Why participate in Open Design Italia 2013?
What’s new for the 2013 exhibitors?
Open Design Italia offers to its selected exhibitors free training courses on property rights, marketing, communication and photography. Moreover, 15 lucky exhibitors will have the chance to meet sector experts (representatives from Alias, Desso NL, Leucos, Seletti, Jannelli&Volpi, Antonio Franceschini-Federmoda among others).
Another outstanding new opportunity for exhibitors is the crowdfunding contest in partnership with Eppela, the main reward-based Italian platform. This initiative allows the selected participants who wants to realize an idea or project to upload it on eppela.com (the minimum financing threshold for the projects is 1000 euros). The first three projects that will reach their budget by means of crowdfunding will automatically have access to Eppela’s space at 2014 Fuori Salone in Milan. Open Design Italia has chosen Eppela, the first Italian crowdfunding platform and financing projects from the bottom, because its philosophy is in line with our idea of a new, participative production modality, enabled by 2.0 web tools. Moreover, crowdfunding is an optimal financing tool for self-production design.
Open Design Italia means internationalization: we collaborate with our twin events DMY International Design Festival Berlin and Biennale Internationale Design Saint-Étienne, bringing important opportunities for our participants.