Friday, 2009-10-02

In Competition

Hungarian Design on the World Market
october 2. 17.00

Design Terminál
1051 Budapest
Erzsébet square
October 2.–November 1.
Mon–Sun 10.00–18.00

Design Centre's exhibition is a selection of products that held their ground on the global scene and were created with the participation of Hungarian designers.
There are world patent protected, acclaimed products, Hungarian companies of great past that gained market leading positions in different fields, venturesome, young designers working for multinational companies, as well as young designers who are only starting their career, but have already achieved success at acclaimed, international competitions among the displayed works.
Convincing and attractive evidences of the competitiveness of the knowledge and creativity of Hungarian designers!

Organised by Design Terminal

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AFTERLIFESTYLE

Stop for a minute and think about passing
october 2

In front of the Basilica / Gödör / Museum of Applied Arts
1051 Budapest, Szent István square/ 1051 Budapest, Erzsébet square/ 1091 Budapest, Üllői avenue 33-37.
October 2–11.

After Saint-Étienne, Cologne, Bratislava, Tourcoing, Milan, Palermo, Kortrijk and Vienna, the most recent product of IVANKA, the SEE YOU headstone designed by Ákos Maurer-Klimes and Péter Kucsera is exhibited in Hungary, as well. The object of passing and remembrance can bee seen at three Budapest locations during this exceptional week. A cross-form recessed into the surface. Rain coming down, leaves falling. Stop mortal.
Send us your best photograph, prepare a collage or show us in any other way HOW YOU REMEMBER!

Organised by IVANKA

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Budapest Couture exhibition and performance

october 2. 20.00

Museum of Applied Arts
1091 Budapest
Üllői avenue 33-37.
October 3-4.
Sat–Sun 10.00–18.00

Budapest Couture aims at the introduction of Hungarian haute couture. The exciting exhibition and the spectacular performances showcase the work of some of the best contemporary Hungarian fashion designers; the audience can come to know clothes most typical of the designers' creative work.

Organised by the First Hungarian Fashion Designer Association, the Museum of Applied Arts and the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest

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Budapest Graphic Guide

october 2. 18.30

Gödör Klub, Terasz Galéria
1051 Budapest
Erzsébet square
October 2-16.
Mon-Sun 14.00-23.00

Graphic artist David Baráth prepared his city illustrations for a travel book edited by Cicada Books to be published this October by the acclaimed, London-based Thames & Hudson. He pays tribute to Hungary’s world famous artists, László Moholy-Nagy and Lajos Kassák with his simple, typography based mappings of Budapest. Ziggy Hanaor, editor of Graphic Europe wrote the following: „These amazingly dynamic posters build upon Bauhaus components, still they are unique and downright funny, which is typical of David’s work.”
At the exhibition all the works prepared for the book to be published this autumn are displayed.

Organised by 321 Associates

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Design “That's how you write…”

Remakes á la designers
october 2. 19.00

Werk Academy
1051 Budapest
Arany János street 10.
Open till October 9.
Mon–Fri 17.00–20.30

Students of the Academy redesign, recreate simple objects in the style of some of the leading designers of our time. The objects á la Marcel Wanders, Jaime Hayon, Philippe Starck, Tjep., Campana brothers, Zaha Hadid, Ora-Ito, Karim Rashid, Konstantin Grcic, Ross Lovegrove, Patricia Urquiola and Tord Boontje are displayed in the WERKaholic workshop, where the WERK never stops.

Organised by Werk Academy

Frame-lines

Exhibition of KREA Contemporary Art School
october 2. 19.00

KREA Contemporary Art School
1051 Budapest
Október 6. street 18.
October 3.–November 30.
Mon–Fri 10.00–19.00

The exhibited works are visual studies of the applied art students of the school created at the visual communication classes. The aim was that students get the chance to glance into the anatomy, the working mechanisms of contemporary art trends and at the same time try to create their own art pieces as autonomous creators. Even though prepared as studies, the works were created with the expectation to stand their ground at exhibitions, as well.

Organised by KREA Contemporary Art School

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Ildikó Virág Erdei’s hat exhibition

october 2

Mono Fashion
1054 Budapest
Kossuth Lajos street 20
October 2–18.
Mon–Fr 10.00–20.00, Sat 10.00–18.00

The 2009/2010 autumn-winter collection of the aspiring hat designer, Ildikó Virág Erdei debuts at the Budapest Design Week. She gained her MA at the hat design faculty of the Kensington and Chelsea College of Art and worked as a trainee at Siggi, who – famous thanks to the aristocrats wearing way-out headgear – is a favourite hat designer of the Ascot Derby. Among the owners of Ildikó’s models is Jay Kay, lead singer of Jamiroquai, famous of being a hat fan.

