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Kreatív Online

The KELAKO Racing Seat racing simulator designed by Flying Objects design studio has won one of the most prestigious awards in the international design world, the Red Dot Design Award, including Best of the Best...

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Octogon

The KELAKO Racing Seat racing car simulator has won one of the most prestigious awards in the international design world, the Red Dot Design Award, including the Best of the Best, which is awarded only to the highest scoring projects in the category.

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Architects' Forum

The authors, Dorottya Füzesi, András Húnfalvi, Zsuzsa Kálmán and Márton Szentpéteri, worked for months to collect the materials, conduct personal interviews with Lengyel and his colleagues, and carry out field and archival research to document the history of the objects and their creator for the history of design.

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Kreatív Online

Flying Objects will receive the Red Dot Award in Berlin on November 3 for the brand identity and packaging design and brand refresh of the Balatonvilágos-based Hedon brewery.

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Ways of Creation by Andras Hunfalvi

What will the cars of the future look like and who will design them? What does a "smart coach" do on the football pitch? And what makes us really care about and love an object... like our grandmother's salt shaker? Dániel Tiszeker made a portrait film about Andras Hunfalvi, a young designer who has won numerous awards.

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Designisso: interview

Andras Hunfalvi is a versatile designer: he graduated as a car designer, and after his university years he founded the Flying Objects design studio with Ferenc Laufer, where they still work on a variety of projects, mostly for domestic clients.

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BrainBar Podcast

Does every designer product really have to be unique, or do designers also go to Ikea? How are the objects of tomorrow planned? Will the cars of the future roll out of mome's lab? A What's the question? in its latest episode, we talk to designer Andras Hunfalvi.

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Hype&Hyper

Ferenc Laufer, the product designer and founder of Flying Objects design studio, has designed many products. A project that has been dormant for a long time has recently taken actual physical form and is just waiting to conquer the domestic and international market.

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Hype&Hyper

He has designed an award-winning hand hygiene scanner, a smart and space-saving wheelbarrow, and has also reimagined the iconic Tisza Shoe SPORT footwear. About the work of designer Andras Hunfalvi, one of the founding designers of the Flying Objects design studio...

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Budapest Mosaic | Urban stories from Luca Patkós

The urban fabric is not only made up of buildings, streets and public spaces. Street signs, murals, public art and various visual elements are all tools to create a more liveable city, while also shaping its identity.

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Octogon: Kismaros

Kismaros has undergone a complex settlement identity change in the last few years. Until now, not many Hungarian cities have recognized the importance of city branding, and it is especially rare for the leadership of a municipality with a population of a few thousand to decide on a modern brand refresh. Flying Objects was responsible for the design, and they started the project in 2016…

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Brandguide Meetup

Flying Objects is a multidisciplinary, multiple Red Dot award-winning design studio with a diverse portfolio ranging from product design and packaging design to brand identity programs. In their presentation, they will present a project spanning several years. Creating the image of Kismaros is not just a visual design process

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Hype&Hyper

Flying Objects has won the profession's most prestigious award, the iF Design Award, for the second time, this time for the AX System, which accelerates and secures logistics operations.

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Forbes

Luca Patkós reached for the greatest classics when he created his posters that glowed in the dark. Delicacy, needlework, Caution, patience, courtesy! – just to mention the most well-known ones from the Pipe Project collection.

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Octogon

One of Hungary's most outstanding design teams has won the profession's most prestigious award for the second time with the AX System, which accelerates and secures logistical operations.

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Octogon

In design circles, no one needs an introduction to Flying Objects, the twice Red Dot award-winning studio that is now ten years old. Ferenc Laufer, one of the founders of the studio, recently launched a project whose idea is even older than FO: the Relief tile collection…

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Hype&Hyper

Andras Hunfalvi and Dániel Ruppert graduated from MOME in 2012 as vehicle designers, and during their university studies they both participated in the joint program of MOME and Mercedes. They now have an independent practice...

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Hype&Hyper

A new chapter is opening in the life of the Moholy-Nagy University of Art's vehicle design program. On July 1, the university's new vehicle design studio, the Mobility Design Lab, equipped with advanced machinery, will be inaugurated.

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MOME

The pandemic has been humanity's first shared global experience in a long time, and perhaps the first in terms of mediatization. We are not just watching the lives of others, but we are all living in this situation together. Since the outbreak of the epidemic, the question has been what the world will be like, and as the emergency subsides, the "new normal" will apparently no longer be what it used to be.

