A huge THANKS to everyone who entered Realise Your Dream this year - you guys really came out in force. We've had more entries than ever before (cracking the 600-mark!), making our jobs as judges super tough, and our poor little eyes squinty from reading all your great applications!

Stay tuned to find out who makes it though the first round to the semi-finals. We'll let you know early August.

Best of luck to everyone,

BC

The ever-inspiring Creative Sydney festival is in full swing right now, with another full programme of events and forums showcasing the best and brightest in local creativity. The festival's Creative Director is 2007 Realise Your Dream winner Jess Scully, but the links don't stop there... a bunch of RYD friends and alumni have been voted "ones to watch" in Creative Sydney's 10 x 10 initiative, in which 10 of the country's industry leaders name 10 of their favourite up-and-coming creatives.

2008 Realise Your Dream winner Jake Nash and 2009 special encouragement award winner Kate Mulvaney both get a look-in on the list, and so do creative agency Republic of Everyone - our official partners for this year's campaign, who came up with the "big ideas" idea.

Congratulations, everybody!