Cologne, 8 June 2016 – until 1 July entries to the 18th International Eyes & Ears Awards may be submitted. Anyone submitting entries until 17 June 2016 still receives the Early Bird rates.

Since 1998 the industry association Eyes & Ears of Europe has been awarding especially creative, innovative and effective design, promotion and marketing activities with the International Eyes & Ears Awards. The Eyes & Ears Awards Show 2016 will take place on 27 October in the context of MEDIENTAGE MÜNCHEN. It is a showcase for the developments in the European moving-image industry. Here, the best work from the past year as well as the creative teams will be awarded in the categories of Design, Digital, Promotion and Cross-Media Campaigns. Also, Special Prizes for outstanding overall achievements and the special prize for ‘Best Use of Music’ will be awarded.

The highlight of the event will be the International Eyes & Ears Excellence Award. The most recent winner of this prize for outstanding contributions to the design and reflection of audiovisual communication was Kyle Cooper. Former laureates of the Eyes & Ears Excellence Award are Michael Conrad, Kyle Cooper, Nico Hofmann, Volker Weicker, Michel Comte, Florian Wieder, Yello – Dieter Meier and Boris Blank, Robert Wilson, Manfred Becker, Peter Weibel, Anton Corbijn, Peter Lamont, Hermann Vaske, Sky Du Mont, Martin Lambie-Nairn, Roman Kuhn and Oliviero Toscani.

Further information about the awards, the individual categories, submission fees and free entries for members at http://award.eeofe.org