"What has this second and extremely successful ED Awards shown us? Europe is growing together. And the creative sector is certainly in a unique position to shape these developments, with all the responsibility that goes with such influence. We all should share a joint goal: that of raising the status of graphic design in European society, by presenting the very best guality work, by pointing our new directions and further establishing design as an economic, socially critical factor.
The ED Awards, which attract over nine hundred entries, not only present a remarkable picture of what's happening in European design today - they also play an important part in promoting and encouraging our shared standards and ambitions in design. Not least this competition, in which leading design magazines of Europe are actively involved, is the best way of publicising the results of creative endeavours and enhancing their status" (Bettina Schulz - Chairperson ED-Awards 2008)