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Starting from the Micro: New Perspectives in Daily Life The 2023 Kaohsiung Design Festival takes as its theme “from micro to macro.” From spying on life from the little details and small places, to exploring the whole picture; from imagining different viewpoints that range from small perspectives to large visions, to subconscious and intuitive designs […]
Kaohsiung as an international industrial harbor city has been organizing the KISISF since 2002. The 10th is a rite of passage for the public to not only experience the firepower of large-scale steel sculptures created on-site, but also use contemporary sculptures to break the mindset of "steel sculpture" as a means of creation. All of […]
The cinematic experience through design. This is our contribution to the Afragola Film Festival 2023, "Al di là della visione", a film festival dedicated to the relationship between audiovisual, design and architecture. Emanuele Cappelli‘s talk will focus on three fascinating projects. A celebration of art, film and design that is increasingly dynamic, offering inspiration on […]
The SZIDF2023 will be held in Hall 2 of Shenzhen Futian Convention and Exhibition Center from November 23 to 26, 2023. It will attract high-quality design organizations from more than 30 countries and regions and nearly 100 worldwide industry leaders and experts to participate on-site with newly released products, exquisite products and masterpieces, bringing design […]
DesignTO is a non-profit arts organization that curates exhibitions, presentations and educational programming to increase the public’s knowledge and appreciation of design and its role in creating a sustainable, just and joyful world. DesignTO is best known for the DesignTO Festival, Canada’s leading and largest annual design festival that celebrates design as a multidisciplinary form […]
From 8 February to 17 March, Madrid will host the seventh edition of the international Madrid Design Festival, turning the city into the capital of design and positioning it in a privileged place on the international scene. The 2024 event features the crafts of Castile La Mancha as an invited project, 53 exhibitions and installations; […]
Digital designers, developers, filmmakers, publishers and theorists will gather at at Disseny Hub in Barcelona to share their creative process and discuss the future of online and post-digital culture. Talents, including Stefan Sagmeister and Pentagram’s Marina Willer, are scheduled to attend this year to speak, contribute their insights, debunk trends and collaborate with peers and […]
The Tigullio Design District (TDD), organized and promoted by the "Associazione Culturale Liguria Design" is the first international design event, on an annual basis, organized in Liguria in the Gulf of Tigullio ( in Liguria region, in Italy between the famous area of “5 lands”, and Genoa, in the area of the famous Portofino bay […]
World Design Festival powered by Tijuana Design Week 2024 will present a diverse program featuring activities that embrace this expanded vision of our contemporary time. It is a great bold experience, where design becomes present in all the dimensions of time, and opens a reflection upon the history, the identity and the outcome of the […]
Author and advocate Frank Cottrell-Boyce guest-directs this year’s edition of England’s largest curated multi-arts festival. The month-long celebration always incorporates diverse talent in the spheres of music, theatre, dance, art, film and literature – inside churches, halls and schools and outside all the way to the lawns of Glyndebourne.
Design Month Graz will be dedicated entirely to the theme “What Now! For one month, it will once again highlight the range of services offered by the design scene in the City of Design Graz. A dense and varied program of exhibitions, lectures, presentations, guided tours and much more will bring the value and importance […]
NYCxDESIGN promotes New York City as a design destination and creative resource, and serves as a supportive network, organizer, and galvanizer to its powerful multi-disciplined design sectors. New York City is making its mark as one of the most influential design capitals of the world. Housing the largest concentration of creative talent, design studios and […]
Łódź Design Festival was created in 2007 as a review of the achievements of Polish design. From the beginning, it presents design in various aspects - from industrial design, through graphic design, architecture, craft, to the creation of services and interaction.Today, it focuses on asking questions, interpreting phenomena and critical discussion. It presents innovations and […]
7th edition of the Alpavirama International Youth Film Festival will be held from October 15-19, 2024. This year, the festival's theme is ‘Reflected Realities,’ a portrait of reality through the lens of young filmmakers across the globe. For more details, modalities, queries regarding the festival, kindly visit https://alpavirama.nid.edu/ or write to alpavirama@nid.edu. The submission date […]
From May 30 to June 2, the vibrant city of Naples will be the host of the European Design Festival 2024, curated by AIAP, the Association of Italian Communication Designers. We are happy to invite you to join this celebration of creativity. Open to the wider public, the festival promises a rich tapestry of design […]
Aimed at professionals and the general public, this curated, concentrated cross-section of Scandinavian design takes place at boutiques and galleries across 13 Copenhagen neighbourhoods. This is the sunniest, most exciting week of the year to visit the capital, when local emerging talent, small start-ups and established, heritage companies join some international participants to launch new […]
Fundació del Disseny de la Comunitat Valenciana once again makes «Paradís» a reality, a day of inspiring talks on design, strategy and creativity, which brings together from its first edition in 2020 to national and international speakers from different creative disciplines. This year’s line up is surpassed once again and includes names such as Domestic […]
The Works unleashes art & design throughout one square kilometre of Edmonton's downtown core. Completely free to the public, The Festival is an extravaganza of visual art, design and entertainment that attracts artists and patrons from around the globe.
The Seattle Design Festival (SDF), formerly known as Design in Public, was founded in 2011 to celebrate all the ways that design makes life better for Seattle, and to nurture relationships among multidisciplinary designers, civic leaders, business innovators, community organizers, educators, artists, and activists. Through a broad range of events developed by our community partners, […]
During the months of September and October, Valencia celebrates this international design festival which brings together professionals and companies with an agenda of activities, talks, exhibitions and open door routes to discover first-hand local talent, the latest trends in design and the creative effervescence of Valencia, chosen as a City of Design by UNESCO. The […]
