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Istanbul 2015
14th Oct 2015
at Athens
Ceremony and Party
European Design Awards Ceremony 2015
This year’s award winners will be revealed in a ceremony hosted by stand-up comedian Bob Maclaren taking place in Istanbul’s fine arts school Mimar Sinan University. All attendees will then be transferred by boat to the north of the Bosphorus for a gala dinner, followed by the annual winners’ party.
European Design Awards gala dinner & party
This year right after the ceremony and just before the annual winners’ party we have one more thing on our schedule: a gala dinner. And not just any gala dinner, but one hosted in a historic yali (a Bosphorus Waterfront Residence). Getting there is half the fun: we jump on
Travel Information
Flying to Istanbul
Istanbul is served by two international airports:• Atatürk, located on the European continent, 24 kilometers west of the city center, is the fifth-busiest airport in Europe and the eighteenth-busiest in the world. • Sabiha Gökçen International located on the Asian side of the city, 45 kilometers (28 mi) southeast of the city
Turkish Visa
All travellers should be aware of the fact that depending on your passport you might be required to obtain a visa, prior to entering Turkey. This is a very simple procedure that can be completed online. You will not be needing a visa if you hold a passport from*:Albania, Andorra, Azerbaijan,
Special discounts for all European Design Awards travellers
Turkish Airlines is the official airline of “European Desgin Awards” and special discounts up to 20% are offered on certain booking classes. In order to proceed with the online booking tool for Turkish Conventions please visit the Turkish Conventions website and use the event code “064TKM15” under delegate section.
Accommodation
Where to stay
Istanbul is a very big city with an extensive touristic infrastructure.You can very easily find a hotel room (or any other sort of accommodation) that will fit both your preferences and your budget.If you want to be nearby the main venue of the events (the amphitheatre which will be hosting
Conference
Antilop (Turkey)
Antilop is an internationally renowned and experienced to tackle all challenges of cutting edge projects in a large scope of media landscape. Antilop work at the intersection of audio-visual performances, moving images and interactive installations. They research, engineer, produce, document and promote all theirprojects. Antilop is a multidisciplinary team with
FeDeRAtion! (Turkey)
Federation identifies itself as an interdisciplinary network of talents. In the ED-Conference it is going to be represented by Ali Algür and Ozan Akkoyun. Ali Algür was born and raised in İstanbul. After he studying International Relations in Koç University, he moved to the field of advertising and public relations. He
Saturday, May 23rd: Schedule of the day
The big day will kick off with the conference that starts at 12:00 sharp (going on for five hours – including coffee breaks)At 18:00 it’s time for the big Awards Ceremony (which is expected to last two hours).Both of the above events will be hosted at the Mimar Sinan School
Snøhetta (Norway)
Snøhetta is an international integrated architecture, landscape, interior, branding and design firm.Snøhetta practices self-defined transdisciplinary processes where different professionals, from authors to visual artists, from philosophers to sociologists, take each other positions to explore differing perspectives without prejudice points of view.Whatever size, each project is unique, and deserves a unique
Trapped in Suburbia (the Netherlands)
Our designs are at first an art of dealing with people; it focusses on human interaction and engaging your audience. We don’t expect them to sit back and relax, we want to take them on a graphic journey and surprise them. Maybe sometimes we make them feel uncomfortable, maybe we
Design Studio
Founded in 2009, by designers Ben Wright and Paul Stafford, DesignStudio is a global brand and design agency with offices in the creative hubs of London and San Francisco.Ben and Paul opened the agency after spotting a split in the creative industry. Studios were either boutique and beautiful, but only
White Studio (Portugal)
Eduardo Aires founded White Studio/White Editions in Porto in 1995. In all of his projects, Eduardo combines his knowledge of Design, Fine Arts and Architecture. He has worked for museums, vineyards, on editorial projects and more recently was put in charge of the branding of his home city, Porto. He
Screenagers (Austria)
Hello, we’re screenagers. Our name stands for creativity. We’re a young team who push the limits. Classic advertising, multimedia or a complete website concept: we’re everywhere there are new things to discover. New ideas, new design, new communication strategies. That makes advertising effective and fun – for us and our
Studio Walks
Nisantasi Route
Friday, May 22nd The organisation of “studio walks” is an excellent opportunity from people from all over Europe to get a first-hand experience of the local design scene. Four to five studios in the vicinity of each other are picked up and are invited to host visiting groups of international
Beyoglu Route
Friday, May 22nd The organisation of “studio walks” is an excellent opportunity from people from all over Europe to get a first-hand experience of the local design scene. Four to five studios in the vicinity of each other are picked up and are invited to host visiting groups of international