Why Not Associates & Gordon Young's Blackpool Comedy Carpet wins Grand Prix: Drum Design Awards 2013 winners announced
Why Not Associates has taken home the Grand Prix at the inaugural Drum Design Awards for ‘The Comedy Carpet’ it designed for Blackpool Council alongside designer Gordon Young.
The awards, which bring design centre-stage as far as the marketing and communications industry is concerned, also saw tbp! win the Chairman’s Award for its Mackinlays Shackleton Whisky Packaging for Whyte & Mackay.
Other winners, announced at the Emirates Arena in London, included Turner Duckworth in Identity Design with its work for Levi Strauss & Co., while Face Media was successful in the Print Design category for its ‘Too many Chiefs Only One Indian’ work for Restaurant Sat Bains.
Manchester-agency LOVE was victorious in the Copywriting for Design, Experiential Design and Interactive Design categories with its Johnnie Walker Directors Blend, Johnnie Walker Beijing House and Umbro, and Doodlr work respectively.
Judges for this year’s awards included former Design Week editor Lynda Relph-Knight, Design Council CEO John Mathers, interactive media consultant Malcolm Garrett, Adrian Burton of Lambie Nairn, Poke founder Nicolas Roope and StartJudgeGill managing director Jen McAleer.
The awards were sponsored by; Denmaur and Streamtime.
The full list of winners can be viewed below:
Grand Prix
Company: Why Not Associates
Client: Blackpool Council
Title: The Comedy Carpet (A work of art by Gordon Young designed in collaboration with Why Not Associates)
Chairman’s Award
Company: tbp!
Client: Whyte & Mackay
Title: Mackinlays Shackleton Whisky Packaging
Identity Design
AWARD
Company: Turner Duckworth: London & San Francisco
Client: Levi Strauss & Co.
Title: Levi's Visual Identity System
COMMENDATION
Company: Blood Creative Limited
Client: Forth Ports
Title: London Container Terminal Identity
COMMENDATION
Company: The Partners
Client: Soho's Secret Tea Room
Title: Soho's Secret Tea Room
Print Design
Sponsored by Denmaur
AWARD
Company: Face Media
Client: Restaurant Sat Bains
Title: Too Many Chiefs Only One Indian
COMMENDATION
Company: B&W
Client: West Yorkshire Police
Title: Legal Highs
COMMENDATION
Company: Music
Client: Music
Title: Perpetual Record Sleeve Calendar
COMMENDATION
Company: Silk Pearce
Client: Favini
Title: Softy - Print
Packaging
AWARD
Company: Buddy Creative Ltd.
Client: Cornish Orchards
Title: Cornish Orchards Cider Box
AWARD
Company: Buddy Creative Ltd.
Client: Kimberly Clark
Title: Kleenex Collection ABC Cube
COMMENDATION
Company: tbp!
Client: Whyte & Mackay
Title: Mackinlays Shackleton Whisky Packaging
COMMENDATION
Company: Stand
Client: Morrison Bowmore Distillers
Title: Auchentoshan Travel Retail Range
Poster
AWARD
Company: Turner Duckworth: London & San Francisco
Client: Dripp
Title: Dripp Coffee Shop
COMMENDATION
Company: NB Studio
Client: The Typographic Circle
Title: 5 Big Names In Type
COMMENDATION
Company: Origin Creative
Client: BBC
Title: Your Paintings
Self-Promotion
Sponsored by Denmaur
AWARD
Company: Fitch
Title: Scribbles
AWARD
Company: Taxi Studio Ltd
Title: Clifton Troll Bridge
COMMENDATION
Company: Clarks
Title: Clarks Christmas Card
COMMENDATION
Company: SapientNitro
Title: SapientNitro Social Media Engineered Christmas Bauble of Friendship
COMMENDATION
Company: Tayburn
Title: Lynne Forsyth Mailer
COMMENDATION
Company: Turner Duckworth: London & San Francisco
Title: Turner Duckworth Christmas Card 2012
Editorial Design
AWARD
Company: The Church of London Publishing and Human After All
Client: Google
Title: Think Quarterly
AWARD
Company: Music
Client: Unified Theory Of Everything
Title: The Democratic Lecture
Digital Design
AWARD
Company: Squint Opera
Client: V&A / Casson Mann
Title: V&A Hollywood Costumes
COMMENDATION
Company: Fitch
Client: Aurasma
Interactive Design
AWARD
Company: LOVE
Title: Doodlr
AWARD
Company: twentysix
Client: twentysix with Movember
Title: Gallery of Mo
COMMENDATION
Company: POWSTER
Client: Warner Music UK
Title: Paper Crows - Build EP Interactive Player
COMMENDATION
Company: R/GA London
Client: Getty Images
Title: The Watermark Project
App Design
Sponsored by Streamtime
AWARD
Company: R/GA London
Client: o2
Title: Priority Sports
COMMENDATION
Company: Wink Nudge
Client: Future Publishing Group
Title: Ride ID
COMMENDATION
Company: hedgehog lab
Client: Jamie Oliver
Title: Jamie Oliver's 15 Minute Meals
Retail Interiors
AWARD
Company: Fitch
Client: Barnardo’s
Title: Pro Bono 2012
Exhibition Design
COMMENDATION
Company: Studio MB
Client: National Museums Scotland
Title: Fascinating Mummies: Life Everlasting
Experiential Design
AWARD
Company: LOVE
Client: Diageo
Title: Johnnie Walker, Beijing House
AWARD
Company: LOVE
Client: Umbro
Title: St. George's Park, Tailored by Umbro
Art Direction
AWARD
Company: The Church of London Publishing and Human After All
Client: Little White Lies
Title: Cover Series 2012
Typography
AWARD
Company: Why Not Associates
Client: Blackpool Council
Title: The Comedy Carpet (A work of art by Gordon Young designed in collaboration with Why Not Associates)
Photography
COMMENDATION
Company: Silk Pearce
Client: Favini
Title: Softy - Print
Illustration
Sponsored by Denmaur
AWARD
Company: SapientNitro
Client: SapientNitro
Title: Twelve Days of Christmas
COMMENDATION
Company: Smith & Milton
Client: Percy & Reed
Title: 'Success In A Saturated Market'
Copywriting for Design
AWARD
Company: LOVE.
Client: Diageo
Title: Johnnie Walker, Directors Blend
AWARD
Company: Why Not Associates
Client: Blackpool Council
Title: The Comedy Carpet (A work of art by Gordon Young designed in collaboration with Why Not Associates)