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The Shakers: A World in the Making
2025-06-07 - 2025-09-28 | Vitra Design Museum, Charles-Eames-Straße 2, Weil am Rhein, 79576, Germany
In summer 2025, the Vitra Design Museum will present a major exhibition exploring the American Shaker community and their unique design culture. Established in the eighteenth century, the Shakers were a free church community that embraced social equality, communal property, and pacifism, viewing labour and design as crucial expressions of their faith. The Shakers’ radically simple, functional objects have had a profound influence on modern design, inspiring generations of artists, architects, and designers up to the present day. The exhibition will showcase a wide range of Shaker furniture, architecture, tools, and commercial goods, drawn primarly from Shaker Museum, Chatham (USA). Works by contemporary artists and designers enter into dialogue with the historic exhibits, reflecting on the Shakers’ enduring relevance.
An exhibition organised by the Vitra Design Museum, the Milwaukee Art Museum, the Institute of Contemporary Art Philadelphia, and the Wüstenrot Foundation.
In collaboration with Shaker Museum

Salone del Mobile Milano 2025
2025-04-08 - 2025-04-13 | 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 their functional, technological and material innovation, devised to enhance the domestic scene. Ingenuity, vision, innovation, sustainable excellence and emotion make up the familiar lexicon of the companies and brands that exhibit at the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, which has now been proved to be increasingly more global, inclusive and in dialogue with the entire creative and productive furnishing system. Each year, the trade fair gives shape to its mission as a laboratory of experimentation and cross-pollination, a place to meet, to interface and create new business opportunities. It is here that prototypes and innovations in terms of furnishings, domestic spaces and lifestyles are presented: bedrooms, living and dining areas, entrance corridors and service areas, outdoor spaces with their furniture and cupboards, upholstereds, tables and chairs set the scene for a narrative that starts with this room, exploring how the way we live is changing and, consequently, home living and furnishing.

Maison & Objet 2025: Surreality
2025-01-16 - 2025-01-20 | 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.

Ibero-American Design Biennial
2025-01-09 - 2025-03-02 | Central de Diseño del Matadero Madrid, P.º de la Chopera, 14, Arganzuela, Madrid, 28045, Spain
Tiles written in Braille for the blind walker; an immense water carafe for storing drinking water in precarious areas; pieces of handicrafts made with communities at risk of social exclusion or a catalogue that rescues the forgotten Argentine industrial production of the last century.
These are some of the projects on display at the ‘Expanded Design’ exhibition of the Ibero-American Design Biennial (BID24), an exhibition that brings together a selection of projects by the most outstanding design professionals from all over Ibero-America and which can be visited at the Central de Diseño del Matadero Madrid (P.º de la Chopera, 14, Arganzuela, 28045 Madrid) and whose duration has been extended until 2 March.

Naoto Fukasawa: Things in Themselves
2024-12-13 - 2025-04-20 | Philadelphia, Philadelphia, United States
Presenting fully-realized production designs alongside the studio’s working sketches and models for select projects, Things in Themselves offers a rare opportunity to explore Fukasawa’s design ethos—prizing an essential “fit” between objects, users, and their environments—and creative process. This exhibition accompanies the 2024 Collab Design Excellence Award, and marks the first major solo presentation of Fukasawa’s work at a U.S. museum.

Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti presentation of the new identity
2024-10-29 18:00 - 19:00 (Europe/Rome) | Ivrea, Torino, Italy
On the day that Camillo Olivetti founded “Ing. C. Olivetti and C.” we are pleased to present the new Brand Identity designed for Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti by Cappelli Identity Design. The project aimed to strike the right balance between tradition, contemporaneity and innovation.
We invite you to discover it in Ivrea (Torino, Italy), Tuesday, October 29, 2024 at 6 p.m., at the Confindustria Canavese headquarters, Corso Costantino Nigra 2.
WDO Member: Cappelli Identity Design

2024 Taiwan Design Expo
2024-10-26 - 2024-11-10 | 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 Member: Taiwan Design Research Institute

Feria Hábitat Valencia
2024-09-30 - 2024-10-03 | Valencia, Spain
Feria Valencia will host next year a new joint call for large international monographic fairs around the habitat sectors. Thus, from September 30 to October 3, 2024, a new edition of Feria Hábitat València, TEXTILHOGAR Home Textiles Premium and Espacio Cocina SICI will be held simultaneously.
Both the furniture, lighting and decoration event and the home textiles event repeat their joint celebration for the third time, while the furniture and kitchen equipment event returns to this unified exhibition showcase after its absence this year due to its nature. biennial.

