Final week: Rotterdam design prize '09 in Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen!
This Sunday, January 10, is the last day of the exhibition! The winner of the Rotterdam Design Prize 2009 is studio Joost Grootens. Gorilla won the public prize. At Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen the winners and the nominees of the Rotterdam Design Prize 2009 are on view.
The judges unanimously described Grootens’s work as of the moment and world class. They liked his attitude. ‘Grootens attaches great importance to the clarity of the information. His design is clearly intended to serve the reader. For Grootens, designing is not a self-seeking activity, nor does it mean promulgating a particular vision. The result is at once brilliant and functional.’
The 2009 public prize was awarded to Gorilla. After a close-run race the public vote finally went to this nominee.
Prior to the prize-giving, the Rotterdam Design Prize Foundation and Premsela—Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion organized a lecture titled The Next Promise of Design. This lecture and the discussion that followed it explored the current state of affairs in Dutch design from an international perspective. Alice Rawsthorn, a journalist with the International Herald Tribune and a member of this year’s international panel of judges, shared with the audience her views about what is happening in present-day design. In discussion with designers Clemens Weisshaar and Sylvain Willenz she reflected on where the new opportunities for the design world lie.
Several issues relating to design were covered during the lecture—the responsibility of designers today and in the future, and how designers want to and can relate to the huge problems facing 21st-century society.
The lecture was followed by a discussion about the specific qualities of Dutch design in 2009 chaired by design critic Gert Staal. The guests considered the characteristics of Dutch design culture and how this culture relates to the international design world. An answer was also sought to the question of the handicap of a head start posed by Jan Romein in his book ‘The Dialectics of Progress’.
'The Next Promise of Design' was a joint production by Stichting Designprijs Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Premsela - Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion.
The judges unanimously described Grootens’s work as of the moment and world class. They liked his attitude. ‘Grootens attaches great importance to the clarity of the information. His design is clearly intended to serve the reader. For Grootens, designing is not a self-seeking activity, nor does it mean promulgating a particular vision. The result is at once brilliant and functional.’
The 2009 public prize was awarded to Gorilla. After a close-run race the public vote finally went to this nominee.
Prior to the prize-giving, the Rotterdam Design Prize Foundation and Premsela—Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion organized a lecture titled The Next Promise of Design. This lecture and the discussion that followed it explored the current state of affairs in Dutch design from an international perspective. Alice Rawsthorn, a journalist with the International Herald Tribune and a member of this year’s international panel of judges, shared with the audience her views about what is happening in present-day design. In discussion with designers Clemens Weisshaar and Sylvain Willenz she reflected on where the new opportunities for the design world lie.
Several issues relating to design were covered during the lecture—the responsibility of designers today and in the future, and how designers want to and can relate to the huge problems facing 21st-century society.
The lecture was followed by a discussion about the specific qualities of Dutch design in 2009 chaired by design critic Gert Staal. The guests considered the characteristics of Dutch design culture and how this culture relates to the international design world. An answer was also sought to the question of the handicap of a head start posed by Jan Romein in his book ‘The Dialectics of Progress’.
'The Next Promise of Design' was a joint production by Stichting Designprijs Rotterdam, Museum Boijmans Van Beuningen and Premsela - Dutch Platform for Design and Fashion.