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Design Consciousness Week

Manila Manila, Philippines

Every year, the Republic of the Philippines celebrates Design Consciousness Week during the third week of October as a proud cultural heritage. The festival this year will take place from October 21 to 27. The Design Center of the Philippines organizes the week to celebrate the creativity and quality of design in the Philippines, as […]

Design Week South Africa

Cape Town (South Africa) Cape Town, South Africa

Design Week South Africa, powered by Yoco, is a curated calendar of events and immersive experiences that will showcase the future of South African design, through knowledge-sharing, inclusivity and support. Together with Yoco, our mission is to create South Africa’s leading design platform. A platform that celebrates design as an expression of creative thinking and making, creates connections, jumpstarts […]

2024 Taiwan Design Expo

Tainan Tainan, Taiwan

The 2024 Taiwan Design Expo returned to Tainan for the fifth time, drawing over 4.2 million visitors over its 16-day exhibition! Under the theme “The Next 400” and celebrating Tainan’s 400th anniversary, the Expo showcased the city’s historical culture, local lifestyles, manufacturing and emerging industries, circular design, future urban planning, and revitalized heritage sites. WDO […]

Design Mumbai 2024

Mumbai (India) Mumbai, India

Design Mumbai is a celebration of great design. It is a fresh new international trade show for contemporary designers, architects and interior designers, capturing the creative energy and consumer power of the world’s 5th biggest economy. Leading international and Indian brands and designers are hand-picked and impeccably curated to create a show of the very […]

Geelong Design Week 2024

Geelong Geelong, Australia

Geelong Design Week is an annual event that celebrates Geelong’s UNESCO City of Design status by offering a vibrant array of workshops, exhibitions, and talks that highlight cutting-edge innovation, sustainable practices, and creative problem-solving across multiple design disciplines. This dynamic event fosters extensive community engagement and international collaboration, reinforcing Geelong’s reputation as a global leader […]

Business of Design Week (BODW) 2024 Summit

Hong Kong SAR , Hong Kong

Business of Design Week (BODW), Asia’s premier annual event on design, innovation and brands since 2002, is organised by Hong Kong Design Centre. The week-long mega event will feature a variety of programmes, including the BODW Summit, BODW in the City, GBA Creative Fortnight, as well as concurrent exhibitions and forums. The event provides a […]

Taiwan Design Week 2024 – The Gateway

Taiwan (Chinese Taipei) , Taiwan

In the 1968 sci-fi classic 2001: A Space Odyssey, an ape gains intelligence after encountering a mysterious black monolith, marking the dawn of its awareness of tools. Today, amidst the global AI boom, we’re like pioneers of a new Neolithic Age, eagerly exploring this brand-new “stone tool.” The 2024 Taiwan Design Week Theme Pavilion is […]

Maison & Objet 2025: Surreality

Paris (France) Paris, France

Exactly 100 years since the Surrealist Manifesto, this artistic movement continues to inspire, provoke, and electrify creation in all its forms. Starting in January, with the theme Sur/Reality, Maison&Objet will tap into its ever-fertile energy and the lasting resonance it holds for consumers.

DesignTO 2025

Toronto (Canada) Toronto, Canada

DesignTO Festival isn’t just about events, it’s about making real change. Celebrating 15 years of impact, DesignTO brings people together to design a better future that’s sustainable, just, and joyful. As Canada’s largest non-profit design festival, the 10-day event features 100+ free events and exhibitions, both online and in-person, across Toronto.

Bengaluru Design Week 2025

Bengaluru Bengaluru, India

BLR Design Week (BDW) highlights the constantly evolving nature of design and its ever-increasing role in shaping our city. We are proud to announce Bengaluru's nomination as the inaugural World Design Protopolis by the World Design Organization. Over the next five years (2023-2028), this transformative program will empower Bengaluru with invaluable design knowledge, fostering positive […]

Stockholm Design Week 2025

Stockholm (Sweden) Stockholm, Sweden

February 3–9 2025, Stockholm Design Week invites all to a city buzzing with events, exhibitions and open showrooms. The design week welcomes professionals, industry insiders and the public from all over the world to participate in design events and product launches in the city – to meet, mingle and network. Our aim is to push […]

Ahmedabad Design Week 2025

Ahmedabad (India) Ahmedabad, India

Design needs to be celebrated, for it is a gleaming testimony of the ability of human beings to translate thoughts into patterns which can be understood and forged into applications to further enhance lives of all species. Ahmedabad Design Week (ADW) is a global confluence of designers, thinkers, academicians, researchers, industry captains, and entrepreneurs who […]

Auckland Design Week 2025: Chance + Change

Auckland, New Zealand Auckland, WA, New Zealand

Auckland Design Week is all about sparking collaboration, interaction, and the exchange of ideas within the design community – whilst also inspiring and educating design enthusiasts. Our curated programme is designed to foster creativity and innovation, with a focus on driving commercial growth across the design sector.

Nairobi Design Week

Nairobi (Kenya) Nairobi, Kenya

Nairobi Design Week 2025 invites us to view ourselves through a profound lens: as ancestors. This theme encourages us to think about the legacy we are creating and the impact we have on future generations. It is a call to action for all designers, creatives, and artists, to contribute to a narrative that transcends time. […]

Perth Design Week 2025

Perth Perth, Australia

Perth Design Week is a ‘coalition of the willing’ - a group of people and organisations Sandy and David are leading, working together to create this event. The project started as a collaboration, the idea being that there is a broad array of design based organisations with budgets for their own individual annual events. If […]

Traditional GoinGreenGlobal Design Week 2025

Ljubljana (Slovenia) Ljubljana, Slovenia

Traditional GoinGreenGlobal Design Week 2025, taking place from March 31 to April 4, 2025, the event will feature lectures, interactive workshops, Design Talk roundtables, student exhibitions, and the 8th international scientific conference A.L.I.C.E., under the theme "Designing a Sustainable Future: Society 5.0 & Global Innovation." A key event in collaboration with WDO’s Young Designers Circle, […]

Design March

Reykjavik (Iceland) Reykjavik, Iceland

Iceland's annual design festival that transforms the most northerly capital of the world into one big venue for design.  Join us in Reykjavík and explore the Icelandic design scene! From fashion to furniture, architecture to the environment, food to product design, digital design to innovation, the festival showcases the best of the local design scene […]

Tigullio Design District – TDD

Gulf of Tigullio Gulf of Tigullio (Portofino Coast), Italy

Tigullio Design District - TDD is the first international event organized in Liguria, Italy, dedicated to design and specifically to major themes related to the sea and nautic, the outdoor and obviously lifestyle, being developed in the splendid scenery of Gulf of Tigullio, between Genoa and the 5 lands. A new design location for all […]

Salone del Mobile Milano 2025

Milano (Italy) Milano, Italy

The 2025 Salone del Mobile is back as the star of the design calendar: the leading international event for the design industry will be held from 8th to 13th April, at Milan’s Rho Fiera fairgrounds. Set up in 1961, the trade fair boasts a wide range of furnishing products, distinguished by their expressive power and […]

Shenzhen & Milan Lifestyle Week

Milan (Italy)

To implement the vision of strengthening industrial cooperation between China Guangdong and Italy in design, fashion, and investment, the 2025 Shenzhen & Milan Lifestyle Week will be held during Milan Design Week. The event will include activities like Shenzhen-Milan brand exchanges, culture sharing, and industry-innovation integration. It will foster investment between Shenzhen Longhua and Milan, […]