Dionne is a freelance digital designer based in Rotterdam who in the past has worked for various agencies, won a few awards and contributed as a jury member in others.
Having gained a lot of experience on web design (UX/UI), mobile and native app design, online brand identities, design systems etc, she’s an active blogger and editorial contributor to Dutch Digital Design and Marketing Tribune among others
Olga studied Art History, Criticism and Conservation and holds an MSc on cultural policy and sociocultural management. After a short period of working at museums and galleries, she came across KAK magazine. In 2005 she joined the magazine right at the moment when it was going to reload. Olga started as a content manager and put in a lot of work on developing a design community in Russia. In a couple of years, she shifted towards the print version of “KAK” magazine where she held the position of executive editor for 8 years (while at the same time engaged in PR, fundraising and partnership development).
Twenty issues of the magazine were published with her contribution. Since 2014 Olga is a hybrid practitioner who plays at the fringe of society, culture, and creativity. As a producer, she has been running design contests, public talks and different kinds of researches within the field of design.
Carlos Arredondo Gуmez was born in Madrid in 1963. He trained and worked as a graphic designer, working both as a freelancer and later on in collaboration with agencies and creative studios.
In 1988 he founded and designed Visual magazine, Spain’s premium medium for the communication design industry.
In 2003 he founded Daniel Gil’s Editorial Design Awards
He has served as editor, graphic designer, and production manager of Libros de Blur —a collection of more than one hundred titles related to illustration, photography and graphic design released from 2004 to 2011.
Dóra Ísleifsdóttir is Professor (2019–), and formerly Associate professor (2017–8) of Visual communication at the Institute of Design, KMD, University of Bergen, where she currently teaches on BA level in Visual Communication, and on MA and PhD level in Design.
She was Professor of Visual communication at Iceland Academy of the Arts (IUA, 2012–17), Program director for MA Design (2012–17) that she authored, Program director for Visual Communication (2006–12), and design teacher since 1999. She taught Print design to MA students of Practical editorship and theory of publishing in the University of Iceland (2011–17), where she earned her MA degree (2011).
Dóra’s interests span the spectrum of communication design, and focus on editorial design and editorship, type, media, and politics, and design in transdisciplinary collaboration.
Dóra practices at the intersection of design and art. She works as designer, consultant, speaker, and artist in diverse collaborative efforts: she was IUA’s project manager for the House of Ideas (2009–11); board member of Alda–Association for sustainability and democracy (2010–14, 2016–17); participant in the Ether project (2009–17); founding member of the Icelandic Love Corporation (1996–2001); owner and curator at Under a Couple, gallery (1997–8); Art and Creative director at Gott folk McCann-Erickson (1998–2001), owner and Creative director at Fastland (2001–4); editor of Mæna (2009–13), and Ymt (2019), magazines about Visual Communication, and is co-editior of Message, a graphic communication journal, published by Plymouth University.
Viveka van de Vliet is a freelance journalist in the field of design, architecture, photography, and art. She studied Spanish at the University of Amsterdam and has a bachelor in Journalism. She started at the Amsterdam based newspaper Het Parool in the early nineties and currently writes for several cultural magazines, like design magazine WOTH (WOrld of Beautiful THings) and ArchitectuurNL. She works close together with the editor in chief to make Dude, Dutch Designers Magazine, which is published by BNO.
Viveka has a broad network in the design world, spots young talents, advises and helps young as well as established designers and design labels, museums, and galleries with content. She interviews designers for various books, like The Dots – which will be launched every year at the Milan Design Week, for Social Label, a book about designers working successfully together with people with ‘a disadvantage in the labor market’, and architecture book Boque. She had been Government commissioner for design and art academies in the Netherlands and has taken part in various design-related juries.
Very soon the submission period will start for the 2019 edition of the European Design Awards.
We, therefore, thought it would be useful to inform all interested parties on the critical dates for this year’s organisation.
• The submission period starts on December 15th ,2018
• Entry deadline is set for February 22nd, 2019
• Physical samples (for the categories that they are required) should be at our Athens office by March 8th, at the latest
• Notification of finalists will commence on April 1st and continue for a week
• The awards ceremony (and accompanying festival) will take place in Warsaw June 7-9
This year’s Festival will take place in Warsaw (it joins forces with the City of Warsaw, Element Talks conference and the Polish Graphic Design Awards). The event contains an awards show, conference, workshops, exhibitions, studio walks, and many other events! Over 2000 creative people from all over Europe are expected to join the many events, which will also be open to the wider public.
