Our initiative was first organised last year with such a success that we decided to continue the Open Studios program in 2010 and make it one of the regular elements of Budapest Design Week. The enthusiasm and exceptional interest of the visitors proved that they are really open for a dialogue with Hungarian designers. Not only the doors of the designers were open on the days of the Open Studios program, but also the hearts and minds of visitors for new experiences.
This year 14 new designers, Hungarian brands have been selected and we tried to include all fields of design. Participants are excited to share their passion for design with the visitors and to introduce their real selves through their professional knowledge and skills.
Organised by Design Terminal

Surprise – for use. The project of the jewellery designers of Eventuell Gallery (Bernadett Bodor, Noémi Gera, Boglárka Imrei, Eszter Máté, András Szilos and Fanni Vékony). In the framework of the event of exciting surprises the experimental jewellery ideas come to life with the participation of the GoBe Dance Company.

„The soft takes a sip of lightness, the tough is cut by the blaze.
The tough takes a sip of lightness, the soft is cut by the blaze.
The light of star-myriads dip into the sea
The fertile distance drops off to the thing.”
Exhibition of the lighting objects of Kinga Földi textile designer (Baharat) and Zsolt József Simon porcelain designer (Tamon Design Studio).

The Anagraphic studio was founded in 1999 by Anna Farkas who graduated from the graphic design department of the Hungarian University of Fine Arts in 1996. With some of her colleagues she founded the Society of Hungarian Graphic Designers and Typographers (MATT) in 2006 where she is still a member of the board. Her works appear in some of the most acclaimed Hungarian and international publications of the profession. The studio focuses on the graphic design of logos, emblems and the image design of cultural exhibitions. During the open day visitors can find out about the details of ANAPTÁR, a series of posters that is a pioneer in the world of the evolving Hungarian information graphics.
www.anagraphic.hu

The interactive installations combining technology and art were created at the Creative Technology Lab by former and present students of MOME. In the interdisciplinary workshop founded at the Media Institute one year ago, the new possibilities of audiovisual communication are being researched. The creations displayed at the exhibition transform physical, spatial movements into digital images. Moving around the space of the gallery, visitors become active parts of the projects creating personal experiences of the exhibition.

Basic organises a grandiose party to celebrate its second birthday, where the brand's new collection produced in Hungary is also introduced. What is more, now everyone can test his/her design ambitions, as the Basic-Octogon “Design the chair and we produce it!” competition is announced in the framework of the party. The aim of this initiative is to support young and talented designers. Following registration the competition documentation can be taken over personally at the venue.

These days we mostly meet metal foundry in the form of machines and tools, so very few think that this material can be used for creating delicate, artistic forms. They required very precise workmanship as there was no possibility for re-working or chiseling the ready-made pieces. In her presentation, Katalin Kiss Lengyelné, director of the museum talks about the material, the methods and the work of the craftsmen, the artisans, the modelers, as well as the industry of the era.
The presentation is backed by the artistic cast iron stoves, statuettes and ornaments of the Foundry Museum.

What becomes to the material after changing weight group? Concrete based rampage in the world of the layers worn on our bodies: exhibition and fair of clothing bringing the results of the miniature experimental and routine concreting from the workshop to the display case.
“Ideas they come, always come. FOUNDED ON YOU.”
Slogan: Never be scared to experiment, my son!

The aim of the practical course is to teach the basics of screen printing, organised for those interested in the theory behind the method and would also like to make their own creation. The three basic phases are introduces: preparation of the screen frame, the lighting process and the printing, then participants get the chance to prepare a special poster/graphical image design specially for Budapest Design Week. Price of the 2-hour course is 2000 HUF, maximum number of participants is 10. Registration personally at Printa till 9th October, during opening times.

Are you interested in the world of fashion? Do you want to get to know the creations of Danish designers? Come to this special evening complete with champaign and you can find out about the trends of the coming autumn-winter season and the works of the three Scandinavian designers that are exclusively sold in the Dagminell showroom. Participation is only with registration: jackie@dagminell.com or 266 9919.

Do you want to improve your style and feel the need for some help in shaping up your wardrobe? Do you have questions about up-to-date trends, your figure and what colours and tayloring suit your? During the dates you have 15 minutes to ask and within that time the professional stylists will give you the most possible useful ideas and advice with the help of clothes, fashion magazines, textiles, colour cards and other tools. Dating is not only for women, but men are also very welcome! You can check out the participating stylists in advance on the hg.hu web site.

