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Couleur Locale exhibition is open this weekend!

One of the most successful programs of this year's Budapest Design Week, the COULEUR LOCALE – Europe's colours in objects international exhibition is open for visitors till the 1st of November between 12:00 and 20:00 in the Erzsénet square building of Design Terminal. They exhibition attracting close to 8000 visitors during the ten days of the designfest presents design objects from some thirty European countries. Introducing contemporary design trends through ninety design pieces, objects the exhibition is trying to answer the question whether it makes sense to talk about national character in a globalised world.

The COULEUR LOCALE EXHIBITION is open till 1st November 2011, free entry.
Venue: Design Terminal, 1051 Budapest, Erzsébet square 13.
Opening hours: Mon-Sun 12:00-20:00

Downloadable catalogue: www.designhet.hu/couleurlocale

Wrong date in the printed program brochure!

HG.HU DESIGN AWARD 2011 AND KEPP SHOWROOM DIGITAL FASHION SHOW

The date of HG.HU DESIGN AWARD 2011 and KEPP SHOWROOM DIGITAL FASHION SHOW appeared wrongly in the printed Design Week program brochure. The correct date of both programs is 6TH OCTOBER (THURSDAY)!
Thanks for your understanding!

Winners of the Hungarian Design Award in 2011

PRODUCT category
COCODICE developmental dice
Designers: Co & Co Design: COSOVAN Attila, COSOVAN Tamás, HOFFER Gábor, HOSSZÚ Gergely, NAGY Richárd, NAGY Zsuzsanna, ORAVECZ András, SÜMEGI Éva 
Manufacturer/Client: Co&Co Communication Kft.

SPARROWBAG, reloadable sandbag for core training
Designers: MAURER KLIMES Ákos, Forsave Kft.: SOLDOS Péter, BABÁK Eszter, FÜLES Károly, MIKLÓSI József Client/Manufacturer: Forsave Kft.

Relaxation floating cabin
Designer: HUSZÁR András 
Manufacturer: FLOAT SPA Kft.

CONCEPT category
Bayonet tile
Designer: BÁLINT Ádám

ANTRO SOLO eco-car
Designers: ÜVEGES Péter, HEGEDŰS Zsolt, SZENTKIRÁLYI Miklós 
Manufacturer/Client: Antro nonprofit Kft.

Electrolux Shine Project washing machine
Designer: Electrolux Industrial Design Center Europe / Fabric Care Team
Manufacturer/Client: Electrolux

 STUDENT category
Nissyoku
Designer: TORONYI Péter
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design  
Client: Koizumi International Lighting Design Competition for Students / Koizumi Lighting Technology Corporation

Tripod fireplace
Designer: DOMÁN Rajmund (madeworks design studio) 
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design  
Manufacturer/Client: Wamsler SE

Special Prize Awarded by the State Secretariat for Culture of the Ministry of National Resources
 VISUAL COMMUNICATION category
Goethe's Theory of Colours - poster series
Designer: FARKAS Anna

Special Prize Awarded by the State Secretariat for Education of the Ministry of National Resources
 STUDENT category
Miklós Radnóti: Calendar - Pop-up poem-book
Designer: SOMOGYI Éva 
University of West-Hungary

Time jewel
Designer: NÉMETH Krisztina 
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Special Prize Awarded by the National Innovation Office
 STUDENT category
Experimental chair product range
Designer: KERÉKGYÁRTÓ András 
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Special Award from the Hungarian Design Council
 STUDENT category
"KLOCC" - organic form development made of felt
Designer: DUCSAI Judit 
Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design

Postponed: OCTOPOLY city walk

We have been informed by the organisers of the program that due to technical problems the OCTOPOLY – DESIGN WISELY! city walk is postponed. Thanks for your understanding!

Workaholic

We would like to inform you that according to the Manier Salon the fashion show has been fully booked, they can not accept further registrations. Thanks for your understanding!

