Last works from student of Academy of arts, architecture and design in Prague where presented in june in each department at academy except fashion and shoe design. Those where presented in La Fabrika club.
In product design department where possible to see product for actively spent live. For example collection of gymnastic tools for elementary schools by Jana Růžičková. Ondřej Tobola designed bicycle Koxx, demarcating above all by lightness of construction which is very important for professionals. Anna Hanzalová designed new line of chirurgic tools aim was to design modern resistant tools, which will have success in competition with other producers and will fulfill demands of doctors. Kryštof Nosál focused on seniors and designed special bath-tub so that is possible secure and comfortable step in/out and in order to don’t have spacial requirements for space and manufacturing.
You can see this works and many others in our photo gallery.
Project Sezóna is an exhibition that puts its focus on design of dining dishes and interior accessories designed by young authors. It was initiated in late summer of 2006, while preparations of the first exhibition in the Plzeň Radio station house were being done. Memories of the past summer, picking mushrooms and summer meetings were the inspiration for the concept and also the name – Sezóna (The Season). The successful exhibition in February 2007 in Pilsen was followed by the exhibition at the Folk Art Production Design Studio in Bratislava and in the Czech Centre in Košice, both Slovakia. The project continues with and exhibition in Design Centre of Czech Republic in Prague in summer 2007. The collection has been enlarged with many new products and new authors. It introduces witty, fresh works which are not afraid to experiment and at the same time respect the needs of users and function of the objects. Nontraditional installation using rough wood blocks allows the sublime products of china, ceramics, glass and metal to stand out. It evokes the atmosphere of holidays and invites to discover new things. The exhibition introduces the newest works of young designers – students and graduates from four Czech and one Slovak school of applied arts and attempts to help these authors to find their place on the contemporary art scene.
Assessing the first installment of a competition for young designers twelve years ago, the jury then characterized it as exceptionally successful. The reason was that the competition attracted 65 designers who submitted an unbelievable total of 75 entries. The jury also considered it a success that the Young Package Competition involved designers from two countries, i.e. the Czech Republic and the Slovak Republic.
When at the very beginning the competition organizers met with the representatives of the DESIGN CENTRE OF THE CZECH REPUBLIC and the MODEL OBALY Company, which since then has been the general sponsor of the Young Package competition, they set themselves one objective, namely to provide support to young designers in their professional career. To hold a competition seemed the best way to achieve that. At the same time, however, they all realized that the competition quality would only grow with a more broad-based participation of designers from more countries. Their wish came true in 2001, when the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (ICOGRADA) endorsed the Young Package Competition. In the year 2000, i.e. a year before ICOGRADA became a partner of the Competition, the organizers received entries from 176 designers from three countries. In 2005, the jury evaluated works by 314 designers from ten countries. In 2007, in the 12th year of the competition, the organizers received entry applications from 425 designers from 18 countries.
Is a formidable achievement, which unambiguously attests to the rapid growth in interest in this most prestigious international competition for young designers. There has been a similar increase in the quality of presentation and the quality of the entries themselves. There has also been a marked increase in number of university student entrants. In recent years, their number increased from 150 to 216.
Changes are also apparent in the structure of awarded designers. In the first years, designers from the Slovak Republic reigned supreme. Then came a period when the highest awards were won by designers from Poland. Nowadays, designers from the Czech and the Slovak Republics regularly appear among the winners. Their dominant position has so far been attacked very timidly by the „rest of the world“. Asian designers have on several occasions pushed their way among the world‘s designer elite. In the past two years, young Canadian designers have made systematic efforts to do likewise. It would very desirable to see, in the next years, the rest of the world becoming a substantially stronger opponent of, for the time being, the supremely reigning center of Europe.
We are happy to announce that we have made connection with independent polish on-line design magazine rzeczy.net. Description below. Go and check their website here.
rzeczy’s manifesto
We are like animals – attack is our reaction to pain. It hurts us a lot! What happens in art hurts, what happens in design hurts, what happens around us hurts! Responsibility for the future of design – on the city’s scale, on the country’s scale, on the world’s scale – rests with us. We will wage war against art in order to save it from non-thinking of those who co-create it. We will wage war against design in order to save it from your and our mistaken ideas. However, we will first kick your brain black and blue so that you have got any ideas again.
The century is over. The millennium is over. Everything that could be sold was sold. Culture is only mass and art is another hamburger, which can be sold, bought, digested… It’s no longer time for joking. Nobody takes prisoners in this beautiful world in which design is pushed aside:
A. to the art gallery or, even worse, to the museum!, B. to the role of a prostitute at the service of a dodgy clientele (marketing, advertising), …but it doesn’t have to be so:
Read rzeczy!
What is the book about?
It is a book of “design fictions.” By deliberately creating objects that cannot exist — because the material is not yet available, or the business plan, or the manufacturing process, or the infra-structure to support it, or even the human sensibility — it becomes possible to explore the meaning of design at a more profound level and to think more richly about what is and what might be.
What are its main themes and objectives?
The principal objective of the book is to stimulate thought: What is an object? Why do we desire what we desire? Why has “functionality” been defined in such a historically narrow way? What is beauty? Nonobject is an attempt to free the imagination by disengaging it form the constraints of utility, economy and technology.
