European Design Awards
The European Design Awards, also known as the ED-Awards, are annual
Model
The ED-Awards is different from other design awards schemes in that the jury is not made up of designers, but of design journalists and critics – people who see and judge work for a living.[1] Further more, since the ED-Awards organisation is made up of design magazines, it provides an opportunity for everyone submitting work, to have it featured in a number of these media. A lot of stories and articles are created through the submitted work every year.[2]
Jury
Originally, the ED-Awards jury was composed exclusively of journalists from leading graphic design magazines across Europe, including Germany's Novum (Zeitschrift), UK's Eye_(magazine), and France's étapes:, among others. However, in recent years, the ED-Awards has broadened its jury composition to incorporate a more diverse range of expertise within the communication design field. This evolution reflects a strategic decision to include not only journalists but also critics, curators, academics, and content creators (always linked with the realm of communication design)[3]
Categories
There are 47 award categories, in nine groups,[4] covering branding, packaging, exhibition design, typography, digital design, illustration and self-promotion, among others. There are also three special distinctions: Agency of the year, Best of show and Jury prize.
European Design Agency of the year
The top accolade in the ED-Awards is every time, the distinction bestowed upon the most (creatively) successful studio of the continent. This title has so far been awarded to:[5]
- 2008 Beetroot Design Group, Greece
- 2010 Lava Design, the Netherlands
- 2011 Les Graphiquants, France
- 2012 Silo, the Netherlands
- 2013 Jaeger & Jaeger, Germany
- 2014 R2, Portugal
- 2015 Ermolaev Bureau, Russia
- 2016 Raffinerie AG für Gestaltung, Switzerland
- 2017 Silo, the Netherlands
- 2018 Vruchtvlees, the Netherlands
- 2019 Kind, Norway [6]
- 2020 ANTI, Norway [7]
- 2021 WePlayDesign, Switzerland [8]
- 2022 Verve, the Netherlands [9]
- 2023 Studio Dumbar, the Netherlands [10]
Host cities
Each year's results are announced during a ceremony which is hosted in a different European city. So far, the European Design Awards ceremonies (and accompanying events) have been hosted by:
Athens, Greece (2007)
Stockholm, Sweden (2008)- Zurich, Switzerland (2009)
Rotterdam, the Netherlands (2010)
Vilnius, Lithuania (2011)
Helsinki, Finland (2012)
Belgrade, Serbia (2013)
Cologne, Germany (2014)
Istanbul, Turkey (2015)
Vienna, Austria (2016)
Porto, Portugal (2017) [11]
Oslo, Norway (2018)[12]
Warsaw, Poland (2019) [13]- The 2020 [14] and 2021 [15] events that were scheduled to take place in Valencia, Spain had to be cancelled due to the COVID-19 pandemic[16]
Tallinn, Estonia (2022) [17]- Luxembourg city, Luxembourg (2023) [18]
Naples, Italy (2024) [19]
Related links
References
- ^ Eye Magazine
- ISSN 0976-1659, p. 3
- ^ Slanted: European Design Awards 2024
- ^ Categories Archived December 30, 2013, at the Wayback Machine
- ^ List of European Design Agencies of the year
- ^ Kind kåret til årets byrå i European Design Awards
- ^ The Top 3 Winners of the European Design Awards 2020
- ^ Le duo de WePlayDesign qui remporte prix sur prix!
- ^ Partner in the Spotlight: International ambitions - with Verve
- ^ European Design Awards and Festival 2023 in Luxembourg
- ^ European Design Awards serão entregues no Porto em maio e as candidaturas já estão abertas
- ^ "Oslo and grafill chosen to host 2018 european design awards". Archived from the original on 2017-02-13. Retrieved 2017-02-12.
- ^ Domus: European Design Festival: Warsaw is the capital of graphic design 2019
- ^ València será sede de los European Design Awards en 2020
- ^ Los European Design Awards cancelan su edición de 2020 pero prometen a València ser sede en 2021
- ^ Los European Design Awards 2020 se suspenden… pero todavía hay esperanza
- ^ European Design Festival 2022 Tallinn programme and tickets now available!
- ^ Luxembourg to host European Design Festival 2023
- ^ European Design Festival 2024 in Naples from 30 May to 2 June