This year's Romanian Design Week featured a wide range of projects, from colourful wall paintings to carefully crafted ceramics. Angel Trinidad picks eight of the best projects on show from local designers.
Dezeen is media partner for the sixth edition of Romanian Design Week, which took place in Bucharest from 18 to 27 May 2018, in the art-deco Bucharest Telephone Palace.
The event featured over 150 projects from more than 100 of Romania's emerging designers, with particular strength in graphic design, illustration. Ceramics were also a highlight, with many exhibiting the "clumsy, simple but honest" style that characterises Romanian design.
Here are eight of the best things on show:

Flying Saucers by Kitra and Ubikubi
The enigmatic Kitra is a multi-disciplinary artist exploring illustration, toy design, street art and graphic design. His distinct visual style features the joyful use of primary colours and playful, abstract minimalist shapes which call out to be experienced, and not explained. At Romanian Design Week, he is showing a set of limited-edition painted plates designed to look like UFOs, made in collaboration with Romanian design brand Ubikubi.

Hehehe by Paul Dersidan
The eye-catching design and bold typography of fake-news newspaper Hehehe was created by Paul Dersidan, a graphic designer and art director from Bucharest, although he is currently based in Berlin.
The project questions the credibility and quality of editorial design, at a time when...