Theme of this year Electrolux Design Lab ’09 competition for undergraduate and graduate industrial design students was to design home appliances for next 90 years as for celebration of Electrolux 90-year anniversary. The brief was to design products that will somehow show people direction of preparing and storing food, washing clothes and doing dishes over the next nine decades. Amazing amount of entries where submitted this year – over 900 ideas from student form over 50 countries. We wish good luck to all finalists for final event on September 24, 2009 at 100% Design, London.

You could meet Latvian design at DMY Berlin in June this year and you will have a chance to meet them again at DESIGNBLOK’09 in Prague 6th – 11th Octoberonline. If you haven’t been in Berlin and also you are not able to come to Prague for design week, just meet them online at www.designdrive.lv. Read the rest of this entry »

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK 2009 presents installations and products by international designers in Austria for the first time

Including Arik Levy with Swarovski Crystal Palace and new products by Michael Young alongside numerous other highlights from October 1st to 11th in Vienna.

The VIENNA DESIGN WEEK (October 1-11, 2009) is an annual eleven-day design festival in October showcasing a whole range of product, furniture, industrial, graphic and experimental design events in collaboration with local partners and institutions as well as upcoming international designers.

Competition for young designers.

This year Allivictus company and AutoDesign&Styling magazine annouced international designer competition Allivision09, where young designers maximum 35 year old can invent „car for better future“. Read the rest of this entry »

Moomoo was announced by Wallpaper as one of 30 most promising studios in the world which makes them a second Polish studio ever to be honoured with this distinction.  Read the rest of this entry »

‘Fulfilled’ is the Polish representative project for the Bombay Sapphire glass competition. Designers Ola Dabrowska and Adam Groch will travel to London in September to compete in the Global Final.

From early August until 21st September you will have a chance to vote for your favourite glass design in an online voting programme, the Bombay Sapphire People’s Prize. Haveyour say and be entered into the draw to win! Read the rest of this entry »