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After ten days of hard work, fun, presentations and emotions the Rabotilnica 2011 is now over.

We had 18 designers and 14 manufacturers on board:

We are proudly presenting the photos from our exhibitions at Sofia Design Week in June, 2011.

We exhibited at the Water tower in Lozenetz, and in the MKB Union Bank.

There were 26 products presented in total from 14 designers.

The exposition provoked high interest from the public and fans of the Bulgarian design. Hope you enjoy the photos as we did the show!

This year's dates are announced - the new Rabotilnica workshop will start on the 15th and finish on the 25th June 2011.

How does it work?

The manufacturers give assignments(task briefs) based on which the designers/teams develop conceptual proposals. If a project is approved, the manufacturer and the designer/team continue with the product's joint development until the new design goes into production. A non disclosure agreement is signed in advance by the manufacturer and the designer/team.

On the workshop this year the participants can choose to work as a team or independently.

The application deadline is: 15/04/2011

If you want to participate, please send your CVs and portfolios at: This email address is being protected from spambots. You need JavaScript enabled to view it.

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Once again, this year CHERGA will take part in the World of the Furniture '2010 show - the biggest furniture show in Bulgaria. Many thanks to the Bulgarian Timber chamber and Bulgarreklama agency for this opportunity!

Please feel welcome to come at stand A19, hall 2 to say HI and to see our last projects and prototypes.

If you want to register for free entry to the show, please follow this link:

Free entry registration

After ten days of hard work and loads of emotions on the 22nd of June 2010, workshop Rabotilnica'2010 was completed.

Twenty-eight projects in total from 7 teams were shown at the final presentations. It is expected soon to be known which ones exactly will be chosen for manufacture and mass production.

Twenty-two designers in total took part in workshop Rabotilnica'2010 – 15 from Bulgaria and 7 from Austria, Poland, France, Germany and the Netherlands:

Boris Simeonov
Valentin Vodev
Velichko Velikov
Vladislav Vassilev
Volen Valentinov
Gloria Angelova
Diana Lazarova
Elena Draganova
Evgeni Kralev
Irena Pamukovs
Krassi Dimitrov
Martin Naydenov
Nikolay Mihaylov
Nevena Mitkova
Svetlana Stancheva
Brit Leissler 
Johem  Faudet
Marco Dessi 
Macjek Wojcicki
Maja Ganszyniec 
Olivia Decaris 
Rainer Mutsch

On the manufacturers’ side 5 companies took part with 10 briefs in total:

Valinor LTD - www.valinordesign.com
Ideal Standard Vidima Plc. - www.idealstandard.com
Nikrom Mebel Plc. - www.nikrommebel.bg
Tesy LTD – www.tesy.com
Total-M – www.total-m.com

Official sponsor of the event is LIGNA Consult LTD – Bulgarian furniture cluster and business consultant – elected for top entrepreneur in 2010 for Bulgaria - http://ligna-consult.com
In the beginning of the workshop presentations of the designers taking part were made, as well as of the companies from the cluster, regarding manufacturing opportunities, work on joint intentions and ideas on future collaboration. We created many new and useful contacts and exchanged impressions and thoughts on the development of the industry in Bulgaria and over the world.

On the presentations of the projects at the end of the workshop Rabotilnica, the manager of Total-M – Mitko Gatev praised the designers Olivia Decaris, Brit Leissler , Maja Ganszyniec, Johem  Faudet, Evgeni Kralev, Martin Naydenov, Elena Draganova and Velichko Velikov for respectively – most creative solution, best design, best presentation and  total solution. Mr. Peter Peryanov from Nikrom Mebel Plc expressed his enthusiasm and full support from his company to the conduct of the upcoming workshops Rabotilnica, and pointed this way of collaboration as a real working and interesting one to the Bulgarian manufacturers.
The main goals we had in front of us as organisers were reached – promotion of the Bulgarian designers and manufacturers, teamwork, exchange of experience, good outcomes and an effective relation between designers and manufacturers.
As main conclusions from this workshop, I can summarise in few words the impressions from the designers – this form of collaboration is interesting and useful to both sides, the results showed good understanding of the matter and effective work, despite of the short term. The interaction between designers and manufacturers will continue even after the workshop in different ways and on different projects.
The final products and for more information regarding their development, you’ll be able to see on www.rabotilnica.com and www.cherga.org


Velichko Velikov
Cherga Co-ordinator
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