• How to submit work
• Rules
• Fees
• Categories
• Winners’ gallery
The collection consists of more than 3000 posters acquisited through purchase, donation and other exchange of printed materials. In addition, Henie Onstad arranged eight surveys of poster art within the first decade, and much of what was displayed was purchased and collected. Acquisition ceased in the early 1980s, and for almost forty years the posters remained untouched in Henie Onstad’s archives.
The exhibition includes a selection of posters and catalogues from institutions such as Stedelijk Museum, Moderna Museet in Stockholm and Louisiana, the design of the first identity for Henie Onstad made by Sigfried Odermatt, original design proposals made for the institurions first poster in 1968, a room dedicated to the posters of the Swiss Norwegian graphic designer and artist Paul Brand, as well as a selection of Japanese and Polish posters from the collection. The exhibition includes work from from a wide range of internationally renowned artists and graphic designers such as Willem Sandberg, Wim Crouwel, Andy Warhol, Max Bill, David Hockney, Jean Tinguely, Jan van Toorn, Armin Hofmann, Richard Hollis, Pentagram, M&Ö, Shigeo Fukuda, Tadanori Yokoo, Jan Lenica, Dieter Roth, Buckminster Fuller and Sture Johannesson, as well as various Norwegian artists and designers.
The exhibition is curated by Lars Finnborud and Aslak Gurholt.
The tour will be guided by Aslak Gurholt, curator and designer at Yokolan
The Studio Crawl is like a pub crawl and open-house all rolled into one day inviting people to visit and experience some of Oslo’s best design agencies and creative studios.
Design Container
Start the evening off with the good people at Design Container. A DJ will spinn records and ensure the right party spirit and the possibility to shake a tail feather. Drinks and food will of course be served. And if sports is your thing, you can join the table top football tournament.
Scandinavian Design Group
Welcome to Scandinavian Design Group, immerse yourself in our world and our work. Satisfy your hunger and quench your thirst for both good design and refreshments with an assortment from some of our clients. Engage with interactive installations made by our designers in our very own SDG Academy or get your portrait drawn in our SDG Portrait Booth. Or just bop along to music from and by our own SDG DJs, while decked out in some SDG swag.
A curated studio walk on Friday June 1st, will show you around some of the most essential studios of the Oslo design scene. You can choose between two different tours. Tour #1 focuses attention on illustration and animation, while tour #2 highlights graphic and digital design.
In this specific tour, focusing on graphic and digital you will get to know:
Designit
Designit is a strategic design firm. They work with ambitious brands to create high-impact products, services, systems and spaces – that people love. Designit’s Oslo office has been around in Norway since 2007, and they’ve been growing rapidly in the last few years. Today, this office is one of the largest within Norway’s design industry, and the only one with a truly international edge.
Bleed
Bleed is restless, intuitive, and contemplative. We defiantly question convention and the very definition of design. Although always thinking — more importantly, we are always doing. Representing a mix of cultures and disciplines, creating strong and sustainable business value through strategy and design. With our eyes firmly set on the horizon, we continue to blur design, art, and technology to create compelling products, services and experiences for our clients.
Int
A different kind of company, with a different view of the world. Customers are nomads. Interaction and transaction patterns are shifting fast. Int makes it their business to ensure their clients are well equipped to succeed in the new digital reality. They deliver measurable business impact and beautifully crafted solutions.
A curated studio walk on Friday June 1st, will show you around some of the most essential studios of the Oslo design scene. You can choose between two different tours. Tour #1 focuses attention on illustration and animation, while tour #2 highlights graphic and digital design.
In this specific tour, focusing on illustration and animation you will get to know:
byHands
byHands represents some of Norway’s most talented contemporary artists. Based in Oslo, they work with both national and international clients. Their award-winning illustrators represent a unique range of skills and techniques. byHands was founded in 2010. Since then they have grown to become Norway’s leading agency for commercial and artistic illustration.
