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Ravi Naidoo is the founder and managing director of Interactive Africa, a Cape Town based media and marketing company. After studying economics and physiology at the University of CapeTown he worked as account director at Young and Rubicam, and, after founding Interactive Africa, received … more

Dear Friends of Vienna Design Week! Yesterday we sounded the bell for a wonderful festival weekend! This Saturday will be sweetened up by Asian delicacies, a perfect place for children, eco-friendly inventions and elegant design solutions. The day can be kicked-off with a visit at the Wiener … more

Originally from London, Sophie Lovell studied biology and design before moving to Berlin in 1994 where she rapidly became an active member of the city’s burgeoning multidisciplinary creative scene. She writes regularly for Wallpaper* magazine and has been their Germany Editor since 2000. She has … more

Pecha Kucha Night, devised by Astrid Klein and Mark Dytham (Klein Dytham architecture), was conceived in 2003 as a place for young designers and architects to meet, network, and show their work in public. The key to Pecha Kucha Night is its patented system for avoiding ever lasting presentations:

Konstantin Schmölzer is a young Austrian designer, who studied in Eindhoven and New York. Besides productdesign with the focus on advanced manufacturing techiniques, Schmölzer works in the fields of architecture, grafic-, motion- and webdesign as wall as branding and systemdesign. Verdarium, a … more

Zwanzig profilierte österreichische oder in Österreich lebende visuelle GestalterInnen wurden von „Die Presse“ und Post AG zum Ideenwettbewerb „Marke Österreich“ geladen. Ihren Zugang zum Thema der österreichischen Identität visualisierten sie in Form einer Briefmarke. Das Projekt wurde vom Wiener … more

Do you love design, analogue photography and nightlife? Then you are exactly what we're looking for! Equipped with a brand new Lomography "La Sardina" camera, you will document various events of the VIENNA DESIGN WEEK. As reward for your selfless commitment you will get the "La Sardina" as a … more

LucidiPevere Design Studio was founded in 2006 by Paolo Lucidi and Luca Pevere in Udine. In their work LucidiPevere is pursuing a constant change of working methods with the collaboration of producers from very different countries and backgrounds. Their focus lies on the aesthetic implantation of … more

The world of the VJ duo LUMA.LAUNISCH, alias Astrid Steiner and Florian Tanzer, is in no need of words. The combination of real image and abstract leads to new associations. The camera is shooting vibrant moments in megacities, impressions of nature, objects and men combined with graphical … more