PS: If you’d like to share your pictures with us, please send or upload them and we make a huge picture gallery out of all entries. Do not forget to send your full name so that we can credit the pictures appropriately.

And the winners are…

Mischer´Traxler – The idea of a trea

Walking-Chair Design Studio LYNfabrikken - YOU MAY (take the public space)

Sandberg Insitute Applied Art department – Domestic Making, a house of possibilities

DMY and the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung congratulate all winners kindly!

These are the changed times:

• Marije Vogelzang 2:40 pm – 3:00 pm
• Ralf Ketelhut: 3:10 pm – 3:30 pm
• Jan Jongert: 3:40 – 4:00 pm

For the Bombay Sapphire Design Nights, the team has devised a bar lounge at stilwerk which expresses the flowing movements of a drink in the tri-dimensional context of the space in which the installation evolves. The futuristic installation by ett la benn reveals a surprising interaction between the public and design. Transparent balloons filled with helium and fluorescent colour freely float around the space. At the same time, the visitors’ movements set the installation in motion, thus generating sublime effects of light and colour.

‘Bombay Fusion’, the bar devised by Berlin-based architects GRAFT seems uncoupled from its original function and distinguishes itself through spectacular, flowing shapes. Furthermore, the dynamic arrangement of 182 acrylic plates works as a metaphor for the 182 carats of the ‘Star of Bombay’ sapphire, which inspired the name Bombay Sapphire.

The Bombay Sapphire Design Nights are opened Wed – Sat, 9:00 am to 7:00 pm and Sun 1:00 pm – 3:00 pm at , , Berlin-Charlottenburg, for all DMY visitors.

The discussion will take place at the ‘DMY Bean Bag Project Lounge’ (DMY Youngsters, Arena Berlin).

Limited number of participants! Preregistration: workshops@dmy-berlin.com

An invitation to create your very own solution, and by doing so to make one of Montana’s 5 billion possible combinations real.
Bring Montana’s system design to life using your creativity as the driving force.

Montana Design Challenge

Whether you are a Desiger, Architect, Student or you are simply interested in Design, you can make your own design come true on June 6th.

1st. Prize – “Students”

The Student with the best Design will be compensated with 1 Semester Access to the Montana Concept Lab.
This Lab is a creative room with walls to write on, flexible workplaces, beamer, WiFi and containers for Notebooks.
It is the ideal place to write your Thesis or to be used as office by young architects & designers.

1st. Prize “Seniors”

The best Montana Design will receive a Montana configuration valued in EUR 1,200.-
The Montana Team will help you with tips and tricks!
You can do your Design in our Shop or online.
Please send your Design at berlin@montanamoebel.de latest on June 6th, 4pm.

The Montana Design Challenge will take place on June 6th from 10:00  to 16:00.
The Jury´s decision and prize ceremony will follow at 19:00.

Peter J. Lassen, Montana´s founder and Designer will be the jury and give out the prizes!

Register at: berlin@montanamoebel.de

1) Allstars

Curated exhibitions by our partner organisations

Vienna Design Week: Maxim Velcovsky, Marco Dessi, Megumi Ito (A), Taiwan Design Center: (TW), Seoul Design Festival: 25 Korean designers and brands (KOR), Brussels Export Mode et Design / 101% Designed in Brussels: Benoit Duneufbourg, Damien Garnay, Eric Chevalier, Anne Masson, Guillaume Escallier, Jonathan Girvan, Lise El Sayed (B), Designhuis Eindoven: Glass – curated by Li Edelkoort with works of Collectie Utrecht, Royal Leerdam, Lotte van Laatum, Pieke Bergmans, Hans van Bentum, Frank Tjepkem, Arnout Visser (among others, NL).

Designers and groups:

Walking Chair (A), Mats Theselius (SE), elgant embellishments (GB/DE), Fantastic Norway (NO), The Flying Grass Carpet (NL), Samare (CAN), Sixinch (BE), Tom Kühne (DE), FbG-Interactive Lab: Eduardo Fuhrmann & Monica Pujol (AR), Oskar Zieta (PL), Mark Braun (DE), Duncan McCauley Architects (GB/DE), Eccellence – Outstanding Ecological Goods: curated by Erik van Buuren, My Bauhaus is better than your Bauhaus: 10 upcoming German designers (DE), Postfossil (CH), Fredrik Färg (SE), Daniel Lorch, Rupert Kopp, Henning Bögershausen (DE), The Green Eyl (DE), Design Hotels AG (INT), Aplex (DE).

2) Youngsters

Konstfak (SE), Ecole Superieur du Design Strasbourg (FR), University of Arts Berlin (DE), Kunsthochschule Weissensee (DE), Design Academy Burg Giebigstein / Halle (DE), University of Arts Hamburg (DE), Sandberg Institut (NL), Academy of Arts Architecture and Design Prague (CZ), Academy of Arts Lodz (PL), Academy of Applied Arts Düsseldorf (DE), ETH Zürich (CH), Hochschule Wismar (DE), Studio Makkink & Bey (NL), Realities United (DE), Raumtaktik (DE), as well as over 80 individual participants.

3) Extended

New products and prototypes of the likes of Werner Aisslinger, Andrea Brandolini, Claudia Skoda, Mathias Hahn, Susanne Philippson, Osko+Deichmann or Don’t Feed the Swedes; Institutions and group shows such as Sandberg Institut (NL), Svenskform (SE), Material Sense (NL), Corbusierhaus Berlin (DE), Transit Cases (MX), Transalpino (DE/IT) or Made in Berlin (DE); altogether over 50 satellite exhibitions in designer spaces, galleries, temporary exhibitions, open studios and design institutions.

The 7th edition of DMY International Design Festival “Same same, but different” will kick off in June. Showcasing works by internationally acclaimed designers as well as reveilling prototypes by the young talent the festival this year especially focuses on design that makes a difference. Presenting three huge main exhibition zones next to a varied program of lectures, panel talks, performances and parties the festival itself tries to change the city at least for five days.

Hope to see you in June!

Thank you so much for the numerous applications and project proposals we received from international design institutions to established designers, which have put strain on our fax machine in recent days!

Due to the massive response and requests for last minute entries we are happy to announce that our Call for Entries will last for a few more days. Last chance to apply for the participation in all three main exhibition modules DMY Allstars, DMY Youngsters, DMY Extended within DMY International Design Festival Berlin!

Our Recall for entries runs until: Wednesday, 25 March 2009 (date of receipt!)

This year’s festival jury will review all applications meticulously and select the participants of the exhibition modules on 28 March 2009. We are very pleased with the high quality level reached by the projects received so far setting the bar for all the ones to come and follow.

We are looking forward to contributing exhibitions by Vienna Design Week (A), Taiwan Design Center (TW), Seoul Design Festival (KOR), Universidad de Buenos Aires (AR), Brussels Export & 101% Designed in Brussels (B) as well as Cité du Design (FR).

In addition to our mediapartnerships with international design magazines such as Icon (UK), I.D. (USA), DAMn° (B) and Frame (NL), Form (CH), Case da Abitare (I) and Ottagono (I) who will cover the fesitval on-site realtime featuring exhibiting designers.

We are looking forward to all your projects!

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.

www.jurgenbey.nl

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.

www.bless-service.de

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.

www.jmayerh.de

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).

www.jerszyseymour.com

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.

http://www.myspace.com/kyoka