Czech designer Jan Čtvrtník has been receiving a great deal of recognition around the continent recently for one of his nifty pieces of glassware, highlighting the issue of climate-change. Čtvrtník’s vase - depicting a shrinking lake - won an international competition in Amsterdam in September, 2010.
To describe the designer's way of thinking he says: “Well, every day I’m thinking about how to put an environmental message across, and how to design products in a green way. So, every time I design something I am confronted with the need to make the product more sustainable. It is very hard though, but I am trying to do this, because it is my responsibility as a designer to offer people something which will not destroy the planet.”
For more information:
http://www.radio.cz/en/section/curraffrs/czech-eco-design-makes-british-headlines
To see the Czech film,
The Fridge withing the frames of the Screen Green! festival, go to the Goethe Institute on the 5th of November at 6.30pm. For tickets call
0207 596 40 00.
The other czech film,
Fish'n'Pills will be screened in the Ciné Lumiére (17, Queensberry Place) on the 8th of November. Book your tickets via phone: 0207 073 13 50 or on-line:
www.institut-francais.org.uk/book
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