Monte Horizonte

‘Revolution 99/09‘a new exhibit at  Experimenta Design, points to the future through the retrospective of the past decade where Portugal went through a design revolution- The exhibition “Revolution 99/09,” is now open to public at the Palace of the Barão de Quintela e Conde de Farrobo (paragraph 70 of Alecrim Street, Lisbon) until September 5, 2010.

This retrospective organized by Experience Design (EXD) may appear like a collection of objects from everyday Portuguese life in recent years. The 420 pieces of “Revolution 99/09″ component, according to Guta Moura Guedes, president of Experience Design, “are more representative of the Portuguese design of the last ten years,” with a clear focus on the future of design , instead of any nostalgia for the past. Apart from the gas cylinder Pluma, designed by Rui Sampaio de Faria, the exhibition, divided between product design and graphic design, contains some products that have come to be ubiquitous (as the machine Qosmo, Daniel Caramelo) or at least recognized by the general public (such as Keybag, Joao Sabino),. This was not the story of a “silent revolution, but an invitation to the discovery of a generation of creators. It is also the part of the new partnership between Experience Design and the Institute of Visual Arts, Design and Marketing (IADE). ”