Who is the book aimed at?
The book is aimed at designers, architects and the people involved in creating experiences who will appreciate the extraordinary subtlety and elegance of the “non-objects” depicted, but also at the growing audience of readers who have become interested in design. The rapid growth of the “design literate” public is one of the more remarkable trends of recent years, and on both visual and con-ceptual grounds the book has the potential to engage a very large audience.
How will it differ from existing books of its type?
It bears no resemblance to anything currently in existence. There are various books that depict futuristic objects, movie sets, concept cars, etc., but Nonobject is of an entirely different charac-ter. Likewise, we are aware of numerous “gag” books containing pictures of silly, inefficient, un-workable or simply unsuccessful products (Kenji Kawakami’s “101 Unuseless Japanese Inventions” is among the more amusing of this genre). Nonobject, by contrast, is a very serious book, con-ceived and executed with uncompromising craft and informed by a deep design sensibility.
nonobject is an exploration of the future of consumer experiences through design. It offers a new way of thinking about design and innovation – a way which embraces the space between you and the object.
The book is scheduled for release in the fourth quarter of 2007.
Author:branko Lukic is co founder and partner of nonobject.com nonobject is focused on providing new and surprising design experiences for wide spectrum of industries: from consumer products, sports equipment, furniture, interior designs, alternative fuel transportation to branding and web experiences.
I’m pleased to write about the newest 2+3D magazine – the Polish Design Quarterly. Editors revealed the real and the very first aim of creating that magazine. Alike for Designeast.eu the concept was a promotion of our part of Europe. While Krakow is close to Bratislava, Budapest and Prague they wanted to get to know each other and make the G4 idea (name taken from the group of countries who signed the Visegrad agreement and contrasting with G8 – the seven most industrialized countries and Russia). The very promising is an idea to cooperate with these countries creating a platform to reach more aims together.
The cover and the title page was designed by a Hungarian, Zsolt Czakó, and the graphic layout by Czech, Alan Zaruba. The magazine is made up of four independently edited sections concerning to every national variation – Czech, Slovak, Hungary, Poland. This special 23rd issue has a larger print-run and can be bought in those countries. Each part was laid out with a typeface designed in the relevant country, written in it’s language and shows the current state of design presented by partners.
As the Editors write: “We hope to be able to continue the G4 idea in some kind of form, in particular since we now know how to do it, and because the shared meetings are not only an exchange of professional experiences, but also a feast with Czech beer, Slovak haluški, Hungarian gulash and Polish (Russian-style) pierogi.”
Entitled ZEITgenosse, an exhibition of glass and textile design was opened at the Hungarian Embassy in Berlin on June 28th representing contemporary Hungarian artists as part of Ungarischer Akzent – the Hungarian Cultural Season in Germany. Visitors may get to know glass and textile designs by Irén Balázs, Hajnal Baráth, Eleonóra Balogh, Dorka Borbás, Judit Gink, Nóra Lévai, Birgit Köblitz, Eszter Mezősi, Lívia Pápai and Anna Regős. The exhibition is open till August 30th. For further information visit:
I apologize dear readers for lack of posting in couple of last days and I will not update this blog couple days more until I arrive to Czech Rep. (travel by car from Spain will take some days). I have spent almost one year in the Spain in Valencia – working in one design studio in here. Was very good experience for designer from Czech (actually for every designer) and I believe that it is worth for my future work. In my free time I was working on this blog and my plan is to keep going and deliver you more news from design scene in central and eastern Europe.
There was a wide range of topics from animal care car sets presented by MOBILVET to objects concerning people’s relations like RESPOND and ŹRÓDŁO – SPRING. The aim of SPRING project was to initiate comunication between members of some society. The idea came from consideration about progresive society atomization. It is a multimedia system to serve a purpose of information exchange between inhabitants of housing estate. RESPOND is a system of objects placed in the public space in different places in the world. Using a technology of sound and image transmittion it lets arranging meetings in spite of the distance between users. There are employed devices like mobile phone and computer to arrange and organise meetings through internet and sms. Water in this project is a kind of medium of occured relation. Being at both sides of the screen, posssible to be touched by both participants of the meeting it makes a common space of understanding. Answering for people’s needs studens have designed ideas and koncepts. Also they were cooperating with some institutions. The children-parents integration place was designed for Maltese Childcare Centre in Kraków and is going to be used there every day to make pleasant and friendly the time of children and their parents waiting for treatments. Glass radiator was designed with help of glass furniture manufacturer DubielVitrum and Irga company. As an idea of innovative use of common technology became an interesting task for progressive producents and is designed to place a new quality of glass into interiors and to give more freedom and inspiration to arranging living spaces. Shoes designed by Nassir were produced by polish shoe manufacturer Wojas. They bring the idea of simple and easy manufacturing process used to get a rich choise of design. Each kind of presented shoes has some advantages giving a comfort of use like velcro, lack of tongue and shoelace for better hygiene etc. Willing to share with all the ideas we show presentations of those projects.
rzeczy’s manifesto
What is the book about?
I’m pleased to write about the newest 
