Resume | The Festival for Design Leipzig October ... - Designers Open
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<strong>Resume</strong> | <strong>The</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Design</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />
<strong>October</strong> 31, 2010<br />
For Immediate Release<br />
Again 10,000 visitors at <strong>Design</strong>ers’ <strong>Open</strong> in <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />
<strong>Design</strong>ers’ <strong>Open</strong> Jury Award Goes to <strong>Design</strong>ers from <strong>Leipzig</strong>, Halle, and Berlin<br />
<strong>The</strong> <strong>Festival</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Design</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong> that took place from Friday, <strong>October</strong> 29 until today, Sunday, <strong>October</strong> 31 in<br />
<strong>Leipzig</strong>, closes its gates tonight. A little more than 10,000 visitors interested in design, among them<br />
professional visitors, students, many young families, and seniors walked through the two pavilions at Hôtel<br />
de Pologne and Kretschmanns Hof during these three days. <strong>The</strong>y showed interest in recent works by 120<br />
international and national exhibitors of fashion, interior, communication, and industrial design.<br />
<strong>The</strong> wish of the two <strong>Design</strong>ers’ <strong>Open</strong> founders Jan Hartmann and Andreas Neubert has become a reality<br />
again: “We had a goal of reaching 10,000 visitors this year and we are delighted that we succeeded the<br />
second year in a row.” This is also an acknowledgement of our work <strong>for</strong> the past months and it shows that<br />
there is a consistent interest in design in East Germany.<br />
During the opening ceremony on Thursday Night, MDR (Mitteldeutscher Rundfunk – Central German<br />
Broadcasting) awarded Jörg Bachmann of University of Applied Arts Schneeberg with the Café Trend<br />
<strong>Design</strong> Prize 2010. Bachmann received the prize <strong>for</strong> his swinging waste bin, a student project produced<br />
within the coursework of Product and Woodwork <strong>Design</strong>. <strong>The</strong> <strong>Design</strong>ers’ <strong>Open</strong> 2010 Jury members Werner<br />
Aisslinger of Studio Aisslinger, Berlin, Tillmann Prüfer, Style editor ar ZEITmagazin, Berlin, and Volker<br />
Hohmann, executive at ikarus <strong>Design</strong> Handel GmbH, Frankfurt am Main, presented this year’s DO/Awards<br />
on Friday Night, <strong>October</strong> 29. <strong>The</strong> winners are: Stefan Hölldobler and Patrick Gülzow of designbüro diefabrik<br />
<strong>Leipzig</strong> <strong>for</strong> their TomBox, Yi-Cong Lu from Halle <strong>for</strong> his Wohnwerkzeuge (living tools), and Atelier hurra with<br />
Mandy Blaurock and Susan Kreher from Berlin <strong>for</strong> their poetic film „Ich-Apparat“.<br />
<strong>Design</strong>ers’ <strong>Open</strong> is the three-day <strong>Festival</strong> <strong>for</strong> <strong>Design</strong> <strong>Leipzig</strong>. More than 120 national and international<br />
designers show their latest works of interior, fashion, industrial, and communication design. In addition to the<br />
fair, there is a broad supporting program with lectures, design special exhibitions throughout the urban area<br />
of <strong>Leipzig</strong> and parties. For press images of the <strong>Design</strong>ers’ <strong>Open</strong> 2010 and the DO Jury Award winners,<br />
please visit www.designersopen.de > Press<br />
For further in<strong>for</strong>mation, please visit www.designersopen.de <br />
For digital press images (free of charge), please visit: www.designersopen.de > Press<br />
Veranstalter: H&N Kultur- und Projektmanagement GbR Jan Hartmann Andreas Neubert<br />
Naumburger Str. 44 04229 <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />
Tel.: +49 (0)341 200 1882 E-Mail: info@designersopen.de
For any inquiries or requests <strong>for</strong> interviews with <strong>Design</strong>ers’ <strong>Open</strong> founders Jan Hartmann and Andreas<br />
Neubert, please contact:<br />
Press contact <strong>Design</strong>ers’ <strong>Open</strong> 2010: runge:PR | Katja Runge | Bergstraße 25 | 10115 Berlin Tel. +49<br />
(0)30 510 528 70 | Fax +49 (0)30 510 528 73 | E-Mail: designersopen@runge-pr.de<br />
Veranstalter: H&N Kultur- und Projektmanagement GbR Jan Hartmann Andreas Neubert<br />
Naumburger Str. 44 04229 <strong>Leipzig</strong><br />
Tel.: +49 (0)341 200 1882 E-Mail: info@designersopen.de
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