Barcelona Design Week is one of the events that you don’t wanna miss at the Spanish Design Agenda. Is one of the biggest design events in the city of Barcelona that attracts international architects, interior designers and professionals.
This year the event has Israel as a guest country and the central theme is “Entrepreneurship”. Various conferences, exhibitions and workshops will happen until June 14 throughout the city with influential names as Ron Arad or Patricia Urquiola.
Design Talks: The Creative Process of Fun Projects
Barcelona and Israel join together and present creative values of product companies from each region. Production and distribution companies will discuss their beginnings and the creative process that they carry out to shape fun and carefree products, which pay the greatest attention to design and seek to transmit emotions and to surprise the consumer, and which are also distributed in a very creative manner.
Representatives from Monkey Business, Doiy Design, Studiostore, Usame and the Design Museum Holon will explain experiences and anecdotes from the business history of their organizations, and will take part in a round table open to participation from the public.
Confirmed speakers:
– Oded Friedland, founder and chief creative director of Monkey Business
– Galit Gaon, Creative Director of Design Museum Holon and the founder, director and Chief Curator of the Israeli Cartoon Museum
– Lafede, founder of Studiostore
– Elodie Deviras and Jaime Monfort, founders of DOIY
– Marisol González, cofounder of Usame
When:
From 5 June 2014
18.00 – 21.00 h
Where:
Antiga Fàbrica Estrella Damm. Rosselló, 515. 08025 Barcelona
Exhibition of Furniture 5LAB
Small furnitures, designed and produced by 5LAB. Exhibition of the production process starting from the idea to the final product (sketches, materials, models, product, packaging, etc.). Presentacion of S_Rack, a standing version of the B_rack Taxidermist.
When:
From 10 June to 12 June 2014
18.00 – 21.00 h
Where:
Tarannà. c/Viladomat 23. 08015 Barcelona
Color Experience Lab
Workshop on the influence of colour in our reality.
Through a process of observation + reflection + creation, we propose a three-hour session in which the participant can evolve from his/her individual perception into a final team work reaching conclusions and explained chromatic results.
When:
From 5 June 2014
18.00 h
Where:
Roca Barcelona Gallery. c/Joan Güell, 211-213. 08029 Barcelona
Information for subscriptions:
info.barcelonagallery@roca.net
Shaping the Future: Key Trends and Lifestyles
Join us in this exclusive presentation of the current macrotrends and the key factors that will impact various businesses. Through an inspirational parcours of innovators, design influencers, technological advances and sociocultural factors, we will unveil those innovative patterns of what people will love next.
When:
From 12 June 2014
20.00 – 21.30 h
Where:
Clèries Report. c/Girona 1, principal 1a. 08010 Barcelona
40 Years of Catalano
The Catalano bench turns 40 in 2014. Few designs have long been marketed by the same company. BD wants to celebrate this with a very special event with their designers, Lluis Clotet and Oscar Tusquets.
When:
From 5 June 2014
20.00 – 22.00 h
Where:
BD Barcelona Design. Ramon Turró, 126. 08005 Barcelona
Miss Van: Retrospective
A trip to iconic univers of artist Miss Van where her alluring and sultry female characters belong, playing with dark animal masks and enveloping atmospheres.
When:
From 11 June to 12 July 2014
12.00 – 20.00 h
Where:
Studiostore. Comerç, 17. 08003 Barcelona
