Feb / 12 / 2010 ¬

BUSK Exhibits Street Art in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier

MuseumsQuartier's exhibition venue “Street Art Passage Vienna“ hosts the exhibition of Vienna-based street artist BUSK. He is the 8th artist to exhibit in this specialized exhibition passageway located in one of the entrances to Vienna's cultural area MuseumsQuartier, since “Street Art Passage Vienna“ opened in 2008. The outdoor exhibition presents BUSK's works from 12 February to 29 April 2010.

Hardly any other street artist has intervened in Vienna's cityscape as much as BUSK. The famous monkey head as well as the writings BUSK and CMOD can be found in its grey areas, on exposed walls,...

Feb / 10 / 2010 ¬

“Future Journeys: Design” to Milan and New York Scheduled

Two “Future Journeys: Design” are scheduled for the first half of this year. The design capital Milan as a stage for the Salone Internazionale del Mobile in April is the first destination. The second is New York City, the largest design market in the U.S., one month later. Alongside meetings with renowned local designers and interesting lectures, the visit of the simultaneous International Contemporary Furniture Fair (ICFF) is on the agenda. The “Future Journeys: Design” are organized by AUSTRIANTRADE (AWO), together with the respective Trade Commissions.

“Future Journey: Design” to Milan
On the occasion of the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, the world's top event in the field of furniture and interior design,...

Jan / 9 / 2010 ¬

Wittmann To Present in Cologne Two Furniture Ranges by Polka

As every year, the year of the furniture design industry starts in Cologne. For many Austrian manufacturers and designers the imm Cologne furniture fair is the appropriate kick-off, also for the established company Wittmann which among others will launch two products designed by Vienna-based design studio Polka: the sofa range Floyd and the dining chairs Eve. The cooperation between the furniture manufacturer and Polka designers continues after the product lines Alma and Ella successfully launched in recent years.

Floyd Features Versatility and Femenine Forms
Floyd is a new sofa range with unmistakable lines shaped by the separate, attachable back elements that give the furniture its...

Dec / 14 / 2009 ¬

Koreans Appreciate Austrian Design

From 2 to 8 December 2009, designaustria successfully presented outstanding design from Austria in the framework of "Design Korea 2009". In the limelight were the winners of the Austrian National Award for Design 2009 showcased at the accompanying exhibition "World Best Design Exchange 2009", which is internationally regarded as one of the most important design fairs. The numerous audience at this design festival in the city of Incheon said to be impressed by the work by Austrian creatives.

The "World Best Design Exchange" hosted 23 organizations from 21 countries to present creative achievements from their home countries, previously awarded at competitions, to a specialist...

Dec / 11 / 2009 ¬

500 Guests Celebrate Arrival of GD2D+PD3D in Vienna

On Thursday, December 3, around 500 guests crowded the hall of Designforum in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier to attend the opening of the "GD2D+PD3D, Fresh AIR* by PureAustrianDesign" exhibition. A lot of prominence from the fields of culture, politics and economy as well as the domestic design scene which was also well represented. Both guests and organizers were enthusiastic about the exhibited design work and the presentation form in large air-filled cylinders. A lounge area furnished by GD2D+PD3D partners Eternit and austrian furniture industry, featured a selection of contemporary furniture.

After successful international performances, the traveling exhibition now hits home stomping ground for a stopover of 3 months. Over a year ago this exhibition on Austrian graphics and product...

Nov / 28 / 2009 ¬

New X-mas Lights for Vienna's Kärntner Straße

Since 27 November, 550,000 crystal lights are illuminating Kärntner Strasse in downtown Vienna this year. Vienna-based designer Rainer Mutsch developed the glamorous lighting concept "Crystal Lights" together with Blachere Illumination, christmas lighting specialist from Wels (Upper Austria). Impressive 54 light elements, 4 to 6 meters wide and 3.7 meters high, create a solemn ambience in Vienna's famed shopping street between Opera and Stephansplatz.

"Crystal Lights" is the largest Christmas lighting project across Europe in 2009. Rainer Mutsch's design is implemented by Blachere Illumination in cooperation with Schöler Crystal...

Nov / 28 / 2009 ¬

”GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign” Goes Vienna

On December 4, 2009, ”GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign” will come home. The designforum based in Vienna's MuseumsQuartier will host the itinerant exhibition on Austrian graphic and product design for 3 months. With 24 works presented in and on individual air-filled bubbles, this particular show, curated and developed by JULAND *BarcelonaVienna in collaboration with guest curator for product design Stefan Moritsch (bkm design working group), will recreate a futuristic landscape which has previously been displayed in cities like Hong Kong, Milan, Bratislava, Aarhus and Nikosia. A lounge area furnished by Auria (Eternit) and the austrian furniture industry invites to relax. In the evening of December 3, ”GD2D+PD3D“ will be opened by Mrs. Claudia Rochel-Laurich, representing the Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs, one of the main partners of the exhibition.

The Formula GD2D+PD3D 

”GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign” reveals the essence of contemporary Austrian design and brings together...