Two-day, „sleepover” intensive design course for 9-14 year old children offering a look into the different fields of design through workshops and other creative programs, as well as for personal and cooperative creation.
Further information and registration: demotabor@gmail.com; 06 20 499 9692

At the exhibition visitors can get to know the room of a 3-5 year old kid, in which the interior decoration is based on the plans of Anett Kustyán and realised by the French Vibel, while young designers (textile, metal design and visual communication students) create its final character. Visiting children get the chance to decorate the wall of the room by themselves and if they bring along the ground-plan of their own rooms, the staff of the showroom designs the most ideal realm for them.
On the 2nd and 9th of October a workshop is organised in association with Demo (www.demotabor.hu) where children can prepare jewellery using the widest range of materials.

Each and every product of the Italian furniture manufacturer of great reputation is a real piece of art, made with attentive workmanship. The Evergreen collection based on recycling materials is one of the novelties of 2010 – it showcases chiseled leather-work sofas, decent tables and luring accessories with special details. The exhibition is a great opportunity for the wide audience to get to know the works of the start guest of this year's Budapest Design Week.

LOFFICE co-working launches a film club during Design Week led by Attila Varró film critic, lecturer at the Film Studies department of Eötvös Lóránd University Budapest, editor of the leading film monthly Filmvilág, acclaimed publicist and translator. The screening takes place in the loft space of LOFFICE co-working created by young designers and fine artists that has been functioning as a co-working space and cultural venue since 2009. The aim of the event is to inspire young film fans also open for design for discussion and to activate social relations by the foundation of a value creating community.
Title of the screened film: Cube2: Hypercube (colour, dubbed sound, Canadian horror, 95 min, 2002, director: Andrzej Sekula)

In the set design workshop of the Hungarian State Opera House the secrets of the performances are revealed. We get a chance to experience how the machinery behind the scenes work, meet the creators of the stage designs, see where and how the set decorations are made. All in all we can witness the birth of the magical world of operas.
Tour 1
9:45 – meeting in front of the Opera (1061 Budapest, Andrássy avenue 22.)
The tour starts at 10:00
Tour 2
11:15 – meeting in front of the Opera (1061 Budapest, Andrássy avenue 22.)
The tour starts at 11:30

At the Sunday program led by Tibor Somlai interior designer, author of professional writings, participants can see the Kígyó street dentist's office designed by Lajos Kozma, which was developed in the so-called period of transition in the career of the architect. Overstepping his well-known, exceptionally ingenious baroque period containing folk elements and partially exaggerating formal properties, functionality came into the limelight. The office is a private home, not open for the public, so our tour is a real curio. The second venue of the tour is the City Theatre, the former Broadway Cinema designed by Ferenc Domány in 1938. From the trapezoid shaped, duplex hall there are two directions to get to the first cellar level with the buffet from where we can – again in two directions – get to the second cellar level where the exceptionally attractive auditorium covered with “Deho” wooden wallpaper was built. Thanks to the original design of the space, the theatre audience did not mix with those leaving the cinema, yet this solution has been modified by now, the reasons for which will be told by Tibor Somlai himself who led the redecoration of the building.
Tour 1
9.45 – meeting at the City Theatre (1075 Budapest, Károly körút 3.)
The tour starts at 10.00, City Theatre, then walk to the Kozma office that will be visited in two smaller groups (1054 Budapest, Kígyó utca 6.)
Tour 2
11.45 – meeting at the Kozma office (1054 Budapest, Kígyó utca 6.)
The tour starts at 12.00, Kozma office, then walk to the City Theatre (1075 Budapest, Károly körút 3.)

At the playful program the slogan of this year's Budapest Design Week, „Design – For Use” is turned into a question: „Design – How could you use it?”. “In the first part of the exciting afternoon we talk and think about useful and beautiful objects that have become the organic parts of our lives. Following a short break we turn each and everyone into a designer and work together to design the objects of the future creating the first prototypes using paper, plastic, waste materials. We await primary school children and their attendants!”

An interactive program to pick up more about environment-conscious thinking. The love and protection of the environment is of great importance, learning it can not be started too early. The Eco-Design Workshop organised specially for children wants to help this process. In the framework of creative activities kids have the chance to create toys, gifts of different waste materials with the guidance of artists.

