D&AD: At the Sharp End

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Almost 50 years on and one of the most coveted prizes in advertising is still the Black and Yellow Pencil. Tim Cumming takes a trip down memory lane with D&AD’s chief executive Tim Lindsay and previous winners to where it all began, and the disastrous consequences budget cutting has for talent

Just as you get a Plimsoll line in shipping, so a pencil line runs through the design and communications industry, in the form of D&AD’s

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