Former student of MOME, András Kerékgyártó's diploma work titled Experimental Seating System has been chosen as one of the best 3D projects at the Central European Review of graduate projects. As a result, András received a job-training proposal at NOTI. His work can be seen in 2+3D (No. I/2012) and Typo (Czech Republic) magazines.
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Zsófia Budai, 2nd year student of MOME's Design Institute won the Vincent Sheppard Design Competition with her "Csipke" chair.
Vincent Sheppard is a Belgian furniture company specialised in producing paper woven Lloyd Loom furniture. They produce high quality furniture made from a traditional product often combined with new sustainable products.
Two MOME students, Tamás Bozsik and Kata Mónus together with their work "Cross-Ropes" received the Honourable Mention of Green Furniture Award in Sweden.
The Green Furniture Award jury: 'Cross-Ropes' is a storage function with an expression mix of a hard and soft, using locally grown natural materials - ash wood and linen rope. One rope is pulled all over the corpus and a tightening mechanism at the bottom of the furniture makes it possible to retighten the ropes over time.
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Two of MOME's recently graduated students are among those who were selected for wallpaper.com's Graduate Directory 2011:
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Congratualtions to both of them!
Peter Toronyi, student of MOME, won Red Dot's design award for his Nissyoku lamp in the category "Illumination".
In Japanese culture, the meaning of light is life; light brings forms alive. This conception inspired the design of Nissyoku, as did the process of the solar eclipse. The light emitted from Nissyoku determines the object's character, existence, and meaning.
The body of the Nissyoku lamp is made with reusable or biodegradable polymer. The lamp can be used as hanging chandelier, or a table or wall lamp. The pieces of the lamp are fixed together or to a wall with magnets and a metal disc. When Nissyoku is used as a wall lamp, the two halves of the lamp are fixed to two metal discs. When it is used as a spherical table lamp, the two halves are simply joined to each other.
The spherical caps on either side can be rotated in multiple directions. The direction and strength of the light is adjusted by the degree of turning. The two caps move across an internal concave surface. They are fixed to the lamp with magnets. The lamp can be switched on or off by touching the central metal ring.
Each cap contains a 5-watt LED. The lamp is powered by hybrid supercapacitors, which have a much higher power density than batteries and can function without maintenance for over 500,000 cycles.
Nissyoku is a mood light, rather than a task light or an ambient light. It was designed to create atmospheric effects that could establish an emotional connection between user and product.
Each year the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design Budapest honours a personality whose human and creative existence closely relates to the university and its values. In 2011 the Moholy-Nagy Award was poshumously awarded to the name that in the mid-1980s changed graphic design: Tibor Kalman.
Tibor Kalman graphic designer of Hungarian origin was best known for the innovative work he created with his New York based firm M&Co. In collaboration with his wife, Maira Kalman the design firm mostly created graphics, magazines, film titles and books. Media attention towards their work came with the record album cover for the Talking Heads. M&Co soon became very influential and strong, many designers like Stefan Sagmeister, Stephen Doyle, Alexander Isley or Scott Stowell started their careers there. In 1990 Kalman became founding editor-in-chief of the Benetton-sponsored Colors magazine.
Tibor Kalman's approach to design combined innovative ideas, a sense of humor and sophisticated style with fabulous results. He incorporated visual elements other designers had never associated with successful design, and used his work to promote his social concerns and reactions to contemporary attitudes. The influence of his experiments in typography and images can be seen everywhere, from music videos to the design of magazines.
Walking-Chair Design Studio was the star guest at this year's Design Week Budapest. Their presentation was held on the 7th of October at MOME.
Founded by Karl Emilio Pircher product designer from South Tyrol and Fidel Peugeot graphic designer from Switzerland Walking Chair has been fluttering the dovecots of respectable Austrian (and other) citizens since 2002. The design business they define as a multidisciplinary THINK TANK was named after a real walking chair designed by Karl Emilio Pircher. Their portfolio consists of further humorous, surprising, provocative and playful objects: the pieces of the Animal Collection furniture reminding their owners that furniture can grow as close to your heart as a pet, the P.E.T. Light Tree made of 198 hand shaped bottles or the Monte Bello modular mountain range and sofa system for public and private indoor spaces.