Nov / 19 / 2009 ¬

SPOT ON WIEN Took Tokyo with Contemporary Design, Music and Fashion

For 5 days “SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music“ was under Tokyo's spotlights as the biggest contemporary contribution to the Austria-Japan-Year 2009, established on the occasion of 140 years of diplomatic relations between both countries. As this year's only guest country and official partner of 100% Design Tokyo, Vienna and Austria presented a 'spot-on' selection of the today's domestic creativity, including product and furniture design, fashion, electronic music and dance performances. “SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music“ was developed by the Vienna Tourist Board and JULAND* BarcelonaVienna with the support of the Austrian National Tourist Office, Austria Wirtschaftsservice aws and evolve | impulse.

On Friday, 30th, Vienna's deputy mayor and president of the Vienna Tourist Board Renate Brauner officially opened the prestigious design fair 100% Design Tokyo, major hotspot of the annual Tokyo...

Nov / 1 / 2009 ¬

Successful Kick-off in Tokyo

It is this year that Austria and Japan are celebrating 140 years of diplomatic relations, and it is now that we have finally arrived to put Vienna's and Austria's creativity under the spotlights of this year's 100% Design Tokyo. SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music kicked off on the 30th of November. At 11:00 a.m. the doors of 100% Design Tokyo opened and the SPOT ON WIEN space with its prominent location immediately became one of the hot spots of the design show.

SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music presents Austria and particulary Vienna in an unique light at 100% Design Tokyo during this year's Tokyo Designers' Week. As guest country of...

Oct / 23 / 2009 ¬

Austrian Design Awards go to GP designpartners and mischer'traxler from Vienna

22 October 2009: the Arena21 hall of Vienna's MuseumsQuartier was crowded to overflowing for the 38th award ceremony of the Austrian National Award for Design (Staatspreis Design). Three prestigious National Awards and a Promotion Prize for Experimental Design were waiting for the winners. Among the lucky three were two Viennese design studios who had already received the "5 Faces Of The Year" Award launched by "SPOT ON WIEN - Flashing Austrian Design and Music" a few months ago: GP designpartners with "Champ Solar Light“ and the studio mischer'traxler with its solar powered manufacturing plant "The Idea Of A Tree". Soda Designers also elected for the "5 Faces" Award received a nomination and a recognition prize. Thus, the jury of the "5 Faces" Award proved to have a "good nose".

The awaited moment came at 18:30: Before 400 guests from the worlds of politics, business and design, State Secretary Christine Marek from the Ministry of Economy, Family and Youth awarded the...

Oct / 20 / 2009 ¬

Design Jungle - An Upper Austrian Show About Known Products and Secret Heroes

Design Jungle is an exhibition "Designforum Linz" is organizing in the context of “Linz European Capital of Culture 2009“. In the masonry of the Lagerdepot warehouse, visitors of the exhibition can delve into the “biodiversity“ of Upper-Austrian design. From October 29 to November 4, Upper-austrian designers will proove that design expertise does exist on the spot, reappearing two decades after the "Case of Design Forum" in the 80s.

The recently established pool of Upper-austrian designers "Designforum Linz" opens the gates on Pfarrplatz in Linz to raise awareness of local product design and to show the public that...

Oct / 19 / 2009 ¬

Vienna's BLICKFANG 2009 Closes With New Record Attendance

For the sixth time, BLICKFANG design fair was held in the premises of MAK, Austrian Museum of Applied Arts in Vienna, from 16 - 18 October, reporting a new record attendance of about 12,800 visitors. In the 3,500-square-meter exhibition space, roughly 140 young designers from Austria and abroad offered a compact overview of the current trends of a young designer generation, featuring products from the fields of furniture, lighting, fashion and jewelry design.

Marlene Fussi, project manager of BLICKFANG Vienna: "About 40% of the designers already came from abroad. We can affirm that BLICKFANG draws international design to Vienna." New features...

Oct / 13 / 2009 ¬

Feichtner's “Linz Stool“ To Become a Democratized Cultural Asset of Design

As part of “Linz European Capital of Culture 2009“ the exhibition "Der Fall Design Forum (The Case Design Forum)" will open on 14 October in Landesgalerie in Linz, Upper Austria. A separate exhibition area is dedicated to the installation "Linz Stool 2009“ by Austrian product designer Thomas Feichtner who conceived a product-oriented response to the approaches used in the debate of Design Forum about the interfaces of everyday life, art and design. Main player of the installation is the specially developed Linz stool. The fundamental idea behind the installation, which consists of more than one thousand of these stools, is not to perform in a museum gallery but to launch signals from the gallery.

Thomas Feichtner's temporary installation will not be preserved as a self-contained work but will be taken to pieces – the individual stools. Every visitor may remove one of the Linz stools,...

Oct / 9 / 2009 ¬

London-based Design Studio PearsonLloyd Develops Office Landscape PARCS For Bene

London-based designers PearsonLloyd developed together with Austrian office furniture manufacturer Bene a novel, unconventional furniture collection. It is called PARCS and is a spatial furniture kit to be freely grouped and varied in numerous ways, allowing to create an inspiring working environment for meetings, spontaneous exchange, waiting and relaxing. Formally speaking, "it is deliberately kept calm, quiet and neutral, at the same time it is decidedly modern", say the designers.

