BE OPEN – last day

Last day of my trip. After my last authentic Italian Cappuccino and breakfast I had to say goodbye from the incredibly inspirational town of Milan and get to the airport.

I was impressed on how professional and well organized was the Be Open to the Future event. The 5 days that I spent in Milano was unforgettable. I was exposed to a great many stimulus and inspiration those days. The conference was super-impressive in terms of the presentations and the design of the scenery as well. It was such a magnificent feeling listening to the design profession’s top representatives’ thoughts about the future.

BE OPEN – day four

After a fast breakfast we began our 2nd tour around the best locations of Milan Design Week with our guide. You can see some new pics about it in this gallery:

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After the tour we participated on the last day of the conference. The topic of the 3rd day is Unique & Universal. Speakers: Ilse Crawford (Design expert), Paola Navone (Architect and designer), Stuart Parr (designer and entrepreneur), Gaetano Pesce (architect and designer), Daniel Rozensztroch (art director Merci Paris), Patricia Urquiola (architect and designer). You can watch the presentation here.

I think that the BeOpenFuture was an incredibly professional event and I hope that they will organize more and more such great events for a long time. I think it is very important to let talented students get in touch with such a highly professional people/ambient/company. To feel their energy, their huge professional calling and their enthusiasm. These are amazingly powerful driving forces which are extremely inspiring for a designer student. Meanwhile I am absolutely agreed with the message of the event: we must consciously take care of the future.

BE OPEN – day three

The topic of the 2nd day of the conference was Daily & Happy. Speakers: Julian Schnabel (painter), Alberto Alessi (entrepreneur & managing director of Alessi), Carlo Cracco (chef), Elio Fiorucci (entrepreneur, fashion designer), Edson Matsuo (creative director of Grendene), Vladimir Pirojkov (designer and president AstraRossa).

My top favorite presentation was by Vladimir Pirojkov (designer and president of AstraRossa). He talked about the transformation of transportation from 2D to 3D, and about achievable flying cars and space-hotels orbiting around Earth as their current projects they are working on. I was entirely impressed by the fact that what I could have imagined only for the next 20 years is literally happening right now! I was shaken up and filled with excitement by these impassioned presentations, where you can see that the presenters are how madly in love with what they do and that they don’t know the term impossible. I’m dreaming by my hart about counting among these people and doing my job with this huge professionalism. You can watch this day’s peresentations here.

Beside the events of the conference, thanks to the organizer we could visit the most exciting locations of Fuori Salone with a very helpful guide. At these exhibitions I was fascinated again by the amazing refinement, elegance and creativity of the Italian design. Here is some pics about the exhibition of Fuori Salone!

BE OPEN – day one

Today I arrived to Milan. Everything were organized accurate and precisely. Actually this was the first time in my life when someone was waiting for me with a paper with my name at the airport:) The feeling is priceless:) The first day was really about warming up to the conference and the programs. I just had a walk on the beauteous streets of Milan to pick up the rhythm of the environment. At the end of the day there was a little meeting with the finalists and the coordinator about the programs of the next days. I’m super excited, I think it will be an amazing experience. Stay with me during the next days at my blog so I can share it with you.

Flow lamp has been selected as a finalist in BE OPEN!

The bamboo made ‘Flow’ lamp has been selected as a finalist at BE OPEN design award. Ten people passed through the finals. The final round will be held in Milan were all the finalists must shown and present their work. The final round will be together with the BE OPEN Conference where leading professionals of the design field will make presentations such as Paola Navone, Gaetano Pesce, Alberto Alessi etc. The organizers will pay all the expenses of this 5 day travell (from April 16 to 20) of the finalists. I will write every day about my experiences during the week…

we are on tv!

The finals of the Bosch design competition have been broadcast on the Heureka show at DunaTV hungarian channel. Our design called Molnárka have won the competition. The program is in Hungarian, but you can download the video with english subtitle from here.

23rd Koizumi Lighting Competition Results!

The results of the 23rd Koizumi Lighting Design Competition for Student were anounced in Tokyo in the Koizumi Showroom on 20th of July. Our latest design, the ‘Flow’ lamp have won the ‘Koizumi Best Design Award (internet voting)’ and also the ‘Honorable Mention’ title. There are a few pictures of the Koizumi brochure and about the awarding ceremony.

Koizumi 1st round results

The ‘flow’ lamp has just qualified for the final of the Koizumi 23rd International Light Design Competition for Students. The task for the 2nd round is to build a model and send it to japan. (Work in progress…)