Stir
Stir is an animation studio based in Oslo with a global network of partners. They deliver commercials, brand films, event design, tv/film graphics and information films. They work with a broad spectre of animation techniques to create moving images that engage.
Brenneriveien
Brenneriveien is a collective of freelance designers, illustrators and photographers working from a small studio located in the heart of Oslo by the Akerselven river, neighbouring the nightclubs Blå and Ingensteds. Each member of the collective works for clients in various creative disciplines, independently and collaboratively.
Grafill is showcasing national contemporary design and illustration. Meet five creatives and their passion projects; reMarkable, Torill Kove, William Stormdal, Eivind Stoud Platou, Ståle Gerhardsen.
reMarkable – Notepad for writing, reading and sketching
In 2013 the reMarkable team set out to create a device that would offer a pure, paper-like experience, but be connected and limitless. The first real digital paper tablet. Designed for reading, writing and sketching. And to be an elegant tool for thinking in the digital age, for those who love the inspiration and clarity they get when working on paper. (remarkable.com)
Torill Kove – Animated short film Threads
Torill Kove is an award-winning director, animator, and illustrator. She was born and raised in Norway and now lives in Canada. Her three previous short films have all been nominated for the Academy Award, and Kove won the award with The Danish Poet. She has also written and illustrated several children’s books. Torill Kove will outline the creative process of her animated short “Threads”, a film about love and attachment. She will discuss the joys and challenges of telling a simple yet complicated story with images and movement, but no words. (www.mikrofilm.no/Threads)
William Stormdal – Pseudonym Publishing
Graphic designer from Oslo, Norway, specialised in identity, editorial and type design. Been working with a wide array of clients, both national and international, small & large. Initiator of Oslo-based Pseudonym Publishing. For his book-project ‘Pseudo’ he created a writing software, visualising the thought process behind writing. A timer is attached on the cursor, forcing white-spaces into the text block for every inactive second – creating a void in the text, true to a pause for contemplating or reflection. (www.stormdal.com)
Eivind Stoud Platou – The art of not throwing away food
“Kunsten å ikke kaste mat” is an award-winning book about the art of not throwing away food. A third of all the food we produce are thrown. It is one of today’s biggest and most unnecessary environmental problems. It is uneconomical and unethical. With this book each and one of us can learn and contribute to less food waste. The book presents the most common food articles we eat, what happens when they turn old, and how to use our own senses to determine whether the food is eatable or not. (www.handverkforlag.no)
Ståle Gerhardsen – Paternity Leave
Ståle Gerhardsen is an artist born (and kind of raised) in Trondheim, Norway. He paints, draws, prints, writes, build, make, design and spray for a living. He was invited to make a book of his drawings by a Norwegian publishing agency. The same agency changed its mind a few months later. So Gerhardsen released his first book «Pappaperm» (Paternity Leave) on his own publishing agency “Takk Forlaget». Ståle will talk about the process from first sketch to making the second edition and going viral. (www.staalegerhardsen.com)
Moniker is an interactive design studio based in Amsterdam, founded in 2012 by Luna Maurer and Roel Wouters. The studio works across various media, exploring the social effects of technology and often interacting with the public.
With Moniker, which means nickname or pseudonym, they work on commissioned design projects while also investing in projects of an autonomous and experimental nature. The studio works across various media for a diverse range of clients ranging from those in the cultural field to commercial companies. With their projects, they explore the social effects of technology – how we use technology and how it influences our daily lives. Moniker specialises in interactive, print, video, physical installation and performance work.
Playful interventionist and design researcher, Tomo Kihara develops situated playful interventions to challenge and reframe societal issues. His recent project Street Debaters aims to change the act of begging into a job to create public discourse through playful artifacts. His projects to reframe societal issues through design activism has been acclaimed internationally, with project “phonvert” – a project to raise awareness of the potential that retired smartphones have – being nominated as Design of the Year 2016 by the London Design Museum.
As a founder, he is now currently in charge of developing this project at the Waag Society in Amsterdam. Some people also refer to him as the Chief Street Debater since he is head of the Street Debaters around the globe. On sunny weekends you can meet him street debating about almost anything − from politics to the best anime − in Amsterdam Dam square. Originally from Tokyo, he is now a graduate student based at TU Delft, Design for Interaction program in the Netherland.
