D&AD
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Design and Art Direction (D&AD, formerly known as British Design & Art Direction) is a British educational charity which exists to promote excellence in design and advertising. Their logo includes the words "Benchmarking and rewarding great ideas that are well executed and appropriate".
The annual D&AD Awards are highly respected, and regarded as a major event in the world of design and advertising. Two kinds of awards are given out, a yellow pencil (a silver award) and a black pencil (a gold award), in various categories ranging from architecture to billboard adverts and animation shorts. The black pencil is particularly coveted as they are given for 'outstanding' work and usually only one or two given out each year although in 2003 none were awarded.
Their main offices are in Vauxhall in London.
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