D&AD Festival 2026

The D&AD Festival brings together the global creative community for a programme centred around this year’s theme: is creativity dead or alive?

Drop in for an hour — or stay all day — and step inside the world of creativity. Peek behind the judges’ curtain in our Insight Sessions, roll up your sleeves in hands-on Learning Labs, and soak up wisdom from visionary keynote speakers in the President’s Lectures. Then, celebrate the best of the best at Yellow Pencils: Why They Won — where you can see who won and discover why. Endless inspiration.

Ticket prices:
Jury Insights - £30+vat
Dead or Alive: The President's Lectures - £150+vat
Creative Impact Accelerator (part of the Learning Labs) - £200+vat
AI Accelerator (part of the Learning Labs) - £200+vat
Yellow Pencils: Why They Won - £75+vat

Further discounts are available for students, charities/non-profits, freelancers, small businesses with under 10 employees and retired people. We have also put aside free tickets for people who have recently been made redundant.

Please email festival@dandad.org for more information.