Three reasons why the ED-Awards are the best of their kind

• The ED-Awards boast the most qualified jury in Europe, composed of representatives from the leading European design magazines. They are design journalists and critics, whose job is to recognise and promote the best of communication design internationally.
• The ED-Awards are truly a pan-European competition. Last year submissions came from 29 different European countries (with the top country submitting less than 20% of the total number) and winners came from 21 countries (with the top country achieving about 25% of total prizes). The jury members themselves come from 13 different countries.
• The ED-Awards receive the widest publicity in the design awards field. Agencies and designers who excel here, get the best coverage available. The reason is simple: the ED-Awards are based on a network of design media.

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Peter Bankov was born in 1969. He graduated from Minsk Art College in 1988 and Moscow State Polygraph Institute in 1993. In 1996 he organized [kAk) magazine. Now it’s one of the key points of the graphic design creative progress acting as an energetic communication space among its audience.
Peter Bankov is “Design Depot” (http://www.designdepot.ru) founder and creator director.

The magazine writes about what is done, who is doing it and how it is done. The aim is not only to show good graphic form, but also to explain why it looks like it does and how it is meant to work. We strive to analyse the communication that is produced and to find the core in the eternal chase for the answers to: What is good graphic design? and What lies behind good graphic design?

Magazine Data
Country: Sweden
Secondary markets: Denmark, Norway & Finland
Magazine language: Swedish
Issues per year: 10

Contact Information
Website: www.capdesign.se
Publishing Company: IDG Sweden

Address: Karlbergsvägen 77
10678 Stockholm
Sweden
Phone: +46-8-453 61 38
E-mail: capred@idg.se

She has delivered conference papers and lectured in Poland, Great Britain, Russia, Slovakia, Spain, Germany and Japan. At the moment she works as a freelance curator, design critic and academic teacher. She collaborates with the Polish Association of Graphic Designers and School of Form in Poznań, where she teaches social and political history of design. She has been contributing to “2+3D” since 2008.

Grafia association is a professional organisation which seeks to promote expertise in and understanding of graphic design, and to look after the professional, juridical and economical interests of its members.

Grafia members are employed in various sectors within the field of visual communication: from graphic design to marketing communications and electronic visual information, or from illustration and layout design to teaching, research and study of the graphic design field.

Contact Information
Website: www.grafia.fi
Address:
Grafia
Uudenmaankatu 11 B 9
00120 Helsinki
Finland
Phone: +358 (0) 9 601 942
E-mail: grafia@grafia.fi

She has participated in several design competition juries in Finland, including the national Best of the Year Competition. She teaches graphic design at Aalto University School of Art and Design in Helsinki and has also given workshops internationally. She runs her own design studio based in Helsinki, concentrating on publication design and visual identities mainly for clients in culture and communication.

John L. Walters (originally a composer and musician with a degree in mathematics) joined Eye as managing editor in 1997, and was appointed editor in chief in late 1999. During his tenure the magazine has produced many memorable issues, including specials about typography, the public realm, branding and self-promotion, that are treasured and quoted by designers and design students alike.

In addition to editing Eye, Walters writes about creative music and multimedia for the Guardian newspaper and elsewhere. He was also the chairman of the judges for the Magazine Design Awards 2005, and was an external examiner for the graphic design context course at Central Saint Martins for four years (from Magazine data 2003-06).

Though Eye regularly ventures into the broader fields of visual culture, the quarterly has maintained its authority through high editorial standards, great writing, clear but innovative layout, a constant appetite for production values, featuring many prominent specialist writers worldwide, while at the same time encouraging practising designers to voice their opinions on the subject.

Magazine Data
Country: UK
Magazine language: English
Issues per year:

Publishing company:

Contact Information
Website: www.eyemagazine.com
Address:
Haymarket Business Publications Ltd.
174 Hammersmith Road
London W6 7JP
UK

Born in Barcelona, Spain, in 1969. Graduated in Information Sciences
from UCM, Madrid. She is a scriptwriter and theme installations designer. She has worked as a journalist for the magazine Visual since 1990 and also collaborates with different media as a free-lance writer.

Linda Kudrnovská (born 1977) is a design writer and theoretician. She is the Editor-in-Chief and one of the founding members of TYPO, a Prague-based magazine focused on design and typography.

Having studied graphic design and illustration, she graduated in theory of culture and history of art at the Faculty of Fine Arts, Charles University, Prague. Ever since, she has been a member of the editorial board of the TYPO Magazine; she also regularly contributes to a number of other periodicals.

The catalogue is published by European Design in Greece and sold via selected bookshops worldwide.

The catalogue is published by European Design in Greece and sold via selected bookshops worldwide.

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