The DMY International Design Festival, part exhibition, part design fair, is a curated event bringing together the finest of innovative product design today. Its participants are selected amongst the numerous applicants by recommendation of an international admission jury. The jury members are also responsible for awarding outstanding up and coming designers among the exhibitors of the DMY Youngsters platform.
This year’s jury will consist of internationally renowned personalities from the fields of design, art and science who have chosen Berlin as their new home and working environment underlining the strong creative energy of this city.
The 2009 jury members are:
Jurgen Bey (Designer)
Jurgen Bey is a conceptual designer who researches and analyzes our daily surroundings, living conditions and everyday objects. His designs are inspired by the hidden qualities, stories, and emotional values of existing objects. Arguably the father of the concept of object appropriation and modification, and involved in Droog Design from their beginnings, Jurgen Bey has been operating Studio Makkink & Bey together with architect Rianne Makkink since 2002. His work spans diverse disciplins including public space projects, product design, architecture, exhibition design and applied arts.
BLESS – Ines Kaag & Desiree Heiss (Designers)
Ines Kaag & Desiree Heiss are the founders of renowned Berlin/Paris-based label BLESS creating numbered items that make the near future worth living for. The label is neither fashion nor anti-fashion, but conceives fashion as a subjective space of adaptation, transformable and multifunctional, open to all possibilities. BLESS is a project that presents ideal and artistic values by products to the public.
Jürgen Mayer H. (Architect / Designer)
J. Mayer H. focuses on works at the intersection of architecture, communication and new technology. His concepts are built around the relationship between the human body, technology and nature, forming the background for a new production of space.
The work of J. Mayer H. was published and exhibited worldwide and is part of famous international collections (MoMA New York and SF MoMA among others). Numerous awards include the Mies-van-der-Rohe-Award 2003 Emerging Architect and Winner Holcim Awards 2005 Bronze Europe for Metropol Parasol.
Jerszy Seymour (Designer)
Jerszy Seymour is a designer whose projects question the nature of the constructed world and celebrate the vitality of existence. As well as being an agent provocateur with in the industrial, gallery and museum context he seeks a design outside of these doors that can pick up the proverbial brick and kiss its neighbour. His works are held in the permanent collections of leading museums worldwide (among those at the MoMA New York, Vitra Design Museum or the Musee d´Art Grand-Duc Jean in Luxembourg).
Kyoka (Sound Artist / Sound Designer)
Sensibility plays a central role in the work of Kyoka who likens the process of producing musical compositions to the creation of crystals out of finely ground sound powder. A magazine once described her as a freestyle broken pop beat artist, her style has seen her labelled as anything from a pop idol to a noise artist. Her fans range from the Japanese experimental king Ryuichi Sakamoto to Stooges/Minutemen bassist Mike Watt, who played her music almost every time of his recent podcast shows and who recorded bass for her sound.
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