Skopje Design Week

• 10/07/2014 - TIKVEŠ label award

  After the great international success in 2013 Skopje Design Week and Tikveš Winery are proudly announcing a new international open call for product branding. Both companies are encouraging graphic, product, industrial and fashion designers, architects, fine arts artists and all creative people from all around the globe to submit a proposal for product brand.  As an internationally represented company, Tikveš Winery would like to inspire young talented people and give them a chance to express their creativity by offering an award for the best design proposal.

   
  AWARD

  Award for the winning proposal is 2.000 EUR net amounts from Tikveš Winery. The winning proposal will be applied to the Grape Honey product and will be distributed from year 2015, initially in Macedonia, and from 2017 in the regional markets according to Tikveš sales strategy. Tikveš Winery currently produces 25.000 liters of Grape Honey per year and has tendency and potential to increase this volume. All rights and obligations will be disclosed in the contract agreement between Tikveš Winery and the winner.
  
  

  VERY USEFUL INFORMATION

  About the product - grape honey

  Target groups and distribution

  The visual communication of the product should clearly deliver the message to all generations that they are using 100% natural and healthy product. This unexhausted base of antioxidants, minerals and natural sugar should be explicit in the message.

   

  The following groups are seen as targets for this product:

  1. Self conscious people oriented to healthy food and drinks.

  2. Professional and amateur sport persons who need energy.

  3. People that recover from decease or surgery and are advised by the doctors to consume healthy food

  4. People that have heard of the merits of the product and are willing to try it.

  5. People attracted by the appearance of the product.

  Grape honey will be distributed to healthy food stores, market stores, bars and restaurants. The product transportation temperature is from 0 to 15 C° and the storing temperature is 5 to 15 C°. Due to this reason the product has to be stored during the retail sales in the refrigerators and transported with the vehicles with cooling system.

  
  Retail price of the product

  Retail price is estimated to 5 EUR for 0,5 l.

  
  ABOUT TIKVEŠ WINERY

  The story of Tikveš winery begins in the year of 1885. It has been crafting and aging premium Macedonian wines for almost 130 years. Since its establishment Tikveš has grown into the largest winery in South-East Europe and it has been selected as one of the top 30 most innovative wine brands in the world. Tikvešwinery, each year, processes more than 20 million kg of grapes, and the annual production of wine amounts to more than 14 million liters. The wine maturation chambers, with a size of 6,500 m², contain 450 barrique barrels and an additional number of 180 oak barrels. Additional space of 2000 m² has been allotted for wine aging in bottles. The company has 1000 hectares of its own vineyard plantations in possession and closely cooperates with over 2500 individual viticulturists from the Tikvesh vineyard region.

  Tikveš Winery is a recipient of prestigious awards at regional and leading international wine competitions. The biggest success is the recognition given by Robert Parker, the most famous wine critic, with high 93, 94, 95/100 points for our premium wine segment. As a stronghold in the regional wine market, Tikveš pursues the goal of becoming an active participant in the global wine industry, setting trends and new standards in the production, sales and promotion of wines.
  
  
  
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• 10/07/2014 - Country in focus: France

  SDW concept is designed in a way that each year regional audience make close encounter with one particular country or region that has earned its respect on global level by permanently submitting high quality design. In order to get closer to that region or country SDW management puts very special accent to the programme section the Country in Focus. In 2014 we have a pleasure to have France as country in focus. 
  Among the brightest examples of the leading national design movements today are the groundbreaking accomplishments of contemporary French design. By its historical roots deep in French design education or the social ideals of modernism that became central to the nation’s cultural dialogue, exploring the enormously rich design history of France has proven to be vital for understanding of the social role of the professional industrial designer. Especially, when it comes to public work initiatives and debates about design.

  Although driven by aims of functionality, simplicity, and affordability on one hand, on the other hand French design has also set the standards of high quality, luxury and exclusivity, which answers the eternal designer’s question of how to make a perfect balance between these two. 

  Looking at current French design scene, the SDW team has approached 10 the most distinguished designers and studios that by its production display genuine and up to day image of the country. The programme France Country in Focus on SDW2014 is organized in cooperation with French Embassy and French institute in Skopje.

