Inspiration, imagination, passion, creation, illustration, ideas, colours, logos and designs. These will be the main stars of this year’s ‘Toolkit Designers’ Meeting’. This is what defines, shapes and helps evolve limits, perspectives, images, thoughts and objects around us. In order to conquer the final goal. And what is that goal? Communication.

After two successful events, ‘Toolkit Designers’ Meeting’ is back, expanded and more creative than ever. Materialising the vision of the Design Toolkit organising team, ‘Toolkit Designers’ Meeting 2016′ has evolved into a meeting that is addressed to the young and old whose common characteristic is their passion for and involvement in design.

This year’s event focuses on the broader concept of design, on its various practices and professional applications. The programme will include speeches by established design professionals, seven specialised workshops, poster, silk screen print, and industrial design exhibitions, as well as an international poster design competition, with an exhibition of outstanding participants’ work. Last but not least comes ExpoWorkshops, which is the exhibition of the results – works of workshop participants and which is held after the end of the event.

The design community in Greece is great and active. It is constantly renewed with young people. It communicates knowledge and builds synergies. This year’s Toolk Designers’ Meeting proves it.

Workshops
1) ‘The Recipe For Title Sequences’ with Tony Zagoraios
7-9/10, 10:00 – 14:00, AKTO College campus Thessaloniki

2) ‘Use Photography To Showcase Your Work’ with Strato Agiani
7/10, 10:00 – 15:00, AKTO College campus Thessaloniki

3) ‘Branding A Donkey’ with Ioannis Ergeletzis
7-9/10 , 10:00 – 14:00, AKTO College campus Thessaloniki

4) ‘Holistic design and communication’ with the Malvi team
7-9/10, 10:00 – 17:00, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art

5) ‘A Story of Paradoxes & Other Optical Illusions’ with Dionysis Tsasis & Emanuel Lakoutsis
7-9/10, 10:00 – 14:00, French Institute of Thessaloniki

6) ‘Textile Design in the Digital Era’ with Evridiki Papahristou
7-9/10 , 10:00 – 14:00, AKTO College campus Thessaloniki

7) ‘Fashion and styling designing’ with Thomais Papadimitriou
7-9/10 , 10:00 – 14:00, AKTO College campus Thessaloniki

Talks
8/10, 11:00, Macedonian Museum of Contemporary Art
– ‘Landscape Design vs. Design in landscape’ by Andreas Nassos
– ‘The power of teamwork and synergies in design: A tool for increasing creativity by Thanasis Babalis
– ‘Creating immersive experiences in 360 degrees  (passive VR)’ by Sergio KO & Alex Bardis
– ‘The unbearable lightness of architecture’ by Dimitris Koukoudis
– ‘The value of storytelling in 3d Architectural Visualization’ by Eleni Xoupa
– ‘3D Printing for creative minds’ by PlanFab
– ‘Into the wild: Freelance edition’ by Tommaso Taraschi
– ‘It’s not just about paper’ by Ariadni Perraki
– ‘Furniture design and repairability’ Tommy Papaioannou
– ‘Flirting between creation and production’ by Giorgos Milios

Exhibitions
7/10 – 16/10, French Institute of Thessaloniki
‘Poster for Tomorrow Retrospective’, posters from all over the world

6/10 – 10/10, TABYA
‘Poster Passion’, posters from designers from all over the world

7/10 – 10/10, Apodec
‘Form Follows Code’, creative code exhibition

6/10 – 10/10, TABYA
‘Don’t push your luck’, interactive illustration exhibition, with silk screen prints during the exhibition

8/10 – 16/10, Toss Gallery
‘Women’s Rights Are Human Rights’, poster exhibition on women’s rights around the world
For more information and to register for participation please visit www.designtoolkit.org

Co-organised with the Municipal Centre of Music and Dance of the M.T.