D&AD Annual Trend Report 2023
Cataloguing creative patterns from 12,000 entries and judgments by 300+ jurors, D&AD's Annual Trend Report 2023 synthesizes seven emergent trends and five enduring themes observed across two Black Pencils and 69 Yellow Pencils. The report highlights trends such as Joyful Surrealism, Open-Source Casting, Ownable Iconicity, Preserving the Past, Pay It Forward, Augmentation for All, and early generative AI, and recommends ethical partnerships, rigorous storytelling, and long-term community commitments
- Slide 1: D&AD Annual Trend Report 2023
- Slide 2: D&AD awards: 12,000 entries across 40 categories
- Slide 3: Timeless truths underpinning the 2023 winners
- Slide 4: The Trends: seven emergent patterns
- Slide 5: The Trends: tech, preservation, and purpose
- Slide 6: Joyful Surrealism highlights work that transports audiences with surreal concepts
- Slide 7: Joyful Surrealism: selected work
- Slide 8: Joyful Surrealism: emotional mechanics
- Slide 9: Pharrell Williams: Cash In Cash Out
- Slide 10: Selfridges Celebrates; Summer Never Sleeps
- Slide 11: The Singularity: Squarespace Super Bowl campaign
- Slide 12: Irreverent humour and awe-driven joy cut through uncertainty; the best
- Slide 13: Introduces 'Open-Source Casting': a trend where brands use real
- Slide 14: Data Tienda (DDB Mexico) and Vaseline: example work
- Slide 15: Open-Source Casting: trend definition
- Slide 16: Why Open-Source Casting is showing up
- Slide 17: Unexpected Encounters and Native Sportscasters
- Slide 18: Guanzhong Mangba Art Festival and 10 Years in Brooklyn
- Slide 19: Phone It In: Skinny radio crowdsourcing
- Slide 20: To succeed with open-source casting brands must commit long-term, treat
- Slide 21: Introduces the trend 'Ownable Iconicity' as a design tendency
- Slide 22: Selected winning work across categories
- Slide 23: Form is Linked To Meaning
- Slide 24: Why Is Ownable Iconicity Showing Up in the World?
- Slide 25: Eames Institute of Infinite Curiosity
- Slide 26: Milano Orchestra and Leibniz Global Relaunch
- Slide 27: Product-design case for Abby.World and the Swedish Heartchild Foundation
- Slide 28: Jurors' recommendations: favour historically rooted, intentional signature cues over trend-driven
- Slide 29: Section header introducing the next trend, 'Preserving the Past'
- Slide 30: Refik Anadol: Unsupervised
- Slide 31: Preserving the past: virtual capture and heritage revival
- Slide 32: Why preserving the past is showing up in the world
- Slide 33: Missing Matoaka: reclaiming Pocahontas from an Indigenous perspective
- Slide 34: Investigative reporting and adaptive reuse preserve contested histories
- Slide 35: Digital mapping and sensory Street View as preservation tools
- Slide 36: Backup Ukraine: crowdsourced 3D scans to archive monuments
- Slide 37: The takeaways: rigorous storytelling and ethical partnership
- Slide 38: Introduces a trend of purpose‑driven design where brands prioritise regenerative
- Slide 39: Money Dream and Soapume Papier: purposeful product work
- Slide 40: Pay It Forward: circular systems, purpose versus profit, inclusive commerce
- Slide 41: Why 'Pay It Forward' is emerging
- Slide 42: Black‑Owned Friday and Cloudneo Cyclon
- Slide 43: Easy to Wear and the Inheritance Pass
- Slide 44: Hack Market: AirDrop activation for refurbished tech
- Slide 45: Pay It Forward: the key takeaways
- Slide 46: Introduces 'Augmentation for All': a phygital trend where AR
- Slide 47: Mindcraft: sensory virtual environment
- Slide 48: Augmentation for All: gaming, avatars, replication
- Slide 49: Why 'Augmentation for All' is emerging
- Slide 50: Beyond Hearing: AR glasses for deaf users
- Slide 51: The First Digital Nation / E-interpreters
- Slide 52: Michelob ULTRA used Unreal MetaHuman, machine learning and a robotic-return
- Slide 53: Girls Who Code Girls: Orange Cultural Avatars
- Slide 54: Augmentation for All: The Takeaways
- Slide 55: AI: Glint in the Eye
- Slide 56: Not Quite All-In-One AI: But it’s the Nascent Trend to Watch
- Slide 57: AI As A Creative Co‑Pilot
- Slide 58: Coca‑Cola Masterpiece: Heinz AI Ketchup
- Slide 59: AI’s Good Turn / Help Changes Everything
- Slide 60: Exhibit A‑i combined AI technicians and photojournalists to produce visual
- Slide 61: Parting thoughts: creativity that serves audiences
- Slide 62: Discover all the winning work in D&AD Annual 2023
- Slide 63: With thanks to the D&AD Awards 2023 jury
- Slide 64: Defines D&AD's mission to stimulate and celebrate creative excellence
- Slide 65: D&AD Primary call-to-action directing viewers to dandad.org/annual2023 to explore the Annual
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