Young talented designers and students were the focus of this years DMY Youngsters exhibition. Many of the works were quite experimental or research driven resulting in interesting ideas and shapes for these new makers.

Featuring the works of:

Polceramix, Daniel Schulze, De Intuitiefabriek, My bauhaus is better than yours, Ecole des arts Strasbourg, Labelobjet, About studio, Temporary collective Arnhem, Bas van Raay, Le Lab, Rui Alves, Pepe Heykoop and Joon & Jung

This interesting title loosely translates to Rum ball course, which refers to the chocolate rum ball which travels down a route taking you for a preview of the Vienna Design week taking place this October.

The Vienna Design Week Embassy (fancy title!) presents this work of Vienna design couple Mischer’Traxler during the DMY festival in Berlin.

“The ball path is a reminisence of Vienna’s Prater and its typical sweets and candies. On display are products by Breaded Escalope, Casali, Marco Dessi, Dottings, Max Lamb, J.&L. Lobmeyr, Mühlbauer, Augarten, POLKA, Posenanski, RiessKELOMAT, Adrien Rovero, Robert Rüf, soda designers, Vösslauer, Wittmann.”

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Three out of ten – On Friday, June 11 the DMY Award winners were announced at the evening Award Ceremony. The winners are For use/numen: Tape Installation, Daphna Isaacs & Laurens Manders: Tafelstukken and EPFL+ECAL Lab: Give me more.

The jury members Jerszy Seymour, Hella Jongerius, Jurgen Bey, Werner Aisslinger and Patrick Reymond were impressed by the experimental approach of the Austro-Croatian designers For use / numen who created an architectural socializing place with a very simple material: tape. They acknowledged the close collaboration between designers and engineers within the Swiss research institute  EPFL + ECAL Lab who showed  augmented reality scenarios combining analogue materials and digital applications pointing to charming ways of designing and living in the near future.

Awarding Daphna Isaacs & Laurens Manders, Hella Jongerius as a representative of the jury, pointed out that Berlin stands out in terms of research, experimenting and prototyping but it is also important to acknowledge the finishing of products and that is why the jury chose this accomplishment of a very tactile and nicely functioning product. Congratulations!

The Allstars exhibition, located at the central exhibition space of DMY at Tempelhof airport is the professional side of the festival. It shows work by established companies and organisations that have items ranging from furniture to accesories and even architectural work.

Featuring the works of:

Freedom of creation, Taiwan arts council, Postfossil, Fidu (Oscar Zieta & ETH Zurich), Florian Krautli, Adrien Rovero, Pour les alpes, Centro metropolitano de diseno, Ulli Budde

YDN presents DMY Festival 2010, as the first video in this DMY series we give a short impression of the events that took place on the opening night.

More about the Symposium’s topic at: http://dmy-berlin.com/en/festival/2010/symposium/

From 2010 on, the DMY International Design Festival will take place at a brand new, yet historically charged venue: The entrance hall and the huge hangars of former city airport Berlin Tempelhof will be the central location of this year’s DMY festival (June 9-13).

Here you will find the central exhibition with product launches and experimental protoypes by professional as well as upcoming designers, presentations by 17 international design schools, exhibition sections of this year’s Swiss design focus and works supplementing the Symposium’s topic reflecting the cross roads between advanced technologies, digital media and design. Furthermore the central venue will invite you to join numerous events such as the Award Show, Open Design Workshops (Maker Lab), the Symposium, Designer Talks and Sunday Film Screenings.

The official Opening will take place on June 9, from 8 pm onwards, followed by an opening party featuring live performances by technology savvy artists Ryo-W (Tokyo), Wiij Timski (Utrecht) and Sonic Me (Leiden Berlin).

This year’s nominees show a very diverse picture, acknowledging interesting, out of the box approaches rather than just honouring the final outcomes. The range oscillates between the formally straightforward and the playfully modifiable; objects with a crafted identity; poetic and hilarious socializing spaces; narrative and even disquietingly dominating sculptures. Altogether three design schools, the backbone of the festival’s experimental exhibition, have entered the top ten with strong showings of craftmanship, engineering and contemporary high tech.

