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 2nd of June at Skur 13, an amazing Oslo harbour venue.
TRAIN TO/FROM OSLO AIRPORT
Flytoget Airport Express Train
The Flytoget Airport Express Train departs from Oslo S (Oslo Central Station) every 10 or 20 minutes. Duration to the airport is 19–22 minutes.
Click here for info on The Airport Express Train’s prices and discounts
Find the right station in the first column.
Click here to find departure times for the Airport Express Train
NSB (Norwegian State Railways)
All NSB Regional trains operating Skien-Oslo-Lillehammer-Trondheim go via Oslo Airport Gardermoen as well as NSB local trains Kongsberg-Eidsvoll.
For more information and timetables visit NSB’s website
Click here to see the prices for NSB’s Gardermoen-Oslo train
Click here to find the departure times for NSB’s Gardermoen-Oslo train
BUS TO/FROM OSLO AIRPORT
Flybussen
Flybussen departs every 20 minutes all days. Starting from the Radisson Blu Scandinavia Hotel via Oslo Bus Terminal, Helsfyr, Radisson Blu Alna Hotel and Furuset. Duration approx. 40–50 min.
Click here to find Flybussen’s departure times and prices
First, select direction (”To airport” or “From airport”) and click “Oslo OSL”. Then select your bus stop in Oslo and the date and time of day. Choose number and type of passengers and click “Search” to see departure times and prices.
Flybussekspressen
Flybussekspressen is available from 120 places in and around Oslo (routes from Bekkestua, Fredrikstad, Majorstuen and Ski).
Click here to find Flybussekspressen’s departure times
Use the map at the bottom of the page to find your stop, then search for departure times.
Click here for info on prices and discounts on Flybussekspressen
OSL-ekspressen
OSL-ekspressen connects the airport with Oslo’s east side, with departures every our to/from 33 stops between Nordstrand and Lindeberg. Duration 30–65 minutes, depending on your stop.
Click here for info on prices and discounts on OSL-ekspressen
The table shows prices for a single ticket (“Enkel”) or return ticket (“Tur/retur”) for adults (“voksen”) or student/senior/child (“student”/”honnør”/”barn”). Buying the ticket online (“Kjøp nett”) is cheaper than buying it on board (“Kjøp ombord”).
Click here to find OSL-ekspressen’s departure times
Choose direction from the airport (“Fra Gardermoen”) or to the airport (“Til Gardermoen”), and select a date in the calendar to see the departure times. If you are taking the bus to the airport, you have to choose your bus stop under “Påstigning”.
TAXI TO/FROM OSLO AIRPORT
Oslo Taxi, Norgestaxi and others have special Airport Taxi offers, with fixed prices to and from Gardermoen (view all taxi companies operating at OSL). The price depends on the time of day, number of passengers and where in Oslo you are travelling to/from. Check the taxi companies’ pages for price information. Please contact the company directly to order or if you have questions.
If you want to take a taxi FROM the airport, you can go to the taxi information desk in the Arrivals hall. They have information about the fixed rates and available taxis, and you have the option of choosing the cheapest available company.
Train Torp–Oslo
You can take the train from Torp Sandefjord Lufthavn to Oslo. The station is located between Stokke and Sandefjord. The journey takes about 1 hours 45 minutes. There is a shuttle bus service between the airport and the train station, which is included in the train ticket. the train usually departs once every hour.
Click here to see the prices for the Torp-Oslo train
Click here to find the departure times for the Torp-Oslo train
To find the departure times, enter where you are travelling to and from, and the weekday if you are not looking for today’s departure times.
Bus Torp–Oslo
The Torp Express bus service corresponds with most international flights to/from the airport. Buses arrive Oslo Bussterminal (appr. 2 hours travel).
Click here to see the prices and discounts for the Torp Express bus
Click here to find the departure times for the Torp Express bus (choose direction and date to find the times)
Oslo can be reached via two international airports:
The main airport serving the city is Gardermoen Airport, located in Ullensaker, 47 kilometres from the city centre of Oslo. It acts as the main international gateway to Norway, with direct routes to more than 140 domestic and international destinations, and more than 80 charter destinations.