Vestre have been involved in creating social meeting places for millions of people for almost 70 years. They are a leading manufacturer of furniture for towns, parks and outdoor public spaces.
Vestre is a family business, and in 2012 Jan Christian Vestre became managing director, only 26 years old. His strong belief in design as a tool for change has made Vestre into a successful firm with a solid economy.
Jan Christians philosophy is that if design shall be a significant factor it has to be implemented through the whole production line. Even the Vestre factory, located in a small place in the middle of a forest, is designed by Snøhetta. His goal is not to compete on price, but to be best on quality, innovation, design and sustainability.
Today their products are well used at Times Square in New York, King’s Cross Central in London, Oslo Opera House, The Olympic Museum in Lausanne, Cormeilles en Parisis in Paris, Kunsthaus in Graz and Hamburg airport, just to mention a few.
Vruchtvlees: Digital, Strategy & Design was founded by Michael Danker, Roman Stikkelorum and Rindor Golverdingen in 2007, after realising that graphic design could play a important role in the digital world. Rooted in the tradition of Dutch Design, Vruchtvlees finds the balance between high-quality design and smart digital code.
Vruchtvlees: Digital, Strategy & Design realizes the potential of ambitious brands like the Vegetarian Butcher, O My Bag and Theater Rotterdam. Enthusiastic and driven by design we research the question beyond the question. This results into Dutch Digital Design: international renowned (digital) solutions that people love and that grows brands.
Roman Stikkelorum is co-founder and strategic director at Vruchtvlees. For more than 10 years Roman has realised the goals and ambitions of a wide range of international clients. With a background in graphic design, Roman addresses complex issues using the design thinking method, which means starting from an overarching vision to create positive online and offline experiences. Working from the inside out, he builds strong brands, brand strategies and online strategies that result in value, growth and impact.
SALT is a nomadic art project currently situated on Oslo’s shoreline, overlooking the city’s famous Opera House.
On an area of 5000 square metres, SALT comprises several spectacular wooden constructions designed by Sami Rintala (Rintala Eggertsson Architects). SALT arrange SALT NIGHT MARKED every weekend from spring until September. During the European Design Festival, the SALT NIGHT MARKED focus on Norwegian design and Illustration.
The market will be open throughout the festival and is also part of the event ‘Havnelangs’ on Sunday the 3rd of June.
The Visuelt competition is held annually and gives tribute to the professionals working with visual communication in Norway. The aim of the competition is to promote innovation, bring further professional competence and present the best work done by creative professionals in Norway. The main categories are: Graphic design, Illustration, Interactive Design and Moving Image. Visuelt has gradually grown to become the most important competition for designers and illustrators in Norway.
Welcome to the grand opening!
Cécile Dormeau is a French illustrator based in the suburb of Paris. She worked in Germany in different graphic design agencies and as a junior art director at the advertising agency Ogilvy one for two years before starting her career as an illustrator. Using simple bold lines and bright colors, she creates illustrations and GIFs that explore body image and everyday issues faced by women. Parallel to her personal projects, she works for clients such as Google, GQ, the Sunday Times, NEON.
The flag of the Refugee Nation was designed by the artist Yara Said, a Syrian refugee who found asylum in Amsterdam.
“Black and orange is a symbol of solidarity with all these brave souls that had to wear lifevests to cross the sea to look for safety in a new country. Since I had wear one, I have a personal engagement with these life-vests, and these two colours.”
Natasha Jen is an award-winning designer, an educator, and a partner at Pentagram. Born in Taipei, Taiwan, she joined Pentagram’s New York office in 2012. A three-time National Design Award nominee, Natasha’s work is recognized for its innovative use of graphic, verbal, digital, and spatial interventions that challenge conventional notions of media and cultural contexts. Her work is immediately recognizable, encompassing brand identity systems, packaging, exhibition design, digital interfaces, signage and wayfinding systems, print and architecture. Natasha is a faculty member at the School of Visual Arts and is a guest critic at Harvard Graduate School of Design, Yale University School of Art, Cooper Union, Rhode Island School of Design, and Maryland Institute College of Art.
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