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D&AD extends entry deadline to February 25

The entries received after February 18 will be subject to a 20 per cent surcharge.

D&AD has extended its entry deadline from February 18 to February 25 for its 2015 Global Advertising and Design Awards. However, entries received after February 18 will be subject to a 20 per cent surcharge, to cover additional resources needed to process late entries during the extension period. The ceremony will be held on May 21 at Battersea Evolution, London.

D&AD extends entry deadline to February 25
The Judging Week will take place in The Old Truman Brewery, East London's arts and creative quarter, between April 19 and 23. It will be open to the public for the first time, with an exhibition of winning work headlining a full programme of fringe events. Eric Kallman, Rei Inamoto, Harriet Devoy and Kai-lu Hsiung are among the leading creatives judging this year's awards.

This year new Wood and Graphite Pencils, in addition to the existing Yellow, White and Black Pencil prizes, will be awarded to the winning entries.

The work entered into the 2015 D&AD Awards ought to have been commercially released between January 1, 2014 and February 28, 2015 and not entered in previous years. The entry fee for the awards is £85 this year and submissions have to be made in their original language.

Since 1962, D&AD has been inspiring a community of creative thinkers by celebrating and stimulating the finest in design and advertising. As a non-profit organisation, all of D&AD's surpluses go straight in to programmes that develop the next generation of creative talent, while campaigning for the creative industries to help solve the world's toughest social and environmental issues.

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