With the aim of celebrating and promoting European design, the EDConference and EDAwards ceremony will take place in Arena Filmcity at Sihlcity in Zürich, Switzerland.

The Conference will run from May 15-17, and the Awards Ceremony will take place on May 17.

EDConference
The conference program includes the following presenters:

  * Alex Trochut
  * Beetroot
  * Susanna Nygren Barrett, Blidholm Vagnemark Design
  * Claus Due, Designbolaget
  * The Designers Republic
  * Filip Blažek, Design IQ
  * Ginette Caron, Ginette Caron
  * Pascal Leroy, Group94
  * Hugo van den Bos, Strategy director/partner Koeweiden Postma
  * Hannes Unt & Valter Kaleta, LOOVVOOL
  * Loïc Sattler, Lysergid
  * Lars Harmsen, MAGMA Brand Design
  * Niklaus Troxler
  * Eirik Seu Stokkmo, Scandinavian Design Group
  * Ovidiu Hrin, Synopsis

Click here for the full program.

EDAwards
The ED Awards is the comprehensive annual awards organisation acknowledging the best in European graphic design, illustration and multimedia design. Their objectives are to promote and raise standards for communication design throughout Europe as well as properly honour and award people who invest their passion in design. It is based on the collaboration of several prestigious communication design magazines in Europe who support and promote the event. Representatives of these magazines will compose the jury.

http://www.ed-awards.com/