Richard Wright has won this years Turner Prize. The creator of a subtle and unashamedly beautiful fresco in gold leaf has been named the winner of this year’s most prestigious UK art prize. Glasgow-based Richard Wright, 49, used the age-old, painstaking techniques of the old masters to make his glistening wall painting for the Turner prize exhibition at Tate Britain in London. And yet when the show closes on 3 January 2010, it will simply be painted over in white emulsion and lost forever. (Silk or Matt?)

This year we had six successes in D&AD. All six will be featured in the prestigious D&AD student annual. KPMG  and Green fingers are both entries by 2nd year students.

Symon Machin. Packaging for Fortnum & Mason based on the theme of Antarctic explorers.

Mark Arrowsmith & Drew Pountney. Packaging for a new Homebase range aimed at first time growers.

Kate Hilton. Packaging for a new Homebase range aimed at first time growers.

Sam Evans. direct mail for the homeless charity Crisis. The brief asked to highlight the work Crisis do and avoid cliches to do with homelessness.

Tom Cohen. Brief as above.

And finally Ben Tustin, Mat Taylor and Ruth Weston for the KPMG brief. The brief was to produce a large scale artwork for KPMG, a financial company. The idea involved LED panels echoing weather  patterns outside of the building.

Congratulations to the 4 D&AD Black pencil winners and all the yellow pencil winners. Unfortunately Griff’s music video had to settle for a nomination, still a massive achievement in a highly competitive category. You can read a more comprehensive review on thought for the week (if you haven’t already). It’s probably worth taking a moment to appreciate that BMW Kinetic sculpture again. Amazing.

Kinetic BMW from David J Engel on Vimeo.

Congratulations to Rebekah Grace, 3rd year graphics student, who won overall silver in the student catagory at the Roses awards last night.

Many congratulations go to Rebekah Grace and Natalie Crisp (3rd Year Graphics students) for winning the Roses Awards this year for their work on the ‘Bahookie’ and ‘Knife Crime’ briefs. A placement at Elmwood awaits.

Rebekah Grace – Bahookie

Natalie Crisp – Knife Crime

Big congratulations go to friend of TDOD Oli Maltby, for picking up a coveted metal light bulb for The Chase London’s in-store promotional vinyls for the Royal Mail Yearpack. Lovely simple idea, well executed. An award wining formula if ever there was one. See the other winners here.