Nike: Form Follows Motion
2024-09-21 - 2025-05-18 | Vitra Design Museum, Charles-Eames-Straße 2, Weil am Rhein, 79576, Germany
With »Nike: Form Follows Motion« the Vitra Design Museum will present the first ever museum exhibition about Nike, the world’s most revered sports brand. The exhibition will explore the company’s five-decade ascent from a grassroots start-up to a global phenomenon. The focus is on Nike’s design history: from the company’s beginnings in the 1960s and the design of its famous »swoosh« logo, to iconic products such as Air Max and Flyknit, and current research devoted to future materials and sustainability. Following the Olympic and Paralympic Summer Games in Paris as well as the European Football Championship in Germany, the exhibition will emphasize the importance of sports for design innovation and social change, while also shedding light on the almost mythical devotion to sneakers and sportswear in popular culture and social media. The exhibition has been initiated and produced by the Vitra Design Museum and curated by Glenn Adamson.

Styrian Products Exhibition in Vienna
2024-07-10 - 2024-09-15 | Vienna (Austria), Vienna, Austria
Styrian Products, a programme by Creative Industries Styria, raises awareness for good design along with the added economic value. The selected examples are great concepts, resulting from smart strategies and clever solutions from a design perspective. Behind each product lies a success story that reflects the potential of an entire region – Styria (Austria). The items were chosen according to three main principles: “Created in Styria,” “Produced in Styria,” and “Sold worldwide.”

Touchstones of Design Exhibition
2024-06-29 - 2024-07-14 | Istanbul, Turkey
The exhibition consists of Prof. Dr. Tevfik Balcıoğlu’s former students and friends. Experienced designers are showcasing products they have designed that marked turning points in their lives. On the opening day of the exhibition, a panel is being held to introduce his new book published by the Chamber of Architects.
Tevfik Balcıoğlu is a retired Professor of Design from Turkey. and was a board member of the European Academy of Design and the ICDHS.

Canadian Modern
2024-06-28 - 2025-02-16 | Victoria (Canada), Victoria, Canada
Explore innovative modern designs from mid-century homeware to a psychedelic vintage dress, crafted by Canadians whose works reflect and define the global trend in Canadian Modern. Highlighting the experimentation, innovation and ingenuity behind 100 culturally significant objects created in Canada, Canadian Modern is a testament to the ground-breaking creativity of some of the Great White North’s best designers. Featuring additional pieces from British Columbia’s provincial collections, this atmospheric and illuminating exhibition illustrates the story of craft-making in a local and national context while offering a look at Canada’s unique place in the global modern design and craft movement.

Canadian Modern is produced and circulated by ROM (Royal Ontario Museum), Toronto, Canada.

CONNECTING CHOICES: Taiwanese Designers Meet Italian Design
2024-06-15 - 2024-06-21 | Taipei, Taiwan
Join us in this international celebration that unites design enthusiasts and professionals, including WDO Taiwan members, for an unforgettable opening event. Over the next five weeks, immerse yourself in the Global Italian Design Day event themed “CONNECTING CHOICES: Taiwanese Designers Meet Italian Design.”
This exhibition features 12 renowned Taiwanese architects and designers who have carefully selected and showcased 35 remarkable Italian designs. This year’s #WIDD theme, “Let’s get emotional,” perfectly complements our exhibition, delving into the deep connection between design and emotions. This harmony underscores the global design community’s focus on sensitivity and emotions, giving Taiwanese design fans a unique opportunity to appreciate the elegance of Italian design.
⊹venue: Taiwan Design Museum Hall 3
⊹Time: 10 AM – 6 PM
⊹Date: June 15 – July 21, 2024
⊹Curator: Federica Sala
WDO Member: Taiwan Design Research Institute

Binational Youth Poster Exhibition
2024-06-13 18:00 - 21:00 (America/New_York)
Join us for an evening of youth artistic expression, celebration, and award recognition for the selected Binational Youth posters.
About the Exhibition
The exhibition reflects our community’s hopes and dreams, providing a platform for youth to channel their imagination and address critical issues affecting our San Diego Tijuana region.

Re-Craft
2024-05-19 - 2024-05-21 | New York, United States
The “Re- Craft ” opened on May 19-21 at ICFF, featuring outstanding craftworks from Asian traditional crafts brand and artist.
The exhibition inherits culture and craftsmanship, and also brings economic help to traditional crafts groups. This year, BO will cooperate with more traditional craft groups, artists, design institutions, and brands, Bo will establish Re-Craft platform & brand, help more traditional craft groups, and open up a new way of life experience for the public.
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Biennale Internazionale Grafica and Graphic Days®
2024-05-16 - 2024-05-26 | Milan (Italy)
Cappelli Identity Design participates in Biennale Internazionale Grafica and Graphic Days® with SIGNS exhibition. SIGNS, curated by Francesco Dondina, offers a dialogue between different worlds that reflect on the many souls of the graphic design profession:
MILAN / Milano Certosa District – May 23 to 26, 2024: https://www.biennaleinternazionalegrafica.com/locations/milano-certosa-district/
TURIN / Flashback Habitat – May 16 to 26, 2024: https://www.graphicdays.it/2024/graphicdays/signs/

