From Spain With Design

Organized by the Spanish Network of Design Associations (READ), with the collaboration of the Madrid Designers Association (DIMAD) and the sponsorship of UDIT, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, the exhibition will open its doors to the public from February 1 to March 17 at the Design Center of Matadero Madrid, to give visibility to national design through initiatives carried out by Spanish professionals.

The group of works included in the exhibition will include proposals from professionals and design companies in Madrid that will offer an updated overview of the sector and the innovations of the discipline in the region. As usual, the exhibition will bring together different types of design works following a common thread that make up five thematic axes: “Identity and Territory”, “Intersections”, “Internationalization”, “Sustainability” and “Complicities” .FSWD is a project organized by READ that was born with the impetus of the Ministry of Culture and Sport of the Government of Spain. This time, the exhibition is part of the program of the seventh edition of the Madrid Design Festival.Juan Lázaro (Cuenca Diseña), Gloria Escribano (TELL ME), Uqui Perumi (DAY), Ángel Martínez (ADCV) are the curators of the exhibition and coordinators of the FSWD project within READ.

The exhibition will have a program of complementary activities with the presence of designers and designers as well as companies participating in the edition. The works include creations by established designers such as the iconic one Follow Me, by Inma Bermúdez; Totem, by Martín Azúa; Anemone, by Idoia Cuesta or the Consecrated Boot, November Studio with pieces by emerging designers working in new areas of design, such as the B chairOlina, by Amalia Puga or La Fresca, by Granada Barrero; the box Amelia, of Cenliters square meters or the Vélez Collection, by Leblume Studio.

Among the twenty participating DIMAD members are: Belén Moneo, Lucas Muñoz, A Happy World, Noviembre Estudio, Superstudio and Dsignio, among others.UDIT SPACEThe exhibition includes a space that houses a selection of student projects from the areas of UDIT Product Design and Graphic Design, University of Design, Innovation and Technology, institution that has joined this edition of From Spain With Design in a clear commitment and commitment to Spanish design.

This is a journey through some of the best projects devised in recent years by young emerging designers trained at the institution and with a promising professional future ahead of them. Creations from the Official university degree in Product Design in Spain, where many of the thematic axes of this exhibition converge, above all, the line of work on sustainability, but also its international projection and the relationship with users. An interesting quarry to give visibility and dissemination and that can afford to dialogue, with pride and in a sensible way, with the set of proposals that form the exhibition of studios and design companies that are part of FSWD.

‍The product designers trained at UDIT who exhibit their creations at FSWD are Sergio Sesmero, Livia de Prado, Natasha París, Paula Varela, Borja Gomendio, Sofía Martín, Celia Martín, Guillermo Cuellas, Eduardo Rodríguez, Claudia Abrisqueta, Soogyeom Kim and Belén Serrano. For their part, the graphic designers trained at UDIT who exhibit their work in the exhibition are Lara Lussheimer, Carla Goldstein, Raquel Blázquez and Pablo García Robla. More information: READ La Fábrica UDIT