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, students, and design enthusiasts from all countries world-wide. Registration is free of charge.
Competition
Unlimited Design is a design competition with unlimited bounds for design within the categories furniture, lighting, flooring and textile design.
Subdued, modest, low-key. Sustainable, ecological, essential. Sensational, glamorous, fantastic. Rough, unpolished, industrial. Or otherwise.
Which criteria are influencing the work of today’s designers? And how are these helping us to shape new and relevant design typologies for the future? What’s going on behind the closed doors of design studios world-wide? Open up and show us what the world should see!
Awards
The designers of the 3 winning entries will be granted cash prize awards.
1. 10 000 €
2. 5 000 €
3. 3 000 €
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 Pakhalé, 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. They must be kept confidential until the results of the competition are announced. Entries are to be submitted as full scale prototypes and received at the Oslo Academy of the Arts / Faculty of Design / Interior and Furniture Design within 4:00 PM, August 23, 2011. For more practical information and registration, please visit www.designerssaturday.no
Press contact:
Fredrik Torsteinsen, Torsteinsen Design
fredrik@torsteinsen.no
tlf: +47 930 05 480
Ervin Kohn, chairman Designers Saturday Oslo
ervin.kohn@lifeboks.no
tlf: +47 900 75 000
Eva Pedersen, Designers Saturday Oslo
sec@designerssaturday.no
tlf: +47 97 17 75 79
Publisert:
5. mai 2011