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James wins Award for the Best Verona 2009 YDMI Designer.

James van Vossel was acclaimed winner of the YDMI for Europe prize, after an exciting Pecha Kucha durino which the 6 finalists exposed themselves for a second time for the public and the complete jury. Displaying his capacity to communicate and seduce the public with a cartoon in which his products and projects were inserted in a humorous way, next to his talent and skill as a designer in itself, made of James a happy winner, in a extremely high qualified group of other finalists.

YDMI for Europe is a window on the new design generation; an exhibition on the fair, a prize, a pecha- kucha, meetings with entrepreneurs and workshops with experienced professionals from within the business. This is in short what YDMI for Europe stands for. An idea conceived by Termitestudio, and inserted amongst the special events within the XXIV edition of Abitare il Tempo in Verona (Italy). 30 young talents pre-selected from Italy, Germany and Belgium have participated to this first international edition:

GERMANY
Sebastian Herkner, Mark Braun, Laura Straßer, Reihnard Dienes, Kevin Fries and Jakob Zumbühl from Fries & Zumbühl, Uli Budde, Steffen Kehrle, Elisa Strozyk, Marco Dessi

ITALY
Luca Centofante, Matteo Cibic, Tommaso Colia, Clara Giardina, Andrea Mazza from Maquis-Design, Stefano Merlo, Simone Simonelli, Brian Sironi, Angela Violino from Atelier Doodle, Oliviero Zanon from Bigio Zanon Design

BELGIUM
Benoît Deneufbourg, Charlotte Lancelot, Maarten De Ceulaer, James Van Vossel, Pooja Sahny, Damien Gernay from Dustdeluxe, Helena Schepens, Dries Verbruggen and Claire Warnier from Unfold, Jeff Rutten

Head of jury: Matteo Moretti (VISTOSI)

Organisation Termitestudio, Mirko van den Winkel, Carolin Sara Pein, Giovanna Massoni.