Welcome Reception at the City Hall

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 […]

Special prices through the Star Alliance network

  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 […]

A Tumblr Manifesto: the Critical Intentions of the Interface Deco – workshop with Post Eady

This workshop originates from a perceived dearth of coherent direction within contemporary Graphic Design as a discipline. Where movements such as Futurism, Modernism, Postmodernism once defined the arts we now have no readily discernible ideologies within design to follow.

Design for Porto

The city of Porto is considered by many as Portugal’s design capital.

Flying to Porto

Francisco Sá Carneiro Airport or simply Porto Airport is an international airport located just eleven km away from Porto’s city centre. The airport is currently the second-busiest in the country, based on aircraft operations; and the second-busiest in passengers, based on Aeroportos de Portugal traffic statistics. The airport is a base for easyJet, Ryanair, TAP […]

Camilla Buch

Camilla Buch is a design and print journalist based in Stockholm, Sweden. She holds a degree (BA) in Journalism from the Södertörn University. She has worked as a reporter, web editor and columnist for Swedish graphic design magazine CAP&Design since 2013 and became assistant editor-in-chief in 2017.

Geir A. Skomsøy

Having studied marketing communications at the Norwegian Marketing School, and having obtained his Masters degree on branding at the Norwegian School of Economics, Geir embarked on a career in Art direction since 1981.  In 1992 he became partner and studio manager at See Design, and later on at Brandworks. Since 2013 he has been working […]

Getting from the airport to the city centre

  Whether you need to get to the airport or to the city centre, an efficient public transportation network is at your service to get you where you need to go.  • You can easily get to the airport or to the city centre by metro. Line E (Purple) runs every 20 or 30 minutes, […]

European Design Festival, May in Porto

This is one of Europe’s oldest tourist destinations. Its wealth of artistic heritage, Port Wine, open-air leisure spaces and cultural life are just some of the reasons to visit this city. The city unfolds along the river bank and the sea shore, to reveal charming vistas, inviting esplanades and all the pleasures of the outdoors, […]

ED-Awards Press kit 2016

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Winners’ Banners 2016

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Tolm (Estonia)

Tolm is a team of experienced motion designers and animators with the competence in producing both smaller and bigger international projects.They  cover the entire creative process from the very first idea to final delivery, making their clients’ brand highly visible and attractive while keeping a strong focus on design and storytelling.They  love working closely together with management, […]

Special discount for all European Design Awards travellers

Austrian Airlines, the official airline of  the European Desgin Awards offers a very special discount of 15% to all attendees (and accompanying persons). To do so, simply click here and enter the “EDA16” code in the eVoucher field on the Austrian homepage booking engine. Conditions:• Booking period: now until May 21st, 2016• Valid for flights to Vienna and return as […]

Vienna Design Tour #1

In cooperation with our national partner designaustria, which is also a BEDA European Centre of Competence for Design Business Dialogue, we offer three design tours in Vienna to meet local designers and their businesses.The organisation of design tours is an excellent opportunity from people from all over Europe to get a first-hand experience of the local […]

Michael Leube

At the Salzburg University of Applied Sciences, Leube researches and teaches on the interface between Anthropology and Design since 2013. He is convinced that good design must be well adapted for Homo sapiens and that all industrial projects have to be confronted with the anthropological sciences. At design schools in Europe and the US, Leube […]

Buero Bauer (Austria)

Buero bauer is a leading design studio from Austria. With a strong conceptual and social drive, the studio’s printed, interactive and spatial communication projects span from unique identities to distinct orientation systems.Their approach to comprehensive visual identities isn’t merely limited to classical print or digital media; spatial design also plays an important role. The interdisciplinary team […]

Ermolaev Bureau (Russia)

Ermolaev Bureau is an international graphic design studio specializing in the creation of visual brand strategy, brand positioning and project implementation in the field of corporate and consumer identity. The studio is based in Moscow and has a representative in Amsterdam.Founded in 2009 the studio has been awarded numerous international prizes. In 2014, the visual identity […]

Wolff Olins (UK)

Wolff Olins is a global community of thinkers and makers, founded in 1965 to help organisations shake off their corporate camouflage and take their place in the world.By remaining firmly on the side of the individual, Wolff Olins made corporate identity design truly democratic. It provided creativity that was better for organisations because it was better for people.Even […]

Fabrique (the Netherlands)

Fabrique develops visions, helps its clients think about strategies, branding, and innovation and realises designs, preferably cutting straight through the design disciplines, so that the traditional borders between graphic design, industrial design, spatial design and interactive media are sometimes barely recognisable. In the agency’s vision, this cross media approach is the only way to create […]

Vienna Design Tour #2

In cooperation with our national partner designaustria, which is also a BEDA European Centre of Competence for Design Business Dialogue, we offer three design tours in Vienna to meet local designers and their businesses.The organisation of design tours is an excellent opportunity from people from all over Europe to get a first-hand experience of the local […]