The 7th Creative Express brings together 29 talented young creatives from all over Europe in Lisbon

29 young European talents have been selected by the Art Directors Club of Europe (ADCE) to participate in the Creative Express, an exclusive educational program that, in its seventh edition, will take place in the Portuguese capital on the 12th and 13th July.

Co-organized by the Clube de Criativos de Portugal and the ADCE, this edition of the Creative Express challenges its young participants to develop ideas and communication strategies to involve the European creative community in the next edition of the ADCE European Creativity Festival which will be held in Barcelona on the 9th and 10th of November.

The fifth edition of the ADCE European Creativity Festival sets out to bring together the best and most influential professionals in creativity, innovation and European design to celebrate, reward and inspire the art of creativity, graphic design and new creative solutions through an inspiring program of conferences, workshops, awards and networking spaces.

HP Albrecht, director of the Creative Express, and Ivo Purvis, member of the Board of Directors of the ADCE, are entrusted with the responsibility of challenging the young participants to develop, in just two days, a communication campaign addressed to the members of the associations and creative clubs subsumed to the ADCE and the entire European community of creatives and designers. According to HP Albrecht, “If you want to see the idea “Europe” at work — the power and enthusiasm of borderless, young European creativity — watch the Creative Express. Especially in these days.” All this in an exceptional setting: the market of Santa Clara in Lisboa, current headquarters of the Clube de Criativos de Portugal.

Organized into seven working groups, the young talents will also have a panel of prestigious Creative Directors who will act as mentors throughout the process: Charlotte Bufler, Saurabh Kakade -Serviceplan Munich- and Esra Gülmen -Heimat- from Germany, and Filipe Mesquita -This is Pacifica-, Paulo Pinto -HavasWW-, Pedro Lima -Partners- and Marcelo Lourenço -Fuel- from Portugal.

The young creatives come from 15 European countries and have been selected by their respective local associations, members of the ADCE. As in previous editions, the participants are under the age of 28, and have at least two years of experience in the sector. They are:

Patricia Cordeiro
Designer, Big Fish
Portugal
2018
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Cláudio Soares
Copywriter, JWT
Portugal
2018
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Sílvia Antunes
Freelancer Graphic/motion Designer
Portugal
2018
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Pedro Barroso
Digitas / Leo Burnett
Portugal
2018
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Sebastian Kubik
Designer, Studio VIE
Austria
2018
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Mikoláš Gál
Art Director, Kreatorium s.r.o.
Czech Republic
2018
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Andreas Roosson
Graphic Designer, Hmmm Creative Studio
Estonia
2018
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Pamela Sume
Art Director, Hmmm Creative Studio
Estonia
2018
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Hanna Valle
Graphic Designer, Miltton Creative
Finland
2018
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Svenja Kremin
Architecture for Brand Spaces and Design, VOSS+FISCHER
Germany
2018
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Corinna Ruttert
Communication Designer, MUTABOR Design GmbH
Germany
2018
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Katie Kidd
Art Director, Boys + Girls Ltd.
Ireland
2018
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Nicola Nannavecchia
Art Director, Luis Ciccognani SAS
Italy
2018
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Raffaele Cortese
Art Director & Graphic Designer
Italy
2018
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Anna Speranza Ambrosio
Art Director, Antville
Italy
2018
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Cristina Cazacu
Art Director / Graphic Designer, Friends \ TBWA
Romania
2018
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George Bucurescu
Copywriter, Jazz Communication
Romania
2018
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Jaroslav Vigh
Senior Copywriter, Zaraguza
Slovakia
2018
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Maruša Hrovat
Luna\TBWA
Slovenia
2018
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Medeja Kraševec
Copywriter, Luna\TBWA
Slovenia
2018
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Genís Carreras
Graphic Designer, Studio Carreras
Spain
2018
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Alba Font
Graphic Designer, David Torrents Studio
Spain
2018
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Libe Amunarriz
Art & Copy, DDB Barcelona
Spain
2018
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Iratxe Reparaz
Art, DDB Barcelona
Spain
2018
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Yaël Kölliker
Experience Designer, Namics AG
Switzerland
2018
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Laura Hofer
Art Director, Contexta
Switzerland
2018
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Oleksandr Yavorskyi
Copywriter, Ogilvy Ukraine
Ukraine
2018
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Maryan Shum
Art Director, Think McCann Kyiv
Ukraine
2018
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Leanne Blossom
United Kingdom
2018
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The six previous editions of the Creative Express have taken place in Rome (2017), Helsinki and Tirol (2015), Munich and Amsterdam (2014) and Innsbruck-Vienna (2013).