Living on the EDGE ? how was it for you?
Thank you ALL so much for your participation in the DesignEDGE Conference & Expo 2005; without the collective effort, belief and support of each and every individual who took part, DesignEDGE could never have achieved what it did ? which was to mark a genuine breakthrough in the evolution of such events in terms of an unparalleled new form of organisation, involving one of the most stellar collections of creative iconoclasts ever put together.
As always with a new approach, there are those who love it and those who are not quite so sure. Which is why we?d love to have your feedback on the event. Please take a few minutes to give us your thoughts via the questionnaire on our website.
For all those who couldn?t make it ? sorry, we hadn?t reckoned on there being so much going on in Singapore over that weekend that the hotels were all chock-a-block ? a flavour of the proceedings can be found on the website.
IdN and The DesignSingapore Council would like to thank you all for your tremendous support and to express the wish that we will meet again in the not-to-distant future ? at a show that we can assure you will be every bit as exciting, especially after we have incorporated your input on our memorable ?Singapore fling?
Fulfilment of a Dream - an Birth of an Identity?
It all started one summer afternoon in 2003. There is a dream, an idea, a huge will to do something. To do something for Portugal design?s sake.
Merely two years later, part of the dream come true, a MusaBook is published by IdN, the publisher, which able to achieve an international edition that would allow for massive, worldwide distribution. Yesterday, there was no such thing as ?Portuguese design?- and there still isn?t. We never imagined that such a concept would start to exist immediatelyon the publication of this book. What we did think, though, was that this project, as well as others that appeared in the meantime, are bound to contributeto the construction of such an identity. It may still be a distant ideal, but it is one that is growing bit by bit.
Portugal is much more than its quaint, donkey-riding image may give people to imagine. Besides Expo ?98, the European Football Cup or the MTV Awards, Portugal stands today as a country open to the world to which it is inscribed and a part of the global village wherein we all live.
This is, therefore, a global project that only wants to show itself to the world. And, more than that, to show itself to itself and to all who took part in its development. To show itself to the country, to everyone who may know of it, and to show that dreams can be fulfilled. To show that, with a strong enough will, one can make it.
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