Belgrade Design Week 2007
the opening ceremony
Monday, May 7, Theater on Terazije

A documentary film "The Apostles of Design" directed by Nemanja Valjarević will be premierely presented on May 7 at the Theater on Terazije, whereby the Belgrade Design Week 2007 will be officially open.

The film was shot during the Belgrade Design Week 2006. The director has carried on a conversation with a group of the most prominent designers of today who have been brought together in such composition for the first time in Belgrade. The film - curiosity was made as a precious message of creative giants such as Gaetano Pesce, Luigi Colani, Konstantin Grcic, Karim Rashid, Ross Lovegrove.

NEIZDRŽ

In order to promote and present to the art audience the works of the youngest generation of designers, illustrators and artists from all over Serbia, ZAPLET restaurant and Belgrade Design Week have opened a competition for the works with “Neizdrz” as the subject - Demonstrate things that bother you in a creative way! The competition was open to students and pupils of art schools and academies from the whole territory of Serbia, in the field of graphic art, performed in any technique, suitable for the exhibition in an urban space and in big format.

The first selected is student art work of Lazar Bodroza and it is exhibited on the facade of the ZAPLET restaurant, May 4.

PRINTED.

Tuesday, May 8, at 6.00 pm - OPENING
GAS STORE, Terazije 28
Production: ABSOLUTE - Mirjana Divac & Vanja Petrovic

PRINTED is a project conceived in order to present the new concepts of XXI century publishing and to define the position of printed media in the digital era. The exhibition is conceived as a platform on which the world leading printed media publishers in the field of visual arts present their best editions.Where are the limits and ranges of visual culture? Which paradox has brought about the renaissance of publishing in the era of digital media? Why do printed media still have such strong influence on creative thought? Why are the books on architecture, design, art, advertising, fashion, and visual communications different?

010 Publishers, Actar, a+u Magazine, Avedition, Birkhäuser, BIS Publishers, Creative Review, Detail Magazine, Domus Magazine, El Croquis, Episode Publishers, Form Magazine,  Frame Magazine, Hunch Magazine, Lars Müller Publishers, Laurence King, Mark Magazine, Niggli Verlag, Oris Magazine, Princeton Architectural Press, , Volume Magazine, Werk Bauen Und Wohnen.