With the help of young design students from city schools, city tours will be organized every day to discover places that speak of art and design.
Author: demetrios@europeandesign.org
Late Talks at dotfog and Riot
In the days leading up to the awards ceremony, we will have the opportunity to meet in the evening in the spaces of some of the studios and galleries in the city for informal conversations with the international designers attending the event.
Venue: dotfog
Address: Via Nuova Pizzofalcone, 2
Venue: Riot
Address: Via San Biagio Dei Librai, 39
European Design Awards Winners’ party
A Renaissance cloister, then a woolen mill in the Bourbon era in the nineteenth century, this place, managed today by the Made in Cloister Foundation, is the venue for contemporary art exhibitions and at the same time, a multifunctional center that has been carrying out a social support project for years. We will meet here after the award ceremony to celebrate, chat, enjoy some music, dance the night away, and share in a truly memorable evening.
Venue: Made in Cloister
Address: Piazza Enrico de Nicola, 48
Official Opening at the Palazzo Reale di Napoli
The Festival’s opening night on May 30 will take place in the iconic Palazzo Reale di Napoli. There, the entire programme of the festival will be presented. During the evening, a special moment will be the official unveiling of the new brand identity project for Palazzo Reale.
Venue: Palazzo Reale di Napoli
Address: Piazza del Plebiscito 1
European Design Awards 2024 ceremony
Every year the European Design Awards celebrate outstanding work in the field of communication design.
This time the awards ceremony (followed by the traditional winners’ party) will take place on Saturday the 1st of June at the Teatro Mercadante, an iconic eighteenth-century theater overlooking the large Piazza del Municipio.
Venue: Teatro Mercadante
Address: Piazza Municipi
Special Hotel discounts for ED-Festival attendees
For the European Design Festival in Naples we have secured a special 10% discount on a wide variety of hotels (from 3 to 5 stars) valid for the period of May 28th to June 2nd, 2024. You can secure this discount by mentioning the “EDA24” code when making a reservation.
Grand Hotel Parker’s *****
C.so Vittorio Emanuele, 135
Email for reservations: booking@grandhotelparkers.it
The Britannique Naples Curio Collection *****
C.so Vittorio Emanuele, 133
Email for reservations: reservations@thebritannique.com
Hotel Royal Continental ****
Via Partenope 38/44
Email for reservations: book@royalcontinental.it
Grand Hotel Santa Lucia ****
Via Partenope, 46
Email for reservations: reception@santalucia.it
Grand Hotel Oriente ****
Via A. Diaz, 44
Email for reservations: info@grandhoteloriente.it
Hotel Magri’s ****
Via Galileo Ferraris, 118
Email for reservations: info@magrishotel.com
Via Carbonara, 111/112
Email for reservations: reservations@caracciolohospitality.com
Hotel Tiempo ***
Via Sannio, 19
Email for reservations: info@hoteltiempo.com
Getting to Naples
BY PLANE
Naples-Capodichino International Airport is the international airport serving Naples and the Southern Italian region of Campania. According to 2022 data, the airport is the fourth-busiest airport in Italy and the busiest in Southern Italy. The airport serves as a base for easyJet, Ryanair, Volotea and Wizzair.
BY TRAIN
Travelling from Rome to Naples by train is a fast and economical journey. The Rome-Naples route is 189 km long and the journey with takes roughly 1 hour and 10 minutes. The price of this trip starts at €9,90
Tickets: ItaliaRail, Italo
BY CAR
It takes approximately 2h 18m to drive from Rome Airport (FCO) to Naples.
The fastest way to drive from Rome to Naples is to take Via Casilina to the Grande Raccordo Anulare (A90/E80) to the A1/E45 toll highway. The A1/E45 ends near the Napoli Centrale (central Naples) train station.
Onur Yazıcıgil
Onur Yazıcıgil is an Istanbul-based typographer and design educator. Upon receiving his BFA in Graphic Design, he was awarded a full scholarship to Purdue University, where he pursued an MFA in Visual Communication Design. During his graduate studies, he won the 1st prize in typography from the Society of Typographic Arts in Chicago (2007). His first typeface, Duru was acquired by Google into the Google Fonts platform. He completed his PhD in the history of Ottoman Arabic metal typefaces from Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University in 2020.
Since 2009 he has been teaching typography and graphic design classes as a faculty member at Sabancı University. His most recent typeface, Kit was published by Darden Studio and made available via Adobe Fonts library in 2023. He is the co-founder of ISType (Istanbul Typography Conference) where he has been directing its international conferences since 2011.
Other Jurors
Barbara van Santen
Barbara van Santen is a communications professional and graphic designer with a strong background in the creative and non-profit sector, based in Amsterdam. With a bachelor’s degree in graphic design from the Maastricht Institute of Arts and a master’s degree from Maastricht University, Barbara has made significant contributions to organizations such as the European Cultural Foundation, the Erasmus Prize Foundation, and the architecture firm NOAHH.
Currently, she serves as Communications Manager at the Association of Dutch Designers (BNO), the largest community of designers and design agencies in the Netherlands, and holds the position of editor-in-chief of Dd, Dutch designers Yearbook. In her work, she is dedicated to visually strengthening and branding organizations committed to a positive societal impact.
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
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.
Discounted travel with airBaltic
The official airline for the ED-Awards 2022 Tallinn is airBaltic.
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%.
airBaltic offers the registered participants (and accompanying persons) of ED-Awards 2022 Tallinn a special discount of -10%. Please claim your discount codes by sending your request to: kerli@disainikeskus.ee
Conditions:
• Booking period: now until June 19, 2022
• Valid for flights to Tallinn and return during June 14-21, 2022.
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:
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