At its 50th anniversary celebrations last night, D&AD honored Wieden + Kennedy co-founder Dan Wieden.

Each year the reigning president of D&AD bestows a President's Award on someone who, in their opinion, has made a major contribution to the creative world. At D&AD's 50th birthday celebrations last night, current president Rosie Arnold gave that honour to Wieden + Kennedy co-founder Dan Wieden.

“Dan Wieden is one of the most inspirational advertising brains of our age,” Arnold says. “His spirit remains restless and free, and he continues to champion independent thinking and behavior. His work and that of his now numerous agencies lead the way across all disciplines. I've lost count of how many times I've seen a piece of work that has surprised and delighted me, and made me run up and down the corridors at work showing it to other creatives, only to discover it came from Wieden+ Kennedy. So when I asked myself if I should give Dan my President's Award, I told myself, ‘Just Do It'.”

Past recipients include Sir Alan Parker, Jonathan Ive, Spike Jonze and Sir John Hegarty.
 

We're pleased to welcome 3 new members into the W+K family.

Firstly, we have Tom Lloyd, who joins the Planning
team from DDB. Tom worked on the likes of VW, Marmite, Flora and Diageo
whilst out in Paddington, but has moved East to join our team on Tesco.

We also welcome back Lara Chapple who helped us on the
Tesco pitch earlier this year.

Lara went off to spend the summer in Saatchi's grad
scheme where, amongst other things, she discovered that they do things very
differently to us. Thankfully, we have her back for good as the new Account
Exec on Tesco and Finlandia, so she can teach us what we’re missing.

And finally, we have Olly West, our brilliant new
runner. He has never worked in an ad agency before, so we're
not quite sure when to let him know that not everywhere stocks a Blenderman and has a padded cell for a meeting room.