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For more about Budapest Design Week and its programs please visit www.designhet.hu

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MOME at Fantoche

The seventh Fantoche was held in the town of Baden in September 8-13, 2009. The international show of animation film has become one of the world's most prominent animation festivals and is the only cultural event in Switzerland that is devoted exclusively to the full array of animation techniques, content and media.
Since making its debut back in 1995, Fantoche has shown hundreds of short and long films from right around the world every two years.

With a programme containing many screenings, talks, workshops and exhibitions MOME, as special guest, had the opportunity to screen the very best animation movies from the school's past three years work. Jozsef Fülöp, Head of the Animation School also presented the methods of working of MOME Animation.

For more about Fantoche please visit this website.

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Photomeetings Luxembourg 2009

Between 9-12 September 2009, MOME's students of Photography - Benedek Bognár, Lili Érmezei, Dániel Halász, Árpád Horváth, Donát Kékesi, Dorka Taskovics - with the guidance of Abel Szalontai, leader of the Faculty of Photography, had the opportunity to think and create together with Andreas Wienand, Roman Bezjak, Peter Bialobrzeski, Michel Medinger, Roman Pfeffer, Marla Rutherford, Simon Welch and Klaus Honnef at Luxembourg's Photo Festival called Photomeetings. The fifth edition of the meeting focused on the theme "Taboo".

For more about Photomeeting Luxembourg 2009 please visit this website.

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That's design! - MOME in Milan

That’s Design! is the new event which proposes an exhibition of the most important design schools worldwide and young independent designers during the Milan design week held in 22-27 April 2009. Links to the exhibition in Milan: www.thatsdesign.it , www.zonatortona.net

The MOME exhibition represents the interdisciplinary compatibility of arts and science and the contemporary trends in their mutually fruitful coexistence. The exhibits include prototypes like the reactant jewel of Bence Ádám Kiss that transforms heat into light, the BUG, the LED lamp of Balázs Püspök, or the neon gas filled illuminators designed by Zsolt Budai. We introduce you young designers who work with new semiology to create a unique structure of interpretation, and construe the medium among us in an abstract manner through the toolset of design.

Curator: Rita Mária Halasi

Project manager: Zsófia Németh

Installation design: Márton Ágh

Sponsors: Hungarian Patient Office, Hungarian Design Council

Further information: Rita Mária Halasi

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Bence Ádám Kiss: Bug

The BUG is an environment reacting object, a piece of interactive jewellery that turns heat into light. Its function is unspecified: you can stick it to any surface as a special symbol, be it your body, a notebook or even a bicycle frame. The wearer or user can observe how the temperature of air, a bottle of wine or a body turns into colours, lustre or the rhythms generated by the BUG software.

Zsolt Budai: Luminous Beings

The basic idea for Luminous Beings was to create a multifunctional light emitting sculpture. It is ideal as ambient lighting at home or in a bar. The lamp is made of a borosilicate glass tube filled with neon gas that emits light when exposed to high voltage.

Bence Ádám Kiss and Ágoston Nagy: Space Scan (interactive installation)

Pictures and animations are projected to the handheld and free-to-move board with their topics depending on the spatial movement and location of the visitor. Turning and moving the board in various directions displays diverse content for the watcher.

The technical background running the installation is the result of the creators’ own software and hardware development. The LEDs integrated in the board are scanned by a real-time application that transforms the projected environment into a virtual space full of visual information. The zones generated can be considered to be a kind of experimental interface: photos of designs, renders and abstract animations can be “scanned” in space.

Je suis belle: Smocked maxidress

The tube silhouetted haute couture maxidress is made of 97% floss with cotton satin stiffening lining. The surface work is handmade the type of smocking imitating plaiting with upwards decreasing scale. This piece – requiring more than 300 needlework hours is one of the image pieces for the 2009-2010 autumn-winter Je suis belle collection. The collection was inspired by the leafless promiscuousness and unsettled rhythm of winter forest and nature. The silhouettes are typically tubular and vertical in direction.

Tamás Erdélyi: Hand-saw

In the course of designing the saw, I was addressing the issues of simple and safe portability and a design required for ergonomic application. The curved shape of the frame can be straightened and the saw-blade can be integrated into the straightened hollow frame to facilitate transport. The frame is made of textile glass reinforced carbon fibre composite that makes the structure light and resistant.

The parts of the frame are designed to have the handle in the proper angle to provide a comfortable grip and the cross-section to load the stronger palm tissues during application. The interlocking parts are held together by a steel sheet. The tightness can be adjusted by a screw positioned under the handle. Standard saw-blades can be easily and quickly fixed with an interrupted ring fastener.

Balázs Püspök: Constellation lamp

The Constellation lamp assuming its ultimate shape in equilibrium was inspired by Calder’s mobile statues. The colour of the LEDs can be varied to counterbalance the colourless lighting fixture. The three-armed version is mostly suitable for ambient lighting. Its low-key shape makes it a fine lighting choice for public building and homes alike. Expanding the structure with further arms and therefore achieving higher brilliance turns it into a lighting fixture for general purposes and the redefinition of the chandelier.

Réka Lőrincz: Balloon bracelet and ring

These pieces of jewellery were originally designed for the stage, therefore, larger than the average. They are made of biodegradable material that is 100% disintegrating balloons, while the setting-in is made of anodised aluminium. The balloons can be exchanged therefore used several times. Since their weight comes from the air inside and they are made of degradable material, they are an environmentally conscious response to the issue of increasing waste generation.

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MOME - International Affairs

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Animation Sans Frontières - Animation without borders

Animation Sans Frontières
- Animation without borders

The Animation Production Workshop 2008-2009.

A new pan-European animation film training initiative by The Animation Workshop (Denmark), Gobelins l´école de l´images (France), Filmakademie Baden-Wüttemberg (Germany) and Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (Hungary) supported by the MEDIA Programme of the European Community!

Partners

The project involves a consortium of 4 of the most prestigious animation film schools in Europe:

• Filmakademie Baden-Württemberg in Germany
• Gobelins, l’école de l’image in France
• Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design or MOME in Hungary
• The Animation Workshop in Denmark

Objectives

Together these 4 partner schools aim at strengthening networks between the European animation industry and young
European students and recent graduates by creating a supplementary qualification programme in animation production.

Content

A special focus will be given to the development of new topics and innovative genres and contents for animation projects and to the research for corresponding and new styles and formats.
The first edition of the workshop is mainly composed of the following elements:

1. Overviews (various industry themes, regional, national, international markets, etc.)
2. Toolbox (production tools, from pitching to line production)
3. Case Studies (alongside studio visits, etc.)
4. Creative Workshops (finding new ideas/new ways of finding ideas)

The first two modules in Germany and Hungary will concentrate on the development of the project idea while the third and fourth modules in Denmark and France will centre on production methods.

Organisation

A group of 16 students, 4 from each school, will travel to every school to follow 4 separate parts of an overview of the entire animation film production process, from concept development through financing to actual production management.

Television and feature film, games and interactive media, traditional and cross-platform production processes will all be
covered at various stages along the way.