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The annual D&AD Student Awards are open for entry, providing the ultimate platform for creative students to launch their careers in design and advertising 24/01/2013

The awards give students direct access to the creative industry, and answering live briefs set by clients from the world's top brands allows them to demonstrate their skills to employers.

Brands involved include the BBC , the Victoria & Albert Museum, Unilever and Dazed and Confused.

Of the graduating student awards winners, 76% gain placements or a job within three months of winning.

The awards are open to all students around the world who are willing to take on the briefs. 

Chief executive officer of D&AD , Tim Lindsay says, 'Our industry has a duty to nurture new talent because the creative economy relies on new ideas to thrive.

'If we want to stay competitive, the best way to do that is to support our best young minds. Their ideas will become the award-winning work of the future.'

D&AD's education programme also includes the New Blood talent fair and the Graduate Academy.

Today, the organisation exists to inform and educate those working in and around the sector. D&AD was created in the 1960s to raise standards within the creative sector.

Download the brief from D&AD Student Awards  

Entry deadline: 20th March 2013