PARCS defines the office as an open urban landscape: it particularly is in the often fallow central zones and transition areas between functions where the PARCS programme can set new, visually...

Oct / 6 / 2009 ¬

Lucky Strike Designer Award For Stefan Sagmeister

This year's renowned Lucky Strike Designer Award goes to Stefan Sagmeister. In the person of this Austrian, New York based artist, the Raymond Loewy Foundation is honoring one of today’s most influential communications designers. He achieved cult status for his covers for The Rolling Stones, Lou Reed and Talking Heads. The foundation’s jury stated “his design work is highly creative, innovative, and courageous. He combines philosophy, politics and socially relevant themes avant-garde design, is democratic and someone everyone can comprehend.“ Stefan Sagmeister will receive the Lucky Strike Designer Award in Berlin on November 17.

World-famous CD Covers
Stefan Sagmeister, born 1962 in Bregenz (Austria), studied graphic design in Vienna. A Fulbright Scholarship brought him to New York. There he founded...

Oct / 5 / 2009 ¬

Next Venue of ”GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign” Is Denmark's Aarhus Museum of Modern Art ARoS'

Co-organised by Aarhus-based creative platform LYNfabrikken and the Austrian embassy in Copenhagen, the Aarhus’ Museum of Modern Art ARoS will open its doors on October 16 to present the itinerant design exhibition ”GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign” for two weeks. With 24 works presented in and on individual air-filled bubbles, this particular exhibition, curated and developed by design studio JULAND *BarcelonaVienna in collaboration with guest curator for product design Stefan Moritsch (bkm design working group), will again create a fantastic futuristic landscape which has previously been displayed in other stunning venues like Hong Kong, Milan, Bratislava and Nikosia. The title “Fresh Air” refers to the breath of fresh inspiration and innovative design that blows not only through but also from Austria to the rest of the world putting Austria on the international map of design.

The Formula GD2D+PD3D 

”GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign” reveals the essence of contemporary Austrian design and brings together...

Sep / 29 / 2009 ¬

VIENNA DESIGN WEEK To Offer 11 Days Packed With Design

Once more the third VIENNA DESIGN WEEK invites to experience design in everyday life from October 1 to 11 all over the city of Vienna. Newly developed formats as “VDW Lab”, “VDW Debut” and “VDW Carte Blanche” are added to the wide portfolio of talks, presentations and exhibitions supposed to turn again the city into an arena for an inspiring crossover of art, architecture, design and craft. Exhibitions, installations, workshops, talks and a public design laboratory stand for a not only national but international design exchange which celebrates Vienna‘s charm between tradition, avant-garde and the latest vogue.

PASSIONSWEGE (Paths of Passion)
PASSIONSWEGE is a design trail through Vienna's inner districts and the centrepiece of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK through all 11 days. Ten...

Sep / 21 / 2009 ¬

Valentin Vodev's Electric Bike Biquattro Wins Two Important International Awards

Valentin Vodev's latest vehicle Biquattro was recently awarded twice, indeed: It won the 14th International Bicycle Design Competition Taipei 2010 and the"red dot Concept Award" 2009. Fascinated with driveable objects, his inventiveness ranges from gadgets like radios or laser lighters to shoes to walk and swim.With the critically acclaimed “Roller Buggy“, an hybrid between scooter and stroller, Valentin Vodev already had a major international response: It finished third at the 11th International Bicycle Design Competition in Taipeh, in 2006.

Biquattro is a versatile electric bike, a hybrid somewhere between a bicycle and a car. When driven on two wheels, it provides space for 1-2 persons, being easily manageable in the city traffic....

Sep / 21 / 2009 ¬

Vienna-based Designer Martin Mostböck Gets 'red dot award 2009' for CUBIK S

The planter series CUBIK S by Vienna-based architect and product designer Martin Mostböck for ETERNIT received the coveted red dot award in the category product design. CUBIK S is based on a reduced form that opens up manifold options. The planters may be arranged in a linear form or in groups creating an exciting interplay of clear lines and conical volumes. Reduction to the essence and module optimization played an important role in the design of these planter series. In 2006 Mostböck Martin was already awarded a red dot award for the planter series Twista (also for Eternit).

The multi-functionality and variability are based on the addition of various options which are formally expressed in clean lines and conic volumes, and permit an astonishing number of possible...

Aug / 17 / 2009 ¬

Rainer Mutsch's Linea for Eternit Wins Red Dot Award

The new modular outdoor-furniture concept “Linea” designed by Vienna-based product designer Rainer Mutsch for Eternit has won the international Red Dot Design Award 2009 in the category „Public Space“.

Inspired by the production process of Eternit, Rainer Mutsch developed “Linea”, a weather-proof lounge-chair also based on fibre-concrete panels. A new moulding technique allows maximum...