Upmade in Estonia
2024-05-16 - 2024-05-22 | New York, United States
This event is taking place for the first time in New York City, with nearly 50 talented designers from Estonia in attendance who will share and discuss the roots of Estonian Design, its unique aesthetics, and its contemporary successes. From furniture made from mushrooms to tableware crafted from cigarette butts, prepare to be amazed by the ingenuity and eco-consciousness of these visionary creators. We will also present e-Residency program, which makes Estonia powerhouse of digital innovation.
WDO Member: Estonian Association of Designers

Pass The Baton
2024-05-15 - 2024-06-30 | Hong Kong SAR, Hong Kong
【Pass The Baton】Reshaping the Journey of ‘Inheritance’ through Design, and Welcoming a Future of Infinite Possibilities
Design Spectrum will present its first exhibition in 2024, a new thematic exhibition titled ‘Pass The Baton’, from 15 May to 23 September 2024. Divided into three parts, the exhibition aims to reveal the all-round value of things, and explore the concept of ‘inheritance’ from tangible and intangible perspectives. Part 1 of the exhibition: ‘From Passing By To Passing On’ will be launched on 15 May, acts as a prologue, offering an introduction and laying the foundations for further exploration. Part 2 of the exhibition: ‘From Process To Progress’ will continue the exploration in July, showing how design elevates a standard process to progress when it is needed. Part 3 of the exhibition: ‘From Future To Now’ will then take place in August, bringing together the preceding sections, creating a cohesive and comprehensive experience.
‘Pass The Baton’ Exhibition details:
Part 1: ‘From Passing By To Passing On’
Date: 2024.05.15 (Wed) – 2024.06.30 (Sun)
Time: 10:00am – 7:00pm
Address: Unit A, 7/F, D2 Place ONE, 9 Cheung Yee Street, Lai Chi Kok
Free Admission, with prior online registration required: https://www.eventbrite.hk/…/design-spectrum-pass-the…

WDO Member: Hong Kong Design Centre

Design for Justice
2024-05-10 - 2024-05-12 | Bengaluru, India
Design for Justice is a curated public exhibition led entirely by the students at School of Design and Innovation (SDI), RV University at Karnataka Chitrakala Parishath, Bengaluru. It is a response to the need for design to challenge its complicity in asymmetries of power and to cater to the needs of those peoples and communities that are generally marginalized and overlooked in and through design.
With special chief guest: Sonia Manchanda, WDO Board Member; Founding Partner of Spread Design and Innovation.
WDO Member: RV University

ONE KM² CLUSTER IN TAIPEI
2024-04-15 - 2024-04-20 | Milan (Italy)
This year, the Industrial Design Department (SCID) of Shih Chien University, in collaboration with the Taipei Representative Office in Italy, Milan Office established last October, will host the “ONE KM² CLUSTER IN TAIPEI” exhibition during Milan Design Week. The exhibition aims to showcase the exquisite craftsmanship resulting from the integration of Taipei’s traditional manufacturing and material procurement clusters with modern design by young Taiwanese designers. The exhibition will take place from April 15th to April 20th at the lobby of the Taipei Representative Office in Italy, Milan Office.
WDO Member: Shih Chien University

Call for Submissions: Binational Poster Exhibition WDC 2024 Club
2024-04-01 - 2024-04-30 | San Diego, United States
Launching April 1, the WDC 2024 Club Exhibition is a transformative and impactful youth poster showcase that confronts the pressing challenges facing our region. This exhibition stands as a canvas of change, offering the emerging generation a platform to channel their boundless imagination through design, with a resolute aim to address and resolve critical issues that affect our community.
The WDC 2024 Club Exhibition is a youth design showcase aimed at addressing pressing regional challenges. It provides a platform for young designers to express their creativity and tackle critical issues through art. The exhibition features various categories focused on innovation and problem-solving, such as Design for Youth & Education and Design to Solve Homelessness. Through their creativity, these artists aim to inspire a brighter, more inclusive, and sustainable future for the community. Join us in celebrating the transformative power of art and design in addressing regional challenges.
WDO Member: World Design Capital San Diego Tijuana 2024

