Young companies and emerging product, furniture and textile designers will be presenting inspiring ideas and innovative textile developments at next year’s Heimtextil (9 to 12 January 2013) fair in Frankfurt, Germany.
With a wide-ranging programme aimed at promoting young talent, the international trade fair for home and contract textiles is putting the next generation centre stage. "It's a win-win situation that simply couldn't be any better. Young people show what they are capable of doing and where things might be headed. And people with more experience can find inspiration and exciting product ideas, or even new talent for their own companies," summarises Olaf Schmidt, Vice President of Textiles & Textile Technologies at Messe Frankfurt.
For the seventh time, the Campus special show will be focusing on young design from Europe's next generation of creative talent. In cooperation with bestofdesign.org powered by rooms for free e.V. based in Berlin, Hall 4.2 will host a special exhibition featuring leading European design colleges and universities. Students and graduates will be presenting themselves and their ideas for textile design to an international public. Alongside German colleges and universities, European academies will also be represented, including from Estonia, Finland, Poland, Switzerland, Slovakia and Hungary. As a non-European guest, Brazil's Orbitato University will be showing its work at a national pavilion. Heimtextil's trade visitors may look forward to inspiring ideas for bath, bed and table at New & Next. Outstanding young companies will be displaying their collections and new products in Halls 8, 9 and 11. New & Next is to provide start-ups with the opportunity to present themselves to an international audience at Heimtextil. The newcomer platform focuses on highlighting innovative designs and product ideas. Participating companies include Sweden's Aquavireo, the Netherlands' The Soft World and Germany's Lenz & Leif, Peppa Grace and Robespierre Europe.
Heimtextil also provides a cross-disciplinary source of inspiration for young design. After its impressive debut last January, the Frankfurt School for Apparel and Fashion once again is presenting inspiration from the world of fashion. As part of the presentation in Hall 11.0, the next generation of designers will be unveiling their own work and exploring colour trends, zeitgeist and the 2013 fashion visions.