Die Jury Selection 2010

La Bolleur – Mini Golf Club

For Use / Numen – Tape Installation

Daphna Isaacs & Laurens Manders – Tafelstukken

EPFL+ECAL lab – Give me more / Berlin

Temporary Collective Arnhem – Collection 2010

Ecole Supérieure des Arts décoratifs de Strasbourg – Rendez-vous

Rui Alves – Welcome to the jungle & AVÔ

FH Potsdam – Metal Spinning

ETH Zurich – FIDU technology

Pepe Heykoop – pepe heykoop 2010

From 2010 on, we will work with a permanent festival jury, designated for the next three years, that will act as an advisory board for the festival, its themes and direction. The jury will be joined by two guest jurors changing every year.

Members of the standing Festival Jury are:

Jurgen Bey (designer, Studio Makkink&Bey)

The dutch designer Jurgen Bey has already attracted attention beyond the borders of modern product design and the Netherlands with his early works with the Droog design collective. The Treetrunk Bench and the Gardening Bench have become iconic works in the field of product design and represent his approach to regard design as an open investigation: His works like to rather raise questions than just give answers. In 2002, Bey and architect Rianne Makkink founded Studio Makkink&Bey. Recently, both started their own experimental furniture label Prooff. Beside his many projects and exhibitions, Jurgen Bey is also a senior design tutor at the Royal College of Art in London. In 2010, he has been appointed director of Sandberg Institute, Amsterdam.

Jerszy Seymour (designer, Jerszy Seymour Design Workshop)

Since 2004 canadian designer Jerszy Seymour is working and living again in his native city Berlin. After his studies at the Royal College of Art in London, he started his own experimental and conceptual projects in Milan, which formed the central thrust of his work. In parallel, he designed for companies like Vitra, Moulinex, SFR and IDEE. Aside from different teaching activities, his work is held in the permanent collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Vitra Design Museum (Basel and Berlin), the Palais de Tokyo, Paris and the Design Museum London.

Werner Aisslinger (designer, Studio Aisslinger)

The works of the designer Werner Aisslinger cover the spectrum of experimental, artistic approaches, including industrial design and architecture. He delights in making use of the latest technologies and has helped introduce new materials and techniques to the world of product design like in his unique gel furniture with the collection“soft cell“ and the chaise „soft“ for zanotta in 2000. Werner Aisslinger´s „loftcube“–project became one of the most discussed modular and transportable housing projects within the last years. Werner Aisslinger has been developing furniture with Italian brands like Cappellini, Zanotta, Magis and Vitra. His work is exhibited in the permanent collections of international museums such as the Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) and the Metropolitan Museum in New York, the French Fonds National d´Art Contemporain in Paris, the Museum Neue Sammlung in Munich and the Vitra Design Museum in Weil, Germany.

Guest jury members 2010 are:

Hella Jongerius (designer, Jongeriuslab)

Dutch Designer Hella Jongerius has become known for the special way she fuses industry and craft, high and low tech, tradition and the contemporary in her works. After graduating at Eindhoven Design Academy she started her own design company, Jongeriuslab, through which she produces projects for clients such as Maharam, Vitra or Ikea as well as her own projects, which has been shown at international galleries and museums (MoMA, Moss gallery in New York, Design Museum in London, Galerie KREO in Paris).

Patrick Reymond (designer, Atelier oï)

1991 designer and interior-designer Patrick Reymond, Aurel Aebi and Armand Louis founded the label Atelier Oï, whose work and philosophy is influenced by the many disciplines and backgrounds of its members. When they realize their projects for high-class clients such as Louis Vuitton, Bulgari, B&B Italia, Ikea or Swatch, the team is crossing the disciplinary borders of architecture, design or scenography. Thereby Atelier OÏ has set completely new standards internationally.

The Jury selection of the ten best works nominated for the DMY Awards can now be found here: Three out of ten.