PLATFORM
Exhibition
taliaYsebastian: The Committee of Sleep
taliaYstudio
3.–7.10.2012
taliaYsebastian is the name of a small industrial design studio in Vienna founded in April 2011 by Talia Radford (Spain) and Juan Sebastian Gomez (Columbia). After traineeships with Michael Young in Hong Kong and Spime Technologies in India, the duo has specialised in human design in the context of new technologies. In 2007 the designers won the James Dyson Innovation Award including exhibition participation in New York, and the Viktor Papanek Social Design Award 2011; they also took part in the MAK exhibition MADE 4 YOU. Design for Change and were distinguished with the red dot Design Award 2012 for product design.