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RUSSIA / Moscow Design Week
by Modem – Posted October 09 2012
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Design Week

For the third time this year, the largest festival of design in Russia takes place the 9-14 October at Central House of Artist.

Among the participants of MDW 2012: Giulio Cappellini, Ora-Ito, Alessandro Gedda, Matteo Ragni, representatives of Adobe Design Achievements Awards (№1 in the world of graphics) and IED (Istituto Europeo di Design) brought in by Design42Day, as well as world celebrities in graphic design as David Carson, Ken Cato, Boris Trofimov.

In 2012 Moscow Design Week announced a strong alliance with the International Biennale of Graphic Design ‘Golden Bee’. The President of Graphic Design Academy Sergey Serov curated the celebration of Alexander Rodchenko`s 120th anniversary previous year. And since then ‘Golden Bee’ is the main event and partner of MDW.

More than 10 stands will be presented by rising Russian talents such as Maxim Maximov, Mikhail Baliyaev, Yuri Verduk, Andrey Dokuchaev, Victor Freidenberg. For the second time rapidly developing duet of Sasha and Dasha Gancevy`s will take part in MDW by curating new project ‘Zoom In/Out’.

A special public space, Altagamma VIP Lounge traditionally constructed by leading international designers, this year will be presented by Russian young design star Angelina Askeri.

Among the events in the city: leading Moscow showrooms and design galleries are collaborating at the exposition for MDW 2012 called ‘Route’.

MDW 2012

Picture: Architect’s eye by SPEECH Tchoban & Kuznetsov

Preview picture: Altagamma Lounge by Angelina Askeri

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