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LIFE HACKS Open Call

The year begins strong with the possibility to participate in this year’s edition of the regional competition Young Balkan Designers. Concepts by young designers are expected until January 20, 2022 in response to this year’s theme “Life Hacks for health & wellbeing”.

The competition is open to teams and individuals up to 35 years of age, from the following countries: Albania, Austria, Bosnia and Herzegovina, Bulgaria, Croatia, Greece, Hungary, Macedonia, Montenegro, Romania, Slovenia, Serbia and Turkey. Applicants may be individuals or groups of creators. Each applicant may submit more than one entry.

The selected winners of the Young Balkan Designers 2022 competition will participate in the international talent exhibition “Salone Satellite” at the world’s most prominent design event – the International Furniture Fair in Milan 2022, which will be held from 5 to 10 April 2022. After its world premiere, the awarded works will be presented to the regional audience in Belgrade in October 2022, at the Mikser Festival, one of the Balkan’s most relevant regional festivals of creativity and social innovation.

The respectful jury is comprised of stellar names:

Marcus Fairs, founder and editor in chief, Dezeen.com, UK
Ana Kras, artist & designer, Serbia / USA
Vasso Asfi & Loukas Angelou, founders, StudioLav, Greece / UK
Jovana Zhang , founder, Pinwu studio, Serbia / China
Denis Leo Hegic, designer & curator, founder Supermarket Lab/Unblock Art Fair / Museum of Now, Germany

Young Balkan Designers (YBD) is a regional talent platform founded in 2011 with the aim to identify, promote and develop creative potential of the Balkan region in the field of design. The initiative also aims at unifying the regional design scene, bringing it closer to the international audience, strengthening its potential by providing additional education and practice, while at the same time contributing to the restoration of multi-cultural cooperation in the Balkan region.

We encourage you to participate. Learn more about the competition –> https://ybd.mikser.rs/
And fill in the application form –> https://ybd.mikser.rs/form/

Open Call – The Money of the Future

Settle and Melba Design Festival are inviting you to participate in the open call with a visual interpretation on the topic – The Money of the Future.

Have you been wondering what the future of money will be? Will they still exist on paper in the years to come? Will they become part of us and our imprint? Is there the chance that we will exchange money only for actions and experiences?

We are looking for new and innovative interpretations of the topic without any limitations in the visual discipline. The only condition is that the artwork is exposed in a digital format.

The selected works will be presented in a digital format online in the exhibition The Money of the Future on the 10th of November as part of the Melba Design Festival program 2021 – on festival.melba.bg.

Тhe awards are provided by Settle – 20 recipients will receive 200 lv and big prize of 1000 lv. All prizes will be delivered through Settle’s application.

How to participate.

Every candidate has the right to submit one proposal in the following ways till 11.59 pm on the 5th November:
Publish a story with your project on Instagram and send a message to @melbainitiatives with info about the artist, title of the work and a short idea description. The only valid submissions are the ones with tags @settlebulgaria и @melbainitiatives
Send an email to hello@studiokomplekt.com with subject The Money of the Future and your project with a short description in the following format: JPG or PDF up to 2 pages and not more than 3 MB. The email should contain the artist’s name, title of the work and a short idea description.

The organizers reserve the right to disqualify entries with obscene content.

The winners are giving the organizers the right to exhibit the works online on the official Melba Design Festival 2021 website festival.melba.bg.

The four members of the jury are: Adriana Andreeva and Boiana Gjaurova from Studio Komplekt, Detelina Momcheva from Settle and Momchil Zahariev from NEXT-DC.

The organizers of the contest:
Studio Komplekt
Settle
NEXT-DC

New Models of Everyday Life

The collective drive to invent a variety of small or grandiose solutions and gestures to improve everyday life stands out even more in the ubiquitous times of emergency. They come as a proof of the fantastic labor and creativity of designers to invent ways that can make us happy and be of serve for a long time. Their ideas draw new patterns of interaction with our environment, motivated by a common sense of valuable contribution.

We launch a new initiative-invitation to all designers – send your idea, prototype or already realised project that you would like to present to the world to power it with the opportunity for a more meaningful and better way of life, a certain solution to a current problem or with courage, hope and spontaneous joy. We welcome all design disciplines, and with no limits to creativity.

Why participate:

We’ll upload the project to our Facebook covers and share it on all our media (Instagram and website) with a short presentation. Some of the works will be selected for presentation in the third annual edition of the exhibition Review of Bulgarian Design, part of Melba – Sofia Design Festival in November 2020.

How to participate:

Send us your creative idea, prototype or already realised project related to the topic New Models of Everyday Life. The framework is wide and it can be anything – illustration, graphics, 3D print, intervention in an urban environment, product, prototype of a real product or application, media, provocation for a certain community, support for a small business, communication, identity, interactive experiment, digital museum … The important requirement is that you are a designer of Bulgarian origin, the idea is original, and related to the creation of design for the current world now.

And more specifically:

– all materials should be send to hello@studiokomplekt.com / subject Оpen Call New Everyday Models; 
– files should be mastered in well known formats like .pdf, .jpeg, .gif, or assembled in Dropbox, Google drive, similar type of online portfolio;
– short description: title of the idea, name of designer/studio + links (site, social media), up to five sentences on the story of the idea – the motivation behind it and how it can be developed in the future.

The invitation is open from today until the 19th of August 2020.

Thank you in advance for your participation and we remain available for questions.

Follow us – studiokomplekt.com and melba.bg and our social media for the development of the initiative:Instagram Studio Komplekt  / Facebook Studio Komplekt /  Instagram Melba / Facebook Melba.