The submission period for the European Design Awards 2023 has ended

Dear friends,

On behalf of the entire team I would like to extend my sincere gratitude for  your participation and support in this year’s record-breaking European Design Awards. Your trust and dedication to our competition have been an incredible inspiration to us, and we are humbled by the talent, creativity, and hard work that went into every submission.

As we prepare for the upcoming jury meetings and awards ceremony, we want you to know that your contributions have not gone unnoticed. We know that the competition process can be intense, and we appreciate the time, effort, and resources that went into preparing and submitting your work. We wish you all the best of luck in the upcoming awards, and we can’t wait to see what you will create next.

We hope that this competition has provided a valuable and fulfilling experience for you, and we are eagerly anticipating the opportunity to acknowledge and celebrate your accomplishments soon. The ED-Awards Ceremony  will be held on June 3rd as part of the European Design Festival in the cosmopolitan city of Luxembourg. We are looking forward to a thrilling event and hope that you will join us for this exciting occasion.

Best wishes 
Demetrios Fakinos
Managing Director ED-Festival

Marie Christiansen

Marie is Senior Lecturer at Copenhagen School of Design and Technology. She keeps up to date with the latest research and are in continuous dialog with businesses to forecast what will be the next thing her students will face in their careers. She has an interest in sustainable web design and is active debating the subject matter and helps businesses embrace the practice. She conveys her findings through her own podcast about UI design “Super paint”. 

 Marie graduated as a designer in Visual Communication from The Royal Academy of Fine Arts School of Design. She practices digital design and storytelling and has three books published through the prestigious publishing house, Lindhardt and Ringhof, received a scholarship from the Danish Arts Foundations, and received the White Raven that are granted design of high quality that deserve international recognition.  

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Denmark

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Benoît Drouillat

Benoît Drouillat is a co-founder of “Designers Interactifs”, the first professional organization for digital design professionals, in 2006. This date marks the beginning of an uninterrupted commitment to French design through his roles as treasurer of the Agency for the Promotion of Industrial Creation from 2007 to 2018, administrator and an honorary member of the Alliance Française des Designers, and member of the National Design Council since 2021. 

In parallel, Benoît Drouillat has pursued a dual career as a design manager in agencies and startups (WordAppeal, Oodrive, Botify) and as a teacher (Strate, WebSchoolFactory, Ensci Les Ateliers). He is currently Head of design at Saint Gobain.

Drouillat is also the author of several books on design, including “Design interactif”, published in 2016 (Dunod Editions). Along with Nicole Pignier, he is co-editor-in-chief of the review “Interfaces Numériques”. 

Gabriela Matuszyk

Gabriela Matuszyk is a graphic designer, educator, writer and editor based in London. She co-founded Open Practice Studio with focus on different modes of collaboration in designing, writing, teaching, organising and researching.

She is part of the editorial team behind Eye Magazine, the international review of graphic design and visual culture; as well as Pulp, a journal of people and paper.

Gabriela lectured at numerous academic institutions across the UK. In her pedagogic work, she uses dialogic approaches for supporting students in developing contextually situated, process driven and materially conscious designs.

 

Country

United Kingdom

Jonas Voegeli

Jonas Voegeli is the head of Visual Communication at the Zurich University of the Arts, and a member of the Alliance Graphique Internationale (AGI). 

Through various engagements with the design profession, his work, design methodology, and pedagogic approach serve as proof of his commitment to the advancement of the graphic design field — professionally and academically.

He has been awarded the Swiss Federal Prize for Design twice (in 2003 and 2009), and is a founding partner of Hubertus Design (Zurich/New York).

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Switzerland

Ott Kagovere

Ott Kagovere is a graphic designer, writer and educator living and working in Tallinn, Estonia. He has studied graphic design in Estonian Academy of Arts and philosophy at Tallinn University and the University of Helsinki. Since the fall of 2022 he has been the head of graphic design in the Estonian Academy of Arts. Occasionally Ott is writing about design in various media outlets (Sirp, Vikerkaar, Estonian Art) and together with Sandra Nuut have initiated the letter format design writing platform called Dear Friend. Ott is also interested in performative practices of design and his book Borrowing Positions: Role-Playing Design and Architecture (Lugemik publishing, 2019), written and edited in collaboration with the Trojan Horse Collective is a study of LARP (Live Action Role-Play) as a design method.