HG.HU DESIGN AWARD 2011 and KEPP SHOWROOM DIGITAL FASHION SHOW

Design Tours

We are kindly informing our visitors that the following Design Tours have been completely booked:

1 October, Saturday, 9:45 and 14:00
Historical and contemporary architectural glass artworks

2 October, Sunday 9:45 and 12:45
Visit to the secession Schiffer-villa

Thanks for your understanding!

TAMÁS NÁRAY'S INTERNATIONAL COLLECTION FEAT. FASHION GUIDE

We would like to inform you that according to the NARAY COMPANY the fashion show has been fully booked, they can not accept further registrations. Thanks for your understanding!

Design Week program brochure

The 2011 program brochures have arrived. They are available at all Design Week venues and also at the Budapest art cinemas and alternative clubs.

We do everything to avoid it, but changes might happen in the programs printed in the brochure, so please always check the web site for up-to-date information!

All the choice of Polish design at Budapest Design Week

Our guest of honour this year is Poland. During Budapest Design Week some of the most outstanding designers and success stories of contemporary Polish design achieving more and more successes all around Europe are introduced in the Hungarian capital.
Design plays a key role in the modern, dynamic Poland and the world has got to learn the names of Polish designers and brands such as Tomek Rygalik, Oskar Zięta, Malafor or Moho design. The star of Polish design shines brightly, its international presence has never been stronger.
Among the programs on the web site under the Poland, Our Guest of Honour menu you can find information bout all the Polish design related programs!

Walking-Chair at Budapest Design Week

The daredevils of Austrian design are the star guests this year

Karl Emilio Pircher product designer and Fidel Peugeot graphic designer, founders of Walking-Chair Design Studio give a presentation on 7th October 2011 at the Auditorium of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design as the star designer guests of this year's Budapest Design Week. (The presentation is held in English, free entry!)

Walking-Chair has been fluttering the dovecots of respectable Austrian (and other) citizens since 2002. The design business they define as a multidisciplinary THINK TANK was named after a real walking chair, while their portfolio consists of further humorous, surprising, provocative and playful objects.

„In the heart of Vienna we make things and songs” is their slogan, yet not only their studio, but also a gallery they founded in 2006 can be found in the heart Vienna, and further to that a business enterprise created as part of their brand-building called Walking-Things dealing with the distribution of their products.
Further information: www.walking-chair.com

Fotó galéria

Studios open their gates again at this year's Design Week

A favourite of Design Week fans, Open Studios is being organised this year, as well with 14 design studios and workshops opening their gates wide for visitors. Year after year, visitors of the studios and the designers get to know each other through personal experience that often prove to have lifelong effect, and the studio visits tend to last well into the night.
The initiative of Budapest Design Week aims at introducing its audience into the different fields of design through personal experiences, offering them the opportunity to ask representatives of the given profession and discover the expertise that is essential for the creation of an object, an interior, or a space. It is not only the personality of the designers that make studio visits exciting, but the indefeasible factuality and spirituality of the so attractive creative mess or the very creative order.

Budapest Design Week 2011 deadline for submitting program documentations: 27th June

Soon we start putting together the program booklet of Budapest Design Week 2011 that – similarly to the previous years – will be published in 30 thousand copies, in Hungarian and English. We are kindly asking all our partners organising program(s) for this year's festival to send all required information to the rita.halasi@designterminal.hu (Rita Mária Halasi, curator) email address, copied to design7@arvenpr.hu (Natália Fábics / Arven Pr).

Formal requirements:
1, Title and – if applicable – subtitle of the program
2., Name and precise address (complete with postal code) of the venue
3., Opening and closing dates (in case of exhibitions)
4., Opening hours of the venue
5., Presentation of the program in cca 500 characters in Hungarian or English (further backgrounders are also welcome)
6., Logos of all institutions participating in the organisation of the program (also the logo of sponsors!)
7., 3 high resolutions pictures (cca 1.5 megabyte each) in JPEG, PDF or TIFF format (please, do not send attachments bigger than 9Mb by email!)
8., If possible, please, send all materials in one email

Thank you for your cooperation and keeping the deadline!
Further information: Rita Mária Halasi, curator, +36 20 914 3810, rita.halasi@designterminal.hu