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Awards: D&AD Awards Four Black Pencils; Burger King’s Moldy Whopper rakes in 11 Pencils

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LONDON, UK– D&AD has released the winners for this year’s competition, awarding four Black Pencils to Burger King, Family Type, FCB/SIX, and FCB Chicago.

Burger King‘s “Moldy Whopper” created by INGO Stockholm/David The Agency Miami/Publicis, scored 11 pencils including four Yellow Pencils under the categories Art Direction, PR, and Press & Outdoor.

The fast food chain has taken a stance to use fresh ingredients by showing that like real food, their whoppers mold up to 35 days, an uncommon practice in the fast food industry.

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The ad paid off with an additional four Graphite Pencils under Integrated, Art Direction, Media, and Film Advertising categories; and a Wood Pencil for Art Direction.

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FCB/SIX’s “Go Back to Africa” won for its transformation of a racial slur into a marketing maven for Black & Abroad, displacing hate and showing what it truly means to go back to Africa.

The campaign also won a Yellow Pencil under media, and Graphite and Wood Pencil under the Digital category.

Under typography, Universal Sans made the black pencil for a highly variable typeface that provides greater flexibility and control to the end user–making customised type available to a wider audience.

FCB Chicago‘s “The Gun Violence History Book” brings to light the prevalence of gun violence in America that if it was all captured in a book, it would probably stop a bullet.

Winning two Yellow Pencils in Branding and Art Direction, “The Gun Violence History Book” embeds a bullet into its pages and reads on the stopping page, “This bullet stopped. But history continues to be written. Support universal background checks at stopgunviolencehistory.com”

 

D&AD has been celebrating creative and craft excellence in design and advertising since 1962. Get the full list of winners on their website.

 

 

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