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Organised by Hong Kong Design Centre in collaboration with Strategic Partner the Netherlands, KODW 2022 assembles over 30 industry experts and creatives to spotlight design principles and case studies rooted in the vision for a sustainable future under the theme ‘Regeneration by Design’. For the very first time, the programme is transformed into a virtual […]
The 5th edition of Design China Beijing will come back with an exciting new format which well combines the Exhibition with a Sustainable Design Summit. Design China Beijing brings together our community, contacts, sponsors and connections to create a truly inspiring event that promotes both change and commercial opportunities for our community of visitors and […]
World Interaction Design Day (#IxDD) is an annual event where we come together as a united global community to show how interaction design improves the human condition. Our aim is to have a positive, long-lasting impact by facilitating activities that support dialogue and outcomes. Website
Use the principles and tools of service design to rethink the journey your customers take and transform your customer experience, delivered live online 6, 7, 10 & 11 October 2022, from 9am - 12:30pm BST per session. This introductory executive masterclass will teach you the theory of service design and how to apply practical tools […]
The next appointments of the Digital Open Days of POLI.design, Consortium Company founded by Politecnico di Milano, are approaching! Discover the training proposal and start planning your future in the Design sector. Website WDO Member: POLI.design
Join like-minded innovators, change-makers and thought leaders at the d.confestival – a unique conference-meets-festival hybrid event centered around design thinking. The event follows the 2012 and 2017 d.confestival events hosted in Potsdam. Supported by the Global Design Thinking Alliance (and also marking its 5th birthday), this event will be hosted by the Hasso Plattner d-school […]
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 […]
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, […]
Maybe design holds some clues about the seemingly insurmountable problems we must all still face.There might be more clues in the designers’ thoughts and processes than in the finished products or services they ultimately create.Tokyo Midtown DESIGN TOUCH 2021 will present a variety of attractions along with insights into the designers’ perspectives—“Behind the Scenes of […]
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 […]
17 October 2022 (12:30 - 18:00 BST at the Design Museum) 18 October 2022 (10:00 - 14:00 BST at the RCA Kensington campus) Led by Professor Emeritus Jeremy Myerson Understand the purpose of design thinking in promoting innovation, learn from real-world applications and strategies, walk away with a robust model to apply design thinking in […]
Make plans to join us in person or online for all the creative inspiration you’ve been waiting for. Registration will open in July. Website
Every year the Faculty of Design of Universidad Anáhuac México, held the International Congress “Design for Humanity”. The objective of this congresses is to offer a reflection and analysis space where the voices of important personalities from different fields are met to exchange ideas which address the urgent problems of the contemporary world the urgent […]
This hybrid, one-day event is aimed at expanding and consolidating the DesignEuropa Awards community, and highlighting the effective use of design and its protection to drive economic, social, cultural and environmental development. Additional information is available at www.designeuropaawards.eu. Website
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, […]
Dutch Design Week in Eindhoven is the largest design event in Northern Europe and presents work and concepts from more than 2,600 designers to more than 355,000 visitors from home and abroad. Website
The 7th Master Class by POLIdesign with Mauro Porcini, SVP & Chief Design Officer PepsiCo. "In this global, technological and digital world in which we live, the way companies drive innovation needs to change, in order to remain competitive and succeed. This impacts the entire culture of the organization, the role of design and the […]
Hong Kong Design Institute (HKDI) will present a series of online master lectures under the theme of “Swiss inspiration: Swiss design today-tomorrow” from 31 Oct to 9 Nov 2022. Experts including practitioners, lecturers and inventors in the Swiss design industry will shed light on the current and future approaches of Swiss design across architecture, graphic, […]
This 2-day online event is built for industrial designers, students, and educators to upskill and explore the fascinating stages of the ID process where ideas come to life through drawings, renderings, and modeling. You'll learn from some of the industry's top talent and come away with practical skills across ID visualization, co-design, sustainability, and the […]
The World Conference on Design Policies provides a global platform for the exchange of ideas and a laboratory for experimentation “think tank” where best practices are presented from different countries, regions and cities that work from the inclusion of effective design policies. Website
