The fourth design festival Design Act has opened in Moscow. Designers will show the latest trends in the world of industrial design, both useful and not, but extraordinary for sure. Photo: Poor Design studio installation.

The fourth design festival Design Act has opened in Moscow. Designers will show the latest trends in the world of industrial design, both useful and not, but extraordinary for sure. Photo: Poor Design studio installation.

Visitors of the festival can not only have a look at the design creations but also buy them… Photo: Join studio installation (the Netherlands).

…and also take part in special lectures and master classes at workrooms with Russian and foreign designers. Photo: designers Boaz Cohen, Sayaka Yamamoto (BCXSY company) at the International Design Act festival.

The Red Hall represents exclusive bicycles by European designers and objects made of bicycle parts, for example a bag or a carpet made of bicycle tyre. Photo: Li Edelkoort Bicycle Fantasy studio installation.

The White Hall hosts more than 20 solo shows by foreign designers and design bureaus. Photo: Сharlotte Вumoncel D'argence studio installation.

For example, Berlin designers Maria Volohova and Uta Kolochek present their collection of porcelain – embryo-shaped saucers, ash trays resembling nerve-knots and etc. Photo: collection of porcelain by Maria Volohova and Uta Kolochek.

Dutch designers Tineke and Marieke Willems create bright and unique chandeliers made out of floats or little Eiffel Tower trinkets. Photo: twin sisters Tineke and Marieke Willems, founders of Tweelink design studio (the Netherlands) and their works.

Japanese studio WOW Inc took to the festival the 40-meter interactive video installation Factory and Fantasy (fragment of installation on the photo).

The project Hillsideout by Andrea Zambelli and Nat Wilms aims at “making absolutely useless things reasonably functional.”

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The festival is held in the Center of modern art Vinzavod until September 5. Photo: Wandschappen studio installation.