Oslo is also served by a secondary airport, which serve some low-cost carriers, such as Ryanair and Wizz Air: Torp Airport, 110 kilometres (68 mi) from the city.
For the European Design Festival in Oslo we are collaborating with Scandic Hotels, which has several hotels in central Oslo. We offer all participants a discount on rooms during the weekend.
Discount prices pr room, pr night (breakfast included):
NOK 1.100,- (incl vat) – standard single room
NOK 1.200,- (incl vat) – standard double room
Booking is made through www.scandichotels.com and the discount code BEDF010618 gives you the festivals prices.
Discount valid at the hotels listed below:
– Scandic Karl Johan
– Scandic Grensen
– Scandic Vulkan
Kristjan Mändmaa (b 1973) is an Estonian graphic designer and design educator. He studied printmaking and book design in the Estonian Academy of Arts and graphic design in Gerrit Rietveld Academy, Amsterdam. As a designer, Kristjan has been involved in editorial work designing books, newspapers (Estonian cultural weekly „Sirp“, foreign relations publication „Diplomaatia“) and magazines (Estonian Literary Magazine „ELM“).
Since 2003, Kristjan has been teaching design in different universities in Estonia. He has also created and run new BA- and MA-programs in visual communication, entrepreneurship and interaction design. Since 2016, he works as a Dean of Design in Estonian Academy of Arts. As a hobby, Kristjan also runs a small publishing house Lepp&Nagel. One of its recent titles, a novel “Gogol’s Disco“ by Paavo Matsin, won the 2016 European Prize for Literature.
Jonathan Pierini is a graphic and type designer. He is professor in typography and graphic design at ISIA Urbino — High Institute for Applied Arts where he acted as director between 2017 and 2023. He has been editor of Progetto Grafico magazine (2017-2023). Jonathan had previously been researcher and aggregate professor at the Faculty of Design and Art of the Free University of Bozen/Bolzano (2011-2017).
He holds a BA in graphic design and visual communication from the ISIA Urbino and a MA in Type and Media from the Royal Academy of Arts of The Hague, The Netherlands.
Penni Osipow is a graphic designer with a speciality in magazine and publication design. She has been working for over 18 years in different Finnish media companies with magazine concept design and art direction.
Currently, she works as a free graphic designer and is a member of Noon Collective that focuses on social communication and journalism. She is also the art director of a Finnish ecology magazine Huili.
Penni Osipow has, since 2014, been teaching publication design and illustration at the Institute of Design (Lahti University of Applied sciences) and in the programme of Visual Communication Design (Aalto University).
She is one of the board members of Grafia, the Association of Visual Communication Designers in Finland.
He studied Graphic and type design at ECAL / University of Art and Design Lausanne, Switzerland, graduating with an award for researches and applications in typeface design and typography. He has worked for Swatch, Mercedes-Benz and Musée de l’Elysée Lausanne.
He focuses on type design, art direction, editorial design as well as new visual identities for brands and cultural institutions. Raphaël Verona also produces and leads photographic projects.
He is a professor at Eracom Lausanne—école romande d’arts et communication where he teaches Type and Editorial Design, while at the same time he has been contributing to IDPURE éditions Books and publications since 2011, as an art director and editor.
As one of Europe’s fastest growing cities this decade, Oslo is buzzing with energy from new neighbourhoods and cutting-edge food, to design, fashion and art scenes. Captivating landmarks like the Opera House, the Astrup Fearnley Museum and Barcode are changing the face of the city, and Oslo maintains its refreshing closeness to nature that few other capitals can match.
Nestled between the Oslofjord and forested hills, Oslo was named European Green Capital 2019 for its dedication to conserving natural areas and reducing pollution. The compact city centre is easy and safe to explore on foot or by bike, and the efficient public transport system makes the entire city accessible without a car.
