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

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.

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
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2007
Patrizia Urquiola
Rem Koolhaas
Taschen publishing
Domus magazine
Mirko Ilic
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2008
Daniel Libeskind
MTV Network
Paola Antonelli, MoMA
Bang & Olufsen
Konstantin Grcic