DESIGN ELEVATOR
Opening: 26.09.2013 at 4.30 pm (free entrance) Open: 26.09 at 4.30pm - 8pm; 27-29.09 at 12pm-8pm, 30.09-06.10 at 12pm - 6pm Venue: Elevator in the Rotermann quarter, Rotermann 4 Ticket: 3/2 eur (student/pensioner/invalid/member of Estonian Assosiation of Designers) Payments only in cash.Â
Exhibitions in Design Elevator: 1. Estonian Design House presents: MATTER 2. Lahti Biennale ’13 3. Finland`s Young Designer of the Year 2013 prize winners Mari Isopahkala and Iiva Vuorivirta 4. Finland exhibition: ENDURING BEAUTY 5. Belarusian exhibition poSTOOLat 6. Alba Ruthenia. Belarusian design now! 7. DESIGN EDUCATION IN ESTONIA (Estonian Academy of Arts, EEK Design - Enterprising Design, Tallinn University Haapsalu Kolledž and Tartu Art College displays)
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1. Estonian Design House presents: MATTERThe exhibition "Matter" concentrates on the important and tangible topic of materials. The properties, quality and durability of different materials are of key importance in creating the environment around us. The material gives the product its distinctive character. The exhibition shows how the look and function of a material can change in the hands of different designers by comparing the works of creative professionals with different backgrounds and experience. The focus is on the designer, his/her story and handwriting.  The exhibition is divided into four parts: leather, textile, ceramics/glass and furniture/lights. The works of the following designers are displayed at the exhibition: LEATHER Stella Soomlais, Kadri Paloveer, Piret Loog, Pille Kivihall, Elga Jazz, Sille Sikmann, Kadi Paasik, Karin Kallas, Inga Radikainen, Kärt Põldmann, Marve Riisalu, Jaana Päeva, Merle Visak, Kadri Kruus, Mari Maripuu.
TEXTILE Monika järg, Kärt Ojavee, Elna Kaasik, Krista Leesi, Kadi Pajupuu, Annike Laigo, Marlis Lucila Piirsalu, Maarja Tammjärv, Emma Leppermann, Heleri Alexandra Sits.
  CERAMICS/GLASS Ene Raud, Raili Keiv, Marion Isabelle Varik, Evelin Kummel, Ãœllo Karro, Kristel Saan, Kaie Pungas, Ann-Kris Klaas, Inga Koppel, Kalli Sein, Maret Sarapu, Rita Randmaa, Maris Loitmets, Kadi Hektor, Kairit Annus.Â
FURNITURE/LIGHTS Maria Rästa, Toivo Raidmets, Igor Volkov, Veiko Liis, Elmet Treier, Tarmo Luisk, Karin Karma, Harri Ehrlich, Marko Ala, Julia Maria Künnap, Kerttu Laane, Enn Prak.
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2. Lahti Biennale ’13Lahti Biennale ’13 is a touring exhibition of industrial design in the Lahti area which brings out the area`s versatile design expertise. Each firm or designer has a transportable box used to display their design skills. The birch-veneer boxes are also part of the exhibition architecture. Firms have designed the appearance of the boxes and constructed them themselves. The exhibition consists of eleven transportable boxes are their contents, which include lighting and furnishings.
In 2012, the exhibition was on display in Lahti and Helsinki as part of Helsinki Design Week and the World Design Capital Helsinki 2012 programme. In 2013 it will tour St. Petersburg, Berlin, Lahti, Oslo, Helsinki and Tallinn.
Virtual exhibition The Lahti Biennale ’13 virtual exhibition offers condensed information covering the overall exhibition and makes it possible to experience the exhibition from further afield.
The virtual exhibition was filmed at one of the Lahti Biennale ’13 exhibition sites, Sibelius Park in Lahti. The work was realised by two multimedia production students from the Institute of Design and Fine Arts at the Lahti University of Applied Sciences.
Lahti, an interesting and active centre for industrial design Design for industry. Lahti is an industrial city and a meeting place for industrial design firms, products, designers and training. Thanks to close collaboration between industry and design training, firms in Lahti are known as experts in industrial design. Design in Lahti is rooted in an understanding of people`s needs.
Lahti`s design expertise speaks of strong industrial traditions, education, research and business collaboration as well as the international work of young designers.Design and environmental business endeavours support each other seamlessly and provide good opportunities for simultaneous development. Environmental endeavours need new products, and their introduction to the market requires investment in design. Environmental requirements must also be taken into consideration when designing new products.
3.Finland`s Young Designer of the Year 2013 prize winners Mari Isopahkala and Iiva Vuorivirta
Design Forum Finland`s Young Designer of the Year Prize of 2013 goes to designer Mari Isopahkala (born 1978) and designer Iina Vuorivirta (born 1988). The Young Designer of the Year Prize was instituted in 2000 and is now being awarded for the twelfth time.
Mari Isopahkala is a freelance designer who studied furniture and interior design at the Lahti Institute of Design and graduated as Master of Arts from the University of Art and Design Helsinki (present-day Aalto University School of Arts, Design and Architecture). The jury underlined her solid professional approach to her work and output. Mari Isopahkala represents traditional authorship in design while boldly leading it forward and crossing boundaries. See also: www.mariisopahkala.comÂ
Iina Vuorivirta studied product design at the Lahti Institute of Design and Beckmans College of Design in Stockholm. She is currently working on her Master of Arts degree at the University College of Arts, Crafts and Design (Konstfack) in Stockholm. The award jury particularly noted the surprising and different nature of Iina Vuorivirta’s work. Seeking new expression and new forms of design, Vuorivirta challenges the design field with her alternative ways of designing. See also:  www.iinav.comÂ
Design Forum Finland`s Young Designer of the Year Prize can be given to one or several individuals or a team exhibiting new, creative concepts and skills in design. The purpose of the prize of is to encourage young designers to carry on uncompromising and original work in design.
