Designers receive grants from Aurora Design Fund
Earlier this month the first grants from the Aurora Design Fund where handed out to several Icelandic designers. 7 grants where handed out to 7 different designers, in all eleven million krona and also two grants to two different collaborations, in all 1,5 million krona. The Fund was founded earlier this year by The Aurora Foundation.
The Funds purpose is to support those designers who excel in there work, to strengthen the grass root in design and to become a place of ideas and creative thinking in Icelandic design. With this, the Fund supports new development and start ups in Iceland. The receiving designers this year were Hugrun Arnadottir, Magni Þorsteinsson, Jon Bjornsson, Gudrun Lilja Gunnlaugsdottir, Katrin Olina, Linda Bjorg Arnadottir, Sara Maria Juliusdottir and Vik Prjonsdottir. The collaborations were the design exhibition “Icelandic Design 2009” and the Lettering of Gunnar Þ. Vilhjalmsson. More grants will be handed out this fall.
