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The COVID-19 boom was not undoubtedly positive for e-commerce – interview with Balázs Várkonyi
Everything is becoming more digital these days, especially shopping. What are the challenges in this environment for one of the largest online retailers in the region? Can the extra revenue from the pandemic be fully seen as a blessing? We asked these questions from Balázs Várkonyi, CEO of eMAG, a
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Pandemic beyond reality
The works of the Slovak photographer Andrea Koporová are easily recognizable for their special characteristics: spaces filled with a surreal atmosphere, vivid color tones, sensitive female figures, and symmetrical compositions form the photographer’s visual world. In her latest series of photographs, she elevates the visualization of the coronavirus and
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Thanks, corona!—Part 4 | NON+
Sarolta Kiss is not only focusing on developing her brand, but also her own inner self, regardless of the COVID situation. The team behind the brand known for its simple, comfortable and spontaneous pieces has already been building NON+ consciously and carefully before the pandemic: when a lot of Hungarian
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Thanks, corona!—Part 1 | AB Concrete Design
She has been experimenting with new materials, launched a zero-waste Facebook group, and is currently designing plant potting systems for a company developing green walls: Anita Boldog, the founder of the brand AB Concrete Design, creating custom-made concrete objects, has not been idle even in the midst of coronavirus changes.
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Memorial wall for coronavirus victims
Loved ones of the British citizens who died of Covid-19 drew almost 150,000 hearts on a wall opposite the Houses of Parliament in London.
Organizers of the movement wanted to visually represent the number of lives the new coronavirus has taken in the past year without being political. Each
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Virus and vaccine in the cake counter | Černá Madona
There is no doubt that the coronavirus epidemic has turned the world completely upside down. The changed circumstances present us with more and more challenges, which often give rise to very creative solutions—a confectionery in Prague, for example, came up with coronavirus and vaccine sweets.
In the center of
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A street lamp offers protection against the virus | Urban Sun
The Danish team of Studio Roosegaarde has designed a lamp that can disinfect spaces using far-ultraviolet (far-UVC) light that is harmless to humans, thus reducing the spread of coronavirus in public spaces.
The lamp called Urban Sun might also help make outdoor events, such as the Olympics or the Biennale,
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Best of HYPE 2020
As a way of closing this anything-but-easy year blown apart by the pandemic, our team has compiled the shortlist of the Best of the Best articles released on HYPEANDHYPER this year featuring Hungarian projects. Check out the list and read your favorites again!
Object Fetish warm-up! – In pursuit of the
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Budapest Design Week will be held in a hybrid form this year
Several programs of Hungary’s most significant design events will be held in the online space this year between October 1 and 11.
The coronavirus is inescapable also from the perspective of design, thus it received a great role in the program of the 17th Budapest Design Week, too. In
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Design x Covid-19 | 9 projects inspired by the epidemic
It’s time that we slowly emerge from our sheltering homes and try to get back to
our old habits: instead of the two corners of a bench, we meet our friends at a
table of a café, instead of running, we use the park for sunbathing, or if we
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London Design Biennale postponed
Not only has the coronavirus pandemic disrupted the world of sports, it has also
rearranged the scheduled events of the art scene completely. And now the London
Design Biennale [https://www.londondesignbiennale.com/] has become one of them.
The third edition of the global design muster is postponed to next
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Resting aircrafts on Tom Hegen's aerial shots
In his latest photo series, Tom Hegen [https://www.behance.net/TomHegen]
investigates the role of aviation in our globalized world and portrays the
current shutdowns in artistic silence.
Aviation is one of the key factors for globalization. Since the beginning of
civil aviation, goods and people could be transported
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Brain Bar 2020 postponed
The coronavirus epidemic infuses almost every segment of our lives – our world
is facing entirely new challenges. To this end, the biggest European festival on
future will expressly focus on restarting after the crisis under the title
Reboot!, now in September instead of the previously announced date in June. The
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Pura-Case | sanitization with ozone
Viruses and bacteria can survive for long periods on our clothes, too. And now
due to Covid-19, we need to pay even more attention to hygiene. This is where
the new, wardrobe-sized and completely futuristic structure using ozone to
purify our clothes comes into the picture.