Jul / 27 / 2009 ¬

Bene's T-Meeting - Table Ensemble For Office Communication

Bene's T-Meeting stands for bespoke communication environments in the office: the all-rounder presents itself in the form of a small meeting table, a stand-up table or as a multi-part conference table.

Designed by Christian Horner, Johannes Scherr and Kai Stania, T-Meeting offers endless design options: various sizes, heights, tabletop designs, frames, colours and materials make up a large...

Jun / 28 / 2009 ¬

2 Austrian Design Studios Make It Into DMY Berlin Design Awards Top 3

For the first time, DMY Berlin, the organizers of the International Design Festival Berlin, joined forces with the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung to award the most outstanding projects among all exhibits of this year's edition of the popular festival. The festival jury was allowed to select three winners from a shortlist of the 10 best. Among the 3 lucky winners, there are two Austrian design studios: Walking Chair and the young studio mischer'traxler, both from Vienna.

In the presence of the festival jury, formed by Jurgen Bey, Jerszy Seymour, Jürgen H. Meyer, Ines Kaag, Bless and Kyoka, and Annemarie Jaeggi from Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung the winners were awarded during a festive ceremony.

Both Viennese designer teams which came to Berlin with new projects were able to convince with its unusual and fresh concepts. Developed in cooperation with the Danish platform LYNfabrikken, Walking Chair designers' duo Karl Emilio Pircher and Fidel Peugeot took the opportunity and, for the first time, presented the brand new street furniture "YOU MAY" to the public, not just once, but twice - both at DMY Berlin and in Aarhus/Denmark where it was installed in the public space for the Aarhus Festival Week. After Berlin, the flexible street furniture "YOU MAY" will be used during the Knowledge Space Vienna on Karlsplatz in June. Further exhibitions are planned.

Katharina Mischer and Thomas Traxler from studio mischer'traxler showed "The idea of a tree" within the "Youngsters" exhibition at DMY Berlin. Their strongly concept-based "tree-machine" that had already attracted attention on festivals in Holland and at Milan's Furniture Fair this year, was also well received in Berlin, making it into the festival's top 3. "The idea of a tree" represents an autonomous, solar-powered production process. Totally running on sun light, it reacts and incorporates various light intensities into one object per day.

The award-winning projects will be presented together with the Jury Selection of this year's DMY Festival from August 8th – 31st in a special exhibition of the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung.

-> Showroom Walking Chair Design Studio.
-> Showroom mischer'traxler.

Urban furniture "YOU MAY" by Walking Chair Design Studio

"The idea of a tree" by mischer'traxler

The 'lamp tioat' is one outcome of the 'the idea of a tree' (tioat) project.

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Jun / 30 / 2009 ¬

“5 Faces” From Austria's Design Scene

For the first time this year, the “5 Faces of the Year” – relevant and trendsetting designers from Austria – are chosen. The 5 selected designers will be presented in the scope of the design exhibition SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music, by the Vienna Tourist Board and the studio JULAND *BarcelonaVienna, to take place in Tokyo in the end of October 2009.

Since four years, PureAustrianDesign has been successfully promoting Austria’s cultural profile in the stages of the international design scene. Through the “5 Faces of the Year”...

Jun / 29 / 2009 ¬

AUSTRIANTRADE To Organize Future Journey Design to The Netherlands

In October 2009, the Netherlands will become the centre of the European creative industries featuring two highlights: The Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven and the International Architecture Biennial in Rotterdam. From 18 to 22 October 2009, on the occasion of these two leading international events, AUSTRIANTRADE (AWO) together with the Trade Commission from The Hague organizes a future journey design, architecture and multimedia to the Netherlands for Austrian entrepreneurs from the creative industries.

The aim of this market sounding journey is to approach first-hand information on the latest trends and developments in the international market for design, architecture and multi-media to Austrian...

Jun / 18 / 2009 ¬

Gold, Silver And Bronze For Austrian Graphic Designers At European Design Awards 2009

The European Design Awards, which took place for the third time in Zurich in May 2009, were given for works in the fields of graphic and web design. A total of 16 Austrian award winners was chosen out of more than 950 Europe-wide submissions by an international twelve-man jury. The members of the ED-Awards jury are not designers but editors of leading design publications.

The awards were given in a total of 30 categories, subdivided in seven main categories - General, Identity, Publications, Digital, Packaging, Illustration, Self-promotion and Various. Moreover, a...

May / 28 / 2009 ¬

Super Sports Cars and Translucent Concrete

Design legend Luigi Colani and other visionaries are expected at the Incredible Summit in Vienna on 29 June 2009. Luigi Colani, who made design history for decades and influenced and shaped entire eras of art and society worldwide, will showcase his visionary, futurist work at the Incredible Summit "IncrediblEurope - The Power of Innovation and Creativity" in Vienna's Kursalon.

Masterminds of innovation and creativity
During the Incredible Summit, innovative and creative thinkers, decision makers, entrepreneurs and interested people from across...