Oslo’s restaurant scene is diverse and constantly evolving with new, innovative kitchens – many of them with a fresh approach to Norwegian ingredients and food traditions. This attitude has led to international praise and is also central to the city’s celebrated cocktail and coffee cultures.
Norway’s capital since 1814, Oslo is home to many of the country’s most prestigious cultural institutions. First-rate opera, ballet and theatre performances are presented throughout the year, and art lovers can see famous works at The National Museum and The Munch Museum and browse through the city’s numerous galleries. Oslo’s vibrant and cutting-edge creative scene has manifested itself, among other things, in numerous distinctions in the European Design Awards.
This year, our Awards ceremony is going to take place on the 2nd of June 2018 in Oslo. It will be preceded by a series of very interesting events, curated by Grafill, the interest organisation for those studying or working within the field of visual communication in Norway. More details on the subject will be announced shortly.
Find out more about this year’s ED-Festival on Grafill’s official website.
The organisation of guided design tours is an excellent opportunity for people from all over Europe to get a first-hand experience of the local design scene.
Four studios in the vicinity of each other are picked up and are invited to host visiting groups of international visitors, to exhibit their work, discuss their challenges, their solutions and their methodology, to interact and to exchange views and experiences.
In this specific walk through the city centre, you will get to know:
White Studio
White Studio is a multidisciplinary design studio based in the beautiful city of Porto, with offices in London and Santiago. White Studio works on several design areas, from press to web, from editorial design to signage systems, from packaging to interior design. It focuses on the essential: the concept. This is why each of its projects has an expression that makes it unique. Always working in close connection with its clients, White Studio has been experiencing design for more than two decades.
Bondlabs
Bondlabs is a technology & digital bureau. Because it has a unique understanding of how to combine aesthetics force with logical functions, has earned a reputation for teaming up with sophisticated clients and delivering work of an unparalleled quality in highly demanding timeframes.
Bondlabs has developed Bondlayer platform to deliver tailor-made multi-device digital projects on schedule, on budget, and on target. Its output is so impressive that a former client decided to invest and make it available to the world as ‘Software as a Service’ (SaaS).
Bondlabs serves its clients using Bondlayer complemented with consultancy and design that algorithms and artificial intelligence cannot deliver.
Atelier D’Alves
Working between Porto (Portugal) and Eindhoven (Netherlands) the studio stands for a critical view of the design field and the society. The philosophy of the studio is one of constant learning and change. Each new design product opens up fresh possibilities to be explored. With open dialogue between the studio and the client, we develop design solutions where that dialogue in the creative process is the key element for the construction of the solution. Answering to a big variety of challenges and ideas we developed a pluralistic and eclectic design language who let grown and work in so many distinct areas like editorial design, branding, installations and social design.
Madalena Martins
Madalena Martins is an interdisciplinary studio that focuses on communication design and unique pieces of product design. Inspired by the everyday humour, Madalena explores a universe dedicated to the design and imagery of Portuguese culture, reinterpreting objects, materials, and stories, returning emotions in the form of design objects.
Most of the projects are developed in their early stages by inmates of the Prisons of Northern Portugal and users of social reinsertion associations giving the final product a very strong social component. Environmental sustainability is also very present in the production process, turning industrial waste or discards from cultural materials into new parts.
The organisation of guided design tours is an excellent opportunity for people from all over Europe to get a first-hand experience of the local design scene.
Four studios in the vicinity of each other are picked up and are invited to host visiting groups of international visitors, to exhibit their work, discuss their challenges, their solutions, and their methodology, to interact and to exchange views and experiences.
In this specific walk through the beautiful sea-side area of Matosinhos, you will get to know:
Another Collective
Another Collective is a design studio formed in 2014 and based in Matosinhos. Considering branding, web design and editorial design as the main areas of intervention, Another Collective believes in an engaging work methodology. With a focus on experimentation and exploration of concepts, it relates customer and company in a relational symbiosis, having as a principle the clients’ claims, always favoring direct contact with them.