At the exhibition creations by design students of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest “respond” to works by students of the design department of the Estonian Academy of Arts: 10 Hungarian responses to 10 Estonian pieces. Amongst the exhibited objects we can find furniture, ceramics and textiles, as well. The Estonian artists presented in the selection tackle national patterns, issues of environmental sustainability and innovative design, and finding their place in Estonian art and art market of today.

An exhibition in the be light! and do work! Lánchíd street showroom of the unique carpets of Judit Gulyás master degree textile designer made of New Zealand wool with a method called hand-tufting. In her opening lecture the artist presents how organic carpets overstep the role they play on the floor and become part of the architectural context as counterpoints of metal and stone structures.

The photo studio dealing with professional photography and digital postproduction, while also offering studio services, photography equipment rental and technical assistance to its clients was founded by Zoltán Boldizsár, Csaba Barbay and Csaba Villányi in 2002.
During the festival the secrets of studio photography are revealed in the framework of the photo shooting session of successful Hungarian design products. Rediscover, get to know the magic of Polaroid! Forget about pixels! Lomography: The future is analogue!
www.flashbackphoto.eu

Fördős Jewellery Studio was founded by László Fördős and his son, Bence in 1992. Bence is characteristic of an urge for inspiration and to make his creations personal. In his work he likes to combine special materials with precious metal: titan, alloy steel, aluminum, exotic trees, bone, leather, acryl, rubber and precious stones. In his pieces created with the use of novel technical and formal solutions his approach to wearability is an important criterium. Visitors of the studio can be part of the birth of a new object that can be won after Budapest Design Week by Open Studio visitors at a draw.
www.bencefordos.com

Introductory presentation of the brand-new business initiative of Hungarian designers and manufacturers. Hannabi mostly offers designer sofas, yet in addition to serial production, they also realise unique ideas pretty much the way taylors do. Their very first collection called Grande Famiglia includes several designer accessories in addition to the sofas and armchairs overwriting the cliches of tapestry furniture.

The Hungarian Design Awards 2010
The Hungarian Design Awards, managed by the Hungarian Design Council, are announced for the 31st time this year. The prizes are awarded by a jury of acclaimed artists and experts in four categories – Product, Visual Communication, Concept and Student Work – for the most outstanding Hungarian design achievements. The exhibition containing some of the most outstanding entrants of the competition gives an insight into the most recent processes of Hungarian design culture.

Design Management Award 2010
The Award founded last year acknowledges and demonstrates how design and its professional management can help the realisation of the objectives of an organisation and, not least, its successful operation.

On the first day starting from 3:00 p.m. Switch Lab gives a lecture about the development of touch-based and no-touch interfaces, then from 4:00 p.m. the experts of Igen Design present their most recent research results from the field of alternative representation of space and from 6:00 p.m. the Robotics Student Workshop of Gábor Dénes College, Budapest present their ideas about interactive robot programming.

On a light-hearted Saturday morning we introduce visitors into the background of Insitu and Front design shops. You can glance behind the screens, how we make our screen printed t-shirts, recycling jewellery, exercise books or wall stickers. You can even take part in the creating process and can even try our printing machines if you want to, what is more you can even meet some of the designers working for us. You certainly won't go empty away.

The clothes inspired by the popular music of the 1920s and '30s amazingly combine the fashionable tayloring of the era, the admiration for Eastern arts and the special surface and form creation solutions of Kinga Földi. The performance accompanied by live music takes place in the Budapest Jazz Club that has by now become the centre of Hungarian jazz life. After the performance the Boglárka Csemer Quartet plays from 21.00.

Architects and designers present their latest projects to each other and the wide public at the vol. 20th edition of Pecha Kucha Night Budapest! 

As always, we stick to the 20 by 20 rules of Pecha Kucha: each presenter is allowed 20 images, each shown for 20 seconds. This simple rule keeps presentations concise, the interest level up, and gives more people the chance to show. This time we will also hear about the Venice Architecture Biennale and see some Hungarian designers who were introduced by WAMP at the Helsinki Design Week.

