Vienna Design Tour #3

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 […]

Getting from the airport to the city centre

City Airport TrainThe CAT takes just 16 minutes nonstop to get from central Vienna to the airport and vice versa. It operates daily from 05.36 a.m. to 23.39 p.m. The City Air Terminal is just 10 minutes from St. Stephan’s Cathedral at Wien Mitte station, which can be reached easily by public transport. Ticket Price: € 12.00 […]

Arriving by train to Vienna

Vienna is comfortably located in the centre of our continent. It is therefore quite possible that you’re no more than a few hours away by train.If this is the case, you should be aware that the Austrian capital has a brand new and very convenient railway station, the Wien Hauptbanhof. The new station offers significantly improved, principally international, […]

Flying to Vienna

Vienna is served by Vienna International Airport, located 18 km (11 mi) southeast of the city centre next to the town of Schwechat. It is one of Europe’s biggest airports and serves as the hub for Austrian Airlines and Niki. It features a dense network of European destinations as well as long-haul flights to the […]

Jim Thacker

Jim Thacker is an experienced editor of consumer and specialist magazines, and an editor of the Essentials book-length software training guides for 3ds Max, Maya, ZBrush, Cinema 4D (www.myfavouritemagazines.co.uk/design-bookazines). He is a development editor of books for publishers including Focal Press and he has worked as a freelance writer for a range of leading technology […]

Sarah Snaith

Canadian-born writer, editor and consultant Sarah Snaith has worked for Eye, the international review of graphic design, in various roles since 2012. She is currently the assistant editor of both Eye magazine and Pulp, the quarterly journal of people and paper made for Italian paper company Fedrigoni (launched in 2014). Snaith is the editorial consultant […]

Giovanni Riva

Following a one year program of Graphic Design at the ESAA (Superior School of Applied Arts) in Vevey, Switzerland, Giovanni Riva went on to study at ERACOM (Ecole Romande arts and communication) in Lausanne. Graduating with honours in 1992, he has worked as an artistic and creative director for various advertising agencies over the last […]

Kristina Ketola Bore

Kristina Ketola Bore is a design critic and educator based in Oslo, Norway. She holds an MA in Design Writing Criticism from the London College of Communication. Since graduation she has contributed to magazines nationally and internationally on the subjects of art, architecture and design. Her work investigates the role of design as a cultural […]

Davide Fornari

Davide Fornari is associate professor (HES) at ECAL University of Art and Design in Lausanne, where he leads the research and development sector. He has previously been teacher and researcher at SUPSI University of Applied Sciences and Arts of Southern Switzerland (2009–2016). He holds a PhD in Design sciences from the School of Doctorate Studies, […]

European Design Awards 2016

The submission period for the European Design Awards 2016 is now open! Each year the European Design Awards celebrate excellence in the fields of print, web and exhibition design, illustration, packaging, mobile apps and motion graphics. With 35 available categories, the ED-Awards are the most prestigious and comprehensive awards organisation to recognise and promote your work.  […]

ED-Awards Press kit 2015

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Winners’ Banners 2015

Nisantasi Route

Friday, May 22nd The organisation of “studio walks” is an excellent opportunity from people from all over Europe to get a first-hand experience of the local design scene. Four to five studios in the vicinity of each other are picked up and are invited to host visiting groups of international visitors, to exhibit their work, […]

Antilop (Turkey)

Antilop is an internationally renowned and experienced to tackle all challenges of cutting edge projects in a large scope of media landscape. Antilop work at the intersection of audio-visual performances, moving images and interactive installations. They research, engineer, produce, document and promote all theirprojects. Antilop is a multidisciplinary team with members from communication design, fine […]

FeDeRAtion! (Turkey)

Federation identifies itself as an interdisciplinary network of talents. In the ED-Conference it is going to be represented by Ali Algür and Ozan Akkoyun. Ali Algür was born and raised in İstanbul. After he studying International Relations in Koç University, he moved to the field of advertising and public relations. He received his masters degree from […]

Trapped in Suburbia (the Netherlands)

Our designs are at first an art of dealing with people; it focusses on human interaction and engaging your audience. We don’t expect them to sit back and relax, we want to take them on a graphic journey and surprise them. Maybe sometimes we make them feel uncomfortable, maybe we make them smile. But always […]

Design Studio

Founded in 2009, by designers Ben Wright and Paul Stafford, DesignStudio is a global brand and design agency with offices in the creative hubs of London and San Francisco.Ben and Paul opened the agency after spotting a split in the creative industry. Studios were either boutique and beautiful, but only managing to work on a […]

White Studio (Portugal)

Eduardo Aires founded White Studio/White Editions in Porto in 1995. In all of his projects, Eduardo combines his knowledge of Design, Fine Arts and Architecture. He has worked for museums, vineyards, on editorial projects and more recently was put in charge of the branding of his home city, Porto. He believes that design should touch […]

Screenagers (Austria)

Hello, we’re screenagers. Our name stands for creativity. We’re a young team who push the limits. Classic advertising, multimedia or a complete website concept: we’re everywhere there are new things to discover. New ideas, new design, new communication strategies. That makes advertising effective and fun – for us and our clients.  Stefan Rasch is Managing […]

Flying to Istanbul

Istanbul is served by two international airports:• Atatürk, located on the European continent, 24 kilometers west of the city center, is the fifth-busiest airport in Europe and the eighteenth-busiest in the world. • Sabiha Gökçen International located on the Asian side of the city, 45 kilometers (28 mi) southeast of the city center, is dominated by low-cost […]