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By Le Vin Chin, with additional material by Oliver Spies & Annette Bruns

Berlin's always buzzing and this June will be no different! This year's DMY International Design Festival in Berlin, entitled “Same same, but different”, is the 7th edition and will take place between June 3 and 7.

Billing itself a "a scene-meeting place, trend barometer, design laboratory and playground", DMY is a huge endeavor, covering established designers (The "DMY Allstars" exhibition, with more than 150 works at the ÏMA Design Village), up-and-coming designers (the "DMY Youngsters" exhibition at the Arena Berlin), a symposium (at the Kunstfabrik Am Flutgraben) and a whole plethora of other events, exhibitions and installations (under the "DMY Extended" umbrella). An all-star jury (incl. Jurgen Bey, Jerszey Seymour, Jürgen Meyer H., Bless & Kyoka) will present awards for the best designs of the festival at a special ceremony, and the winning projects will later be showcased at an exhibition at the Bauhaus-Archiv/Museum für Gestaltung in August.

© 2009 Oliver Spies

We at XYMARA.com are proud to be attending this year's DMY International Design Festival together with designers Oliver Spies and Annette Bruns, who will be presenting "colorpop - cares for colors: exhibition for new colordesigns" at the Visual Research Gallery (you may remember they also hosted the "Maximal Reduction" fixed-gear bike exhibition last year) in Kastanienallee from June 3 to 17.

© 2009 Oliver Spies

"After 16 years of experience in product, fashion and graphic design, the design couple Annette Bruns and Oliver Spies has specialized in the research of worldwide color and material trends for the last 9 years. The two designers show "colorpop“, their limited editions of experimental color applications. With these productions they focus on their interest in the increasing possibilities of innovative compositions color."

© 2009 Oliver Spies

Among other things, at the "colorpop" show you'll have another chance to see the fantastic surfboards, skateboards and fixed-gear bikes we showed before, at the recent European Coatings Show in Nuremberg, all coated with surface colors and effects using our latest technologies. We hope you can make it!

The first chrome-plated surfboard in the world © 2009 Oliver Spies