone or as part of a team, D&AD will forward your ideas to the brands and evaluated by the brand representatives, accompanied by a panel of the best creatives from across the world.

Award Levels

New Blood In Book (previously Best of Year)

A cream off of the best work presented for every brief.

New Blood Nomination

Work exceeding the Book standard and holds the potential to win a New Blood Yellow Pencil.

New Blood Yellow Pencil

Work that is outstanding, rather than merely brilliant, gets a New Blood Yellow Pencil award.

New Blood White Pencil (introduced this year)

Exceptional work as a response to any of the briefings that uses creativity to do good for the planet.

New Blood Black Pencil (swapping Student of the Year)

The ultimate award for new, best of the best creatives.

The Black Pencil is chosen from the entries of Yellow Pencil-winning, across all categorieAnyone can apply to this award that includes people in part-time or full-time education; fresh graduates who completed their course within the past couple of years; anyone under 24. The deadline is 31 March 2015, 5pm GMT on and this year's brands are presented below.

Prize:

Successful candidates will get their work published in the D&AD annual & featured on the D&AD website and will be put to display at the Awards Night, as well as at D&AD exhibitions & events tThroughout the world.

Success at the D&AD Awards gives access to a whole lot of benefits available to any company or individual credited on work that makes to the Book and above.

Discover more and participate in the competition here.