28 Nov - 08 Dec, 2007
The Singapore Design Festival is a biennial platform that brings the best minds in the field of design from Singapore and around the world together to engage in a dynamic design dialogue.
The Festival is not just a showcase of leading-edge design; it creates opportunities for networking and exchange of ideas, transforming Singapore into a vibrant and creative international design hub of activity from 28 November to 08 December 2007.
With contributions from more than 130 partners from different industries, the events range from major international presentations to Singaporean showcases to trade events, alongside award ceremonies, talks, workshops, product launches, open houses and designer parties.
All this is made possible by the fact that this city state is an increasingly emerging creative design hub with a dynamic pool of Singapore and international design talents and design-led companies. As the city where diverse cultures converge and multi-national businesses gather to trade thoughts and commerce, the Singapore Design Festival is fast becoming recognised as a “must-attend” event on the international design calendar.
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Launched by Singapore’s President S R Nathan on 14 November 2005, the President’s Design Award is the city-state’s highest honour for designers and designs. The Award will run its second cycle over the course of 2007.
The President’s Design Award acknowledges that Singapore’s design industry has reached a key milestone by attaining significant achievements in fields such as architecture and urban design, exhibition design, fashion design, industrial and product design, interior design, landscape design and visual communications. It is awarded to individuals and designs that are pushing the boundaries of Singapore design, tangibly making a difference to the lives of Singaporeans and larger global communities.
Utterubbish is a unique design experience that presents ideas, works and exhibits by designers and creators from all over the world, unified in their exploration of how design can create value for individuals, societies and the world, whether Social, Cultural, Emotional, Functional, Economic, Commercial or Intellectual.
Based on the premise that ‘less is more’, Utterubbish is a witty review of recycling, redemption and recourse through design. By transmuting the original meaning of “useless” to “use less”, it demonstrates that what seems less sane becomes more sense, less money can inspire more value, less machine means more human and more creativity may come from having less resources.
Featured designers include fashion house Maison Martin Margiela, Spanish designer Marti Guix, MIT’s Media Lab, Treasured Trash from Japan, an international collection of artists and designers engaged in sustainable ways to transform ‘trash’ into ‘treasure’, French photojournalists Bruno Mouron and Pascal Rostain who spent their last 20 years collecting and photographing the trash of celebrities and people from around the world and Jonathan Harris, an American web-designer who creates innovative search engines to find interesting stories and emotions from the world wide web.
The Design Concept Award Show promises interesting and inspiring encounters with international guests from the design, culture, and business sectors. Out of 879 entries from 46 countries, you will be introduced to the 124 concepts that impressed the jury with their innovation and fresh take on the future of product culture. Also on show will be the introduction of partnerships in red dot Futures - the new commercialisation initiative, linking design talents and industry. This is truly an event that gives you a hint of products and trends of the future.
The exhibition “Italian Genius Now” aims to present Italy as a huge “factory” producing objects of high aesthetical value by showing contemporary art, industrial products, advertisements, photographs and editorial materials. Its goal is to give a testimony of this winning combination which is deeply rooted in the traditions and projects that are able to unify artists and designers, architects and stylists.
The exhibition, featuring artworks by 53 creative minds, gives an extraordinary
panorama of the Italian contemporary Art and Design scene. Starting with the Vespa motorcycle by Corradino D’Ascanio and the spatial solutions of Lucio Fontana in the Fifties, the show continues with Gio Ponti’s designs, Bruno Munari’s fantasies and Ferragamo and Armani’s fashion creations. It also analyses the artistic movement of Italian Pop Art in the Sixties, the Architettura Radicale experimentations and the art of Pistoletto, Fabro, Mertz, Pesce, up to the Transavanguardia of the Eighties and the glamorous marriage between artworks and advertising devised by Toscani for Benetton.
The Architectural Design Festival will be an annual festival for the city to celebrate the built environment. Design professionals of all fields will be encouraged, invited and guided to interact in a fun and free atmosphere. There will be plenty of laughter and friendship whilst discussing very serious topics on society, architecture and the city.
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