 

 

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Estonia

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Stéphanie Thiriet

Stéphanie Thiriet is a French journalist and graphic designer. She received her education at Haute École des Arts du Rhin and Jan Matejko Academy, where she studied graphic design. She later earned a master’s degree in journalism. 

After working as an editor for the magazine étapes, she continues to work as an independent journalist promoting art, design, and “savoir-faire”. 

She also works as an editorial manager for brands and magazines, helping them develop new publishing formats and ambitions. In addition, she teaches visual culture and maintains a personal creative practice.

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France

Social Media

Christine Moosmann

Christine Moosmann is co-publisher of the Grafikmagazin, a new magazine that emerged in the German market in 2020. Before that she had been part of the novum team for almost 20 years, serving first as and editor sand since 2019 as the editor-in-chief of the historic magazine.

In her work, Christine searches for new talents, writes articles for other publications, is a member of design juries and holds talks at design conferences. She is also one of the organizers of Creative Paper Conference, a bi-annual conference on paper, printing and print finishing.

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Germany

Other Jurors

Gabriela Matuszyk

Gabriela Matuszyk is a graphic designer, educator, writer and editor based in London. She co-founded Open Practice Studio with focus on different modes of collaboration

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Stéphanie Thiriet

Stéphanie Thiriet is a French journalist and graphic designer. She received her education at Haute École des Arts du Rhin and Jan Matejko Academy, where

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Mike Koedinger

Mike Koedinger is the founder, CEO and chairperson of Maison Moderne, Luxembourg’s leading independent publishing company. Koedinger is a Media entrepreneur with +25 years of

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Yves Peters

Yves is a graphic designer / copywriter / rock drummer / feminist / antiracist / savior of tiny kittens who tries to be critical about

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Petra Černe Oven

Petra Černe Oven is a designer, theoretician and author with a special interest in typography, information design and theory and history of visual communication design.

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Rene Wawrzkiewicz

Rene is a design curator, animator and organiser of many events related to the visual design scene in Poland.  Co-founder of one of the first

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Esen Karol

Esen Karol is a graphic designer based in Istanbul, who works on both digital and analogue projects in her one-person studio. Her clients and collaborators

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Germany

Mike Koedinger

Mike Koedinger is the founder, CEO and chairperson of Maison Moderne, Luxembourg’s leading independent publishing company. Koedinger is a Media entrepreneur with +25 years of experience in creating leading media brands, exciting experiences for readers, and ROI for brands and advertisers.

Since starting publishing and creating live experiences in the late 1980s, he has developed numerous media titles and shows. In 2000, Koedinger launched “Paperjam – Business zu Lëtzebuerg”, in 2008 Paperjam + Delano Business Club and in 2011 “Delano – Luxembourg in English”. With Maison Moderne’s Brand Studio, he works on Strategic Content Marketing for commercial and institutional clients.

In the 2000s, Koedinger produced the international magazine symposium Colophon and published the books We Love Magazines (2007) and We Make Magazines (2009). He co-founded Luxembourg based association Design Friends (2009) and launched TEDxLuxembourgCity (2012-2013).

Currently he publishes highly successful media brands Paperjam and Delano for the Luxembourg market. 

Country

Luxembourg

Other Jurors

Gabriela Matuszyk

Gabriela Matuszyk is a graphic designer, educator, writer and editor based in London. She co-founded Open Practice Studio with focus on different modes of collaboration

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Stéphanie Thiriet

Stéphanie Thiriet is a French journalist and graphic designer. She received her education at Haute École des Arts du Rhin and Jan Matejko Academy, where

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Mike Koedinger

Mike Koedinger is the founder, CEO and chairperson of Maison Moderne, Luxembourg’s leading independent publishing company. Koedinger is a Media entrepreneur with +25 years of

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Yves Peters

Yves is a graphic designer / copywriter / rock drummer / feminist / antiracist / savior of tiny kittens who tries to be critical about

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Petra Černe Oven

Petra Černe Oven is a designer, theoretician and author with a special interest in typography, information design and theory and history of visual communication design.

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Rene Wawrzkiewicz

Rene is a design curator, animator and organiser of many events related to the visual design scene in Poland.  Co-founder of one of the first

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Esen Karol

Esen Karol is a graphic designer based in Istanbul, who works on both digital and analogue projects in her one-person studio. Her clients and collaborators

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Yves Peters

Yves is a graphic designer / copywriter / rock drummer / feminist / antiracist / savior of tiny kittens who tries to be critical about typography without coming across as a snob. 

