Celebrating European design in Tallinn
The European Design Festival is a renowned event that brings together hundreds of designers from all over Europe and around the world. This year, the ED Festival was held from June 17 to 19 at Tallinn Creative Hub in Tallinn.
The Programme included the Design Conference “Beyond Design”, Design Workshops, Exhibitions, Design Walks, Design Talks, Studio Crawls and the European Design Awards Ceremony. See the full programme of the event here.
The European Design Awards is an annual event that brings together the best examples of communication design in Europe. It is widely recognised as one of the most prestigious design awards on an international level, as a joint initiative of the major communication design media on the continent. The ED-Festival has since 2007 been hosted in cities such as Stockholm, Zurich, Rotterdam, Helsinki, Istanbul, Vienna, Porto and Oslo, to name a few. Its mission is to celebrate European design, facilitate meetings between designers, be inspired and build networks, as well as assist in promoting the design discipline, to wider audiences.
The event was supported by local partners including the City of Tallinn, Visit Tallinn, Republic of Estonia Ministry of Culture, Helmes, Visit Estonia, Nordic Hotel Forum, Tallink Hotels, airBaltic, Nortal, Estonian Museum of Applied Art and Design, Estonian Academy of Arts, Cultural Endowment of Estonia.
