Big See Design Awards 2022 — Report from the awards gala in Slovenia
Exhibition of Big See 2022 Award Winners, organized as part of the 20th edition of Month of Design at the Ljubljana Castle in Slovenia.
Month of Design Ljubljana is an annual festival of knowledge and creativity in design. It is an original platform for assessing, promoting and identifying the most important achievements in the field of design. Design Month encourages the development of the creative economy and creates an environment for the proactive intertwining of ideas in the creative and entrepreneurial sphere.
The Shine curators' task was to investigate whether there are still differences between Western and Southeastern Europe in product design? Are there stylistic, technical, national or regional specificities - or have three decades of increasingly closer cooperation resulted in a quite similar aesthetic environment.
The Diag desk by Marek Błażucki, winner of the Big SEE 2022 award, was also presented at this exhibition, which was accompanied by an awards gala combined with speeches by the authors, who had the opportunity to present their winning projects to a large audience.
The Slovenian Month of Design, held annually in the country's capital, is an undertaking that goes beyond the exhibition halls, present throughout the entirety event in the public space. Thanks to the involvement of local entrepreneurs and authorities in cooperation, presentations take place both in urban space, commercial premises and shop windows located in the historic city center, which, combined with the clear graphic design of the festival, distinguished by its color, creates the impression of ubiquity. This is a time for design, full of events and exhibitions combined with concerts, and catalogs promoting the events, maps and leaflets are found everywhere.
foto: Bozzetti, BigSee