Gintarė Baryzaitė
The Young Designer’s Prize is an annual Lithuanian competition organised by the Vilnius Academy of Arts to discover and celebrate the most promising graduation works of design students.
„This year was the fourteenth edition of the competition and we received 80 applications from seven Lithuanian and foreign higher education institutions. We are delighted that the Young Designer Prize is gaining more and more visibility and that universities that have not yet participated in the competition are submitting applications. The entries are divided into five categories: product, communication, fashion, interior design and design research,”
says Daina Eičaitė, curator of the Young Designer Prize and project manager at the Design Innovation Centre of the Vilnius Academy of Arts.
The international jury of the competition has selected fifteen projects, which will be exhibited at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design of Lithuanian National Museum of Arts (Arsenalo st. 3A, Vilnius) from 5-29 September. The projects presented in the exhibition boldly explore history, various social and ecological problems and seek solutions to them by applying various design methodologies.
This year’s submissions were judged and the content of the exhibition was compiled by a select jury of design professionals from abroad: Andreia Garcia (Portugal), architect, founder of Architectural Affairs and director of the Art(e)Facts Knowledge Biennial, Clara Tosi Pamphili (Italy), applied arts professional and course leader at the Department of Fashion and Costume Design at NABA University; Mike Bond, graphic designer and founder of Bond & Coyne design agency (UK); Pierre Foulonneau, product designer and lecturer in food design at L’École de design Nantes Atlantique (France); Simon Anund, furniture designer, architect, founder and creative director of VERK furniture manufacturing company (Sweden).
Organiser: Vilnius Academy of Arts Design Innovation Centre
Funded by the Lithuanian Council for Culture
Information sponsor: lrt.lt
Sponsors: Nordcurrent, Jung, Būkčia, Woodline
Partners: Lithuanian National Museum of Art, the State Patent Bureau of the Republic of Lithuania, European Union Intellectual Property Office, Intelektinė.lt, JCDecaux Lietuva
Exhibition Architecture: Vytautas Gečas
Exhibition Graphic Design: Gintarė Baryzaitė