This is Pacifica
Pacifica is an independent communication studio, established in 2007 by Pedro Serrão, Pedro Mesquita and Filipe Mesquita. Pacifica believes in ideas, solving problems, taking opportunities.Its focus is on the good ideas without barriers, formulas or specific tools. Its method is based on visual thinking.
Pacifica does anything from branding, and packaging, to mobile and interactive design. From advertising to events and relationship marketing (and everything in between).
Bürocratik
Founded in 2005, and currently, with offices in both Coimbra and Porto, Bürocratik is an international award winning studio, specialising on Branding and Digital with an absurd passion on typography.
Designers and engineers driven by exceptional experiences and craftsmanship.
Canvaz Design Studio
Canvaz is a UI/UX Design studio based In Porto, Portugal.
With a special connection to sports, technology and great challenges, we are proud of having awesome clients on our side helping us deliver digital experiences for the users and a portfolio with released, loved and featured work.
The organisation of guided design tours is an excellent opportunity for people from all over Europe to get a first-hand experience of the local design scene.
Four studios in the vicinity of each other are picked up and are invited to host visiting groups of international visitors, to exhibit their work, discuss their challenges, their solutions and their methodology, to interact and to exchange views and experiences.
In this specific walk through the city centre, you will get to know:
Studio Dobra
After 10 years of working individually, in January 2014, André Cruz and João Guedes joined forces and created Dobra, a graphic design studio based in Porto. They work with cultural institutions, independent publishers and like-minded companies. They are also fortunate to do a lot of work for music and theatre companies.
GSA Design
GSA is a design studio based in the city of Porto, since its foundation in the Fine Arts School of Porto in 2001. Currently, there are three designers working at GSA: Isabel Arouca, João Tiago Santos and Lígia Magro.
The studio collaborates with several institutions from different areas, from Culture to Science and in many design areas including editorial design, branding and identities and illustration.
AND Atelier
And Atelier is a small, independent design studio run by João Araújo and Rita Huet and currently based in Porto. Their work always tries to accomplish a strong conceptual approach, through clear solutions with a strong typographic component and respect for letterforms and reading rhythms.
Mother Volcano
Founded in 2013, Mother Volcano is an independent creative studio that specialises in illustration based communication, content and digital products. It brings together storytelling, animation, interaction design and code to create beautiful, relevant and exciting work that takes the message further.
The European Design Awards were launched exactly ten years ago in Athens Greece.
During this time eight different studios have managed to fulfill the very strict criteria needed in order to be awarded the title “European Design Agency of the year”.
These are: Beetroot Design Group (2008), Lava (2010), Les Graphiquants (2011), Silo (2012), Jäger & Jäger (2013), R2 (2014), Ermolaev Bureau (2015) and Raffinerie (2016). In total it’s two studios from the Netherlands, and one from France, Germany, Greece, Portugal, Russia and Switzerland.
For the first time in the history of the ED-Awards, we gather all these top performers in order to exhibit some of their finest work at the same place.
The result is, of course, an exciting exhibition with some of the best communication design output on a global scale.
This year’s award winners will be revealed in a ceremony hosted by stand-up comedian Alistair Barrie taking place in Porto’s Rivoli Theatre.
All winners will then walk to the nearby dos Aliados for their gala dinner. The night will wrap up with the annual Winners’ Party.
The Câmara Municipal do Porto is actually one of the city’s landmarks, situated at the top of Aliados Avenue, at the heart of downtown. Along with Clérigos Tower, this is one of the most famous monuments among tourists. With its solid 70m high tower with a carillon clock, the Porto City Hall is an imposing building that dates back to the beginning of the 20th century.
This is going to be the venue for a welcome reception thrown by the City itself, and the mayor or Porto Rui de Carvalho de Araújo Moreira, personally, in order to stress the city’s dedication and acknowledgement to the design profession.
The Star Alliance member airlines are pleased to be appointed as the Official Airline Network for the European Design Festival 2017.
To obtain the Star Alliance Conventions Plus discounts please visit Conventions Plus online booking tool.
Registered participants plus one accompanying person travelling to the event can qualify for a discount of up to 20%, depending on fare and class of travel booked.
