Archived: Zagreb Design Week 2020

Zagreb Design Week 2020

The seventh edition of the largest Croatian design event takes place in the sign of the crown. Zagreb Design Week 2020 instead of spring, will be held in the fall, from 1 to 6 September at the Nikola Tesla Technical Museum.

The new normality is a reality. In just a few weeks, COVID-19 completely disrupted our lives. Design solves problems. How can he help us in this situation? The crown has complicated our lives, on VII. You can find solutions for Zagreb Design Week. Designers and manufacturers responded quickly and offered concepts and products to present during the design week.

Zagreb Design Week Concept Store

On the ground floor of Hall V, on 1,000 m2, there is the ZGDW Concept Store, which offers the best designed products on the Croatian market, from furniture and clothing to jewelry and toys. The audience will be able to see a number of world and Croatian premieres of new products here. The new products will be presented by some of the best Croatian furniture manufacturers Dizzconcept, Milla & Milli and Nunc.

Sobočan and designer Carmen Mikuš present their furniture for the first time. Visitors will also be able to buy furniture from some of the world's best designers, 1010 Copenhagen, iota, knIndustrie, Paola C and Vito Nesta, at discounted prices.

For the first time "ZGDW Award", the design award becomes international and is awarded in six categories – Graphic Design, Digital Communication Design and Interaction Design, Product Design, Space Design, Textile and Fashion Design and Social Innovation Design. The finalists of the "ZGDW Award" 2020 will be presented with an exhibition in Hall V, when the international jury will announce the winners.

ZGDW Food Design

ZGDW Food Design in the context of this year's theme of the festival questions the impact of the corona pandemic on dining and the future brought by numerous restrictions aimed at preventing infection. Boir, a Croatian studio specializing in the design of dining utensils, designed an installation that confronts the "normality" we knew and the "new normality".

Mirrored symmetrically facing the two spaces are connected by a large dining table. It shows two different ways of serving food in the context of public events and restaurants. Boir has offered new conceptual proposals for cutlery that, despite new restrictions, retains an important social and cultural dimension of food – sharing.

The historical exhibition "Zagreb Packaging" from the Bulaić Collection reveals today the unimaginable strength of the Zagreb industry created in Austro-Hungary. From Ark and Bizjak to Penkala and Union, today's forgotten companies and designers have created visual identities and packaging that represent a valuable heritage of Croatian and world design. Most of the exhibits were created between the two world wars. The curator of the exhibition is Maja Arčabić.

Design students from eleven schools and faculties will present their works – Zagreb Polytechnic, University North, University of Rijeka – Academy of Applied Arts, University of Zagreb – Faculty of Agriculture / Landscape Architecture, Faculty of Architecture / Design, Faculty of Forestry, Faculty of Textile Technology, Technical Polytechnic of Zagreb and School of Applied Arts and Design.

For the first time, in addition to Croatian students, students from Austria, FH Joanneum (Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften) and BiH, University of Sarajevo – Academy of Fine Arts are also presented.

The Austrian Cultural Forum in Zagreb presents two exhibitions of posters created in response to the crown. The exhibition "Separated Together" was created as a result of an invitation to students, while the exhibition "The Change Club" presents the work of sixteen designers. Both exhibitions are coming to Zagreb in collaboration with Tomislav Bobinac, a lecturer at FH Joanneum.

Ticket for Zagreb Design Week 2020: 25 HRK day 100 HRK festival ticket for all days, includes Art Zagreb (August 27-29)

More about Zagreb Design Week 2020 on their official website .