Formafantasma have won a competition to design a new souvenir for the city of Vienna. The Vienna Tourist Board, in collaboration with European Home Run, invited a series of six designers to create a 3D keepsake showcasing Vienna's contemporary creativity, as envisioned through the eyes of fellow Europeans. Formafantasma's winning design was a set of playing cards, announced as the chosen project at a tourism conference hosted by the Vienna Tourist Board at the Museum of Applied Arts/Contemporary Art (MAK).
The jury said of its choice: "A deck of cards is something that is both useful and desirable. Studio Formafantasma's deck reflects their values as designers, and the culture and history of Vienna, in an unusually intelligent and sophisticated design exercise. They have reinvented something which has been used for centuries in Vienna's coffee houses. The symbolism on the cards presents a rich and nuanced protrait of the city and its history".
November 7, 2012