  
  
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• 17/10/2013 - Tikveš

  Announces the Award-Winning Label Design for “Tikveš” Winery’s Chardonnay

  Amazed by the quality and the creativity of label designs submitted by creative people from four continents, “Tikveš” Winery decided to increase the number of and the award fund from 500 EUR to 5000 EUR in total

  The creative solution of the author Dijana Dimitrievska from Macedonia is the first-ranked design on the international competition organized by Skopje Design Week and “Tikveš”. This unique design work will be used as the label for the 2013 harvest Chardonnay of the “Tikveš” Winery.

  A total of 247 designers from 29 countries applied on the open competition announced two months ago. “Tikveš” was presented with 463 label designs. Due to the great number of quality solutions offered, instead of one award in the amount of 500 EUR, “Tikveš” Winery decided to increase the number of awards as follows: 1,500 EUR for the best label design, two awards in the amount of 1,000 EUR each for the second-ranked designs and three awards in the amount of 500 EUR each for the third-ranked designs.

  “The great number of quality creative solutions we were presented with exceeded even the most optimistic expectations. This confirms the fact that top-quality wine produced by “Tikveš” is an endless source of inspiration not only for the in-country, but also for creative people from all quarters of the world. In turn, this motivated us to increase the award fund, because “Tikveš” is a company that knows how to appreciate and adequately award quality”, said the marketing manager at “Tikveš” Winery, Elena Mladenovska Jelenkovik.

  In addition to monetary awards, the best designs have the chance to be applied on “Tikveš” Winery’s top-quality products that will be marketed in the country and abroad.

  Expressing his satisfaction with the overall process of receiving and selecting the best design solutions, as well as the cooperation with “Tikveš” Winery, the director of Skopje Design Week, Aleksandar Velinovski said: “This is what members of the design and creative community desired and needed, while the business gains an added value, aesthetics and recognition. We are encouraged by what we achieved together with “Tikveš”, because once again it demonstrated a sense for the value that good designs bring with them. At the same time, this is an excellent example for other in-country companies that any investment in the identity and in the brand is justified.”

  As part of Skopje Design Week 2013, “Tikveš” Winery organized a special exhibition called “The Best of the South”, which perfectly matched the authenticity of “Kurshumli an” venue and which, due to the excellent reception among visitors, will be part of other regional festivals and exhibitions organized in the course of 2014. Visitors to this year’s Skopje Design Week had an exceptional opportunity to see unique prices of furniture, appliances and decorative items crafted from “Tikveš” packaging material by 12 designers from Macedonia.

   

  
  
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• 16/10/2013 - Lidiya Georgieva

  Under the concpet of WILD AND DOCILE, as a reflection of the moment after moment that we are living in, fashion designer LIDIYA GEORGIEVA presented her first collection of ceramics.

  Both handmade and industrial, in the mix of fashion and home design she also presented - paravent, wall decorations, leather gloves, Bibis, T-Shirts, and for the architectural design studio SMART LIVING, she showed her version of the Egg Chair

  Graduated in fashion design at the Parisian ESAA “Duperré”, with a scholarship from the French government and a recommendation from M. Christian Lacroix. Also holds a Master`s degree in Graphic Arts.

  She won the European Contest of Young Designers Award in Paris and has been working as a designer for Rochas, Pierre Balmain and other companies in France.

  Lidiya Georgieva started her label in 1999, presenting her work in designer shops in France, UK, Italy, Japan and USA. Her collections consist of handmade knitwear, accessories, and T-shirts, printed in limited editions.

  The label had a support from the international press such as: Le Monde, Jalouse, Numero, Elle, Cosmopolitan, Vogue. Her creations have been worn on the Cannes Film Festival and other major occasions, by known models, actresses, pop singers like Madonna and fashion journalists.
  
  Photos by Iva Dimeska

  
  
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• 10/10/2013 - Photo report

  A selection of photos from Skopje Design Week 2013.
  
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• 27/09/2013 - Nina Simovska

  Nina Simovska is the creator of the brand “Just Because.” established in 2008. Following the passion for conceptual art, this brand stands for creating contemporary, modern jewelry designs.
  
