Speaker: David Ellis Location: UK Website: www.whynotassociates.com Case: A Flock of Words A 300 metre typographic walkway. Part of the regeneration of a northern English coastal town. Client: Morecambe City Council Background For nearly two decades, Why Not Associates has been creating innovative work for clients large and small. Our team works in many different […]
Speaker: Stas Zhitsky (or better: Jitzky), Co-owner Location: Moscow, Russia Website: www.openconcepts.info Case: RICH juice Design that works. Range of packages. Short story of creating the brand. Client: Multon company (Russia). Background OPEN! Design&Concepts is a small but pretentious company. They enjoy working in any creative space which includes packaging design, architecture, corporate identity, watch […]
Speaker: Halvor Bodin Location: Oslo, Norway Website: www.superlow.com Case Black Low – The Punk Movement Was Just Hippies With Short Hair. A banned art exhibition and other transgressions in art spaces. Presentation of collaboration on various projects with artist Bjarne Melgaard 2002–2007. One of the most recent projects to be presented will be an Extreme […]
Speaker: Björn Kusoffsky Creative Director/Founder Location: Stockholm, Sweden Website: www.stockholmdesignlab.se Case: SAS Comprehensive identity project. From Aircraft livery to lounges, uniforms and wet wipes. Client: SAS-Scandinavian Airlines Background Stockholm Design Lab has been working on the entire corporate identities of companies and institutions for ten years. Airlines, department stores, museums… Like us, our clients have […]
Speaker: Helena Ichbiah Location: France Website: www.ichetkar.com Case: Condesa df Condesa df is a hotel located in central Mexico city. It is an example of a successful collaboration between an architect-designer, India Mahdavi, and a graphic design team, Ich&Kar. Ich&Kar completely “dived” into this project creating the entire range of tools of communication: from letterings […]
Speaker: Michel de Boer Creative Director Location: Rotterdam, The Netherlands Website: www.studiodumbar.nl Case: Maintaining brand leadership in a dynamic market; the design case of KPN Client: KPN, multi channel company (telecoms, internet, television) Background Studio Dumbar is an established design agency with over twenty years of experience in corporate and brand identity. Studio Dumbar has […]
Speaker: Cristiano Bottino Partner Location: Milan, Italy Website: www.studiofmmilano.it Case: The shape of the significance Client: MI – Permanent Exposition of the “made in italy” and Italian Design Background Founded in 1996 by Barbara Forni and Sergio Menichelli and joined by Cristiano Bottino in 1999, specializes in graphic design, specifically art direction, corporate identity, book, […]
Speaker: Enric Jardí Location: Barcelona, Spain Website: www.enricjardi.com Case: Re-designing The Chicago Reader and The Boston Phoenix. The lecture will be about two projects done in the studio of this Barcelona based graphic design company. Enric Jardí will talk about the redesign of two weeklies, The Chicago Reader and The Boston Phoenix., during 2004-2005. Both […]
Speaker: Jonathan Hubbard Location: London, UK Website: www.interbrand.co.uk Case: How visual identity and tone of voice have repositioned a serious High Street name. Clients: Barclays Bank Background Interbrand is an international brand consultancy with over thirty years experience and offices in 27 countries. They focus on creating and managing brand value for their clients.
Right after the ED-Awards ceremony, it is party time! Time to relax, to interact with creative people from all over Europe, time to dance and have a good time. The party will take place at Dado, a cozy place with a positive air to it, just two blocks away from de Doelen. And to get […]
Adrian Frutiger’s acceptance speech for the ED-Awards ceremony in Zürich 2009: Link to YouTube. Adrian Frutiger (born May 24, 1928) is one of the prominent typeface designers of the twentieth century, who continues influencing the direction of digital typography in the twenty-first century; he is best known for creating the typefaces Univers and Frutiger. At […]
He started studying design at the Elisava School in Barcelona which he soon left so that he could learn directly in his environment and follow his own creative impulses. His first steps were in the world of underground comic, a task that he soon combined with illustration, sculpture, graphic design and interior design. In 1979, […]
The European Design Hall of Fame winner 2007 Prof. Dr. h.c. Erik Spiekermann (*1947) studied History of Art and English in Berlin. He is information architect, type designer (ff Meta, itc Officina, ff Info, ff Unit, LoType, Berliner Grotesk et al) and author of books and articles on type and typography. He was founder (1979) […]
Silvia Sfligiotti is a designer, educator and critic, and a founding partner at Alizarina studio. She has curated and edited graphic design exhibitions and books, including “Italic 2.0” (2008) and “Open Projects: Non-standard identities” (2010). She teaches at Scuola Politecnica di Design SPD in Milan and ISIA in Urbino, and lectures frequently at international conferences, […]
Bettina Schulz (born 1974 in Munich) has been editor-in-chief of the international journal novum – World of Graphic Design since 2001. She joined the editorial staff of the magazine in 1994. Mrs Schulz also works as a freelance writer and editor for national and international magazines and for a range of clients in different sectors. […]
Born in 1969. He studied philosophy, philology, political and communication science. Free-lance journalist and founder and CEO of “die jungs kommunikation”, a Vienna-based PR-agency. “die jungs” offer full service in public relations, text-production, media-conception and event-management for private, public, cultural, scientific and non-profit enterprises. Among them many design-related companies as well as the “designforum Vienna” […]
Founder/editor He works as a full-time graphic designer since 1993. In 2000, he graduated from the Faculty of Arts at the Charles University in Prague. Apart from being a designer, he is a co-author of Praktická typografie (Typography in practice), ComputerPress, 2000, 2004. He regularly contributes to professional periodicals in the field of graphic design. […]
Now based in Morges/Lausanne, Switzerland, Thierry Hausermann followed a one year program at ESAA (école supérieure d’arts appliqués) in Vevey, Switzerland, and then studied graphic design at ERACOM (école romande d’arts et communication) in Lausanne, Switzerland, where he graduated in 1986. He also pursued a course of studies at the Academy of Arts of San […]
Editor & Art Director In 1989, Michel Chanaud launched the French magazine Étapes and Pyramyd Editions. Educated in visual creation in the Ensad, his early career consists of work in interior architecture, scenography and design. He continued his career as a graphic designer and a freelance journalist, with an interest in packaging and advertising especially, […]
Submissions for the ED-Awards 2010 may be entered from January 7th until the 15th of February. This is the date by which the online submission process and payment must be completed. Physical samples of the entries should arrive at our office no later than February 19th.
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