Category: Vienna Design Week
Vienna Design Week 2023: Design Without Borders at Collegium Hungaricum
Established in Budapest in 2004 by textile designer Szilvia Szigeti and her interior designer husband Tamás Radnóti, Design Without Borders understands itself, and summarising to the point of inaccuracy, as a platform for international design dialogue across, or perhaps more accurately indifferent to, not only national borders but borders of genre, scale, approach, position et al.
By way of preparing for the platform’s forthcoming 20th birthday a showcase of projects presented, hosted, by Design Without Borders over the past two decades is being staged in context of Vienna Design Week 2023.
A presentation that allows some insights into the aforementioned understandings of itself, and also access to some reflections on the realities of contemporary design in Europe…….
Vienna Design Week 2023: Fokus – The Series
There is an argument to be made that while variation and uniqueness are inherent features of craft processes, design strives for the production of endless uniformity.
Or perhaps more accurately design did: while the earliest design practitioners, and those of the 1920s and 1930s who followed them, very much (largely) sought to develop products that contemporary industry could produce en mass as exact replicas of one another, since the 1960s individuals and groups of designers have sought to move away from the design of the identical for a society that is diverse; have sought to develop either systems that allow for individual expression and individual adaptation and/or to develop production processes that inherently and intrinsically enable and foster and realise variety without fundamentally questioning the idea of industrial multiplication and reproduction.
With the showcase The Series Vienna Design Week 2023 allows space for reflections on approaches by contemporary designers to designing for variety, and thereby also for differentiated reflections on contemporary design…….
Vienna Design Week 2023, Griaß di!
It’s been a while, and we were beginning to think it would never happen again; however, after an inordinately long absence September 2023 sees us once again meet up with Vienna Design Week…….
(smow) blog compact Vienna Design Week Special: Kultúrgorilla – Guide the Diver! Design for Dumpster Dialogue
As long as we’ve been going to Vienna Design Week the festival has always included a focus on social responsibility.
Vienna Design Week 2014: Passionswege – Big-Game @ Wiener Silber Manufactur
For some 200 years Wiener Silber Manufactur have produced the finest silverware. Exquisite cutlery, table services, coffee pots and sugar
(smow) blog compact Vienna Design Week Special: TU Wien present Light Thing
In context of a 2014 summer semester project students from Vienna Technical University’s Department for 3D Design and Model Construction
Vienna Design Week 2014: Passionswege – Pedrita Studio @ Glaserei Stiefelmeyer
We’re spending an awful lot of time at Vienna Design Week 2014 photographing mirrors. If we were at all competent
(smow) blog compact Vienna Design Week Special: Frugal Collection Cape Town at harald bichler_rauminhalt
In context of Cape Town’s tenure as World Design Capital 2014 Franco-Austrian design and architecture studio Celia-Hannes spent six weeks
Vienna Design Week 2014: Passionswege – Studio deFORM @ Rudolf Scheer & Söhne
The last time we visited the premises of Vienna shoemaker Rudolf Scheer & Söhne it was for the presentation of
(smow) blog compact Vienna Design Week Special: chmara.rosinke present “Private Room”
As we alluded to in our post from Vienna based design studio chmara.rosinke’s Passionswege 2013 project with Wäscheflott, we’ve not
Vienna Design Week 2014: Passionswege – mathak + mahlknecht @ Stani-Polsterei
In our post from the launch of the Tools for Life collection by Rem Koolhaas and OMA for Knoll during
(smow) blog compact Vienna Design Week Special: Candlestick by AU Workshop
Time was when the candlestick maker was an important profession. No candlestick. No light. Or at least no secure light.
Vienna Design Week 2014: Passionswege – BCXSY @ J. & L. Lobmeyr
At the risk of starting a tradition we can’t maintain, and so ultimately leading us to disappoint a lot of
(smow) blog 2013. A pictorial review: September
After the relative calm and civility of July and August, September sees a more than inconsequential upping of our professional
Vienna Design Week 2013: Passionswege – Sebastian Zachl @ Donauer Lampenschirme
One of the take home messages from the Vitra Design Museum’s Lightopia exhibition is that lighting design is rarely about
Vienna Design Week 2013: Passionswege – chmara.rosinke @ Wäscheflott
We must admit to having had our problems with Vienna based design studio chmara.rosinke Not in a physical, fisticuffs sort of
Vienna Design Week 2013: Construisine by Johanna Dehio and Dominik Hehl
As we noted in our post on Depot_0411 by Marlene Klausner, “food” often crops up in the Vienna Design Week
Vienna Design Week 2013: Passionswege – Bertille + Mathieu @ J. & L. Lobmeyr
What is luxury? For Passionswege 2013 the French/Swiss duo Bertille + Mathieu were paired with the Viennese crystal manufacturer J.
Vienna Design Week 2013: SECOND LIFE – Upcycling Glass Design from Finland @ Wagner:Werk
As far as we are aware the grand doyen of Austrian architecture Otto Wagner never devoted a great deal of
Vienna Design Week 2013: Marlene Klausner – Depot_0411
For reasons we’ve never truly understood “food” always crops ups somewhere, in some context during Vienna Design Week. Fortunately the
Vienna Design Week 2013: Passionswege – Hilda Hellström @ E. Fessler Kamine
As we arrived in Vienna the first thing we noticed was our breath. It’s autumn in Vienna. And we still