May / 21 / 2009 ¬

SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design and Music succesfully presented in Tokyo

With a focus on the city of Vienna, Austria will be presented as the guest country at this year’s 100% Design in Tokyo. On this occasion, the Vienna Tourist Board and JULAND *Barcelona Vienna, together with their partners the Austrian National Tourist Board and evolve | impulse, invite their design loving hosts to center their spots on Vienna to enlighten Austrian design and music. Selected by an international jury, the 25 most innovative and exciting design objects of the Austrian creative scene will provide the ultimate preview of the design Mecca and cultural city of Vienna.

“Who knows Vienna only as the ancient capital of the Habsburg empire won’t believe his eyes when catching a sight of Vienna, this vibrant metropolis of design”, states Norbert...

May / 11 / 2009 ¬

Design from Styria

One of the main projects of Creative Industries Styria is the first Design Month in Styria. It offers a kaleidoscope of the creative scene, a wide spectrum of different branches of design, ranging from architecture to music as well as fashion.

The Design Month bundles different competencies and potentials of the local creative scene and opens it to the public. In cooperation with numerous local partners like the House of Architecture,...

Apr / 27 / 2009 ¬

Big success of GD2D + PD3D - Fresh Air by PureAustrianDesign in Milan

Large crowds at the opening of the exhibition on Wednesday evening, April 22, at Milan's “O'artoteca”: 200 guests were expected, but over 500 came, amongst them plenty of Austrian design prominence and Austrians living in Milan, who valued the exhibition with the airy cylinders as very positive and successful. So did head of O'artoteca, Sara Serighelli, who for the first time presented  a design exhibition in her premises with "GD2D + PD3D - Fresh Air by PureAustrianDesign", especially impressed by the presentation in the form of air cylinders.

Georg Schnetzer, director of the Austrian Cultural Forum Milan, and Andrés Fredes from studio JULAND * Barcelona Vienna, responsible for curating this itinerant show, opened the exhibition....

Apr / 8 / 2009 ¬

BARTEL&GAFFAL Develops Home Office

Linz-based design studio BARTEL&GAFFAL created an innovative home office for the Austrian interior design and furniture company Voglauer from Salzburg region. They attracted attention with the i-panel during the last edition of imm furniture fair in Cologne. For the first time in the history of the company, Voglauer had been nominated with the i-panel for the Interior Innovation Award of imm 09.

In a flat wall panel, all necessary components, such as screen, keyboard, computer and other utensils, find their place. A stool covered with leather is optionally available in which the printer is...

Apr / 4 / 2009 ¬

White Elephant DesignLab Wins "CRYSTALLIZED™ – Swarovski Elements Call For Tender"

The light object Crystalswitch by White Elephant DesignLab made the grade at the award ceremony of the „CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements Call For Tender“ contest. On Thursday evening April 2, the jury decisions were solemnly announced in the presence of 100 invited guests in Vienna's Loos House. Designer Alexandra Bammer finished second with Crystal Signs in braille, followed by Vienna-based Designstudio destilat with their light object Andromeda.

With the awards ceremony last Thursday, 2 April 2009, the competition "CRYSTALLIZED™ - Swarovski Elements Call For Tender" came to an end. From the 12 objects nominated for...

Mar / 26 / 2009 ¬

Call For Entries: SPOT ON WIEN – Flashing Austrian Design

On 26 March 2009, the Vienna Tourist Board and JULAND *BarcelonaVienna together with their partners evolve | impulse and Österreich Werbung are announcing the Call For Entries for the exhibition "SPOT ON WIEN - Flashing Austrian Design" in Tokyo 2009, looking for the best designs from the fields of furniture, product design, lighting, outdoor and tableware to be submitted on PureAustrianDesign.com. An internationally renowned jury will bring the 20 best works on the Japanese design stage in autumn this year, where more than 100,000 visitors are expected. From now Austrian designers have the opportunity to apply for an exclusive and free presentation of their products at 100% Design Tokyo.

SPOT ON WIEN in Tokyo
For five days, from 30 October to 3 November 2009, the spots of the international design world will be set on Japan,...

Mar / 23 / 2009 ¬

Czech Design Exhibition “Křehký by Designblok Prague” In France And Belgium

Czech exhibition for glass and porcelain design „Křehký by Designblok Prague“, presented for the first time at Prague's design fair „Designblok'07“, is on a world tour since then and to be seen in two different places: From 14 March to 10 May at Lille3000, Folie Lambersart in Lille, France, and from 27 March to 26 April, 2009 at Design Vlaanderen in Brussels.

The Křehký by Designblok Prague exhibition presents the art of both Czech and world designers in connection with the traditional craftsmanship of Czech glass and porcelain...

