B AWARDS Bilbao Bizkaia Design Festival
05 November 2013
B AWARDS, Bilbao Bizkaia Design Festival, is a conceptual festival celebrating design in the Basque Country and in Bizkaia in particular. Conceived as an international festival, it aims to promote connections between young design students from all over the world and the Basque productive sector, as well as publicising Basque design in international circles. The initiative is sponsored by the Provincial Council of Bizkaia and Bilbao City Council, through the Bilbao-Bizkaia Design and Creativity Council, which is also supported by Bilbao Metropoli 30 and EIDE, the Basque Designers Association.
B AWARDS adopts the format of a design competition between seven universities and prestigious training centres from around the world, creating spaces and building bridges to encourage Basque students to contact and interact with up-and-coming young talents in the design world. The festival is also an opportunity to showcase the work of these future designers to an international jury. As Brigitte Sauvage during the last edition, Carlos Alonso Pascual will be part of the jury of the B AWARDS 2013, along with internationally acclaimed talents as Toshiko Mori, Lawrence Zeegen, Arturo Dell'Acqua, Jun Aoki, Erwin Viray and Tony Chambers.
Japanese design is the central theme of the upcoming edition of B AWARDS, which will take place at AlhondigaBilbao on 13 and 14 November. Under the banner Japan talks design, established designers, representatives of prestigious festivals, educators, design journalists and publicists, and young designers will share their expertise, knowledge and experience to show us how design is practised in this dynamic Asian country.
For more information, please visit: www.bawardsfestival.com
