DESIGNISSO - magazine for design and visual arts

Theory | Essay

'23.09.29.

From Bohemian idyll to activism – Contemporary Roma fashion as a means of representation

Photography | Project

Project

'23.09.22.

Judit Spanyár’s photo project Confrontation explores the conflict between opposing individual stories rooted in pluralistic history and paralel narratives.

Between conflicting narratives – Confrontation by Judit Spanyár

Design

'23.09.15.

Balázs Kisgyörgy explores the contemporary object culture through his project called There’s something new under the bench.

The charm of ordinariness – There’s something new under the bench by Balázs Kisgyörgy

Architecture

'23.09.08.

The over 40-year-old buildings of the Kelenföld City Centre, whose flourishing in the 80s is only the stuff of stories by now, might be spared this fate for now, but the question what to do with them remains.

Slumbering city centre – Liza Formanek’s Kelenföld project

Textile

'23.09.01.

Sustainability seems to be everywhere, all the time, and in so many different forms, making it feel like somewhat of a cliché. But our work with sustainability is far from over, something the younger generation of fashion designers agrees with.

“It’s about redefining my relationship with fashion” – Interview with Valentin Szarvas

Graphic Design

'23.08.25.

When we go online, we enter an environment that promotes distracted thinking – Petra Pilbak reached the same conclusion in connection with her masterwork.

Newsfeed replacement – A transmedia book by Petra Pilbak

Theory

'23.08.18.

There are few more haunting spectres in a city than the skeletons of buildings left to decay, which is exactly the sort of sight the dilapidated sets of the Communist regime scattered all over offer. Not yet demolished, and either used for their original or a new purpose but most often left vacant, these buildings all share a deep silence around their past.

“Reuse is a harder but more meaningful way”

Architecture

'23.08.10.

Ábel Laki won the Rector’s Award for his masterwork Revitalisation of Railway Line 78, and we chose this occasion to ask him about his concept.

“There’s no need to build a lot, just use what we already have”

Media

'23.08.04.

100 hours of machine learning, 14500 users, optimisation, artificial intelligence and a large dose of irony – we talked to Viktor Varga about his diploma work.

“Irony is useful for asking critical questions”

Graphic Design

'23.07.28.

Renáta Szabó’s research-based diploma project presents the psychological wounds of women starting their careers as a reflection on a prevalent social issue.

Wobbly positivity totem pole – Radical Optimism by Renáta Szabó

Design

'23.07.18.

We have dug deep to ultimately bring you the highlights of the Expressive Interactions course to give a more nuanced look into interaction and inclusivity.

Beyond buzzwords – Prototype variations for interaction design

Design

'23.07.13.

When a designer sets their sight on these and similar objects, they are normally not left with a lot of wriggle room apart from plain styling – we might think. In contrast, Eszter Hanko and Viktória V. Dawson set out to give their lamps not just a new shape but also a new function.

Light is the soul of everything – Eszter Hanko and Viktória V. Dawson’s lamps

Uncategorized

'23.07.08.

The 2010s saw a strong trend of body positivity in social media, and while the resulting dialogue did have some effect on the major actors in the fashion industry, with her collection, Shape of All, Lili Mészáros is addressing the shortcomings of this change.

Female bodies, unlabelled – Lili Mészáros’s Shape of All collection

Graphic Design

'23.06.29.

Although the masterworks of Zsófia Kérdy and Rebeka Rideg are fairly different, they fit together well, both dealing with closely intertwined and dynamically interacting things – the body and the soul.

On Body and Soul – Masterworks by Zsófia Kérdy and Rebeka Rideg

Theory

'23.06.22.

The Unknown IPARTERV – The Halcion Days of a Design Company 1948–1970 exhibition approaches our extremely loaded post-war modernist architectural legacy.

An unknown acquaintance – IPARTERV brought to life at an exhibition

Textile

'23.06.17.

MOME Fashion and Textile Design MA student Fanni Eperke Szabó together with her fellow student from the same programme Eszter Kain and BA alumna Kornélia Papp, the three of them made it to the semi-finals of this year’s Feel The Yarn competition.

Emotions and visions put into knitting – Designers in the Feel The Yarn competiton

Design

'23.06.08.

Fülöp received the Best Object Design Award of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design for his items so we decided to take a closer look at them.

Lovely glass, cheerful lights – Lamps by Fülöp Bechtold

Animation

'23.06.02.

A witch falling hard for a mouse – this is the story of Nikoletta Veress’s comics Much Needed Love in a nutshell, though of course there is a lot more to it. Nikoletta received an accolade as a first-time comic book creator at the 18th International Comics Festival Budapest for her comic book.

“Comics have lent me more confidence to experiment” – Interview with Nikoletta Veress

Design

'23.05.27.

Playing has a central role in raising and educating children. This natural imperative is restricted by the constraints of the modern education system. There are few institutions that encourage students to engage in creativity or carefree experimentation, which is why there is a particularly great need for toys like the ones reviewed in this article.

What is the ideal toy like? – Three skill development items for children

Animation

'23.05.25.

Flóra Anna Buda is a distinctive figure of the Hungarian contemporary animation scene, and though she has had only two independent short films to her name to date, her latest one has been shortlisted for the Cannes Film Festival.

“I’m trying to prepare both mentally and on a practical level” – Interview with Flóra Anna Buda

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