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Kreatív

Flying Objects received the iF Design Award for the AX System, which accelerates and secures logistics operations. The judging criteria included assessing the product's innovation and formal appearance.

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NOIZZ

A defining detail of Budapest's streets is the neon signs placed on buildings – mostly old ones – many of which no longer light up and advertise a long-gone company. Many believe that these advertisements are valuable and should be preserved as part of the capital city, therefore they advocate against their removal or for their placement in a museum.

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24.HU

It is thanks to a good personal relationship and a Hungarian moving home that there are an outstanding number of Hungarian designers at the largest car factories. We talk about the basics of car design and self-driving cars with Andras Hunfalvi, mome instructor and co-founder of Flying Objects. And why the 200 Ikarus is his favorite Hungarian vehicle.

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Totalcar

The Mercedes-Benz brand held its last so-called annual press conference before the virus. Such press events do not provide much to write about, although it is obviously important to know by what percentage the result has improved, not to mention if the Kecskemét factory can increase its output in a year of model change.

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Hype&Hyper

It is many times said that car design is the most complex field of industrial design. Designing a car is such a complicated task that dozens of designers work on it formed into several layers, from creating the concept to designing the last handle or the casing of the engine compartment.

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Budapester Zeitung

Ergonomics, usability, economy, marketing - there are many aspects that a product designer must consider in his work. His task is to design products in such a way that...

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Forbes

They burst onto the scene with an award-winning hand hygiene scanner, and today, one of the country's coolest designer teams can pick and choose its clients.

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Hype&Hyper

Last year, in collaboration with the two time Red Dot Design award-winning Flying Objects design studio, the Tisza team brought back an almost 35-year-old design to life: this way, Tisza SPORT could become fresh and attractive once again, in line with…

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Hype&Hyper

Unfortunately, very few of the glowing neon inscriptions that once shaped the cityscape, dear to everyone, remain in working condition today. However, thanks to Luca Patkós CSŐ! project, this situation seems to be improving: in the spring of 2020, the first light advertisement – the BATH – was completed, which the sold CSŐ! they renovated with money raised from posters.

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építészfórum

The latest pieces of the project's fluorescent posters have recently become available before Christmas. By purchasing the posters, we can support the renovation of Budapest's endangered, but valuable, neon signs. 

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Budapester Zeitung

Hundreds of neon signs once illuminated the streets of the Hungarian capital, advertising everything from hairdressers to bookstores to evening newspapers. But over time, the mostly artfully crafted billboards disappeared.

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Hype&Hyper

When the experts of the brand ANITATOTH dreamt up the packaging of their premium quality cosmetics products, their primary goal was to grasp the high quality and mold it into a physical form. They turned to Flying Objects Design Studio to help them reach their goal.

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Budapest Design Week

In Hungary, on the occasion of the World Design Day, three studios present subjective mini-videos at the invitation of the Hungarian Design Council, showing that design is an integral part of every moment of our lives...

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Hype&Hyper

In the cherished vintage warehouse of Tisza, a specific pair of shoes came to hand so many times that after a while, they felt the model deserved to be put into mass production after a thorough refresh…

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WAMP

The fan has become a somewhat forgotten object in recent decades, but now many have taken it out again, although the segment of people who actually use it is still narrow. Yet, on hot days or at a party, it is a very exciting accessory; one can dress to match it, but it can also enhance our appearance on its own.

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ATV

Neon tour in Budapest. Under the guidance of graphic designer Luca Patkós, we get to know the city's remaining neon advertisements.

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Hype&Hyper

Luca Patkós's CSŐ! project, the aim of which is to save and preserve neon signs in Budapest for posterity, has entered into a new life stage recently: owing to all the posters purchased, the first restored sign, FÜRDŐ (Bath) located under Kürt utca 4., is all finished up and shining again.

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YKRA

In our series, YKRA Faces, we introduce some Budapest-based creatives, who tell us stories about their daily routines and working methods and also give us a glimpse of what they keep in their YKRA backpacks. Our seventh guest is András Húnfalvi, product designer.

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építészfórum

The first neon renovation of the CSŐ!-project has been completed and the BATH neon sign on Kürt Street is happily lit again. The graphic designer Luca Patkós collects posters to renovate endangered neon signs in Budapest, and we can now see the first fruits of the project started last year.

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24.HU

Telenor's latest project, LovePlant, is an IoT-based smart device that communicates via the cloud, encouraging couples to communicate more attentively. As part of a challenge, the smart pot gives the couple small tasks for 30 days using a mobile application...

