DEB DAUGHERTY, CNN ANCHOR: Leonardo Da Vinci once said simplicity is the ultimate sophistication and for the passion of simplicity, many art designs from Finland are on display in all of this year's nine European cultural capitals. What is so unique about the exhibit? Well, as Spain's Telecinco puts it, design is everything.</s>MARIA XOSE LOPEZ, TELECINCO (voice-over): From the factory to the stores and now to the museum, they are objects we use every day that often have been unnoticed to us. They are the target of this exhibition in Santiago de Campostella (ph). It serves as the Finnish design and takes place at the same time in the nine European capitals of culture.</s>TERESA GARCIA-SABELL, COUNCILWOMAN: Design is in our life every day. Whenever we open a tin, whenever we buy something, when we watch a television commercial or when we do anything, design is involves.</s>XOSE LOPEZ: At This Moment, designed from the north of Europe, is concerned about the use of materials that don't damage the environment. That is why in front of the modern mobile telephones and pouches we can find handmade traditional products or even the clothes made of recycled materials.</s>GARCIA-SABELL: The enterprises are those that have commercialized products and they really know what they want, what can be sold. It is not an experiment. It is an industrial design prepared for the sale.</s>XOSE LOPEZ: It is time to pay more attention to everything that surrounds us. This is Maria Xose Lopez from Telecinco for CNN WORLD REPORT.
Spanish Art Exhibits Proves Design is Everything