Owing to other commitments we have sadly been forced to cancel our trip to Belgrade Design Week.
Gutted. Is probably the best description of our emotions at the moment.
It was going to be our first visit to Belgrade, and after all the good and positive things we've heard... we were genuinely looking forward to it.
Aside from an interesting sounding series of lectures and talks from, amongst others, the likes of Arik Levy, Stefan Diez or Dieter "YELLO" Meier as part of the official design week programme, the parallel Mikser Festival promised some interesting new discoveries and impressions from those countries whose designers we normally don't get the chance to see.
As we say, gutted!
And so to make us feel a little better better we spoke to Martin Žampach, founder and editor of designeast.eu - a design blog dedicated to young, contemporary design in east and central Europe and probably the best reference source for information on who is doing what throughtout the region.
Martin is, needless to say, going to Belgrade.