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STILBLOG

I don't think one needs a particular retro fascination to be a neon enthusiast. Neon signs are exciting not only in their objectivity and as an increasingly rare phenomenon, but also because of their typographic memorial value and their character, which once significantly defined the cityscape. They instantly bring back the atmosphere of the era in which they were born.

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Hype&Hyper

The neonification of Budapest began almost fifty years ago – beautiful typefaces and pleasant colors illuminated and made the cityscape distinctive. Főz-Süt-Fűt, Bambi, Méteráru, Csemege, just to name a few. A real golden age! Unfortunately, very few of these shining signs, beloved by everyone, remain in working order today.

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építészfórum

To save the few neons still in their original location, the CSŐ! set out to save it! By buying their posters, anyone can support the renovation of an endangered neon advertisement. Behind the initiative we find the graphic designer Luca Patkós, whom we asked by e-mail.

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Octogon

The heyday of neon advertising began in 1970 when the neonification of Budapest was ordered. Neon advertisements were made and repaired by the Neon Equipment Manufacturing Company. The company ceased to exist without a legal successor at the time of the regime change, after which the rapid decline of neon advertising began.

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PHENOM’ENON

ArtHungry's 46th week artefact is BZZZ Fans, which finished second in the 5th round. ArtHungry Award in its design category. We talked to the designers of the truly exceptional graphics, serially numbered fans, Szani Mészáros and Luca Patkós.

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WE LOVE BUDAPEST

Luca Patkós has created another collection of posters on which we can not only see our favorite inscriptions of our childhood, but also do something to save the iconic neons by buying them.

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marie claire

The "common child" of Szani Mészáros and Luca Patkós is BZZZ Fans, which was preceded by several years of careful planning. Both of them are graphic designers, they were groupmates even at the Hungarian University of Fine Arts, they have been friends for more than ten years.

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Fashion & Design

According to their own definition, the Flying Objects design studio won its second Red Dot award with a strikingly simple object, a wheelbarrow. During our visit to the company, we were able to learn about several of their successful projects.

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marie claire

In our new column, we visit the homes of creative professionals living in Budapest to learn some unique, inspiring interior design solutions from them. This time we visited Andras Hunfalvi, where even the most eclectic interiors are harmonious.

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hvg.hu

The Hungarian design studio, Flying Objects, won the Red Dot Award, considered the most prestigious international design award, for its foldable, easily transportable wheelbarrow.

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Hype&Hyper

"When I was twenty, I realized that my grandmother's household was a randomly assembled mini MoMA collection. Objects came into her kitchen during visits to relatives in West Germany..."

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24.HU

In its new series, 24.hu presents Hungarian designers – in one minute. Flying Objects is an independent design studio that won the Red Dot Award, considered the Oscar of the profession, in the third year of its existence.

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Kreatív

The Flying Objects studio won a prestigious international design award, the IF Design Award, for the design of a medical technology development: the DualScope stethoscope is capable of detecting heart malfunctions at a very early stage.

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NEIGHBOUR Art

He is quite a "Braun fanboy", he bought a KF21 Braun coffee maker a few weeks ago, just because, even though he doesn't drink coffee. His favorite moment in Budapest is when he has no idea where he is for a moment. His favorite is the Nürnberger...

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Forbes

Thirty successful young people under 30 who have become known (or should become known) to the country for their achievements – Forbes has approached them again. We have selected not only from the business world, but also from the world of culture and sports.

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Creative Mornings

Performance by Andras Hunfalvi and Ferenc Laufer at Cretive Mornings.

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hvg.hu

The Flying Objects design studio won the Red Dot Award, considered the most prestigious international design recognition, for the design of the hand hygiene scanner designed for Hand-in-Scan, also a Hungarian company.

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index.hu

It's completely real, no ad campaign or anything was needed: Flying Objects, a Hungarian company of just three years, won the Red Dot Award, the most prestigious competition in the design industry. They received the award this afternoon in Singapore.

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NOL

Flying Objects design studio is barely three years old, but they are already at their peak: they have practically won the most important domestic and international awards in the industry at the same time.

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HG.HU

This is what happens when a design and a startup company join forces and together create a truly innovative, useful, marketable and, last but not least, functional form!

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hvg.hu

BKV has been on track for 125 years, and the city administration is celebrating Budapest's excellent public transport throughout the year. The closing event is the Futour exhibition, which presents the futuristic wonder machines of MOME designers on paper and in model form. Allegedly, any of them could become a reality.

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