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Barcelona Design Week 2012

Today is the world architecture day and in Barcelona starts the international design week. The Barcelona Design Week 2012 will open its doors from 01 to 05 October to celebrate the seventh edition of an event that is positioned as the main design and business benchmark in Barcelona and one of the leading Design Weeks within the international calendar.

Barcelona Design Week 2012

BCN Design Week, organised by BCD Barcelona Design Centre, is an international event focused on design, innovation and business addressed to those companies and professionals in any industry or productive services that use knowledge and creativity as a driver of its business activity.
Since 2006 this platform for exchanging knowledge and experiences around the world of design annually attracts companies and internationally renowned speakers. During the six previous editons, the BCN Design Week has been participated by more then 140 renowned experts and up to 6.000 attendees who had the opportunity to learn, share and discuss various topics that mark the current agenda of the design and innovation sector.
Under the slogan Design 2020, businesses from diverse productive or services sectors, such as IKEA, NOKIA, TUENTI, OBLONG EUROPE or DOBERMAN, as well as professionals and experts from the world of design and innovation, will gather once again in a platform for exchanging experiences, to debate and network, which this year will include new activities in order to extend its scope and open the event to the whole city and its visitors.

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It is worth of mention that the BCN Design Week 2012 will be part of the programme of the second edition of the Barcelona Design Festival, a major event organised by BCD and FAD, in collaboration with the Barcelona City Council, that seeks to place Barcelona as an international design capital. This initiative includes a programme with more than 70 activities, exhibitions, prizes, debates, congress, ideas market or celebrations among others. All information about the program you’ll find on the official webpage of the Barcelona Design Week 2012.

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The principal venue of the Barcelona Design Week 2012 is the Arts Santa Monica center, housed in an exceptional building on the Ramblas in Barcelona, is a space of convergence and crossover between the different disciplines of contemporary artistic creation and science, thought and communication.

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FadFest, Barcelona Design Festival 2012

From 26 June to 12 July, Barcelona will be the international capital of creativity and design with FADfest.
FADfest is the FAD’s annual event celebrating creative excellence. It recognises the work of professionals and businesses and brings design closer to the citizens.

Fadfest 2012, Barcelona Design

A showcase in which to discover the best proposals of the year in architecture, interior design, graphic design, advertising, industrial design, the handicrafts, art and fashion that is held in Barcelona between 26 June and 12 July as part of the Barcelona Design Festival, which continues until October 2012.

This is the most important design meeting in Barcelona. The FAD awards will be presented at the festival, where more than 500 works by the finalists will go on display. To enjoy the works of the winners and finalists in the different prizes, you’ll have to visit the “FADexpo: the best design of the year”, which will remain open until 22 september at the FAD headquarters (Pl. dels Àngels 5-6 of Barcelona). The second edition of the FADfest will be a fortnight filled with prizes, conferences, debates, talks and many other activities connected with design.

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By the Filmoteca de Catalunya, Catalonia’s Film Library, during the FADfest we can enjoy a monographic programme dedicated to documentary films in which design takes centre stage. You’ll can see a series of documentaries relating the world of design to the cinema, with screenings on food design and the work of one of today’s most influential fashion designers.

Fostering Arts and Design is FAD, founded in the year 1903 as private not-for-profit association that promotes design and architecture in the country’s economic, cultural and social spheres.

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You will find all the information required on the official website of the event.