Unpredictable products created by the newest winners of the Hungarian Design Awards – now celebrating its 35th year of aesthetic assessment – are now on view at Budapest's Museum of Applied Arts through November 2. Along with trendy attire and fanciful furniture, the exhibition also features a typographical breakthrough for our digital age and an eco-friendly agricultural-barrier system that could help halt the impact of rising ocean levels.

Hungarian artists could enter projects into four divisions. In

the category of products, award-winners included the

small sailboat by

Dávid Bereczki

named Primus dinghy, a tiny

yet fully functional

vessel that has

modern lines, a safe structure, and uses materials that are

cost-effective, while

respecting the buyers' needs.The autumn/winter 2014/15 collection of Dóri Tomcsányi also received an award, with clothing inspired by the vibrant

atmosphere of the '60s and '70s.

The prizewinner of the plan category offers an answer to a global problem. CALTROPe, designed by the

S'39 Artist Collective , is basically a grand-scale

fortification

system designed in response to the effects of global warming, which is causing

rising sea levels to pose a serious threat to

many estuaries. Amid

the eco-friendly elements contained

in the modules envisioned by

S'39, mangrove trees can easy take root, which can protect territories behind the fortified area. Mangrove forests can resist strong tides, and the thick roots can help fill the coastal terrain with alluvium.

One project awarded in the category of visual communication

is the universal font system created by

Ádám Katyi .

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can be read easily both in print and in digital format, and is is not just utilizable, but we think it is also admirable from an aesthetic point of view.

The professional judges distributed two

awards in the category for

students. Sára Ulrich created a high-quality

experimental typographic interpretation of the writings of Italo Calvino, while

Dániel Nagy

earned the prize by creating the imagery

of the Lamantin Jazz Festival, with a

concept including the event's logo, website, and posters.
Apart from the products

mentioned above, we saw many types of objects and plans: some of them offer a solution to global problems, like the vision

of
Carlos Alberto Vasques

offering a way to reuse gray water after it

goes down the drain in our

shower.
Diána Nagy

created an illustrated Japanese-Hungarian dictionary, which helps readers understand the grammatical differences between the two languages. A

collection of fake fur by

Natália Gyulai

was also acknowledged, just like the highly effective fireplace of
Fireplace

Gyártó és Kereskedelmi Kft., and Tamás Erdélyi's HBH Cube, which can offer help with a

street-based workout.

Apart from the awarded projects, the exhibition contained many interesting and beautiful objects, like Attitude shoes

(which can be almost mistaken as

haute couture), the Lechner watches that could compete with Swiss clock brands, and the origami bags of Ákos Balla (Zwara). It is really worth taking the time to look around and see everything, especially since some of these items might just become commonplace in the future. Additionally, in honor of the competition's 35th anniversary, the

exhibit

also includes

retro articles, so that we can see how much the world and design have changed in the last three-and-a-half decades.