NEW TRENDS AND BRAVE IDEAS: TOP 7 make me! ENTRIES
The international make me! competition is one of the most influential and innovative events in the field of product design in Europe and a key event of the Łódź Design Festival. The key purpose of…
7 DESIGNERS, WHOSE LOGOS FEATURE PROMINENTLY ON THE CARDS OF POLISH DESIGN HISTORY
What does Polish logo mean? When we think about the visual culture of the communist era, what first comes to our minds are most probably social realist…
SAY HELLO FROM YOUR STUDIO: MARTA KRYSIŃSKA
Marta Krysińska is a graphic designer who also works in areas of painting and photography. In her works she focuses on exploring the condition of the contemporary man submerged in a digital world…
SAY HELLO FROM YOUR STUDIO: PAT GUZIK
Pat Guzik is a sustainable fashion designer with a brand by the same name. The brand combines streetwear and high fashion with its signature fusion of Slavic and Asian cultures as seen in the print patterns…
SAY HELLO FROM YOUR STUDIO: CHMARA.ROSINKE
chmara.rosinke is a design studio based in Vienna and Berlin that since its creation in 2011 combines craftsmanship with a conceptual and ecological approach…
SAY HELLO FROM YOUR STUDIO: NASTASSIA ALEINIKAVA
Nastassia is a Prague-based eyewear designer, originally from Belarus (which is where she often draws inspiration for her work). Her glasses, bold and with unconventional shapes…
10 INTERESTING CHAIRS AND THEIR STORIES
You may wonder why chairs, merely a simple thing we sit on, are so special. Do not be fooled, not all chairs are equal. The chairs we have chosen for this list are not only unique in their design but also in the stories that they tell.
NIGHT FEVER. DESIGNING CLUB CULTURE FROM 1960 UNTIL TODAY
Nightclubs and discothèques are hotbeds of contemporary culture. Throughout the twentieth century, they have been centres of the avant-garde that question the established codes of social life…
V&A DUNDEE RECAPTURES THE SCOTTISH DESIGN HERITAGE IN THREE TENSES: ‘PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE’
The once industrial harbour town embarks on a quest of reinventing itself as the country’s capital of design, with the first and only Scottish V&A museum…
VAN EYCK’S COLOURS IN DESIGN
Where does colour come from? How do you make colour? What is the impact of colour? In honour of the Year of Van Eyck in Ghent, the Design Museum is hosting a large exhibition on the innovative and diverse use of colour…
10 BOOKS TO READ IF YOU LOVE DESIGN
Whether you’re aware of it or not, you come in contact with design every single day. From the tableware that you eat your breakfast on/with to the posters and advertisements that you pass along on your way to work…
SAY HELLO FROM YOUR STUDIO: JAGODA STĄCZEK (BLUEBERRYTHINKS)
Jagoda Stączek loves wordplay, taking things out of their natural environment, changes of context. The deteriorated, yellowed paper of old newspapers and herbaria…
June 1 - December 31
Online: "Solidarity and Agency" project
May 21 - October 1
Online: The 2nd Riga International Biennial of Contemporary Art (RIBOCA2)