Both scholarships aim to assist young designers on the path from theory to practice, though one rewards designers of handicrafts and the other designers of manufactured goods. The winners show their work, or plans for their work at an exhibition that offers a glimpse at the new generation's approach to design.
The winners have raised the bar, perhaps not so much because of the originality of their ideas, but because of the meticulous research they put into their work, their sensibility and their new direction. The expression of identity no longer appears as antagonistic, and it allows for associations with well-known media. While the objects on display show new ideas, they do not overwrite old ones.
Among the objects on display at the winners' exhibition is a multi-functional coat collection for city nomads by Zsuzsanna Magony, who won a Design Award last autumn with a matching set; a mobile garden made from concrete modules by Daniella Koós; an experiment in prefabricated housing by Balázs Kornél; a set of organically formed, but human-scale chairs by Dániel Lakos; a minimalist sailboat by Gábor Szilasi; and jewellery made - quite literally - of poetry by Noémi Gera.
Author: Eszter Götz