Do you want to know what we work on and think about in our creative workshop? We offer you a taste of our June Tokyo theatre cooperation, as well as the results of the July 'Internet of Things' workshop. We also present the interactive animation, with which we participated as the Budapest venue together with six other European cities at the Media Facades Festival. But you can also try 'Cross connect' that was invited to the Linz based Ars Electronica and the 'BYMM – Beat Your Mouse Movement' project. We will also have a guest in the person of Dutch graphic designer Annelys de Vet with whom we drop the flag on making Hungary's Subjective Atlas.
12:00 – 19:00 a taste of KIBU
19:00 – 20:00 presentation of Annelys de Vet (in English)

The next fair focuses on innovations. KREATIMM is not only a fair, but also offers the possibility for artists to appear “on the market” with their plans still waiting for realisation, ideas that have been looking for a procurer or an investor for a long time. This Sunday novelties that do not aim at being unique, but try to exploit the advantages of serial production and other industrial possibilities are in focus.
10.00-18.00

Cellu Tape Group: „Workshop on the garbage heap” workshop for children
Recycle Mission bicycle workshop

Dollhouse is the open exhibition event of Manier, in the framework of which pieces of the most recent collection can be seen in the salon. This time inspirations came from Ibsen, Bergman, Alice in Wonderland, as well as the world of childhood fantasies and creative playfulness. Manier's designer, Anikó Németh offers consulting and helps you materialise your ideas and dreams about clothing. During the afternoons the Manier staff helps you actually create the piece of your dreams or you can choose from the salon's prêt-a-porter collection.

Young designers get the chance to participate in a competition, as a result of which they can screen or present their work in the shop-windows of the Hajós street Showroom. The basis of selection at the competition is to have an innovative approach to picture and object creation. With the help of the Showroom's experimental gallery a creative presence closely related to the public city environment can come into being. The introduction of the concept of the Manier Relay Race is followed by the exhibition opening of the first materialised project.

Each year a new trend of colour and form rules the world of fashion that also effects interior design, in textiles, casing, furniture, wallpapers. We are inviting the profession and the wide public for a spectacular presentation about the most recent trends where we introduce the exciting relationship between 2011 make-up and interior decoration trends with the help of some of the world's leading brands. After the presentation we invite our guests for a cocktail party with make-up show and gifts.

Steaming is a dynamic branch of cooking that defines the gastronomy of the coming decades. Explore this exciting area with the help of Miele's cook!
A maximum of 20 persons can participate – registration is on the www.miele.hu web site.

Two two-day design fairs offer original design furniture, lamps and accessories from 1950-1980 typically from Scandinavia and Hungary. Famous and less famous pieces on 300 m2 complete with a design rummage sale. As a satellite event of the fair the Mix it! selection awaits design fans with inspirational examples of mixing the old with the new. Outstanding objects, daring ideas, wild associations.

The brand was created by Natália Gyulai, a designer well-known in Hungary, as well as internationally. In the past ten years it has been introduced on the runaways and in the galleries of Europe and Asia receiving several professional recognitions and design awards. The collection made for women looking for modern city style is matchlessly lightsome thanks to the amazing surface of the materials and the hip cutting. The showroom also offers the unique handmade leather bags and home accessories of Réka Kontur, the jewellery of Bence Fördős and the lyrically flat-constructive pictures of Lajos Gyulai. Secrets of the studio are revealed for visitors who can even get stylist advice from the designer personally meeting her.
www.natipureidea.com

Movement exhibition, silhouettes giving the experience of space. Tamás Bujnovszky is one of the most popular photographers of our age whose responsive pictures define a new category, create the genre of light-poetry. One of his rare topics is grasping the world of theater productions. This time the audience can get to know his new artistic voice as the interpreter of the negative VARIETÉ shadow dance theatre performance. The photos composed by the effects of shadow and light redefine the space of the Sunshine-studio along the lines of an exceptional concept. The photo imprint of the László Moholy-Nagy related performance appears as an unusual installation.
(The exhibition can be visited free of charge with tickets valid for the day of visit to any Nagymező street theatre!)

The exhibition is a creation based on objects and words. A wider context of handmade everyday objects and their use is presented in relation to folk and popular culture, as well as handicraft and industrial design. Objects, design and manufacturing as a creative form of production, their differing folk and popular versions appear based on pieces from the collection of the Museum of Ethnography combined with the exhibition and interpretation of “guest” objects.
The exhibition can be visited with Museum of Ethnography tickets (adults: 1000 HUF, students: 500 HUF).

