European Design Awards 2025

European Design Awards 2025 is now open for entries!

European Design Awards 2025 : European Design Awards, the most prestigious and comprehensive design competition that every year celebrate excellence in the different fields, recently has been opened for entries in its 2025 edition, with the aim to recognise and promote your work.

➜ Short description

The European Design Awards 2025, the most prestigious and comprehensive awards organisation to recognise and promote your work, now is calling for entries!

Each year the European Design Awards celebrate excellence in the fields of print, web and exhibition design, illustration, packaging, mobile apps and motion graphics.

There are eight main categories:

➜ Branding
➜ Publications
➜ Promotion
➜ Packaging
➜ Digital
➜ Illustrations
➜ Internal Production
➜ Miscellaneous

The European Design Awards Festival and Awards Ceremony is held every yaer in a different city. It is recognized as one of the most important events in the communication design calendar, creating an ideal opportunity for the most creative people.

Submitted works are evaluated by three specialised juries composed of representatives from the leading design media and institutions in Europe. The jury members are all design editors, publishers, critics, and academics who regularly curate communication design. This makes them the most qualified design award jury in Europe.

➜ Who may enter?

All designers living or working within Europe may participate. Designers in Europe may submit work done for clients outside Europe. Designers who are not based within Europe may only submit work that was created for the European market.

➜ Prize:

There are three levels of distinction: Gold, Silver and Bronze. In each category, a Gold is only awarded if the jury believes that the specific work is of extremely high calibre. The Gold winners receive a trophy during the Award Ceremony.

All award winners (Gold, Silver and Bronze) will be published in the ED-Awards catalogue and on the ED-Awards website.

There are also the three special prizes: Jury’s Prize, Agency of the Year, Best of show.

➜ Entry fees:

The cost per submission is €160. There is also a volume discount for 5 or more submissions (€135.2 per submission). The submission fee for the Student Project Category is €40.