He started reviewing type in his Bald Condensed column on Typographer.org and came to prominence as editor-in-chief for the international design and typography blog The FontFeed. Starting in 2008, Yves worked primarily for FontShop for a decade (Monotype and MyFonts after 2014), then Type Network. 

He currently writes as a freelancer for Adobe as well as for independent type foundries. Yves teaches at the Artevelde University of Applied Sciences’s Journalism and Graphic Design & Digital Media departments. His activism led to the creation of the Adobe Typography Customer Advisory Board where he joined other specialists advising Adobe’s development teams on improving the typographic interfaces of the Creative Cloud apps. 

His talent for being able to identify most typefaces on sight is utterly useless in daily life.

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Belgium

Frederico Duarte

Frederico Duarte studied communication design in Lisbon and worked as a designer in Malaysia and Italy. He holds an MFA in design criticism from the School of Visual Arts and a PhD in design curating from Birkbeck College, University of London and the Victoria & Albert Museum. As a design critic and curator he has written articles and essays, contributed to books and catalogues, given lectures and workshops, curated exhibitions and organised events on design, architecture and creativity since 2006.

Kaidi-Kerli Kärner

Kaidi-Kerli Kärner is a Strategic Planning Director at the Estonian Ministry of Economic Affairs and Communications. She will give a research overview about the footprint of Estonian public digital services.

Digitalisation is a big part of our lives and is a success story of the Estonian public sector. Therefor it is important that our digital life is sustainable as well and when making choices regarding future digital solutions, we can be as environmentally sustainable as possible.

Digital environmental sustainability is one of the focus subjects in the new Digital Agenda 2030 of Estonia (national digital strategy). The agenda states that the goal is to be more sustainable but at the moment we lack the knowledge of the current situation and therefor it is difficult to know where to start (where the problem is most urgent). We need to identify where the environmental impact of digital state is the biggest and map out possibilities to reduce that impact. Analysis carried out in spring 2022 will map the environmental impact of Estonia’s public sector digital products (servers, work stations, work processes etc) and will look at possible solutions.

Marksteen Adamson

Marksteen Adamson is a Founding Partner, Chief Creative Officer and Director of Strategy at Asha & Co. Marksteen has gained an international reputation for being an inspiring creative strategist and problem solver, advising global companies, governments, countries and charities on brand strategy and brand behaviour. Marksteen was Global Creative Director of Interbrand and joint Director of its worldwide steering committee, building and overseeing the creative teams in London, Amsterdam and New York before making the move to set up ASHA & Co in 2002. In 2019 Marksteen won the Drum Social Purpose – ‘Changemaker of the Year’ award.

Marksteen’s award-winning work as Global Creative Director of Interbrand includes: ‘Welcome to Estonia’ (a unique brand identity project commissioned by the Estonian government to rebrand and re-position Estonia); the brand identity for PwC; the global brand refresh for Orange, and the multi-D&AD awardwinningNiceday brand identity for WHSmith. He was also responsible for the rebrand of the RaboBank in the Netherlands, Guinness Mahon Private Bank, and helping set up, brand and name the global movement – We Are What We Do. The awards have continued for his agency and more recently ASHA & Co was ranked in Design Week’s Top 100 as one of the most awarded agencies in the UK. As well as overseeing all creative work, brand strategy, innovation and driving the business direction and social objectives of ASHA & Co, Marksteen also has personal projects he works on in-between clients and family commitments.

Dr. Leyla Acaroglu

Dr. Leyla Acaroglu (CEO & Founder The UnSchool and Disrupt Design) is an award-winning designer and sociologist helping to pioneer the transformation to a sustainable and circular economy. She is a TED speaker, a UN Environment Champion of the Earth Lauret, and a LinkedIn Change-Maker. She is the creator of the Disruptive Design Method, which combines systems thinking, sustainability sciences and design as tools for creating a circular and sustainable future. The founder of The UnSchool of Disruptive Design and the creative agency Disrupt Design, Leyla travels the world helping people and organisations think differently about the role we can each play in designing a positive future.   