From the left: Mari Isopahkala, Iina Vuorivirta
4. Finland exhibition: ENDURING BEAUTY
This exhibition shows works, created by Finnish designers, presenting how sustainable design can be approached in many different ways. The concept of this exhibition is characterized in the five categories of the sustainable design, which describe the main ideas behind each objects.
-MATERIAL AND CONSTRUCTION Selection of the most ecological materials: in the best case, only one renewable, recyclable natural, non toxic and local material which is used in reasonable way, efficient construction: more from less!
-OPTIMAL LIFECYCLE Sustainable way of local production; closed flow of material and energy; recycling all the waste in own production or in near by factories; efficient logistic chain... energy saving in use, no pollution, well solved recycling, optimal lifecycle.
-TRANSFORMABLE MULTI FUNCTIONALITY Well solved open functionality: the same object can be used in many ways, in diverse settings, purposes and configurations, for all different users.
-DESIGN FOR SUSTAINABLE SOCIETY Design can give a positive impulse and activate people in more sustainable way of life, as a strategical concept of the design; the immaterial dimensions of design: re-evaluation of organizations and/or ways of acting; the cultural and social dimensions of sustainable design e.g. service design, renting instead owning...
-SUSTAINABLE BEAUTY An beautiful object will pleasure its user, it is long lasting, because we love it and we want to take care of it.
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Jakkara
Tomoto
Kenno
5. Belarusian exhibition poSTOOLat
poSTOOLat exhibition project of the Belarusian Union of Designers is dedicated to the authors’ visions of a chair as an utilitarian object, art object and artistic image in visual arts. Chair is an iconic design object of the XX century, though complicated, but very attractive to be designed. It is believed that every designer or architect should create a chair someday – and poSTOOLat project aims to turn this notion into practice.
For the first time, poSTOOLat was held in Minsk, autumn 2012, as a big art project, which presented more than 100 interpretations of a chair by contemporary Belarusian and foreign designers, sculptors, architects, painters, and photographers. There is an intention to run this project further in format of international biennale with an attractive prize fund and to establish a chair museum in Belarus.
poSTOOLat exhibition in Tallinn is to show how image and shape of a modern chair depends on features and properties of materials and their unexpected combinations: designers and sculptors from Belarus created unusual wooden and plastic chairs, as well as chairs made of a metal "suprematist black square", packaging tubes, felt, straw, and even ordinary birch twigs.
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6. Alba Ruthenia. Belarusian design now!Annual exhibition project that aims to show contemporary Belarusian product design outside the country. Alba Ruthenia 2013 in Tallinn shows new lighting objects, furniture, and interior accessories made of such simple and intelligible materials, as wood, plastic and ceramics.
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Twins (Small vase), porcelain
Busta (Envelope), plastic
7. DESIGN EDUCATION IN ESTONIA
For the first time in its history, Design Night festival compares design education providers. The exhibition of four higher education institutions provides a useful overview of the level of Estonian design education and study opportunities. Estonian Academy of Arts The exhibition shows works created by the students and the brand new design brand by the interior architecture and furniture design students from the Estonian Academy of Arts SAM is presented. SAM is a unique laboratory of ideas which encourages people to try out and implement their the most elaborate ideas. SAM is directed at those who value experimental and untamed objects, atypical products and fresh ideas. The authors think that Estonian design should not be exclusive and everyone should be able to purchase design items for their homes.Â
EEK DESIGN - entreprising design Â
The Creative Industries department of the Estonian Entrepreneurship University of Applied Sciences (EEK) which teaches fashion design, interior design and graphic design seeks the boundaries of design and tries to understand its roles. Where does design begin and end? Who needs design and why? What is enterprising design? Interior design and fashion design students and alumni give an overview of these topics. Website: www.eek.ee
Tartu Art College Tartu Art College presents the works of its furniture and textile department students: the stools designed by 1st year students, the cooperation project 8:STOOL between two departments and a selection of final projects from the field of design. The design objects displayed at the exhibition play with form and materials - textiles start a dialogue with metal or wood.
Jaanus Paaver
Mari Kõrgesaar
Tallinn University Haapsalu College Handicraft Technologies and Design at Tallinn University Haapsalu College is a unique specialisation with an applied nature and its roots in the heritage culture. Â Integrating the ancient and the modern, traditional and modern technologies, sustainability and entrepreneurship, its guiding principle is the process from an idea to a real product. Website: www.tlu.ee/et/haapsalu-kolledzh
Open Academy courses
LIGHT IN THE NIGHT Lighting design course for those who wish to design and make a simple light under the guidance of a supervisor. WEB DESIGN After finishing the course, the participants are able to independently develop and design a functional user-friendly web page, know HTM/HTML5 and how to use CSS for web page layout. TEXTILE PRINTING During the course, the participants get to know and experiment with hand printing techniques and develop them further. We will try out printing on textiles and ready-made products according to the wishes of the participants. WORLD OF PAITNING We invite all painting fans to join us in the marvellous world of painting from October to April. The course consists of five cycles starting with drawing and ending with contemporary painting techniques. COMPUTER COURSES Design programmes Adobe Photoshop, Illustrator and InDesign. The course takes place once a week for five weeks. Additional information and registration: http://www.artun.ee/avatud-akadeemia/kursused/
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