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  • Boston Design Week 2024

    Boston (USA) Boston, United States

    Boston Design Week seeks to increase public awareness and appreciation of all aspects of design, foster recognition of the vital role design plays in our lives, and bring new audiences to a wide array of design industries and organizations. Our vision is to encourage the public to explore all aspects of design.

  • Call for entries: German Design Award 2025

    Frankfurt , Germany

    The German Design Awards set international standards for innovative design developments and competitiveness on the global market. It only honours projects that are pioneering in the German and international design landscape and highlights positive developments in circular design. Whether digitalization, AI or circular design - the German Design Awards platform reveals the contribution that design […]

  • Deep Dive with the Gold Award Winners: Imago Design

    Online

    In this online Deep Dive, Camillo König, Industrial Designer and Competence Lead Mechanical Engineering and Bastian Renner, Senior UI/UX Designer at Imago Design GmbH will walk us through their Gold-Award-winning coffee grinder "Mahlkönig EK OMNIA”.

  • Berlin Design Week

    Berlin , Germany

    Every spring, BERLIN DESIGN WEEK presents the latest design trends and approaches that allow us to shape and prepare for the future. Over the course of 11 days, exhibitions, talks, presentations, participatory projects and networking events are held across the city. At these events, national and international designers, cultural institutions, companies, and research institutions have […]

  • Tsinghua University “Design+” Innovation and Entrepreneurship Competition

    Beijing , China

    The competition is themed on "Design Futures, Empower Youth" and explores innovative opportunities in areas such as future products and services, future spaces and environments, future arts and fashion, future health and well-being, future tourism and cultural creativity, future science popularization and education. It focuses on new industries, new models, and new momentum driven by […]

  • iF Design Trend Conference

    Berlin , Germany

    There is another highlight and event premiere in Berlin this April: The very first iF Design Trend Conference 2024 will take place – directly on the day after the awards ceremony, on 30 April 2024. The conference, which takes place in the spectacular AXICA building directly at the Brandenburg Gate, addresses the question "How can […]

  • Brighton Festival

    Brighton Brighton, United Kingdom

    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

    Graz Graz, Austria

    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 […]

  • DZIGN 2024: for a real world

    Algiers (Algeria) Algiers, Algeria

    The second edition of the Algerian-French design biennial DZIGN 2024 in Algeria organized by the French Institute in Algeria in partnership with the Algerian ministries of culture and arts and that of higher education and scientific research will take place from May 9 to June 8, 2024 in 5 cities: Algiers, Oran, Tlemcen, Annaba and […]

  • Design for Justice

    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 […]

  • Stile Olivetti: between Art and Design at Center For Italian Modern Art, New York

    New York , United States

    Conceived by CIMA of New York and Joseph Tedeschi, the event brings together Olivetti and enthusiasts for an afternoon of study, dedicated to an Italian company that shaped the history of office machines, labor practices, product design and communications, and cultural patronage. From 4 pm the event will include several lecture, as Emanuele Cappelli "Olivetti […]

  • munich creative business week 2024

    Munich , Germany

    MUNICH CREATIVE BUSINESS WEEK (MCBW) is Germany's largest design event, and at the same time an international showcase for the creative industry and the design sector in Bavaria. Over a period of nine days, MCBW provides companies and designers from all fields with the opportunity to present themselves to experts and the design-interested public in […]

  • Call for entries to Seats of Understanding

    Venice , Italy

    The 15th International Design Contest Trieste Contemporanea The new edition of this ideas competition, founded in 1995 by Italian scholar of aesthetics and design Gillo Dorfles, is an initiative towards “GO! 2025—Nova Gorica and Gorizia European Capital of Culture 2025” event. The initiative is carried out under the patronage of the Central European Initiative (CEI) […]

  • Call for entries: 2024 Taiwan International Student Design Competition

    Taipei , Taiwan

    In accordance with the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals proposed by the United Nations in 2015, the theme “Equality” calls on students to treat others with the same level of respect and warmth. Students are encouraged to blend and co-create a more beautiful and diverse society through the power of design. This aims to realize the vision […]

  • Pass The Baton

    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 […]

  • Upmade in Estonia

    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 […]

  • NYC X Design Festival

    New York , United States

    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 […]

  • Biennale Internazionale Grafica and Graphic Days®

    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 […]