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Rotterdam, De Doelen

Europa Design Festival Rotterdam

  • 28 May 2010 30 May 2010
    De Doelen De Doelen Kruisstraat 2 Rotterdam Kruisstraat 2 Rotterdam,

The ED-Festival 2010 is taking place in Rotterdam, organised by European Design, in collaboration with 14 leading European communication design magazines, sponsored by Veer, endorsed by Icograda and with the support of Rotterdam Marketing. With events organised by European Design and a host of local partners, the ED-Festival is an “open source” of happenings concerning design. Workshops, design walks, exhibitions, lectures and parties all happen at the same time in order to offer visitors from all over the globe, the opportunity to earn a comprehensive experience of the local design scene. The festival ends in a grand finale, first a formal reception in the city hall followed by the award ceremony of the ED-Awards and finally the Party at Dado.

ED-Awards
The European Design Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organization acknowledging the best of graphic design, illustration and multimedia design in Europe. It is based on a collaboration of 14 prestigious communication design magazines in Europe who have taken upon them to support and promote the event. Representatives of these magazines compose the jury
They are: 2+3D (PL), Design Austria (AT), Design Week (UK), +design (GR), Elephant (Int), étapes: (FR), Grafik Tasarim (TR), idpure (CH), KAK (RU), Novum (DE), Progetto Grafico (IT), TYPO (CZ), Visual(ES), BNO Vormberichten (NL).
All winners and finalists are published on the annual ED-Awards catalogue
Submission period: January 1 - February 15, 2010

ED-Conference
The 3-day European Design Conference gathers speakers from all over Europe and participants from all over the world. Its focus lies on communication design case studies. With presentations from speakers coming from 15 different countries, it is a unique celebration of European design. Famous designers and design agencies from around the continent “dissect” a project of theirs in order to offer the audience an exclusive glimpse of what goes on inside their creative minds.

Dates: May 28-30, 2010
Place: Rotterdam’s De Doelen, the Netherlands

More information
www.europeandesign.org