The star designer guests give their presentations on 4th October from 14:00 in the Auditorium of Moholy-Nagy University of Art and Design (1121 Budapest, Zugligeti Road 9-25.) Ineke Hans' presentation starts at 14:00, Fabio Novembre's at 16:00. (The presentations are held in English, participation is free of charge.)

Some works of the star guests are also exhibited in the framework of different programs during Budapest Design Week.

The environment-conscious objects of Ineke Hans are displayed at the international opening exhibition of the design festival (Slow Design, Design Terminal), while the exclusive tray collection created for Italian Driade by Fabio Novembre can be seen at the Xenia Gallery of the Italian Institute of Culture, where the exhibition is opened by the designer himself on 3rd October at 18:00.

Ineke Hans founded her own office in Arnheim in 1998. She originally wanted to become a sculptor, but everyday objects proved to be more exciting for her. After graduating from the Royal College of Art in 1995, Ineke worked for Habitat for three years, a period that changed her creative approach completely. The visual and psychological power of products, their complicated relation to human beings and poetry have more and more become her main concern. In addition to the small-scale production of her own furniture collection, she created a classical industrial design line in 2005.

The name of Ineke Hans has been discovered by global companies, as well; international brands like Ahrend, Arco, Cappellini, Magis, SCP or Swarovski are among her clients. Her design practice is environment-conscious in every detail, she works with recycled and new generation materials, and uses contemporary technologies, while her objects are often archetypical and relate to visual and cultural traditions in complex ways.

About a designer's work Ineke says: “It feels as if you work on design sudokus: the more complex it gets, the nicer it is when you reach a good result.”

Fabio Novembre presented the “flowers” of his two-decade career in the framework of a breathtaking one-man show titled Il Fiore di Novembre and organised in Milan's Triennale Design Museum in 2009. His name has become one with some of the leading Italian design brands. In the collections of Cappellini, Driade, Meritalia, Flaminia and Casamania we can find remarkable, sometimes provocative Novembre works.

His interior design and architecture assignments are also significant; he has created the shops of high prestige fashion brands like Blumarine (London, Singapore, Taipei), Tardini (New York) or Stuart Weitzman (from Rome to Peking). Novembre, who graduated as an architect, but also studied filmmaking in New York, was the art director and curator of numerous large exhibitions in the past few years. In 2010 he made an installation (Italian Pavilion) for Milan at the Shanghai Expo, in 2012 he designed the new interiors for the collections of Milan-based Triennale Design Museum.

His works are filled with emotions, often with strong sexuality, and rely on a system of cultural references that can be decoded by everyone: female nude, mask, rose, snake, red colour, etc.

The visit of Ineke Hans is supported by the Royal Netherlands Embassy Budapest, while the visit of Fabio Novembre is supported by the Italian Institute of Culture.

Organised for the ninth time this year, Budapest Design Week takes place between 28th September and 7th October 2012. The festival is supported by the Hungarian Intellectual Property Office and the National Cultural Fund of Hungary, with the Hungarian Design Council serving as its patron and is organised by Design Terminal.

Further information: www.designweek.hu