Mar / 13 / 2009 ¬

Fresh Austrian Design Visits Milan

From 22 to 27 April 2009, renowned gallery 'O in Milan's emerging "Zona Isola" is hosting the Austrian air-filled design show GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign. An installation developed together with gallery owner Sara Serigelli adds the two dimensions of the exhibited graphic design and the three dimensions of product design a fourth one. The exhibition and opening on 21 April is expected to be an airy highlight of the entire program offered during Milan design fair Salone Internazionale del Mobile. Organized by the Austrian Cultural Forum in Milan and curated by Vienna-based design studio JULAND BarcelonaVienna and guest curator Stefan Moritsch (bkm design working group), the exhibition brings along outstanding, extraordinary and unusual works of contemporary graphic and product design from Austria. On Saturday 25 April 2009, the gallery will house PureAustrianSound, a special event featuring contemporary electronic music from Austria, performed by internationally renowned sound artists Werner Dafeldecker, Martin Brandlmayr, and Michael Moser.

The Formula GD2D+PD3D 

GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign reveals the essence of contemporary Austrian design and brings together contemporary graphic and...

Feb / 10 / 2009 ¬

Walking Chair Designs Kinderpunkt 09 (Children's Point 09) for Linz '09

On Monday, February 9, 2009, the Kinderpunkt 09 (Children's Point 09) opened up in Europe's new Cultural Capital Linz. The children point 09, located in the old town hall on the main square, serves as a place for children and information hub for families during the European Cultural Year of Linz'09.

Design and planning was penned by Vienna-based design studio Walking Chair. This meeting place for children and families was realized by Linz-based company Kirchberger.

The idea was to...

Feb / 3 / 2009 ¬

'Rotator' presentation by Ron Arad at MAK

The lecture by Ron Arad on February 3 at the Museum of applied Arts in Vienna, has formed the prelude to the cooperation of MAK and departure: In a series of lectures with accompanying presentations designers and artist will deliberate on the question whether Vienna can be positioned as a location for young international designers and prove to become a design metropolis such as London or Milan. Moreover Ron Arad presented the interior "Rotator", a hydraulic bathroom fixture which was developed for the Italian company Teuco. The prototype will be on display until February 5 at the columned hall.

London based artist Ron Arad is known as one of the most successful and renowned international artists and stands out due to his innovative thinking. With his experminatal designs Arad continually...

Feb / 1 / 2009 ¬

AWS designteam at ispo and iF award

The long-standing partnership between Adam W. Swiczinsky's AWS design team and the ski manufacturer Tyrolia released their new design product prestige. The monocoque carbon ski binding was presented on Sunday, February 1, at the Sports Fair Ispo in Munich. Furthermore, Adam W. Swiczinsky's orthosis Dorso Arexa by Otto Bock Healthcare will be awarded with the iF product design award 2009 which will be presented on March 3 at the annual trade show CeBIT held in Hanover.

Dorso Arexa von Otto Bock
The hyperextension orthosis Dorso Arexa by Otto Bock combines both high functionality and confort in a new appearance. Padding around the...

Jan / 22 / 2009 ¬

Soda Designers Report Successful Start Into New Year

Currently, 2 new products by Vienna-based Soda Designers are in the international spotlight: The chairs SO for Ligne Roset are presented at the first two major trade fairs of the year, imm cologne and Maison & Objet (Paris). ARNE, the organically shaped bathtub designed for the Italian company Rapsel, is nominated for the ELLE DECO International Design Award.

Ligne Roset's SO Chairs In Cologne And Paris
As a novelty in the current catalogue of Ligne Roset, the chairs SO are presented at imm cologne and then at the Maison &...

Jan / 21 / 2009 ¬

Austrian Furniture Companies Present New Highlights at imm cologne

The international furniture fair imm cologne opened its gates on Monday, 19 January 2009. For one week, it serves as inspiring and trendsetting business event for the furnishing industry. Among the 1,000 exhibitors from 50 countries are 22 well-known manufacturers from Austria. ADA, Joka, TEAM 7 and Wittmann are 4 members of the austrian furniture industry presenting highlights from their new catalogues during this first important design event of the year.

Some selected items of their broad product range will be featured here:

Natural wood as leitmotif of Team 7 furniture
The cubus T1 table designed...

Jan / 14 / 2009 ¬

Fresh Austrian Design Goes East & Far East

What have Hong Kong, China, and Nicosia, Cyprus, in common? They are port cities and they host the exhibition "GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign“ at the same time. From February 5 to 28, 2009, both cities are simultaneous stages of this itinerant exhibition on fresh Austrian design. GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign, curated by Vienna-based design studio JULAND BarcelonaVienna, brings along outstanding, extraordinary and unusual works of contemporary graphic and product design from Austria.

Both venues are quite different: In Nicosia Castelliotissa Palace, a medieval masonry in the old town of the Cypriot capital, will be the venue, whereas in China the Hong Kong Design Centre will...

Jan / 7 / 2009 ¬

FutureDesignDays Stockholm Present LIGHT NOW 2009 Conference

On the 2nd of February 2009 as part of FutureDesignDays Stockholm some of the most talked about pioneers and provocateurs of today’s lighting design scene will meet in Stockholm to talk about lighting: The veteran Ingo Maurer and the innovative heirs – Paul Cocksedge and Moritz Waldemeyer. FutureDesignDays is an experimental workshop offering design-debates without blinders, where designers and freethinkers interact with each other and with the audience. The aim is to explore ideas about design that will matter to people, bringing panel discussions as a constant element, wounding up every FutureDesignDays conference.

