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KNOCKOUTDESIGN - COMAPNY OF THE MONTH AGAIN!

Knockoutdesign is listed again the best company of the month. It is second month in the row, when we were honoured this title. More on AIP website.

KAPUŚCIŃSKI's PATH

We would like to present you parts of visualizations of the Ryszard Kapuściński's Path designed by KNOCKOUTDESIGN + Marian Misiak. The project was designed for the City Council of Warsaw and will be realized in autumn 2009.

knockoutdesign in Tel Aviv

We would like to invite you for the opening of the exhibition "Black & white" on Saturday evening, June 7th 8:00 P.M. in the lobby of Maxim Hotel, Hayarkon street in Tel Aviv. The exhibition is organised by Bec Foundation and will comprise the collection of the products designed by young Polish designers. For Hebrew speakers you can read article about the exhibition published by Globes. Knockoutdesign is honoured to exhibit for the very first time the visualisations of the Ryszard Kapuscinski's Path that will be realized in the public space of Pole Mokotowskie Park in Warsaw in autumn 2009. The project won the bid by the City Council of Warsaw. Knockoutdesign invited the emreging Czech typographer and graphic designer Marian Misiak to complete our design team during the design process. We would like also to thank our great interns: Olek Modzelewski and Magda Szczepan, who were an enourmous help during the creation of Ryszard Kapuscinski's Path.

MEET US DURING PALERMO DESIGN WEEK 2009

“Design’s Stories” - From Designer of European countries The cultural association ICOD, in collaboration with the University of Architecture in Palermo and the Academy of Fine Arts in Palermo, arranges for the third year the Palermo Design Week which to be held from 25th to 31th May 2009. Among the most significant events of the exhibition will be a show entitled Design’s Stories, dedicated to designer of European countries, which are two for each nation. Guest curator of the main exhibition, which place in the "Ex Deposito Locomotive Sant'Erasmo", is Porzia Bergamasco, journalist and critic specialized in Design and Architecture.

Knockoutdesign is a design studio that was chosen to represent Poland during the exhibition.
Come and see our design's story in Palermo! more info on www.palermodesignweek.it

knockoutdesign - company of the month!

knockoutdesign listed as the best company of the month. FIRST position on the list of 10 best companies in April 2009! more info on www.aipuw.pl

VISIT CARD WEBSITE

This week knockout launched website, that is just a prelude for a new website which is going to be ready this summer. Current design relates to the temporary state of the website. Enjoy and stay tunned.

OFFICE CULTURE

At our new office, with laser cut letters sample. In the picture our associate graphic designer Marian Misiak.

X Square + BWA DESIGN GALLERY

Knockoutdesign was comissioned by BWA Design Gallery in Wroclaw to create a three weeks long intervention in the space of the gallery and at its backyard. Project was preceded by poll among the passers-by. We inquired about their perception of "X" square and its arteries.
Basing on poll's results, we marked the main ways at the square with yellow paint.
Gallery's back entrance was marked with banner showing the answers of the inquired passers-by. That intervention was supposed to emphasize the back entrance, and get the attention of the population to the gallery's new activism.

UNISEX | WOMANISH DESIGN? I DON'T THINK SO...|

Knockoutdesign's statement on "Womanish design" | Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise | Cieszyn. Expo can be seen till 29|03|2009|

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AND IT ALL HAS STARTED IN BERLIN...

It seems it was so long time ago, when we have started working on Kapuscinski's path project.
And it all has started in Berlin, on this wall that you can see below on the picture.
We put the pictures of Mokotowskie Fields Park, and surrounded ourselves with Kapuscinski's books and have started to put together the elements of the jigsaw. The construction works of the path are scheduled for Autumn 2009, so stay tunned and come to visit the capital of Eastern Europe in spring 2010, and take a walk between the lines.

UNISEX ON INTERNATIONAL WORKING WOMAN's DAY

Once condom and tampon married to function as a perfect business card holder. One can't be without the other. Tampon designed for women, complies the functionality, ergonomics and low production costs. Condom designed for men, meets with anatomical differences and material resistance. Both objects are the ideal examples of gender-oriented design, based not on cultural and social norms, either on pure functional purposes. Form follows function.
Same was when Unisex was created, the usage of those two materials is not a result of conceptual thinking, but a pure function- based choice of material.
Tampon for women, condom for men, UNISEX for ALL!

Please come see our statement about genderification of design during the "Womanish design/Babski dizajn" exhibition at the Silesian Castle of Art and Enterprise in Cieszyn (Polish-Czech border city). Opening on International Working Woman Day, 8th March 2009, Cieszyn,PL/CZ.

P.S. Our design was influenced by many factors f.ex. place of birth, school, culture, growing up, bionics, chemical substances, "The magic pencil", Fantasy, parents always late, nasty teachers, boyfriends, girlfriends, frustrations of not making it to the surgery studies programme and any other traumas we encountered in our lives, possessing the ovary is one of them, but not the only one.
ENJOY!

WHAT IS GOING ON AT THE "X" SQUARE/CO SIĘ DZIEJE NA PLACU X?

The "X" square is getting yellowish. Yesterday, today and tomorrow more and more yellow (heh). And on Friday it will come to a peek.
We would like to invite you for the opening of the action called "The X square, i.e. the second side of Design Gallery", 6th March 2009, 5:00 P.M. in Design Gallery, Swidnicka street 4-2, Wroclaw. Knockoutdesign's project launches the series of events and exhibitions called "Urban carpet", and is a part of the "Goodbye Design" season.
More pictures on Friday. Get prepared yellow is the new black!

Na Placu X żółto. Wczoraj, dziś i jutro coraz żółciej (heh). A w piątek jeszcze bardziej. Zapraszamy na wernisaż projektu "Plac X, czyli druga strona galerii Design" 6 marca o godz.17:00, w Galerii Design przy ul.Świdnickiej 2-4 we Wrocławiu. Projekt autorstwa Knockoutdesign wykonany na zaproszenie przez Galerię Design we Wrocławiu, inauguruje cykl wystaw i akcji "Dywan Miejski", jednocześnie stanowi jedno z wydarzeń sezonu Goodbye Design, o którym więcej tutaj.

OFFICIALLY COMPANY!

Starting from Febuary 1st knockoutdesign became officially a company. No more fooling around and babyfaces ......... "it's nothing personal, it's business".

THE NEED TO REUNITE

The need to reunite. The time has come. Getting out of the virtual world, skype sessions, scanned sketches and long distance calls might be difficult. Leaving the daily routine is full of anxiety mixed with refreshing excitement.

Maya is on her way to join the rest of the group in Warsaw.
Flying from Tel Aviv to Berlin, she was urged to face the new habitat for the upcoming two months. The studio was easy to fit the suitcase: PC station, external hard disc, sketch book, few pens -- those are the tools of the nomade designers we happened to become. 'Only 23,5 kg , miss' said the nice worker at the airlines counter, when Maya came to check in her luggage with no hidden hesitation.

Arrivals, departures seem to be locked in some kind of constant loop. Will we ever get bored with those eternal voyages? Once you move you get the distance and perspective, disconnecting and unrooting, ctrl + alt + z, formatting your head. When you eradicate yourself you do not belong anywhere. No frontiers, no obligations, no roots, no dependence.

Pure sponge.

Just absorb and transform.