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AirBaltic (Air Baltic Corporation AS) connects the Baltic region with over 70 destinations in Europe, the Middle East, and the CIS. Over the last 25 years airBaltic has developed as a strong, profitable and internationally respected airline. airBaltic is by far the best known international brand of Latvia and responsible for more than 2.5% of the Latvian GDP. airBaltic operates 33 Airbus A220-300 aircraft. airBaltic has received numerous international awards for excellence and innovative services. Skytrax has awarded Latvian airline airBaltic a five–star COVID-19 safety rating. In addition, airBaltic is one of the Top twenty airlines for COVID-19 compliance by the safety, product, and COVID-19 rating agency Airlineratings.com. In 2018 and 2019 airBaltic received the ATW Airline Industry Achievement Award as the Market Leader of the Year. In addition, in 2019 airBaltic received Sector Leadership Award by Airline Business. airBaltic is a joint stock company that was established in 1995.
Its primary shareholder is the Latvian state, which holds 97.03% of the stock, while the rest of the shareholders hold 2.97%.

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European Design Awards stand by Ukraine

Dear European Design friends

We, just like everyone else right now, are extremely saddened and horrified to be watching the unbelievable events unfolding during the Russian invasion in Ukraine.

It is hard to believe that things like this are happening in places where our friends live and work. There are lots of Ukrainian designers that would always take an active part in the European Design Awards and Festival. We have past and current jury members that live in Kyiv. It’s so easy to relate with them and this makes things even more painful. Our thoughts at this time are with all of our friends who are being affected by the war.

Of course, at times such as these, we feel helpless. What can we do? Is there anything that we can do that could help? Nothing seems big enough when the tragedy is this substantial. Still… we cannot stand and just watch.

First of all, there are simple and small things. Regarding the Ukrainian participants of the ED-Awards, we have already tried (and partly succeeded) to get in touch with them to return all fees that they have paid in this year’s competition. All submissions coming from Ukraine will compete for this year free of charge. This is simple and small, but it’s also self-evident. It can’t be otherwise.

And how about our Russian participants? We want to make sure everyone understands that we empathise with them too. Surely their country is the aggressor, but in reality, this is not a war between Russia and Ukraine. Let’s be clear about this: This is Putin’s war. We are proud to see the Russian creative community in unison stand up against the regime and stand by peace. And keep in mind that their stance against injustice, cruelty and tyranny comes with the danger of persecution and severe consequences for speaking out!Despite this fact, that we acknowledge and honour in regards to the Russian design community, we have decided to take some sort of action to display our disproval of the Russian regime. The name of “Russia” is not going to be visible on our website. It’s just a symbolic move, but we want to make sure that it is understandable on all sides that a crime is being committed and all is not “business as usual”.

Further more, both our Russian jury members (on their own initiative) have asked for their names to be withdrawn from this year’s juries.

And now we come to the important part: The European Design Awards & Festival have managed to gather around them an amazing community of creative people who are real opinion leaders. People who can, better than anyone else, get their message through. We are already preparing an action that will help our Ukrainian partners (to be announced soon), but we want to hear from you too. We want you to tell us what more we could do to help. Share your ideas with us. How can we use our platform to make even a tiny positive change for the people who are currently suffering?

Please be aware that we are also in direct communication with Ukrainian designers as well as one of their major associations, the All-Ukrainian Advertising Coalition to ask them for ways in which we can be useful and we will keep everyone posted on their feedback. 

Bellow you will find information on what you can do to help. All links provided by our Ukranian friends themselves:

• How to support Ukraine

• Make and share art

• Stay informed

• Boycott Russia

• Donate

 

Tanel Kärp

Tanel is an interaction designer, consultant, educator and currently the head of the Interaction Design Master’s program at the Estonian Academy of Arts.
With 20 years of experience in the field, and BA and MA degrees in design, his career has mostly focused on digital and experience design in social fields, from empowering sustainable behaviours to citizen activism.
Today he applies human centered, behaviour and strategic design thinking and combines his critical mindset and theoretical know-how with creative production skills, to help create human-friendly products, services and systems, and facilitate systemic change in complex environments.

Country

Estonia

Aleksandra Tulibacka

Founder and Editor-in-Chief of a polish online magazine, Grafmag, where she shares her experience and promotes polish design and designers. Since 2012 the magazine has earned its place as a reliable resource of knowledge for the Polish creative community, and a platform to find information about the best projects, contests, and events.

Starting from 2017 she co-organizes an annual design conference GrafConf, which supports designers in starting and developing their careers and creates a unique opportunity to network, share experience and grow the creative community.  

 

Country

Poland