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• Czech design goes to Milan

  Kamila Matějková – 03.04.2013
  Designers, producers and institutions have collaborated to create an exhibition of Czech design to showcase to an international audience, this time at Milan Design Week - the most important event in the world of design.

• Flower Feast from the Land of Design

  Laura Lahdenperä – 06.07.2012
  Ambiente 2012

• Make it Equal!

  Laura Lahdenperä – 04.07.2012
  Workshop organized by Czechdesign

• Make it Equal! The role of the Equal Design

  Laura Lahdenperä – 17.05.2012
  Equal design started with Ronald L. Mace. It was he who came up with the concept of designing products that are usable by everyone whilst maintaining aesthetics. The pioneer in universal design was Selwyn Goldsmith, the author of Designing for the Disabled (1963) who introduced the concept of free access for disabled people. Universal design has been practiced since the 1960s, although attitudes towards it vary among countries.

• Design Drawings from the Danhauser Furniture Factory

  CZECHDESIGN.CZ – 24.04.2012
  In 1931, the MAK purchased the entire estate of drawings from the Danhauser Furniture Factory and now possesses the largest holdings of furniture drawings from the Viennese Biedermeier epoch, comprising more than 2,500 sketches, drawings, and catalogues. A selection of 350 of the most original drawings will now be presented to the public for the first time ever.

• Timeless Design against Throwawayism since 1881

  Laura Lahdenperä – 06.04.2012
  Iittala is a glass factory from Finland, which has offered timeless design since 1881. The glass factory produces objects, which are defined by their distinctive, combinable and multi-functional features, with lasting design that allows use and expression for everyone. Iittala made its breakthrough in the early years of modernism and functionalism during the 1930s and 40s.

• Tomas Bata University in Zlin

  Laura Lahdenperä – 27.02.2012
  Tomas Bata University is based in Zlin in the Czech Republic. The city is also known as a city of shoes. Tomas Bata (1876–1932) was the founder of the shoe company and played an outstanding role in changing life in Zlin. Nowadays Bata’s shoes are world famous and also the university honours his name.

• Ambiente Trade Fair 2012

  Laura Lahdenperä – 25.02.2012
  Ambiente, the world's leading trade fair was held in Frankfurt, Germany 10. 2. - 14. 2. 2012. For four days 4,543 exhibitors from 87 countries took over 330,00 square metres of exhibition space and showed consumer goods to the public.

• Series of Seminars about Materiologie

  Laura Lahdenperä – 16.11.2011
  Series of Seminars about Materiologie are held by Happy Materials in collaboration with College of Applied Arts in Prague.

• A Designblok Selection 2011

  Profil Media – 17.10.2011
  Designblok is the Annual exhibition of innovations, furniture design, interior design, fashion and lifestyle.

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