Designers of the Future 2009/
Nacho Carbonell
Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny
Peter Marigold
Raw-Edges/ Yael Mer + Shay Alkalay
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Designers of the Future 2009/
Design Miami supports limited-edition design and values creativity expressed through new forms, new technologies, new object-types, new processes, and new design philosophies. Since its inception in 2006, the Designers of the Future Award has been dedicated to promoting the work of young creatives who exhibit promise in these areas of design experimentation.
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Nacho Carbonell graduated in 2003 from the Spanish university Cardenal Herrera C.E.U. and in January 2007 from the Design Academy Eindhoven in the Netherlands. His graduation projects Dream of Sand and Pump It Up drew tremendous media coverage through the many professionals and enthusiasts who attended the presentation. As a result, Nacho was honored Cum Laude by the Academy. After completing his studies, Nacho accepted internships with designers Vincent de Rijk and Joris Laarman. Nacho currently works with his team in a 20th-century church in Eindhoven where he established his studio.
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Tomáš Gabzdil Libertiny was born in Slovakia in 1979. His father, an architect, and his mother, a historian, provided him with a rich environment for creative and intellectual growth. While still in high school, Tomáš hitchhiked all
over Europe and worked during summer holidays on Swiss bio-farms and as a bricklayer in North Carolina. In 1999, he enrolled in the Industrial Design Department at the Technical University in Slovakia, but soon he found
this discipline too limiting. In 2001, he was awarded George Soros’s Open Society Institute Scholarship to study at the University of Washington in Seattle, where he explored painting and sculpture. As a result, in 2002 he transferred to Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Bratislava to study both product design and painting.
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Born in London in 1974, Peter Marigold followed a path from sculpture to theatrical and event scenography at Central Saint Martins. In 2005 he joined the Design Products (Platform Ten) course at the RCA under Ron Arad and since graduation has focused almost solely on furniture design. In 2007 Peter was awarded an Esmee Fairbairn bursary for his exhibition at the Design Museum in London, and his subsequent show with the British Council as one of the ‘Great Brits’ at the Milan Furniture Fair was followed by an invitation to create the ground floor installation for Paul Smith in Milan. Working with both galleries and manufacturers, his work continues to be exhibited in both the UK and abroad, including Design Miami, Stavanger 2008 (Norway), and MoMA, New York.
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This official collaboration between Yael Mer & Shay Alkalay started after many years of sharing life, thoughts, ideas and everything in-between. Yael’s main focus includes turning two-dimensional sheet materials into curvaceous functional forms, whereas Shay is fascinated by how things move, function and react. Together they work under the name Raw-Edges and share a common goal to create objects that have never been seen before. Since their graduation show at the Royal College of Art in 2006, they have won the British Council Prize in Milan & Paul Smith in Tokyo. Their works have been exhibited at Johnson Trading Gallery in New York, FAT Galerie in Paris, and Scope Art Fair in Basel. Their designs can be found within the Design Museum (London) collection and in production with Established & Sons and Arco. In addition, Yael & Shay produce unique and limited-edition designs within their own studio in London. |
