The sky is not a limit. It's the title of this year's Festival of Design in Berlin.
From May 21st to the 25th, the renowed DMY International Design Festival, for the first time presents a new module, the DMY Allstars. External locations throughout Berlin will be an essential part of the event. This new exclusive and fascinating dimension of the Festival gives visitors the chance to sample the event in a tangible manner: visiting not only the exhibitions, but the city of Berlin too. Indeed on May 22nd DMY takes its visitors for a ride all over the city on vintage shuttle buses, stopping at selected DMY International Design Festival satellite venues.
For the sixth time, over 35 exhibitors, designers from Germany and abroad, including countries like Norway, Turkey and South Korea, will show unusual and striking perspectives of the design scene through special exhibitions, group shows and open studios.
® Aylin kayser and Khristian Metzner
Core of the Festival is the DMY Youngsters held at the Arena Berlin Eichenstr. 4, where the latest developments in design, experimental works and new projects, are shown to both professionals and to a wide-ranging public. Known for its unconventional, free-thinking and open-minded spirit, the DMY Youngsters reveals new trends of the international design world. This year's works come from cities such as Saint-Etienne, London, Taipei, Seoul, Warsaw, Bogotà and Tel-Aviv.
With more than 150 designers and 7000 square metres of exhibition space, the DMY Youngsters has become a not-to be-missed event for young, creative, international designers coming to Berlin to meet the world. Their motto, created by DMY for last year's edition was "Fly High". We can say that in 2008 DMY Berlin flies even higher.
With an emphasis on international focus, The Sky is Not the Limit will feature a show titled "Turkish Delight" to be held at the Pergamon Museum, a school trip by London's Royal College of Art, a presentation of the winners of the Swiss Design Award and a prestigious exhibition of design works from Israel and Slovakia.
But the tour of this year Festival's exhibitions is not restricted only to day light. At night selected clubs spread all over Berlin, such as the legendary Cookies or the famous Bar 25 where guests can also rest, or Club 103 in Kreuzberg, will glow in their singular light at Kublador. A new space open to "all things that rock and get feet stamping" says DMY.
In addition to all these events and in cooperation with SelectNY, an international agency specialized in brand building, this year DMY Berlin also presents a new programme module within its actual framework: The Design Symposium. Lectures, panel talks, design workshops, all held in English.
Following the DMY's title "The sky is not the Limit", their final destination is over the rooftops of Berlin: the 15th floor of the Weekend at the Alexanderplatz.
® Bu¦êro Blickpunkt, Eva Tuerks, Juliane Wolf
Moleskine at the DMY
For the DMY Festival, Moleskine has designed a special notebook which
has been given to the journalists and to all the designers of DMY
Youngsters who are exhibiting at the Arena Berlin.
