DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2009

Berlin is a magnet for creatives from all over the world. There are plenty of reasons for this. The rapid changes of influences and trends that occur within this city or thrive in it result in an exciting patchwork of styles – an ideal breeding ground for dialogue, progress and intellectual growth.

Berlin does not only exert a powerful attraction on young people. An increasing number of people – especially artists and creatives – come to Berlin to work, to live and to stay. This mix reflects the spirit and the atmosphere of the city, which boasts an open and flexible attitude from which experiment and innovation flow naturally. In other words, this is the ideal site for a trendsetting event format.

In 2008, following six years of steady growth, DMY Berlin has laid the foundations for an internationally renowned design festival within and beyond Berlin. Thanks to a spate of highly varied exhibitions, shows and festival contributions featuring participants from all over the world, the Festival has established new contacts, strengthened existing relationships and expanded cooperation projects that find their expression in the current DMY Asia Exhibition Tour 2008 in Taiwan, Japan and South Korea, as well as in the various DMY Contributions to European festivals, from London to Vienna and from Prague to St. Etienne.

This is the direction that DMY Berlin strives to pursue: originally a Berlin-based platform for young, experimental design, DMY International Design Festival Berlin since 2008 includes established designers and design studios, as well as institutions and museums, in its concept. In this way, DMY Berlin initiates and fuels exchanges within the global design scene on an interdisciplinary and active level. In focussing on creators and their philosophy, the Festival thus generates each year a platform that puts design and its creative processes in the foreground.

Given these facts, it comes as no surprise that such a format should result in an influential Festival!

DMY in June

With the festival taking place in June, as opposed to our previous May editions, DMY Berlin reacts to the shift in the global design calender in 2009.

As an internationally active platform for contemporary design, DMY International Design Festival Berlin occupies an independent spot in the events-calendar formed by leading design fairs and festivals. Thereby DMY Berlin adjusts itself time-wise to Milan, New York and Frankfurt.

Application

In 2009, the DMY International Design Festival Berlin will pursue its growth. Starting today, DMY Berlin accepts applications and pre-registrations for exhibition contributions, project propositions and presentation formats within the framework of the following festival modules:

DMY Allstars

With the DMY Allstars, DMY Berlin plans the introduction of a second central exhibition space that will offer international design festivals, established design brands and professional designers a platform of their own.

Allstars pre-registration deadline is March 12, 2009

» Download – Allstars Pre-Registration (.zip)

DMY Youngsters

The DMY Youngsters introduce the up-and-coming generation of national and international designers. Featuring projects, prototypes and close-to-production products, the exhibition presents innovative and experimental ideas on 7.000 square meters in Arena Berlin. For group and solo exhibitions.

Youngsters application deadline is March 15, 2009

» Download – Application Form Youngsters (.zip)

DMY Extended

The new DMY Extended will bring together all self-initiated special exhibitions taking place outside the central locations all throughout Berlin.

Extended application deadline is March 18, 2009

» DMY 2009 – Extended Application Form (.pdf)

DMY Award

An international board of trustees will make a pre-selection from all received festival applications.
On top of that there will be the DMY Award with the goal of operating a selection of relevant and particulary noteworthy projects among the DMY Youngster applications.

To apply, participants are invited to fill in and send us the application forms for the various modules.

We are looking forwards to numerous exciting and varied applications for the DMY International Design Festival Berlin 2009.

We wish all participants good luck!