Let there be light - Business Of The Future In A Novel Shine
The light bulb will have been around for an amazing 130 years now. And surely Thomas Alva Edison’s simple...

Dec / 18 / 2008 ¬

Hip Dispenser For Manner's Wafer Classic From Austria

Two years ago, Vienna and Milan based product designer Philipp Bruni presented the Manner SCHNITT-O-MAT as a prototype during "Blickfang" design fair in Vienna's MAK. Two years later this special Manner-wafer-dispenser is done - just in time for the Christmas shopping season.

In close cooperation with Vienna-based wafer manufacturers Manner, the stylish machine for the famous "Original Manner Neapolitan Wafers" has been introduced as a serial product. more ...

Dec / 16 / 2008 ¬

Designboost 2008 Workshop Conclusions On Future Urban Life Published

The annual Swedish knowledge event Designboost took place in Malmö from 15 Oktober - 16 November. The theme was "Long live the City" and dealt with how to create better and more sustainable cities for better life. Now Designboost presents conclusions from the 36 Boost Chats (workshops) that took place at the two top floors of Malmö's Turning Torso building with 100 specially invited guests.

The group of participants included hundred creative people from around the world that all work with design in one way or another as well as representatives from the business world, schools and...

Dec / 15 / 2008 ¬

New Ars Electronica Center Starts With Robot Orchestra, Big Eye and Lots of Light

On January 2, 2009 at 11 AM, exactly 35 hours after the kick-off of Linz as one of Europe's Cultural Capitals, the gates of the new Ars Electronica Center will open by switching on the lucent glass facade which surrounds the whole building. The opening programme does not rely on pretentious events, but on presenting itself, its architecture and its large assortment of items on exhibit. Entertaining tours and showcases give a picture of the versatility and singularity of the new Ars Electronica Center which is for free as open house on the first three days.

MainGallery Displays Gigantic Eye
With 3,000 m2 of space for exhibits, 1,000 dedicated to R&D, 400 for seminars and conferences, 650 for food & beverage service and...

Dec / 10 / 2008 ¬

Design Studio LUCY.D Gives Hütteldorferstrasse Luminous Wings

These days, countless pairs of wings meet pedestrians or drivers with their shine, when moving along Hütteldorferstrasse at the height of Meisel market. With the new Christmas lights around Meisel market, this hub in Vienna's 15th District may flap its wings now. X_Wings is the name of this flying light installation by Viennese designers' duo LUCY.D.

In allusion to the district's "patron saint", Archangel Michael, the light installation simulates an angel flight, some might say. "The pairs of wings are hanged in a row in varying...

Nov / 25 / 2008 ¬

destilat Designs Office of Strobl+Strobl Agency in Budapest

Viennese studio destilat designs the new Budapest branch of Linz-based advertising agency Strobl+Strobl. Motifs from nature play an important role as much as the reduced use of color.

Only a handful of colors characterize the new branch of advertising agency Strobl+Strobl based in Budapest. White and gray serve as chromatic basis, selected furniture in the social leisure area of...

Nov / 19 / 2008 ¬

Helsinki Biennale - World Fair With A Difference

Helsinki Biennale 2008 is a World Fair. In the basement of Designmuseum Helsinki 13 pavilions typical for World Fairs were built by 50 Finnish and almost 100 foreign artists. Installations, drawings, paintings, photography, video and audio works are to be seen among others.

Helsinki Biennale is an independent art organisation that operates on the border zone of art and design. The basement of Designmuseum came to be the place for this World Fair almost by itself. The...

Nov / 18 / 2008 ¬

Ars Electronica Gets New Center in Linz

Ars Electronica’s outstanding international reputation assures it a place in the limelight during Linz’s term as European Capital of Culture in 2009. The city is now creating an appropriate architectural setting for this starring role by expanding the Ars Electronica Center. The planning is the work of Treusch architecture, Vienna.

A new, multilevel wing is being erected immediately adjacent to the existing building. The two structures will be wrapped in a backlit glass shell that creates a unitary architectural ensemble....

Nov / 5 / 2008 ¬

Big Programme To Celebrate Saint Etienne International Design Biennial's 10 Years

This year's 6th edition of the Saint Etienne International Design Biennial is a pointedly multi-faceted event, carrying forward the success of the preceding editions. It will celebrate 10 years of existence with a big array of exhibitions and events all over the city of St. Etienne, bringing together all types of public from November 15 - 30. For the second time, the Biennial - organised by Cite du Design - is inviting curators like John Thackara, Jérôme Delormas and Claire Fayolle to put forth their personal vision of design and to explore new ways of exercising design as an active player in the sustainable development of urban life.

The action packed program, due to mainly take place at the Cité du Design exhibition venue, a former weapons factory in Saint Etienne, appears to defy the idea that the importance of design...