Organised by Mono Fashion

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INDEX: Award 2007

october 2. 18.00

Erzsébet square (in front of the building of Design Terminal)
1051 Budapest
Erzsébet square
október 2-16.

INDEX: Award is the biggest design award in the world and is awarded every two years in Copenhagen in five categories – Body, Home, Work, Play and Community –, the winner in each category receives a prize of €100,000. The focus on design to improve life differentiates INDEX: Award from other design awards, as design is evaluated in a much broader sense than traditionally. In the selection process works reflecting openness, horizontal, interdisciplinary approach are selected. The exhibition in Budapest presents the six winners.

Organised by the Embassy of Denmark and the Danish Cultural Institute

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Jacob Jensen

Fifty years in the front line of Scandinavian design
october 2

Aron Design Store
1052 Budapest
Deák square 4. (at Sütő street)
October 2–11.
Mon–Fri 10.30–18.30, Sat–Sun 11.00–17.00

Over five hundred objects can be connected to the Danish designer, Jacob Jensen. An outstanding period of his career was the time spent at the Danish consumer electronics brand Bang & Olufsen that made Jensen one of the world's most defining designers. For this year's Budapest Design Week, Aron Design Store turns into a kind of „museum” offering an extensive review of the most successful creations of the past 50 years. In parallel with the selection the actual objects can be tried out and even bought at a reduced price.

Organised by Aron Design Store

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Public space design

Contemporary public art projects
october 2. 20:00

Luminárium, showroom of Tungsram-Schréder Világítási Berendezések Zrt.
1012 Budapest
Lovas street 38.
October 2–11.
Mon–Fri: 10:00-19:00 Sat–Sun: 10:00-17:00

The aim of the exhibition is clarifying the expressions 'public space design' and 'public art' for the laic and the professional audience alike through the introduction of recently realised projects and the work of the Urban Landscape Group. Visitors can examine the work of the Group and participating international professionals printed on boards.

Organised by the Urban Landscape Group

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Reinterpreting nature

Finnish design exhibition - WAMP-Finnish Fatale
october 2

Museum of Applied Arts
1091 Budapest
Üllői avenue 33-37.
October 2–25.
Tue 14.00–18.00, Wed, Fri, Sat, Sun 10.00–18.00 Thu 10.00–22.00

The importance of dialogue with nature is an approach determinative of the entire Finnish design history. The exhibition organised with the participation of Design Forum Finland shows how designers are inspired by geological and biological formations and how they conceive the beauty of the ever changing environment in the language of objects. The 60 pieces of the exhibition are from some of the bests and examine the possible links between design and nature through technological achievements, as well as the application of traditional materials and processes.

Organised by Wamp, Museum of Applied Arts, Finnagora and Embassy of Finland

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The Collective of Natural Disasters: Skin-Membrane

october 2, 3. 20.00

Trafó House of Contemporary Arts
1094 Budapest, Liliom street 41.

The meaning of the body gains a symbolic sense through visual transformation and spatial replacement. With this approach 'costume' is the top skin layer, a body-mask influencing our relation to the outside world. The “Body-masks”, basics of the performance are created as a kind of metamorphoses carrying a sign system that determines the happenings on the stage in time, space and movement. The actors and dancers are not impersonators of a role, much more the animators of the events. On the basis of the writings of Krisztina Tóth and costume-fictions of Edit Szűcs.

Organised by Trafó House of Contemporary Arts

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The Danish and the shape of their things

Normann Copenhagen exhibition
october 2. 19.00

Innoshop
1053 Budapest
Kecskeméti street 8.
October 2–30.
Mon–Fri 11.00–18–00 Sat 10.00–14.00

We have always known that Scandinavian design companies are full of creativity. Now we can experience what comes out of this fertile energy. After Milan and Stockholm, the most recent products of the world famous brand, Normann Copenhagen are introduced in Budapest, as well. Whether it is a simple, everyday object like the Red Dot Design Award winning Funnel, the tuft like Grass vase or Woofy, the dog gobbling up cables – it is always about astounding and amazing ideas and first class workmanship.

Organised by Innoshop

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WERKaholic creative workshop

october 2. 19.00

Werk Academy
1051 Budapest
Arany János street 10.
October 9-ig
Mon–Fri 17.00–20.30

During Budapest Design Week WERK operates an open creative workshop in the interior stylist classroom of the Werk Academy. WERK students bring ruined, old objects to life again with the help of archaic methods (Cross stitch embroidery, African weaving, etc.). Between 16.30 and 21.30 anyone can join in the work process, even kids can get to know several artisan techniques and, by way of digression, a bit about contemporary design.

Organised by Werk Academy

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