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BE OPEN Invites the World to Celebrate Hands

16 September 201418 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

The global philanthropic foundation announces a call to action on the subject of HANDS, our creative tools.

What can we do with our hands – fashion, craft, build, communicate? Material can be posted on BE OPEN’S Twitter, Instagram or website, with submissions being invited from 6 September 2014 through to 6February 2015. Entries will be appraised and uploaded as they come in, to www.beopensocial.com/hands.

The BE OPEN team will work with an international jury to select one winner of the HANDS project, who will then be invited on a three-day, all-expenses paid trip to Milan EXPO.

Press Clipping: Milan, Italy — April 2014

4 June 201429 April 2019Darya Sudakova

BE OPEN announces winners of inaugural Young Talent Award
Design Curial
April 10, 2014

Milan, mischer’traxler & The Young Talent Award
World Interior News
April 9, 2014

BE OPEN Young Talent Award (Milan 2014)
Archi-Expo

BE OPEN Made in … India Competition Reveals a Wealth of Contemporary Product Ideas Inspired by Traditional Making

3 June 201414 September 2022Ekaterina Vekova

BE OPEN, the global philanthropic foundation that fosters innovation and creativity, announces the winners of the Made in … India Competition:

• FURNITURE – The Cuddle by Manoj Kuldeep, National Institute Of Design, Ahmedabad

• HOME ACCESSORIES – Roots to Tips by Namrata Kotwani, Raffles Design International, Mumbai

• HOME TEXTILES – Madhubani – a Lined Art by Vishakha Anand, National Institute of Fashion Technology, Mumbai

Raw Edges ‘Egg Cup’ Goes to Sergio Matos, the People’s Choice Winner of the BE OPEN Young Talent Award

21 May 201418 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

Sergio Matos; The BE OPEN trophy by Raw Edges; Matos’ Poltrona Balaio chair, inspired by Brazilian market baskets

Brazilian designer Sergio Matos has been named the Web Choice winner of the BE OPEN Young Talent Award. The decision was based on the public’s overall level of social media activity for the 37 long-listed candidates, through BE OPEN’s facebook page. The Web Choice winner’s trophy is a wooden egg in a wooden eggcup, designed by Young Talent Award jury member Raw Edges.

Mischer’traxler Wins World’s Newest Design Prize: the BE OPEN Young Talent Award

8 April 201412 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

Last night the first winner of BE OPEN’s new annual prize, the Young Talent Award, was announced at a packed awards ceremony in the Expo Hall of the Unversita Statale di Milano.

Mischer’traxler was selected from a shortlist of ten candidates, from an original long list of thirty-seven, put forward by a leading international design industry jury. The Austrian duo win €24,000 to support their living expenses for a year and a unique egg trophy designed by Barber & Osgerby. Three, egg-inspired trophies have been created for the Awards by members of the jury, the egg symbolising nascent talent ready to hatch.

Press Clipping: Delhi, India — February 2014

3 April 201429 April 2019Ekaterina Vekova

Russian Oligarch Elena Baturina Bridges East and West with ‘Made in India’ Exhibition
International Business Times
February 21, 2014

India’s top designers join forces with traditional crafts sector
The Financial Times
March 7, 2014

High Fashion Made in India
The Daily Beast
February 2, 2014

Jay Merrick, Architecture Critic, The Independent, London

24 March 201412 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

The young Indian designers stood, with studied insouciance, alongside their product displays in the Indira Gandhi National Centre for the Arts in Delhi. The default seemed to be pairs of designers: smiling thirtysomethings, male, encased in tight, highly finessed jackets and trousers. You may not have heard of Deepak and Sanjiv Whorra, Prateek Jain and Gautam Seth, or Thukral and Tagra. You probably haven’t handled terracotta iPod docks, geometrically tiled tables in Gujarati marble, or peacock wall-lamps, because most of the designers here are unknown outside India. And yet they have the patronage of international philanthropic foundation BE OPEN.

Milan Design Week — BE OPEN Young Talent Award

20 March 201412 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

Curated with Roberto Zancan

Awards ceremony with presentation of designer trophies

at INTERNI – FEEDING NEW IDEAS FOR THE CITY

Expo Hall, Università degli Studi di Milano, via Festa del Perdono 7

Monday, April 7^th, 6pm

In the presence of the jury

Shay Alkalay (Raw Edges), Giulio Cappellini (art director of Cappellini), Giorgio Galli (design director of Timex Group), Sofia Lagerkvist (Front), Jay Osgerby (Barber & Osgerby).

BE OPEN Made in … India Competition

18 March 201412 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

Create the ultimate Indian object for our future, using traditional handicrafts

Due to a fantastic response from Indian design schools and by popular demand, BE OPEN is extending the deadline for submissions to 28th April 2014.

The competition is open to all students enrolled at a recognised design school in India.

BE OPEN, the global philanthropic foundation that fosters innovation and creativity, is launching a “Made in … India” competition to seek out and platform the best new thinking about product design in India.

Samskara Brand Concept Store

25 February 201412 March 2019Ekaterina Vekova

BE OPEN Made in…India Exhibition, Delhi Feb 10-28/14

Samskara Brand Concept Store

For the BE OPEN Made in…India exhibition in Delhi which opened Feb 10, 2014, renowned architect and educator, Anupama Kundoo, transformed interiors of the Indira Gandhi National Center for the Arts into a environment of calm and balance–and a zone of chic–with modern fixtures, indoor pools and local hand-carved stone used in original ways.