Nov / 4 / 2008 ¬

Several Awards For Industrial Design Class From Vienna's University of Applied Arts

At the first edition of the "Createch ideas competition" organized by the Austrian Federal Ministry for Traffic, Innovation and Technology, the Industrial Design Class 2 at the University of Applied Arts Vienna finished first in three out of five categories. The competition called for creative solutions in the field of transportation of both passengers and goods. It aimed at companies from the creative industries as well as students. 21 projects were nominated out of a total of 56 submissions.

With her project "eRickshaw“, Anna Wiesinger, student of the Class for Industrial Design 2, convinced the jury in the category "Straight Forward: Street" which seeks ideas in...

Oct / 20 / 2008 ¬

More than 900 Creative Professionals Celebrate New Look/Book Release

The Look/Book 2008 release party as crowning finale of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK was hosted by departure on Saturday, October 11, 2008, at Volksgarten Banane in Vienna. Sybille Straubinger, Municipal Councilor, and Christoph Thun-Hohenstein, Managing Director of departure, presented this successful tour through the creative industries in Vienna. The evening, conducted by ORF-presenter Eva Pölzl as charming master of ceremonies, offered a lot for ears and eyes. DJane Amina Handke and DJ Skwerl (Sonar Kollektiv) provided the soundtrack of the night to dance to.

The audiovisuals for the event were created by organizer and curator of the sound:frame festival Eva Fischer. Special visuals as well as the visual presentation of departure’s Look/Book were...

Oct / 9 / 2008 ¬

Creative Recycling of Materials or the Semi-finished Elegance of Porcelain

The second day of VIENNA DESIGN WEEK's design trail “Passionswege“, on Monday, 6 October 2008, led the design pilgrims into Vienna's 2nd district. The foyer of Augarten Palace, home of the time-honoured Augarten porcelain manufactory, housed a presentation by South Tyrolean designer Marco Dessi featuring three stunning projects which deal with the process of porcelain production.

In the manufactory, which already provided the high society in rococo with precious porcelain tableware and figurines, a designer is now experimenting with the production process and modifying...

Oct / 7 / 2008 ¬

Wine and Design

On Saturday afternoon the bulthaup studio, showroom of the renowned kitchen producer next to Vienna's Opera, was cram-full, a fact that could not really be put down to the damp and windy autumn weather, but to the presentation of a new drinking set by Lobmeyr. „Wiener gemischter Satz“ is the cryptic name of the six-part set designed by Marie Rahm and Monica Singer from Polka, and subjected to a multiple drinking test by the visitors that very afternoon. Indeed, under the slogan "Wine and Design", the glasses could be tested with wine from four Viennese winemakers.

Polka and glass manufacturer J. & R. Lobmeyr presented their second collaboration, the set called "Wiener gemischter Satz". The bulthaup studio not only provided the premises, but...

Oct / 5 / 2008 ¬

About 1,000 Guests at VIENNA DESIGN WEEK Opening

On Thursday evening, the opening of the 2nd edition of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK attracted over 1,000 invited guests to party far into the night with music and drinks in the hall of Liechtenstein Palace. The crowded night was hosted by Neigungsgruppe Design, organizers of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK nad the lifestyle magazine H.O.M.E.. As prelude of the evening, the installation VERTICAL TAKE OFF AND LANDING by german-swedish design duo Kram/Weisshaar was unveiled in the courtyard of Palais Liechtenstein. The 100 m² big flat cube is composed of specially designed fibre concrete pieces by Rieder Smart Elements.

"We want to extend the summer and keep the crowd in the streets," said the organizers in their inaugural address. "And show, of course, that the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK is no flash in the...

Oct / 5 / 2008 ¬

Maxim Velčovský's Luminiscent Mirage

This year's first design trail Passionswege led to Lobmeyr's business premises in Vienna's 1st district, which house an installation with glass objects from the company's own archive selected, arranged and composed by Czech designer Maxim Velčovský (Qubus design) from Prague.

New York, London, Moscow and Medina are the titles of the installations Prague-based designer Maxim Velčovský Lobmeyr created on the main floor of the premises in Vienna's...

Oct / 5 / 2008 ¬

PureAustrianDesign IN THE CITY - A Huge Bubble Full of Design

On Friday, 3 October, the installation PureAustrianDesign IN THE CITY was unveiled in the main court of the MuseumsQuartier Vienna. For three days an oversized bubble served the austrian furniture industry as a showroom to present furniture design to the Viennese public.

On Friday, 3 October the installation PureAustrianDesign IN THE CITY was unveiled as the first highlight of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK after its official opening. Numerous guests who braved the foul...

Sep / 30 / 2008 ¬

GD2D + PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign

Much fresh air is to be expected, in the form of a fresh gust of design wind from Austria. GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign is a itinerant exhibition that brings along outstanding, extraordinary and unusual works of contemporary graphic and product design from Austria. On the itinerary are 20 stations including established design galleries, exhibition spaces or diverse Austrian Cultural Forum buildings. The first venue will be Bratislava / Slovakia with a private view at the Gallery SATELIT on October 8 at 6 pm.

The formula GD2D+PD3D 

GD2D+PD3D, fresh air by PureAustrianDesign reveals the essence of contemporary Austrian design and brings together contemporary graphic and...