VITO ORAZEM (DE)

Related Projects: Belgrade Design Week Festival 2011

Design is illogical. Precisely that is its essential quality.

Red Dot Award is one of the world’s most recognized design prizes, awarded by the Design Centre in Essen (Germany), and Red Dot acts as a promoter and supporter of the design industry.

The Red Dot award for product design was established back in 1954 while the award for communication design was introduced in 1993, and the youngest but equally attractive award is the one for concept design, established in 2005. Essen Design Zentrum’s executive chairman, Vito Orazem, was one of our much anticipated lecturers 2011. Vito  Orazem studied media science, art theory, literature and is highly experienced in design promotion. Prior to his coming to Belgrade, he presented the ADMIRE project (Award for Design Management Innovating and Reinforcing Enterprises) at the Slovenian 23rd Biennale of Industrial Design. Vito  Orazem came to Belgrade to present the history and the concept of Red Dot to a curious BDW audience.

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The Belgrade Design Week was the best design conference I have ever enjoyed – the specific spirit of the city in a kind of in between status, the rough tension which can still be felt ten years after the bombs, the pride and the looking for new orientation especially in the young generation – all this is giving the BDW a special flair far away from the current events of the global design circus. In addition the enthusiastic organizational team trying hardly but unsuccessfully to keep the program along the schedules, the informal exchange between the international speakers, the loss of any discipline, the parties on the river … what ever and how ever the interrelations between these aspects are working – it makes the BDW an unique, likeable, inspiring and productive event, I will never forget.

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