Design Week Starts in Budapest

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Budapest Graphic Guide by Dávid Bartha

On the promenade in front of the Terminal, winners of the latest Danish Index Award, an important design prize, were shown, among them urban furniture that swells up when wet and a simple plastic top that turns a beverage can into a sharps container.

 
The Gödör Club Terrace Gallery is showing Dávid Baráth's illustrations for a Budapest travel guide published by Thames and Hudson this month.
 
Innoshop has put the latest products by Danish brand Normann Copenhagen on display. The well known design brand has come to Budapest after shows in Milan and Stockholm.
 
The Werk Academy will give new life to discarded objects in the WERKaholic workshop, and they will transform everyday objects into design art in the Design That's the Way You Write project.
 
The KREA Contemporary Art School will show work by its students.
 
Scandinavian designers and their "natural" inspirations will be the focus of The Faces of Nature exhibition at the Museum of Applied Arts. The museum will also show Hungarian haute couture designs paired with contemporary art objects in Budapest Couture.
 
The Luminárium will host Public Space Design, a shows that explores public art and design.
 
The Natural Disasters Collective will present Skin Membrane, an abstract fashion show, at the Trafó.   
   

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Faces of Nature
 
A tombstone entitled Seeyou and designed by Ákos Maurer-Klimes and Péter Kucsera can be seen in front of the Basilica, at the Gödör and outside the Museum of Applied Arts.
 
Also on the Design Week programme are a display of the latest collection by hat designer Ildikó Virág at Mon Fashion and a show of work by Danish designer Jacob Jensen at the Aron Design Store.