The Austrian designers Nadja Zerunian und Peter Weisz give traditionally handmade objects a place in the design world. They work with a cooperative of Roma craftspeople throughout Romania. The new PICNIC series, presented in the headquarter of the Vienna Design Week, harks back to the nomadic tradition of the Roma. Just as friends meet for a picnic, the PICNIC series represents a meeting place: Works by different craftspeople complement one another, sets can be used themselves alone or in combination.
This typographic work was created by British designer Morag Myerscough especially for the headquarter of the Vienna Design Week. I love the colours!
This year the Vienna Design Week, Austria's largest design festival, takes place for the 10th time. In collaboration with museums, product manufacturers, and designers the ten-day festival offers a variety of opportunities to learn more about the theme of design, with over 150 events, exhibitions, installations, tours and plenty of parties. All venues of the festival are indicated with a chair, every year in another colour and another style. The Kollektiv Fischka created this collage of the different chairs from the last ten years.
This table was my favourite object at the festival headquarters of the Vienna Design Week: "ephemerā", an interactive kinetic table by the Austrian designer duo mischer’traxler. The floral decoration becomes alive when seen from a distance and reacts to the proximity of the audience by retreating into the table.
Yesterday was the last day of the Vienna Design Week. The ten-day design festival offered a large number of events across the city. I only made it last-minute to the festival headquarters in a former bread factory in the 10th district. This photo shows some iconic Polish furniture designs.
In 1697 Count Heinrich-Franz of Mansfeld hired the star-architect Johann Lukas von Hildebrandt to design himself a fancy summer palace outside the city walls of Vienna. In 1715, the property was sold to Prince Adam Franz Karl of Schwarzenberg and the palais was finished as a gem of Baroque representation. Throughout the centuries, the Palais Schwarzenberg remained in the hands of the Schwarzenberg family. During World War II the palais was badly damaged, but rebuilt after the end of the war. It then housed a 5* hotel and a restaurant until 2006. To date the plans for a complete redesign didn't work out, which means that the palais is still vacant. Some rooms however can be rented for special events. Recently the palais housed the headquarter of the Vienna Design Week.
"Soundweaving" is a student project at the Monoly-Nagy University of Art and Design in Budapest (Hungary) and conceived as an interdisciplinary, experimental artwork. Its core idea is to transform the traditional motifs and execution of cross-stitch embroidery familiar in Hungarian embroidery into sound by transposing them through a music automat with punch cards. The designers themselves punched holes with motifs from cross-stitch embroidery into the loops of the music automat. During the transformation, the embroidery became laser-fashioned textiles, the embroidery patterns melodies.
Currently Austria's largest design festival, the Vienna Design Week, turns the whole of Vienna into a showplace and showroom for design (until October 5). At the festival headquarter an exhibition presents the young, contemporary design scene in Hungary.
Currently the Vienna Design Week is turning the city into a showroom for design. In cooperation with the Vienna museums, manufacturing enterprises and designers from around the world, the festival offers different options for becoming familiar with the subject of design - exhibitions, installations, parties. At the festival headquarter (located in a former polytechnic) the British designer Oscar Wanless presents - in cooperation with the Austrian company Riess - unconventional forms of enamelware.
