ED-Awards Ceremony

The ED-Awards Ceremony is honoring the gold and silver winners in 31 different categories of communication design. The best designers in Europe get on stage in order to receive their prizes. The evening is lead by Agneta Wallin, a Swedish stand-up comedian who charmed the audience last year in Stockholm and agreed to come back. […]

Gamla stan/Söder

This design walk starts outside Södra Teatern and let you visit four interesting design agencies at Södermalm and Gamla Stan. Each of them has promised to welcome you into their office, answer your questions and exhibit some previous work. This is a chance to meet great designers eye-to-eye on their home ground. The first walk […]

LOOVVOOL

Speakers: Hannes Unt & Valter Kaleta Location: Tallinn, Estonia Website: www.loovvool.com Case Restaurant Kaerajaan visual identity. Flavorsome trends from global cuisines combined with ethnic roots of local kitchen and all that in a well executed gourmet mixture. This is what the modern Estonian cuisine is about. It’s what restaurant Kaerajaan is about. LOOVVOOL was up […]

Group94

Speaker: Pascal Leroy Location: Gent, Belgium Website: www.group94.com Case Title: g94 behind the scenes Offering an inside view of the group94 methodology, the session will be centered round the recent FWAPHOTO project. It will be a blend of storytelling and technical insights. Attendees will walk away with questions raised and/or answered and a feeling that […]

BVD

Speaker: Susanna Nygren Barrett Location: Stockholm, Sweden Website: www.bvd.se Case Blossa Annual Edition A true success story. Blossa Annual Edition is a Swedish mulled wine that launches each Christmas season before the 1st Advent with a new taste and new packaging. The limited edition series began in 2003 and since then has gained enormous success, […]

Beetroot

Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Website: www.beetroot.gr Case Title: Fashion design or design fashion Background Beetroot was founded on September of 2000, in Thessaloniki, Greece by Vagelis Liakos, Alexis Nikou and Yiannis Charalambopoulos. Today Beetroot counts 7 employees who have studied graphic design, new media, photography and marketing in Greece and Great Britain. Beetroot Design Group is […]

Alex Trochut

Speaker: Alex Trochut Location: Barcelona, Spain Background Alex Trochut’s illustrations, designs and typography take the modern notion of minimalism and flip it on its side. Trochut’s work philosophy is “More is more.” It is rich with elegant, brilliantly detailed executions that simultaneously convey indulgence and careful, restrained control. Trochut is driven by a desire to […]

Ostengruppe

Client: Cultural Center DOM Location: Moscow, Russia Websites: www.ostengruppe.com, www.ostengruppe.com/mobile Case: DOM: Full art directorship It is an on-going project of visual support for cultural center DOM. The project has been art-directed for the last 5 years and covers logo development, catalogs, posters (more than 200 for the period), CD-covers, DOM’s souvenirs and calendars etc. […]

Grandpeople

Speakers: Magnus Voll Mathiassen & Magnus Helgesen Location: Bergen, Norway Website: www.grandpeople.org Case: Beast per music The case: Powerblytt Myths Product: 12″ vinyl series, compilations Music Type: Electronic pop music, remixes Short about the case: Powerblytt Records is a newly started small Norwegian label for electronic pop music. Grandpeople is involved as art director, with […]

Propeller

Speaker: Christian Altmann Location: Stockholm, Sweden Website: www.propeller.se Case: 3D + 2D, A interdisciplinary approach. Client: Looft Industries AB Background Propeller was founded in Stockholm, Sweden, in 1995 and is one of Scandinavia’s top design agencies – a highly creative group of product, interaction and graphic designers with an articulated intent to deliver commercial creativity […]

Petpunk

Speakers: Gediminas Siaulys & Andrius Kirvela Location: Vilnius, Lithuania Website: www.petpunk.com Case: Vilnius – European Capital of Culture 2009 (…or how we try to survive somewhere between East & West) National tourism campaign Medium: Animated clip Broadcast area: International Topics: 1. East vs West experiences and influences. Local culture background based unique style research. 2. […]

46xy

Speaker: Letizia Abbate Location: Milano, Italy Website: www.46xy.it Case: Domus vs Abitare. Make a design magazine Domus and Abitare are two historical design magazines, famous all around the world. We had the chance to project both of them and to follow their art direction. With our case we want compare the two experiences and explain […]

Beetroot

Speaker: Yiannis Haralambopoulos Co-founder Location: Thessaloniki, Greece Website: www.beetroot.gr Case: The visual identity of an architectural exhibition An analysis of the process followed to reach the final outcome. Issues concerning the brief, the big scale and the third dimension, the different media, the budget, the collaboration with architects, the co-ordination and management among different countries, […]

Norm

Speaker: Manuel Krebs Location: Zurich, Switzerland Website: www.norm.to Case: Money Making In March 2005 the Swiss National Bank (SNB) launched a competition for the design of the new Swiss money. SNB invited 12 design studios (incl. Norm) to compete during six months until October 2005. Norm won the first prize. In the next phase SNB […]

Darek Komorek

Speaker: Mr. Darek Komorek Location: Poland Case: From deconstruction to reconstruction. Letters in my graphic design. Works designed, redesigned and undesigned by Darek Komorek. Client: Different clients; mostly cultural institutions

Mutabor

Speaker: Heinrich Paravicini Co-founder Location: Hamburg, Germany Website: www.mutabor.de Case: A retail design project for the 21st. Century Mutabor design, Hamburg – about brand image and brand experience design. A quick introduction of our company. New strategies for Adidas retail – bringing innovation to the consumer. The brief from Adidas and the partners involved in […]

E-Types

Speaker: Rasmus Drucker Ibfelt, co-founder & partner Location: Copenhagen, Denmark Website: www.e-types.com Case: Speak up! – moving the fashion of culture and proving the culture of fashion. e-Types has been working for Mads Norgaard Copenhagen, an international fashion brand, creating a new brand strategy and visual identity. The main task was moving the Mads Nørgaard […]

Futro

Speaker: Slavimir Stojanovic Location: Ljubljana, Slovenia Website: www.futro.si Case: M’ARS Magazine The project included typography especially developed for this magazine. This magazine was awarded Grand Prix at Slovenian Biennial of Visual Communications. The editor was Spela Mlakar who also edited the book “The Designers Republic from 2D to 3D”. Client:  M’ars magazine of Modern Art […]

Eduardo Bravo

Although he holds a law degree, Eduardo’s professional career has been developed for more than 20 years in the journalism field, mostly in areas related to creativity, advertising, illustration and graphic design. His articles can be read in Visual, El País, Icon, Vanity Fair, GQ, Líbero. He has also published two books –«Villa Wanda» and […]

Jacek Mrowczyk

Co-founder and editor. Jacek Mrowczyk, born in Krakow in 1972. Graphic designer, graduated from the Academy of Fine Arts in Krakow in 1998 (Poland). Awarded several prizes and special mentions (inter alia at the 18th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, Czech Republic in 1998 and at the 16th Biennial of the Polish Poster […]