{"id":10252,"date":"2026-03-23T09:14:22","date_gmt":"2026-03-23T09:14:22","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/?p=10252"},"modified":"2026-03-25T21:01:37","modified_gmt":"2026-03-25T21:01:37","slug":"dad-festival-2026","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/events\/dad-festival-2026\/","title":{"rendered":"D&#038;AD Festival 2026"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"background: #f6f6f6; border-left: 4px solid #97D422; padding: 16px 20px; margin: 24px 0; border-radius: 0 8px 8px 0;\">\n<p style=\"margin: 0 0 6px 0;\"><strong>Location:<\/strong> Southbank Centre, London<\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0;\"><strong>Date:<\/strong> 19 May 2026 to 20 May 2026<\/p>\n<\/div>\n<p>The D&amp;AD Festival returns to London&#8217;s Southbank for two days of programming aimed at working designers, creative directors and design leaders. Organised around the annual D&amp;AD Awards, the festival brings together speakers, panel discussions and presentations from practitioners across graphic design, product design, advertising and digital, with the Yellow Pencil showcase at its centre.<\/p>\n<p>The 2026 festival poses the question of whether creativity remains alive in a period of significant industry disruption, with particular attention to the role of artificial intelligence in professional practice. Programme strands include Learning Labs, Jury Insights and a President&#8217;s Lectures series exploring how established creative voices are navigating a changed landscape.<\/p>\n<p>For interior designers and architects interested in the broader creative industry, the D&amp;AD Festival offers direct access to the thinking and work of practitioners across adjacent disciplines, as well as the opportunity to see the year&#8217;s most recognised commercial design work in a single setting.<\/p>\n<div style=\"margin: 32px 0; border-radius: 12px; overflow: hidden; box-shadow: 0 2px 12px rgba(0,0,0,0.1);\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" style=\"border: 0; display: block;\" src=\"https:\/\/maps.google.com\/maps?q=Southbank+Centre+Belvedere+Road+London+SE1&amp;output=embed\" width=\"100%\" height=\"450\" allowfullscreen=\"allowfullscreen\"><\/iframe><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Two days of talks, showcases and creative debate at the Southbank Centre bring together designers and creative leaders across disciplines.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":10697,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"none","footnotes":""},"categories":[19,56,80],"tags":[],"location":[71],"class_list":["post-10252","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-events","category-talks-panels-and-lectures","category-uk-events","location-london"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=10252"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10698,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10252\/revisions\/10698"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media\/10697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=10252"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=10252"},{"taxonomy":"location","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.bespokecareers.com\/af-api\/wp\/v2\/location?post=10252"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}