Saturday, November 15, 2008

Young Serbian Designers

Povodom izložbe YOUNG SERBIAN DESIGNERS na smotri talenata Salone Satellite koji se održava u Milanu od 22. do 27. aprila 2009. godine koji organizuje Agencija za strana ulaganja i promociju izvoza, Kulturna organizacija MIKSER objavljuje konkurs.

Pravo učešća
Konkurs je otvoren za sve zainteresovane koji se bave dizajnom, a nisu strariji od 35 godina. Svaki kandidat može učestvovati sa više radova.

Tema
Industrijski dizajn (nameštaj, rasveta, upotrebni predmeti, elementi enterijera, itd.)

Kriterijumi
Žiri će vršiti selekciju na bazi sledećih kriterijuma:
• Originalni dizajn
• Promišljenost koncepta i njegova opravdanost
• Stepen razrade idejnog rešenja
• Inovativnost – jedinstveno i napredno idejno rešenje
• Funkcionalnost – predmet mora da poseduje upotrebnu vrednost i odgovara svojoj nameni
• Tehnička i tehnološka izvodljivost eksponata - na smotri Salone Satellite se izlažu isključivo prototipovi, stoga predložena rešenja treba da budu izvodljiva postojećim postupcima, sa alatima i materijalima koji su dostupni učesniku.
• Estetika – vizuelni aspekt idejnog rešenja koji doprinosi njegovoj vrednosti
• Ekološki aspekti proizvoda – predloženo rešenje treba da ispunjava savremene zahteve očuvanja životne sredine

Thursday, June 15, 2006

Ghost project

One of the most popular exhibitions with foreign journalists during the first annual Belgrade Design Week in April of 2006 was the Ghost Project multimedia installation produced by the Mikser studio. The Ghost Project simultaneously celebrates the unfailing enthusiasm and ideas of domestic young creatives while criticizing the lack of a symbiotic relationship between designers and industry in our country.

Since there is virtually no trace of contemporary industrial design in our country, the exhibition is labled a GHOST one, showcasing virtual and realized projects of domestic creatives through innovative media such as web, computer animation, video and audio.

Playing with the impalpable quality of the object, the Ghost Project places our creative “reality” in the context of socio-economical actuality.

This abstract quality has a dichotomous function; to both illustrate the social status of the designed object in Serbia (Ghost) and bring us closer to the global treatment of the designed things as the “objects of worship” or “objects of desire”.

Conceived initially as a means of presenting still unrealized projects of the latest generation of Serbian designers, the Ghost Project has become an ongoing project, a sort of dynamic database of domestic creatives open to the public, as well as domestic and foreign media and manufacturers. One of the main objectives of this project is to turn the public’s and manufacturers’ eye to the creative potential of Serbia, as much as to motivate the authors to actively participate in creating our cultural and social milieu.

Saturday, April 15, 2006

Belgrade Design Week

Mikser is a co-founder and co-organizer, together with Trans:East Studio (Belgrade), of the Belgrade Design Week, the biggest design event in Southeastern Europe.

Belgrade Design Week has quickly become the most exciting world business and educational conference in the region, with a spectacular line-up of lecturers coming from the world of branding, design, architecture, publishing, and advertising.

2006
Peter Saville
Karim Rashid
Gaetano Pesce
Ross Lovegrove
Meta design
...

2007
Patrizia Urquiola
Rem Koolhaas
Taschen publishing
Domus magazine
Mirko Ilic
...

2008
Daniel Libeskind
MTV Network
Paola Antonelli, MoMA
Bang & Olufsen
Konstantin Grcic

Monday, September 15, 2003

Rem Koolhaas in Belgrade

September 2003

As an iconinc figure of both the international architectural elite and modern Dutch culture, Rem Koolhaas is world renowned for his international supremacy in the field of architecture and design, Mr. Koolhaas' lecture, organized and sponsored y Mikser, informed Belgrade audiences about current architectural practice in countries where architecture and design are given active roles in building better societies.

In addition to the presentation of Koolhaas' recent works, Serbian intellectuals from various professional fields had the opportunity to interact with our guest and his team in the form of a workshop. In this forum, MIKSER set up a public debate about burning issues rising from the process of reconstructing Serbia's identity on metropolitan, national and global levels.

Belgrade School Of Architecture (Lecture)
Yustat (Workshop)
Museum Of Contemporary Art (Workshop)
Ministry Of Defense (Performance: New Serbian Flag)
Ministry Of Culture And Media (Reception)
Royal Netherlands Embassy , Belgrade (Reception)
Absinthe (Mikser Party: Rem Is In The House)

Tuesday, June 3, 2003

Bollywood in Belgrade

26 May - 4 June 2003

Locations:
- Museum of Yugoslav Cinematography KINOTEKA
- Fortress Kalemegdan (open air screenings)
- Club Barutana (DJ Ritu)
- REX, Culture Center B92 (exhibition and discussions)

Enthusiasts around MIKSER, ready to share their own joyful experience of Bollywood, started to spread the word about organizing an Indian Film Festival in Belgrade at the beginning of the year. They were wondering around the city with eyes filled with flowers; sparkling film lights started following them as a pink line crossing all major squares, hidden Belgrade cafes and different apartments where the program of the festival was talked about as if it were a major battle strategy. Telephones of MIKSERs went hot, mails were running along the India-London-Belgrade track and at the end of May, everything was ready for Belgrade to share the Bollywood dream.

Bollywood classics (open air screenings)
Bollywood contemporary (open air screenings)
Discussion 1: Nasreen Munni Kabir
Exhibition of student work inspired by bollywood, school of applied arts
Mikser books first edition promotion: Bollywood Boy
Discussion 2 w/ author Justine Hardy
Music workshop:Akash Bhatt

Friday, October 25, 2002

Objects Of Desire - Adrian Forty's Lecture

25 -28 October 2002

Belgrade School Of Architecture
Museum Of Contemporary Art, Belgrade

Mikser was thrilled to organize the Belgrade visit of world renowned architectural historian, Adrian Forty. Design, according to Forty, encompasses not just how things look, but how they are made and marketed as well. In a very readable and well-illustrated book, Forty shows how design reflects and changes culture. His fascinating historical accounts show how modern consumer society developed.

Tuesday, May 15, 2001

Repositioning Belgrade 2001

Academic exchange project in cooperation with Columbia University

Locations
City Of Belgrade
City Of New York

In collaboration with studio FORMA based in Stockholm, Sweden, MIKSER initiated and organized an international professional and academic exchange between Columbia University in New York and intellectual circles in Belgrade. The aim was to collect new ideas for strategic development of Belgrade, represented in ten international urban design projects.