Dear exhibitors at Designers Saturday Oslo 2011
Welcome to Oslo September, 3-4th.
The Invoice with fee for participation is just sent to you; NOK 28.000 excluding VAT, pr manufacturer/brand. Exhibitors, who choose to participate in two showrooms with the same brand, will pay one and a half times the fee. Each exhibitor is also charged for 3 tickets (a NOK 400,-) for Saturday Night, the great Jubilee party. The tickets will be delivered at the showrooms.
Designers Saturday is a not-for-profit organization. The participation fee covers both Saturday and Public Sunday, as well as expenses relating to the preparation and organization of the event, bus transport, guides, registration of visitors, signage, the website and other marketing activities. Additional cost of each showroom is not included.
Text and photos to the website and catalogue
Information about each individual exhibitor will be made available on the Designers Saturday web page as well as the fair catalogue, once payment has been received. Please log in at
www.designerssaturday.no and download your text and photos soonest possible. Use the log in username and password that is sent you earlier.
Designers Saturday Oslo invites: Please help us and inform all your designers about:
New open design competition - win EUR 10 000!
DESIGNERS SATURDAY AWARDS UNLIMITED DESIGN
To mark its 25th year anniversary, Designers Saturday Oslo will be making an extra effort to promote and focus on excellent design in 2011. Our ambition is that the design competition Unlimited Design will serve as a venue for launching exciting and as yet unseen design concepts into the realm of the commercial market. Participation is open to professionals and students, from all countries world-wide.
Competition
Unlimited Design is a design competition with unlimited bounds for design within the categories furniture, lighting, flooring and textile design.
Jury
We are proud to present a highly qualified international jury:
Monica Förster, Industrial designer, Monica Förster Design Studio, Sweden
Satyendra Pakhalé, Industrial designer, Atelier Satyendra Pakholé, India/ the Netherlands
Walter Bettens, Co-founding Editor DAMn° magazine – DAMnation Ltd, Belgium
Steinar Hindenes, Furniture designer MNIL, Knudsen & Hindenes, Norway
The jury may redirect the total award sum amongst the winning entries. The jury’s decision is final and not debatable. The winners will be announced late in August at the opening press conference for Designers Saturday. The date is not yet finalized. The award ceremony will take place at Designers Night (party for Designers Saturday participants), September 3, 2011.
Practical information and registration
Design entries must be original works and not have been previously exhibited or published. They must not be in production. Entries are to be submitted as full scale prototypes and received at the Oslo Academy of the Arts, within August 23, 2011. For more practical information and registration, please visit
www.designerssaturday.no
Thank you very much for participating Designers Saturday Oslo 2011.
Best regards
Designers Saturday Oslo
Ervin Kohn, Chairman, Phone +47 900 75000, ervin.kohn@lifeboks.no
Eva Pedersen, Project manager, +47 971 77 579, sec@designerssaturday.no