D&AD student awards 2008 go live this week.

The new 30 year old D&AD Student Awards is on, a fresh set of challenging design and advertising briefs written by some of the world’s leading creatives and business professionals can now be downloaded from www.dandad.org/studentawards08.

This year, entrants will have the opportunity to design a new mobile handset for Orange; establish brand presence for Virgin Atlantic Airways; design a range of sustainable packaging for Ted Baker merchandise; create an integrated campaign to rebrand ‘Cinnamon Grahams’ to ‘Curiously Cinnamon’; and help Nando’s spread the ‘Spirit of Peri-Peri’ through viral advertising. D&AD will accept entries from students from 14 January - 20 March 2008. Winners will be announced in June 2008.

“We’ve all heard the cliché: if you don’t enter, you can’t win. But what’s more important - if you don’t enter, how will you know just how good you are?,’ said D&AD President Simon Waterfall. “Each year design and advertising agencies like mine await with terror and apprehension at the new student graduation. Our studios and the work we can produce each year is radically affected by the new blood we can instil into the beast. A pencil is your way of jump starting the gun on a career that will last your life time. Start off well, make it easy for us to find you and good luck”

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