Martin Egge Lundell

Martin Lundell (b. 1979) is a graphic designer and educator. He is trained as a typographer and holds a BA from the Norwegian National Academy of Craft and Art Industry (SHKS) and an MA from Konstfack in Stockholm. Currently, he serves as a professor and heads the graphic design and illustration program at the Oslo […]

Valencia to host the ED-Festival in 2021

Every year, for the past 14 editions of the European Design Awards we have been very eager to welcome the creative community to an exciting series of events that constitute the annual European Design Festival. It’s a time that we get to see many friends in person and get to know new ones. People whom […]

ED-Festival opening garden party and vernissage of the exhibition “123 Polish posters you don’t want to miss”

How about a garden party to kick things off, along with a guided tour to the best of Polish poster design

Karol Śliwka: Polish Design Polish Designers

Monographic exhibition on Karol Śliwka, an outstanding graphic designer who has helped shape Polish visual communication for the past sixty years

Special Hotel discounts for ED-Festival attendees

For the European Design Festival in Warsaw we have secured special discounts which you can claim following the instructions described in each individual case Hilton Warsaw Hotel & Convention Centre**** 63 Grzybowska, 00-844 Warsaw  • Single room with breakfast- 518,40 PLN per day • Double room with breakfast- 561,60 PLN per day Please make the […]

Flying to Warsaw

Warsaw can be reached via two international airports: The main airport serving the city is Warsaw Frédéric Chopin Airport located just 10 kilometres from the city centre. With around 100 international and domestic flights a day and with 17.750.000 passengers served in 2018, Warsaw Frédéric Chopin Airport is by far the biggest airport in Poland […]

Transport from Warsaw’s airports to the city centre

ΒΥ RAIL S2 route: Warsaw Airport to Sulejówek Milosna This route lets you get to key locations within downtown Warsaw. Opening hours From Warsaw Airport: Daily, from 06:07 am to 23:09 pm. From Sulejówek Milosna: Daily, from 04:55 am to 23:24 pm. S3 route: Warsaw Airport to Warsaw Centrum (Central Railway Station) By this route […]

Print Control

Know all there is to know on the current trends in Polish publishing design

Mr Bingo

Mr Bingo was a commercial illustrator for 15 years, working regularly for clients such as The New Yorker, The Guardian, TIME, CH4, The Mighty Boosh & The New York Times. An archive of the thousands of illustrations from this period doesn’t exist online because he got bored once in a motorhome and deleted his entire […]

Peter Biľak

Born in Czechoslovakia, Peter Bil’ak lives in the Netherlands. He worked at Studio Dumbar, before starting a design studio in The Hague, where he excels in the field of editorial, graphic and type design, combined with part-time teaching at the Royal Academy of Arts in the Hague. In 1999 he started Typotheque type foundry, in […]

Michael Bierut

Michael Bierut studied graphic design at the University of Cincinnati’s College of Design, Architecture, Art and Planning, graduating summa cum laude in 1980. He worked for ten years at Vignelli Associates before joining Pentagram as a partner in 1990. He is a senior critic in graphic design at the Yale School of Art and a […]

Discounted travel with Lufthansa Group partner airlines

Lufthansa Group Partner Airlines offer a comprehensive global route network linking major cities around the world. We offer special prices and conditions to participants, visitors, exhibitors, invited guests as well as employees of the Contracting Partner and their travel companions. To make a reservation, please click on here and enter the access code EEZQDAE in […]

Dionne van Dijk

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 […]

Olga Kalinkina

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 […]

Dóra Ísleifsdóttir

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 […]

Viveka van de Vliet

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 […]

European Design Awards 2019: Roadmap to Warsaw

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 entry deadline is 22 February 2019 • The submission period starts on December 15th ,2018 • Entry deadline is set for February […]

Fleeting Form – Poster Art 1960–1980

Designer and curator for the exhibition Fleeting Form, Aslak Gurholt, will guide you through Henie Onstad’s collection of posters – now open to the public for the very first time. 

Studio Crawl

Join us for a Studio Crawl around some of the best design studios in Oslo. This event is free, no tickets needed to attend the Crawl.

Oslo Studio Walk #2

The studios will showcase some of their best work and gladly answer any questions you might have. This is a rare opportunity to get an accurate insight into the way things work within the Norwegian design community.