European Design Award

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^[1] 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 than other design awards schemes in the way that the jury comprises not of peers (designers), but of design journalists and critics – people who see and judge work for a living.^[2] 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 being created through the submitted work every year.^[3]

Jury

The jury consists of fifteen representatives from high-profile European design magazines.^[4]

designaustria, Austria
TYPO, Czech Republic
grafia, Finland
étapes:, France
novum, Germany
+design, Greece
Progetto Grafico, Italy
BNO Vormberichten, The Netherlands
2+3D, Poland
[kAk) , Russia
Visual, Spain
CAP&Design, Sweden
IDPURE, Switzerland
Grafik Tasarim, Turkey
Eye, 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:^[6]

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

Host cities

Each year's results are announced during a ceremony which is hosted in a different European city each time. So far, the European Design Awards ceremonies (and accompanying events) have been hosted by: