Deadline: 10 June 2008
The designers from 23 European countries are called to apply and submit a project for a new vessel for drinking to be made with the technique of glass blowing.
The competitor may use inspiring principles and conceptions that refer to symbolic meanings of the Holy Grail.
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art. 1 Purpose of the competition
The Trieste Contemporanea Committee announces the eighth edition of the International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea with the aim of promoting the most original expressions of design from the countries of Central-Eastern Europe. The initiative is supported by the C.E.I.–Central European Initiative.
art. 2 Theme of the 2008 competition
To exalt the search for modern formal quality, in the vast typology of receptacles destined to contain liquids, a new design for a vessel for drinking, with or without a foot, is requested. The vessel is a theme par excellence in the history of glass production and palestra of its modern renewal. As inspiration, the competitor may use principles and conceptions that refer to symbolic meanings of the Grail in the various traditions and legends. Projects which are innovative in their exploration of the behavior of light in contact with glass will be particularly taken into account.
art. 3 Requirements for participation
The competition is open to all designers born in countries adhering to the C.E.I. (Albania, Austria, Belarus, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Czech Republic, Hungary, Italy, Macedonia, Moldova, Montenegro, Poland, Romania, Serbia, Slovak Republic, Slovenia, Ukraine) as well as Estonia, Germany, Latvia, Lithuania and Turkey.
Groups should be composed only of participants born in the countries listed above.
The object designed is to be made exclusively with the technique of glass blowing.
All projects presented are to be new and developed expressly for the International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea.
You can check the competition notice on http://www.continentalbreakfast.org/graalglass/
announcement.aspx
The Contest is promoted by the Trieste Contemporanea Committee under the patronage of CEI (Central European Initiative).
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