At Eye Level – People.Space.District
2024-03-07 - 2024-04-14
The New European Bauhaus (NEB) initiative calls on us all to imagine and co-create a sustainable and inclusive future that is beautiful to our eyes, minds and souls. The defining parameters of the New Bauhaus are aesthetics, sustainability and inclusion.
The Universal Design thinking and travelling exhibition “At Eye Level – People.Space.District” is based on this initiative of the European Union’s “New European Bauhaus” and focuses on people in their diversity. The exhibition shows products, concepts and services that are designed in the spirit of Universal Design and thus create access, self-determination and participation.

dX 2023 The ((Capsule)) Hong Kong Design Showcase@Dutch Design Week
2023-10-21 - 2023-10-29 | Eindhoven, Netherlands
The ((Capsule)) showcases the actions of Hong Kong in circular design that reflects its unique cityscape, cultural and socio-economic developments such as double aging, the urge for inclusivity, and more.
This exhibition is part of dX 2023, a design exchange programme between the Netherlands and Hong Kong under the partner country collaboration of Business of Design Week and BODW CityProg, organised by Hong Kong Design Centre, with funding support from Create Hong Kong of the HKSAR Government.
WDO Member: Hong Kong Design Centre

Exhibition of Estonian Material Design MATERIAL II
2023-06-11 - 2023-06-18 | Venice, Italy
“Material II: Shifting Ground” is the third in a series of exhibitions focused on materials, shedding light on how materials are developed and created in Estonian universities, enterprises and creative practices today. The exhibition brings together the work of 26 artists, designers and researchers to show how the notion of resources and material development is undergoing changes due to the environmental crisis.
Divided into three categories – Baltic Sea, Shifting Ground and Underwood.
WDO Member: Estonian Association of Designers

3 DAYS OF DESIGN 2023
2023-06-07 - 2023-06-09 | Copenhagen (Denmark), Copenhagen, Denmark
Take Part in 3daysofdesign 2023. Join our community of exhibitors showcasing great design to an international audience during the 2023 festival, and join us as we celebrate our 10th anniversary.
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DESIGN×DURABLE×DESIRABLE
2023-03-29 - 2023-07-13
As a true pioneer of changes in contemporary living spaces, this exhibition by VIA’s Le FRENCH DESIGN explores the new paths taken by designers, editors and manufacturers to create more environmentally friendly objects. The thirty or so projects on display, divided into five themes, bear witness to new uses and innovative materials and processes to create objects that are both desirable and respond to legitimate questions about a new art of sustainable living.

SHENZHEN INTERNATIONAL INDUSTRIAL DESIGN FAIR (SZIDF) 2022
2022-10-22 - 2022-10-24 | Shenzhen, China
Rescheduled due to the pandemic, the 9th Shenzhen International Industrial Design Exhibition will now be held from 22-24 October 2022. This year’s exhibition focuses on service experience and reshaping the display scene. The event will offer an emerging design brand area, an international design exhibition and organize online and offline theme exhibitions, forums and lectures, industry matchmaking meetings, investment project negotiations, innovation competitions and other activities.
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WDO Member: Shenzhen Industrial Design Profession Association

THE ECAL MANUAL OF STYLE: HOW TO BEST TEACH DESIGN TODAY?
2022-10-15 - 2023-04-16 | Wiesbaden (Germany), Wiesbaden, Germany
Curated by designer Jonathan Olivares and ECAL Director Alexis Georgacopoulos, the exhibition surveys a selection of groundbreaking and defining projects by students and their tutors, leading to unconventional objects and revealed by a creative methodology in action. The exhibition shows these iconic projects and retraces their design process. In other words, it challenges the question “How to best teach design today?”. Join us to meet the students and their tutors, and celebrate the opening with us! On the occasion of the opening, Sabrina Handler, Deputy Director / COO, Vitra Design Museum and Alexis Georgacopoulos, ECAL Director and co-curator, will give an introduction to the exhibition.
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DESIGN SHANGHAI
2022-10-13 - 2022-10-15 | Shanghai, China
Design Shanghai group exhibition partners with authoritative design influences to celebrate established and emerging brands, design talents and projects of the year. The shows partner with leading design and creative studios, luxury fashion brands and influential media titles to create unique design experience for all the participants and visitors, including the trend forecasts, online showroom, one-off installations and stand-out projects.
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DESIGN SHENZHEN
2022-10-13 - 2022-10-15 | Shenzhen, China
Featuring everything you’ve come to expect from the creators of Design Shanghai, Design Shenzhen will be a razor-sharp bespoke event – contemporary, modern and driven by design – distilled into a concentrated combination of architecture, design and style, and carefully tailored to suit the needs of the local market. Design Shenzhen will provide the opportunity to do business face to face, for which there is no substitute. With over 150 world-class brands and installations, it will be the largest curated event of its kind ever seen in Shenzhen.
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