European Design Awards
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European Design Awards (Also ED-Awards) is a Paneuropean institution consisting of an awards scheme, a conference and an annual catalogue for the European communication design industry. The ED-Awards (European Design) is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe.
It is based on a collaboration with twelve prestigious communication design magazines in Europe, representatives of which compose the jury. These are: 2+3D (Poland), CAP & Design (Sweden), +design (Greece), étapes (France), Eye (UK), IDPURE (Switzerland), Items (Netherlands), KAK (Russian Federation), Lineagrafica (Italy), Novum (Germany), Typo (Czech Republic) and Visual (Spain).
The European Design Conference gathers speakers and participants from all over Europe and focusses on communication design case studies. The 3-day conference ends in a grand finale, the awards ceremony of the ED-Awards.The winners and finalists of the ED-Awards in each category are gathered in an annual publication that gives an overview of the best of communication design in Europe. The ED project is endorced the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda[1]). The Icograda endorsement is a guarantee that the design event complies with approved international guidelines.
[edit] Objectives
The main objectives of the ED-Project are:
• To celebrate European design with all its regional distinctive elements as well as its common grounds.
• To facilitate European designers to meet, benchmark, be inspired and build networks.
• To promote and raise standards for communication design throughout Europe.
• To properly honour and award people who invest their passion in design
• To create a directory of best practise European communication design, where design buyers from around the world may compare and search for collaborators.
Categories
There are 40 categories divided in 10 groups. There are also 2 general awards selected among the finalists in the 40 categories. The jury picks out one of the category winners as the most exceptional piece of design in Europe during the past year and rewards it with the ED Grand prize. Each agency collects points based on the results of their submissions. The agency with the highest sum will be awarded agency of the year.
IDENTITY
01. Brand logo
02. Company logo
03. Brand implementation
04. Company implementation
05. Stationary
PUBLICATION
06. Annual report
07. Book cover
08. Book layout
09. Brochure & Product Catalogue
10. Artistic/Exhibition catalogue
11. Magazine cover
12. Magazine layout
13. Newsletter
DIGITAL MEDIA
14. Promotional site
15. Information site
16. CD/DVD graphics
17. Motion graphics
18. Miscellaneous digital media
PACKAGING
19. Label
20. Packaging: Graphics
21. Packaging: Structural
22. CD/DVD cover
POSTERS
23. Commercial poster
24. Cultural poster
ILLUSTRATION
25. Editorial illustration
26. Corporate illustration
27. Book illustration
TYPOGRAPHY
28. Original typeface
SELF PROMOTION
29. Printed self-promotion
30. Digital self-promotion
31. Self-promotion identity
ENVIRONMENTAL DESIGN
32. Single sign
33. Range of signs
34. Display
VARIOUS
35. Card/Invitation/Flyer
36. Event programme
37. Menu
38. Calendar
39. Postage stamp
40. Miscellaneous printed
Links
•• European Design Awards Official Web Page- [2]
