Tag: 2015 Istanbul

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 arts, architecture, moving images, computer science and engineering, always looking for new collaborators.

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 Marmara University in the field of advertising. As of 2014, he is on the way of receiving his PhD from Bahçeşehir University. He is fluent in English and German.
He started his professional career in 2004 as a junior copy writer in Young&Rubicam. Within ten years, he worked in many creative agencies in the positions of copy writer, group creative director and creative director. At Federation, he holds the position of creative director.

Ozan Akkoyun is a graphic designer and art director currently living and working in Istanbul. He studied engineering in Uludağ University, Faculty of Engineering and Architecture between 2003 and 2007. After that, he studied Graphic Design at Mimar Sinan Fine Arts University – Department of Graphic Design between 2007 and 2012. In this period, he studied Communication Design as an Erasmus student in the University of Applied Sciences Augsburg.
For more than 3 years, he has been working as a designer with a strong focus on editorial design, print design, identity design, product design and motion design projects mostly based on typography.

The big day will kick off with the conference that starts at 12:00 sharp (going on for five hours – including coffee breaks)
At 18:00 it’s time for the big Awards Ceremony (which is expected to last two hours).
Both of the above events will be hosted at the Mimar Sinan School of Fine Arts auditorium.

After a small break, all ceremony attendees are expected to board on a chartered boat and head for the north of Bosphorus, where dinner and cocktails will be served, right before the ED-Awards winner party wraps up the night. Our boat will be waiting to take us back to the city centre at 2 o’clock.

Snøhetta is an international integrated architecture, landscape, interior, branding and design firm.
Snøhetta practices self-defined transdisciplinary processes where different professionals, from authors to visual artists, from philosophers to sociologists, take each other positions to explore differing perspectives without prejudice points of view.
Whatever size, each project is unique, and deserves a unique process. Opinions on history, culture, representation, climate, topography and landscapes, social environment, ethics and functions all represent layers of complexity to be embedded in a final result.
Currently, Snøhetta is undertaking more than 50 projects in Europe, Asia, Africa, Oceania, the Americas and Canada. This widespread activity gives each professional valuable insight into differences and likenesses, allowing for continuously developing new knowledge, a precondition for intuition.

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 we try to open up the senses and set them out to seek and explore. Your audience is not just a target group, they are part of the design elements and we strive to immerse them in narrative design. We see ourselves as storytellers, critical design thinkers and strategists who are aiming to create valuable and tangible experiences for people.
There is a Chinese saying; Tell me and I’ll forget; show me and I may remember, involve me and I’ll understand.

Trapped in Suburbia

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 few projects or of a massive scale and impersonal with their client relationships. DesignStudio was created with the aim to fill this gap – delivering the quality of boutique, bespoke design to global brands and audiences.

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 the heart in order to be efficient.
Eduardo Aires was a former student of the Faculty of Fine Arts of Porto where he received his PHD and starting his studio in Porto was a coherent step alongside directing the Masters Program of Design at the Faculty of Fine Arts.

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 Director and Founder of screenagers, one of Austria’s leading digital agencies. Created in 1999 as one of the first digital hot-shops in Vienna, screenagers emerged as a full-service agency with a solid reputation for its interactive expertise. Stefan’s portfolio includes clients such as Universal Pictures, Sony Ericsson, Nintendo and Absolut Vodka. He has received over 100 national and international accolades and awards, including the One Show, The Webby Awards, ADC of Europe, Golden Award of Montreux, IF and reddot design Awards. He has been part of the jury of Cresta, New York Festivals, Piaf, Eurobest and Cannes Lions. Stefan is noted for being a professional speaker for TV, radio and advertising and is the voice of a local radio station.