Gdynia Design Days 2008 :: 11 - 27 July, 2008
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The first in Poland, international initiative promoting design from around the Baltic Sea is organised jointly by Industrial Design Institute and City Hall of Gdynia. The event is addressed to the Tricity citizens, visitors and designers. It includes exhibitions, conferences, presentations, workshops for children, teenagers, adults and designers.
Main goal of Gdynia Design Days is to promote creative, modern design of our surroundings. By presenting well designed solutions and objects, organisers would like to draw the attention to the quality of our life. Good design is the one that improves the quality of our everyday life through its visual and functional and practical valueso f products and services
Gdynia Design Days will introduce everyday design to the people that at the moment perceive it as an art—refined and unobtainable world of beautiful and expensive objects. “We would like to demonstrate that in our everyday life they are everywhere and to show the benefits that come from using them. Such design that is available for anybody will also be on sale in Gdynia”—says Elżbieta Opiła, director of Gdynia Design Days.
All events are organised in three subject sections:
>> Democratic Design
>> Digital Design
>> Future Design
Each of the design zones promotes good design that defines our present life style and the one that we will surround ourselves with in the future.
Gdynia Design Days Catalogue will be published by 15th October, it will contain ocumentation regarding all of the events and workshops that took place during festival as well as information concerning design and designers that took part in the events.
More information is available on this site.