The European Design Awards, also known as the ED-Awards, are annual awards presented to European designers for outstanding work in the communication design field. The ED-Awards is a joint initiative of design magazines from across Europe and endorsed by the International Council of Design. The ED-Awards are judged by a panel of representatives (journalists and design critics) from fifteen European design magazines, while the winning submissions are featured in the ED-Awards Catalogue.

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. 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.

Jury

The jury consists of fifteen representatives from high-profile European design magazines.
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Austria
TYPO
Czech Republic
grafia
Finland
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France
novum
Germany
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Greece
Progetto Grafico
, Italy
BNO Vormberichten
The Netherlands
2+3D
Poland
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Russia
Visual
Spain
CAP&Design
Sweden
IDPURE
Switzerland
Grafik Tasarim
Turkey
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UK

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: *2008 Beetroot Design Group, Greece *2010 Lava Design, the Netherlands *2011 Les Graphiquants, France *201
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the Netherlands *201
Jaeger & Jaeger
Germany *201
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Portugal *201
Ermolaev Bureau
Russia *201
Raffinerie AG für Gestaltung
Switzerland *201
Silo
the Netherlands *201
Vruchtvlees
the Netherlands *201
Kind
Norway *202
ANTI
Norway *202
WePlayDesign
Switzerland *202
Verve
the Netherlands

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: *

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, Greece (2007) * Stockholm, Sweden (2008) * Zurich, Switzerland (2009) *

Rotterdam Rotterdam ( , , , lit. ''The Dam on the River Rotte'') is the second largest city and municipality in the Netherlands. It is in the province of South Holland, part of the North Sea mouth of the Rhine–Meuse–Scheldt delta, via the ''"Ne ...

, the Netherlands (2010) *

Vilnius Vilnius ( , ; see also other names) is the capital and largest city of Lithuania, with a population of 592,389 (according to the state register) or 625,107 (according to the municipality of Vilnius). The population of Vilnius's functional urb ...

, Lithuania (2011) *

Helsinki Helsinki ( or ; ; sv, Helsingfors, ) is the capital, primate, and most populous city of Finland. Located on the shore of the Gulf of Finland, it is the seat of the region of Uusimaa in southern Finland, and has a population of . The city ...

, Finland (2012) * Belgrade, Serbia (2013) *

Cologne Cologne ( ; german: Köln ; ksh, Kölle ) is the largest city of the German western state of North Rhine-Westphalia (NRW) and the fourth-most populous city of Germany with 1.1 million inhabitants in the city proper and 3.6 millio ...

, Germany (2014) *

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, Turkey (2015) *

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, Austria (2016) *

Porto Porto or Oporto () is the second-largest city in Portugal, the capital of the Porto District, and one of the Iberian Peninsula's major urban areas. Porto city proper, which is the entire municipality of Porto, is small compared to its metropol ...

, Portugal (2017) *

Oslo Oslo ( , , or ; sma, Oslove) is the capital and most populous city of Norway. It constitutes both a county and a municipality. The municipality of Oslo had a population of in 2022, while the city's greater urban area had a population ...

, Norway (2018) *

Warsaw Warsaw ( pl, Warszawa, ), officially the Capital City of Warsaw,, abbreviation: ''m.st. Warszawa'' is the capital and largest city of Poland. The metropolis stands on the River Vistula in east-central Poland, and its population is officia ...

, Poland (2019) * The 2020 and 2021 events that were scheduled to take place in Valencia, Spain had to be cancelled due to the

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Tallinn Tallinn () is the most populous and capital city of Estonia. Situated on a bay in north Estonia, on the shore of the Gulf of Finland of the Baltic Sea, Tallinn has a population of 437,811 (as of 2022) and administratively lies in the Harju '' ...

, Estonia (2022) * {{flagicon, LUX

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, Luxembourg (2023) Luxembourg to host European Design Festival 2023
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References

External links

Official European Design Awards site2013 Winners
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