The participating airlines for this event are: Adria Airways, Aegean Airlines, Air Canada, Air India, Air New Zealand, ANA, Asiana Airlines, Croatia Airlines, EgyptAir, Ethiopian Airlines, EVA Airways, LOT Polish Airlines, Scandinavian Airlines, Shenzhen Airlines, South African Airways, TAP Portugal, THAI, Turkish Airlines and United.
Discounts are offered on most published business and economy class fares, excluding website/internet fares, senior and youth fares, group fares and Round the World fares.
When making your travel plans please present confirmation of your registration or proof of attendance for the European Design Festival.
Helena Sofia Silva and Eduardo Filipe Aires lead a conversation with three young and upcoming studios from Portugal. They each introduce themselves and discuss with each other and the audience the realities of the local design scene.
The Royal has a deep conceptual and strategical approach to the design wonders. It also has a romance with graphic contexts and form. The Royal is methodologically denying the mark of its authorship, but it consistently tends to fail in doing so. The Royal cares for the socially contextual problems and strives to develop their solutions in order to pursue richer answers. It longs for poetry and its hands are vibrantly humanistic. Mental. Loyal to culture, it researches, it lectures and it designs. Established since 2010, it adds clients across cultures: from Australia to Kuwait, from London to New York, jumping to California and back to Porto. Is continuously developing cross-media solutions, promoting dialogues between the client-context-public realms and it still happily jumps on self-promoted projects as a way to justify the caffeine intake.
José Cardoso was born in Fafe, Portugal in 1984.
He graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts, University of Porto in 2008 and has been working as a Graphic Designer and Illustrator ever since.
He was the co-founder of the multidisciplinary arts collective Salao Coboi in 2010, the online record label Gentle Records in 2013, and has been involved in multiple projects from very different areas like photography, music, graphic design, sculpture and illustration.
He’s currently producing under the Tomba Lobos alias.
Inês Nepomuceno/Mariana Marques
Inês Nepomuceno was born in Viseu, in 1986. She moved to Porto in 2004 to study Communication Design at the Fine Arts Faculty of Porto (FBAUP). After graduating she moved to Barcelona, where she collaborated with Twopoints.net. In 2011 she enrolled in the MA Communication Design in ESAD – Escola Superior de Artes e Design. Inês currently works as a designer at esad—idea, Investigação em Design e Arte from ESAD.
Mariana Marques was born in 1987, in Porto. She graduated in Product Design from ESAD in 2005. In 2010 she integrated the MA in Communication Design in ESAD. Between 2015 and 2016 she was the art director at the magazine Attitude Interior Design. Mariana currently works at Studio Dobra.
As freelance designers Inês and Mariana have been working together since 2015. Together they were responsible for the the graphic image of the centennial celebrations of Theatro Circo de Braga (2015) and the graphic identity of the Galeria Municipal do Porto (2015/2016). Together, they designed the image of the 40º International Theater Festival of Iberic Expression (FITEI 2017) and are currently working on an exhibition catalogue for the Contemporary Art Museum of Serralves.
Bleed is a multi-disciplinary design consultancy based in Oslo and Vienna, established June 2000.
It creates identity and experience through concept development, art direction, graphic design and service design.
Representing a mix of cultures and disciplines to challenge today’s conventions around art, visual language, interaction, media and identity.
Perniclas Bedow is the founder and creative director of Stockholm-based design studio Bedow. The studio mainly works with branding, packaging and book design and for the last decade, their work has been widely acknowledged around the world through books, lectures, and exhibitions. Perniclas’ work has been awarded by Art Directors Club, Cannes Lions, D&AD, Epica Awards and European Design Awards, to mention a few.
The title of his presentation in this year’s ED-Masters Conference is “Playful Is the New Serious“
As an interactive design agency CleverºFranke fuses strategy, design, and technology to help their global clients develop innovative products and services.
With a client list that includes names such as Google, Wired, Philips, Red Bull, AirFrance-KLM etc, CleverºFranke excels in all fields, having won numerous international awards for its creative output.
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