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First Ever D&AD White Pencil Goes to Leo Burnett

28/11/2012
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Recipeace wins award for work with real social impact

 

The first D&AD White Pencil was awarded last night by an esteemed panel of judges at the Royal Institution in London. For 50 years, D&AD has inspired and celebrated the best in global design and advertising. As businesses and brands respond to changes in consumer behaviour and strive to play an active role in delivering positive social change, creativity has a more critical role than ever. The first new award in D&AD’s history was created to reward an idea that has a genuine social impact. 
 
Winning work: Recipeace
 
The inaugural White Pencil, which is supported by Unilever, was won by Leo Burnett Chicago, for their project Recipeace, a social movement designed to bring people together over a shared meal. Recipeace’s aim was to help to establish September 21 as the UN’s global self-sustaining annual day of peace. The Award was collected by Kit Patrick and Alice Cooper from Leo Burnett UK. 
 
D&AD’s awarded members voted to create a shortlist of 19 pieces of work (listed below). The works were then deliberated over by a panel of leading creatives and industry commentators chaired by Lord David Puttnam to arrive at the winner. 
 
Saatchi & Saatchi's Blood Relations
 
In 2013 the White Pencil will be integrated with the D&AD Professional Awards. The White Pencil category is now open for all design work and creative campaigns for both brands and not-for-profits. 
 
Unilever Senior Vice President of Marketing Marc Mathieu said: ‘The Unilever Sustainable Living Plan is built on the belief that the business can make the world a better place. Our brands and marketing have a responsibility to inspire positive change in people’s lives. We believe in the power of creativity to make that happen. That’s why our long-term partnership with D&AD and the White Pencil is so exciting.’ 
 
D&AD CEO Tim Lindsay said: ‘The D&AD White Pencil is a message and a movement. It symbolises the power of creativity as a force for positive social change and provides a platform for a growing community of design and advertising talent to share ideas and showcase innovation. We’re inviting projects to enter the White Pencil category in the 2013 D&AD Awards now.’ 
 
Former D&AD President Rosie Arnold said: ‘The passion demonstrated by those in the industry has been so gratifying to see. The creative community wholeheartedly embraced the idea, thanks in no small part to the 50 White Pencil Ambassadors, including Archbishop Desmond Tutu, who supported us so well.
 
I hope and trust that the White Pencil goes on to inspire us all to play a positive future role in making the world a better place.’
Peace Flag 
 
During the presentation of the Award Chair of judges Lord David Puttnam said: ‘I was waiting for one word and it didn’t crop up. 
 
I’m reminded of a quote by TE Lawrence from his Book, The 7 Pillars of Wisdom. In 1926 reflecting on the back on the broken dreams and brocken promises of World War 1, Lawrence said: The moral freshness of the world-to-be intoxicated us. 
 
I sympathise with Lawrence. I grew up in the 60s. I know every line of Bob Dylan’s songs. And we genuinely believed there was a  revolution on its way. Then the old men came and took away the victory we thought we’d won. 
 
We are now, I believe, at a tipping point. The missing word is ‘trust’. The people in this room – marketers - are in the trust business. We have a huge mountain to climb to build trust – in banking, in politics, in media. 
 
There is a need for goodness, a need for authenticity and a need for trust, because its almost always absent. Its got to be real this time. This is a tipping point, and the D&AD white pencil is a very impoartant part of redressign the balance.’ 
 
 
 
The shortlisted projects were:
Blood Relations by Baumann Ber Rivnay Saatchi & Saatchi
israel loves iran by Shenkar Israel
Open WiFi for POD by LOWE-SSP3
Soldiers For Peace by Manic Design
Peaceful Countries by Droga5
Recipeace by Leo Burnett Chicago
A gift of peace from Tohoku by McCann Healthcare Worldwide Japan
The Peace Flag
Peacing Together by Landor Associates, United Kingdom
The Peace Medal by Design Bridge
Concert 4 Peace by Y&R
Peace Star by Saatchi & Saatchi
Make Your Peace Day by BBH
Create A Master Peace by Pearlfisher
Peace Bond by law & kenneth
Peace Day Baby by Red Bee Media
The Peace Button by Havas WW
CEASE FIRE by Ogilvy & Mather Advertising, Shanghai
Missile for Peace by Leo Burnett London
 
The White Pencil judging panel 
Lord David Puttnam
Rosie Arnold, Deputy Executive Creative Director, BBH London
David Jones, CEO of Havas, Co-founder of One Young World
Jan Chipchase, Executive Creative Director of Global Insights, frog
David Droga, Creative Chairman, Droga5
Marc Mathieu, SVP Marketing, Unilever
John Mulholland, Editor, The Observer
Ruth Mortimer, Editor, Marketing Week
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