Oslo Studio Walk #1
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.
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Passion Projects
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 […]
Luna Maurer (Moniker)
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 […]
Tomo Kihara
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” […]
Jan Christian Vestre (Vestre)
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 […]
Roman Stikkelorum (Vruchtvlees)
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 […]
Norwegian Illustration and Design Night Market
Join us in a magical night market for design and illustration, offering makers stalls, street food, music and entertainment
Visuelt 2018 Exhibition
Visuelt award winners 2018 were announced in April, and the winning projects are presented at the Visuelt Exhibition, opening during the European Design Festival.
Cécile Dormeau
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 […]
Yara Said
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 […]
Transport from Oslo’s airports to the city centre
You can travel to and from Oslo Airport at Gardermoen by bus, train, taxi or car 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 […]
Flying to Oslo
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 […]
Scandic Hotels offer discounts for ED-Festival attendees
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 […]
Kristjan Mändmaa
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 […]
Jonathan Pierini
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 […]
Penni Osipow
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 […]
European Design Festival, June in Oslo
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 […]
Susanne van Nierop
Being curious by nature it’s not a coincidence Susanne van Nierop became a journalist. Next to her study of Communication Science, she started working at a financial publisher where she got contaminated with the news and writing virus. At Adformatie — the leading Dutch marketing, media and ad platform — she found the perfect mix of […]
Matosinhos
Get to know four design studios located in seaside Matosinhos
Ten years of European Design Awards
For the first time in the history of the ED-Awards, all European Design Agencies of the past years in the same place