Śląska Rzecz (Silesian Thing) - awards for people associated with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice
Śląska Rzecz is a competition that recognises the high quality of design as well as functional and innovative design solutions. This year, only two awards did not go to people associated with the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice.
In this year's edition of the competition, awards were presented in the following categories:
product: Radical J16 - a sleeping bag designed for the coldest regions of the Earth. It is currently the warmest sleeping bag in the world (design: Wojciech Kłapcia; manufacturer: PSS Ewa Piątkowska-Pająk Pajak-Sport),
graphic design: 'Tychy: geometry of space' photo book (design: Zofia Oslislo-Piekarska, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice; photographs: Radosław Kaźmierczak; publisher: Tychy City Hall)
exhibition: 'Self-portrait of a craftsman. Exhibition of works by Bogdan Kosak' (design: Bogdan Kosak, lecturer at the Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice, Magdalena Niziołek, Agata Picheń-Kowalska; producer: Silesian Museum in Katowice).
Honourable mentions:
'With oneself and about oneself, or a meeting with a patient' - a monograph presenting the idea of therapeutic workshops; design: Anna Kopaczewska, lecturer at the AFAD in Katowice; authors: Jolanta Jastrząb, lecturer at the AFAD in Katowice, Katarzyna Krasoń; publisher: Academy of Fine Arts and Design in Katowice,
The new crown treasury - a permanent exhibition of the most important and valuable objects of Wawel; design: Wzorro Design s.c., producer: Wawel Royal Castle; authors: Natalia Jakóbiec, Katarzyna Pełka-Bura (lecturers of the AFAD in Katowice), Marcin Krater, Marta Żmija-Wojciuch, Karolina Wiśniewska, Anna Dudziak, Marta Milej (graduates of the AFAD in Katowice),
'Sign it to me! What am I doing?' – a book for parents of deaf children; design: Paulina Szuścik and Oliwia Michniewska, graduates of the AFAD in Katowice; publisher: Wydawnictwo Od.Nowa,
ankiety.migowisko.pl – a service for creating surveys accessible to deaf people (design and implementation: Łukasiewicz Research Network – Institute of Innovative Technologies EMAG).