The Italian Carlo Ratti
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Stay Sane – Stay Safe | Posters to find strength in
Two Hague-based design studios launched one of the most inspiring Covid-19
community projects: they created a platform where graphic designers can upload
the posters they designed for encouraging health care workers or those
struggling with saying home.
During the epidemic, the most important is to stay sane – but that’s
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Object fetish warm-up! – In pursuit of the coronavirus set
The Object Fetish series that debuted in spring 2019 will launch again soon, in
which design theorists Kitti Mayer and Piroska Novák will go after the
emblematic objects. Until then, here is a brief yet relevant investigation as a
warm-up.
Written by Piroska Novák
In the past few weeks, many
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Living (space) after the epidemic | A designer’s angle
Although the lockdown will not last longer than a few weeks, maybe months, the
experience will probably leave a longer-lasting mark on our lives, way of living
and living spaces, too. The time spent forcibly at home, home office, being
locked in and together all have their lessons already at
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Optimism in the crisis
How could we be optimists when we get a live show of the apocalypse (or
something very similar) every time we turn our TV or computer on? Good question.
The majority of human history was not written by optimists, but they shaped it,
for sure. In other words: most of
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Burning Man festival will be organized virtually this year
Burning Man festival has been cancelled for the first time in thirty years, as a
result of the pandemic, of course. After lengthy discussions, the organizers of
the festival announced last week that they are not willing to take the risk in
the current situation, as 80 thousand people gather
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Prague supports the cultural sector with a pseudo festival
When it’s about nothing, it’s possible to hold a festival even amidst the
coronavirus. Although the Prague-based Festival of Nothing 2020 does not offer
any programs, it still represents great values.
The Covid-19 pandemic has put several sectors in an impossible position,
including performance art and visual art.
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From hotels to home office | A response to the crisis from Amsterdam
The hospitality and hotel industries found themselves in an extremely difficult
position owing to the pandemic. Two hotels in Amsterdam, however, attempt to
survive the situation with a seemingly successful rebranding strategy: now they
offer their rooms transformed into private work spaces to the employees wishing
to escape from their
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SheltAir | Isolation tents for coronavirus patients
These airtight tents suitable to accommodate and isolate an entire family can be
erected within eight hours. The construction designed by German architectural
engineer Gregory Quinn was inspired by Bedouin tents and soon they may be used
in a wide scale.
One of the greatest challenges coronavirus imposed on us
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Tipton | Glasses for all the heroes!
Tipton Global Kft. offers the entirety of glasses produced by it this year to
health care workers, and the distributors of lenses also joined their
initiative. Complemented with an eye test, the doctors and nurses can get new,
high quality glasses within a short period of time, completely free of
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Ádám Miklósi | Face shield for health care workers
Ádám Miklósi has designed a cheap face shield that can be manufactured in large
quantities for health care workers and law enforcement officers. The designer is
looking for manufacturers and collaborating partners!
There are many doctors in the family and amongst the friends of Ádám Miklósi
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vital houses | Mobile health centers during epidemics
We see more and more responses to the coronavirus pandemic on the field of
architecture, too: for example, the Dutch Studio Prototype would combat future
outbreaks with temporary health centers.
The project titled “vital house” started off from the weakest point of the
covid-19 pandemic: the response time and capacity
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Designers vs. coronavirus
We compiled our favorite designers’ reactions to the coronavirus into a little
bunch.
Labrosse Dani’s [https://www.daniellabrosse.art/] illustrations call attention
to the fact that even though the disease is most probably not harmful for young
and healthy people, we should still stay at home if we can,
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Freely downloadable design magazines for the time of the quarantine
The design and fashion magazines also had a quick reaction to coronavirus – with
regard to the epidemic, you can read their latest April issues free of charge
online. And no matter how much we like the smell of fresh prints and the
experience of flipping through the magazines, we are
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Inhale deeper: OFF Biennial is postponed due to the pandemic
The art and design festivals and fairs of the world are postponed one by one
owing to the exponentially growing coronavirus epidemic. Unfortunately
OFF-Biennial Budapest [https://offbiennale.hu/] planned to be hosted between
April 24 and May 31 shares this fate, too.
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