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How ED-Awards Juries Work

ED-Awards juries are composed of design critics and commentators — not practicing designers. This approach is deliberate and reflects our core values:

• Encourage critical reading of design
• Ensure independent and informed evaluation
• Avoid conflicts of interest (e.g. judging competitors, clients, or collaborators)
• Prioritise cultural, editorial, and academic expertise

In short, ED-Awards jurors are selected for their ability to analyse, contextualise, and articulate design quality — not for their commercial practice.

Balance, diversity, and representation

• Juries have been gender and geographically balanced throughout our 20 year history
• All European regions are represented
• No country is represented by more than one member within the same jury
• Jury members are based in Europe

These rules ensure fairness, independence, and a genuinely European perspective.