Enter Team is a young and dynamic team designing and manufacturing furniture. The founders, Attila Horváth and Péter Sarkadi look at their profession as a form of self-expression, also emphasising the importance of the “gratifying” effect of their furniture. In their workshop visitors can get to know the manufacturing processes and tools of the furniture industry, have the chance to see the most exciting pieces of the last few years' design furniture collections and can also produce their own wood-stone they can take home as a gift.
(www.enterteam.hu)

Ceramic tile novelties and trends – a report of the Cersaie Exhibition
The afternoon event gives a report of the annual Bologna Exhibition and Fair is interesting for the profession, as well as for the wide public.
18.00 Ecodesign today, in Hungary and abroad
József Zalavári, Noémi Ferenczy Award winner product designer, senior lecturer shared his experience, knowledge gained in the field of environment-conscious design in the book Design of the form – Designecology. In the framework of his lecture he talks about the present Hungarian and international situation of eco-design. Key topics: A new approach to our environment and objects. The philosophy and esthetics of eco-design. Definitions and processes. Methods and practice, objects and designers. How can we be eco-designers and successful at the same time?

The imaginatively created, exciting multifunctional space was built in 2009 and functions as a design shop, a gallery and a café, what is more in a detached workshop screen printing equipments and high quality printing machines are placed, as well. The founder-owner-manager Zita Majoros designer and fine artist is the creator of the Bolt collection launched in 2006 and her founder partner Claudia Martins, a photographer who also works with printing technologies aim at making different printing methods, print art and eco-design widely known. The Academy organises regular courses, workshops and presentations offering professionals and artists opportunities to cooperate in many fields. During the program visitors are introduced into the manufacturing process of a new collection.
www.printa.hu

Medence Csoport has been working with the recycling of advertisement tarpaulins and construction nets from public spaces since 2006. The aim of the workshops that have been organised for years is to find new ways of creatively using no longer needed tarpaulins drawing the wide public in the creative process thus calling the attention to the importance of environment-consciousness. Hundreds of bags have been made during the experiments that are now shown to the audience by the “proud owners/creators” at an informal fashion show.
On October 2nd and 9th between 10.00 and 16.00 those interested can make their own creations at ReWorkshop organised in MakettLabor.

Sausagefence Studio deals with creative object design, system design and design consulting. In the framework of the Open Studios program they would like to enucleate how designers work. They project a short material based on their accomplished works and also organise a small exhibition from their sketches and drafts. They aim at showing the amount of work put into the final materials and to give a deeper meaning to their motto: “We fight against radical halfway measures with an optimism of no foundation and the weapon of design”.
www.kolbasz-studio.eu

Viktor Varga combines classic and modern materials with the most up-to-date technologies when making jewellery. CAD-CAM processes offer more freedom than ever before in forming materials (in this case: precious metals), as they eliminate the eventuality of handicraft technologies and make satisfying the increasing demand for perfect reproduction easier. He strives to counteract the slightly colder “objective world” inevitably resulting from using machines with joyful thinking, kinetism, compound structural construction, and from time to time the “unrepeatability” of using precious stones, yet in cases he intensifies it with “philosophical” contents.

The Budapest debut of the traveling art project of the Swiss artacks group. Some of the most talented representatives of street art perfectly represent the technical diversity of the genre and the different artistic attitudes. A real colourful selection from the young artists of this young artform.

No year can pass without at least one Miele product receiving some high level design recognition. The 111 year old German company produced the first commercially traded washing machine, as well as Europe's first electronic dish-washer. The history of the development of the brand and household devices is revealed by the pieces borrowed from the museum of Miele's Germany based headquarters. The collection of real rarities displays a wooden tub washing machine, a canister vacuum cleaner on skids and the first automatic household devices.

A leading cultural centre of the Southern part of Finland is Turk. The city of milling crowds will be the European City of Culture in 2011. The selection displays objects designed in that area and produced in Finland, what is more, you can even buy then till the end of this year!

The collection of István Esztány leather-ware maker and Lenke Iléssy (ille-olla) fashion designer is introduced at the fashion show. The work of the two designers is centred around the family. The collection for men, women and children is based on traditional folk clothing while redefining the pieces in a way that they serve the everyday life of the 21st century. After the fashion show traditional Transylvanian brandy and granny cakes turn up, too.