  The endless search for authenticity brings us even closer to tradition and legacies, but they are important only if they point toward the future. The exhibition “Skopje. Untold stories.”is devoted to the city Skopje for its 50th anniversary of the earthquake and it has a goal to reveal some of the untold stories that Skopje hides in the architecture after 1963 and all this presented through statement jewelry pieces.
  
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• 27/09/2013 - Maja Andreevska

  Maja Andreevska is a 27-year old talented designer from Skopje. She is a student of the Faculty for Design and Technology of Furniture and Interior Design in Skopje. At the age of 22 she started making jewelry, and then begins to perfect origami – the paper folding technique, from which her design of lamp-shades stems.
  
  Her works highlight the Form to perfection, through a gentle dance of colors and quiet overflowing of lines. This kingdom of forms is in the service of love, enlivening the dead environment, refining the feelings, all because of the inescapable need to create.
  
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• 24/09/2013 - Good design makes product understandable

  Skopje Design Week 2013 - place where all magic happens

  Skopje Design Week 2013 - All roads lead to Kurshumli An from 1^st to 6^th October. SDW is a design oriented multidisciplinary platform, which is wakening up the society in which we live, creating connection between Macedonian designers and companies, in order to achieve a symbiosis of esthetics, technological innovation, marketing and production.

  The purpose of SDW is to bring together business and design sectors, i.e. to show how creativity can be used in the production process of companies. The design is a "must have" if you want to give added value on the product and strive to win as many markets. Functional and designed product is the card on which play only smart companies, and on the end only, good design makes a product understandable. That is the formula that simply "putting" the intention to sell and export outside Macedonia.

  Ten top designers from Switzerland, which is country in focus this year, will discover how Switzerland manages to create products and become a global brand. The benefits for the Macedonian companies, is that they will have the opportunity to cooperate with these names on many levels from design point of view.

  The concept of the SDW remains the same, but we are changing the content. We have a new country in focus - Switzerland. On the ground floor of Kursumli An are the commercial entities, companies, individual brands, and young brands that are presented in the Macedonian market. On the ground floor also, will be the concept stores of the brands that came from the region. These concept stores are interested to find partners here. The second floor will be reserved for group shows. There we can see Croatian, Balkan and Swiss designers and young designers who now come to "light". Novelty is the "food corner" where there will be presentations, contests, cooking workshops. This year we invested more in the evening program. Several bands from Slovenia and Serbia will come for the first time in Macedonia. There will be a three or four workshops within which will improve collaboration between designers and businesses, which will have foreign mentors. - says Aleksandar Velinovski - director of Public Room, organizer of Skopje Design Week

  The overall program of SDW is an ambitious mix of innovative disciplines, ranging from product and industrial design, fashion, jewelry, technological, industrial and environmental issues, contemporary visual arts and business issues closely related to arts and culture. This exhibition and educational programme is toped up with the special selection of music performances, theatre and entertainment in the evening hours. The entire programme will bring all generations of people together by offering them memorable creative experience.

  The programme concept will be held from 10 - 17 hours (all workshops, lectures and other forms of scientific - educational and practical exams). In the afternoon from 17 to 20 hours is the time for business contacts in a relaxed atmosphere (Chill-out music, culinary presentations, etc..), While the evening program - well known as the best party in town - it's for all audiences. This year we are getting special attention to the music programme and it will be a miracle to get the epithet of music platform in which the audience will have the opportunity to enjoy. Beautiful view of the evening's concerts and DJ sets with hundreds, sometimes thousands people, while all exhibitions will still be opened for viewing until late at night, with one word Skopje Design Week will be place where all magic happens.

  Skopje Design Week gave input in certain directions, our know-how is already used and I am very glad. We are open for any cooperation with each institution. Not accidentally we involved the faculties, we want to include young designers (during the study) and after that, we want to get them an image that means affirmation, design, process or idea of the placing on the market. The workshops brought us significant experience. They helped us to form a strategy and program for Skopje Design Week who is based on specific analyzes, and from the experiences of those workshops. We detected all anomalies and loopholes. Designers need to be productive, not to stay at level of drawers. We want to see concrete products placed on the market. It has to happen in cooperation with companies. - says Marta Grnarova - Naumovska, programme director of Skopje Design Week

  
  
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