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DBA Design Effectiveness Awards shortlist 2017
The DBA’s annual Design Effectiveness Awards are both prestigious and authoritative, recognising the real and measured benefits delivered by design, and proving the value of design to business.
The 2017 shortlist of 42 winners has now been announced, after two rigorous rounds of judging by senior business figures from brands and organisations including Airbus, Deutsche Telekom, Diageo, Google, Guardian News and Media, ITV, Lego, PepsiCo, Volvo and more.
View the full judging panel.
For the second year, a third panel of judges, consisting of CEOs from globally renowned businesses such as Aston Martin’s Chief Executive Officer Andy Palmer, Entrepreneur Deborah Meaden and Warner Bros’ President & MD Josh Berger, will meet to deliberate and determine the winner of the Grand Prix award. The coveted Grand Prix award has been presented in recent years to companies including HM Government, BT, BEAR, Legal & General and MailOnline.
For full information about the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards, including winning case studies from 2016 please click here.
Awards ceremony
The Bronze, Silver or Gold status of each shortlisted winning entry, along with the winner of the Grand Prix for 2017, will be announced at the glamorous awards ceremony on 1 March 2017 at The Brewery, London. Book here.
“The DBA Design Effectiveness Award winners demonstrate how design can add value in any category, any business or public service – from radically improving customer experience to transforming the performance of a company, from saving costs to saving lives – there is a place for design at the heart of any organisation,” says Josh Berger, President and MD at Warner Bros.
DBA Design Effectiveness Awards Shortlist 2017:
Business | Agency | Project Title |
AkzoNobel | Springetts Brand Design Consultants | Armstead |
Arla Foods | Elmwood | SKYR |
Booths | Smith &+ Village | Booths Bags for Life |
Booths | Smith &+ Village | Booths Own Label |
Brunel University London | Brand Ethos & Reason Design | Brunel University London Design Strategy |
Carlton & United Breweries | Denomination | The Rise of Mercury Hard Cider |
Cawston Press | Pearlfisher | Cawston Press Sparkling Cans |
Diageo | forceMAJEURE Design | Buchanan’s |
Dimension Data | Prospect | Dimension Data |
Financial Times | 999 Design | FT.com Customer Retention Journey |
Freedom Finance | Conch Associates | Freedom Finance Repositioning |
Glasgow Life | Front Page | See Humans Fly |
GlaxoSmithKline | GSK Nutrition Design Team & Cowan | Horlicks India Restage |
Green Park Brands | jones knowles ritchie | Hippeas |
Green’s Beers | WPA Pinfold | Green’s Gluten Free Beer |
Harrogate Water Brands | Thompson Brand Partners | Harrogate Spring Water |
Heineken, Tecate | Elmwood | Redefining a Mexican Icon |
Homeserve | WPA Pinfold | People Charter & Internal Branding |
HOOQ Digital | Elmwood | Entertainment Unlimited |
Intel Corporation | 2LK | Intel at MWC 2016 |
Kabuto Noodles | B&B studio | The Way of the Noodle |
Lloyds Banking Group | M Worldwide | Lloyds Clapham Junction |
Lucozade Ribena Suntory | BrandME | Orangina: Shaking Up a Classic |
McVitie’s Cake Company | Springetts Brand Design Consultants | McVitie’s Cakes |
MOMA | BrandOpus | MOMA |
NHS Leeds South and East Clinical Commissioning Group | Thompson Brand Partners | MindMate |
Organic Seed and Bean company | Family (and friends) | Saving the Organic Seed and Bean Company |
Polyseam | The Engine Room | GRAFT Brand |
Sapience HR | Absolute | Sapience HR Rebrand |
Selwyn’s | Brand Union | Selwyn’s Sells Seaweed from the Seashore |
SOpharmacy | Creative Leap | SOpharmacy |
The Donkey Sanctuary | The Allotment | Growing The Donkey Sanctuary |
The Dune Group | Four-by-Two | Dune ‘Catwalk Concept’ |
The Monty Bojangles Company | Springetts Brand Design Consultants | Monty Bojangles Taste Adventures |
The Snowdon Trust | Elmwood | The Snowdon Trust |
Twinings | BrandOpus | Twinings Discovery Collection |
Twinings | BrandOpus | Twinings Sweet Greens |
Unilever | PB Creative | Comfort Intense Fabric Conditioners |
Unilever | Design Bridge | Flora ProActiv |
Whitworths | Springetts Brand Design Consultants | Whitworths Shots |
Wilson Browne Solicitors | White Clarke Creative | Wilson Browne Rebrand |
World Vision UK | The Yard Creative | The Story Shop |
For full information about the DBA Design Effectiveness Awards, including winning case studies from 2016 please click here.
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