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Tijuana Design Week is an annual design festival to create interdisciplinary links from a community perspective through exhibitions, conferences, networking, talks and celebrations in this city of constant change and necessary transformations. As a passionate, optimistic and realistic proposal from design, TJDW seeks to solve individual and collective challenges in order to move into the […]
The Best of the Best Designers Speak® series represents the highest calibre of design craft and provides the opportunity to kōrero - sharing knowledge that uplifts and connects our community. Talking to the values of our Pou - Whakamana Te Toi, Design craft excellence. Register now WDO Member: The Designers Institute of New Zealand
As part of Future Week Torino 2026, a session dedicated to the Dynamic brand method as a model for designing identities capable of adapting, evolving and building relationships over time. Drawing on the book Dynamic brand (part of the WDO recommended readings collection), Emanuele Cappelli will be in conversation with Paola Bellin and Fabio Zanino […]
The DesignEuropa Awards are the European Union's awards for design excellence. They recognise creativity in design, as well as influential figures in the field. The awards are a non-commercial competition and are open to any person, entity or institution of any nationality that owns a valid EU design. Public Choice Award For the first […]
Pearl Academy, one of India's most prestigious fashion and design institutions, is proud to host the 29th Annual Conference of IFFTI in 2027. Set in the vibrant, creative heart of Mumbai, IFFTI 2027 invites global fashion and design communities together under one ambitious vision. The conference theme — Co-Creating Futures: Shaping Fashion Through Shared Imagination […]
The 2026 First Rongchang Pottery Creative Design Competition is open for submissions worldwide and is organized IDEN, a member of WDO. The theme of the competition is “Millennia of Pottery Fire, Leaping Towards the Future”, focusing on pottery as the core medium for work submissions. The registration deadline is July 17, 2026. For more details, […]
WDO Member Mixer is a virtual networking initiative designed exclusively for WDO's membership community. This global session will offer space for both new and longstanding members alike to connect, converse and build relationships across regions and disciplines.
Openness means sharing ideas and creating space for new things. Under this motto, Open – Design Week Frankfurt RheinMain is building an open stage for everyone who designs, researches and experiments – both locally and internationally. Whether it's a studio, conference, exhibition or young design: participants contribute their ideas, engage in conversation and put their work in […]
Large organisations – whether corporations or public institutions – face the same challenge: building services that don't just work, but last. Service design is more than optimising individual touchpoints. It's about solutions across the entire customer journey and about organisational change. And, ultimately, about a bigger question: how can business and government be designed around […]
This June, University for the Creative Arts (UCA) in Farnham will be bursting with colour and alive with the sights and sounds of innovation and creativity as its graduating class of 2026 showcase their ambitious graduate work at the end-of-year Grad Show. Meet the next generation of artists, makers, designers, filmmakers, gamers, and photographers working […]
3daysofdesign is Denmark’s Official Design Festival conceived as a platform to showcase and celebrate creativity. Held each year in Copenhagen, it's a visibility opportunity for emerging and established talents from Denmark and abroad to present their brand, their stories, new product launches and latest collections to an avid audience of design enthusiasts from around the […]
«Ser al centro» is an international poster design competition launched by Universidad del Azuay, Cappelli Identity Design and Associazione Archivio Storico Olivetti, in collaboration with RUFA. Inspired by the theme Projection into the Future, it invites Latin American students to reinterpret the values of Stile Olivetti through contemporary visual communication. Selected works will be exhibited […]
The goal of World Industrial Design Day FRM is to explore the role of industrial design here and now. Can a specifically German tradition in the sense of the Werkbund, Bauhaus, and HfG Ulm still be effective in the present, or does this—as often in the past—rather reflect the wishful thinking of designers? What is […]
From 11–14 June 2026, Sofia becomes the meeting point for Europe’s creative community as the European Design Festival celebrates its 20th edition in one of the continent’s most layered and dynamic capitals. Organised by Studio Komplekt and the Melba Foundation for Design and Visual Culture, the festival brings together award-winning designers, studios, thinkers and emerging […]
Busan Design Festival (BDF) is a design event that was held for the first time in 2021 in Busan, a place that has the potential to grow into a design cultural city. It will be a global design exhibition where domestic and foreign design brands, companies, and designers will participate and exhibit design content to […]
How to Achieve Liveable and Sustainable Metropolitan Futures? Cities are at the center of global challenges, from climate resilience to inclusive growth. Metropolitan areas in particular are shaping how these challenges are addressed at scale. In June 2026, urban leaders will come together to turn ambition into action. Hosted by the Centre for Liveable Cities (CLC), a […]
A binational project brings together German and Dutch designers to work collaboratively on current social, economic and cultural issues. From 14 to 28 June, the Museum Angewandte Kunst in Frankfurt am Main is hosting the pop-up exhibition Form Follows Friendship, a project by the German Design Council developed in collaboration with the diplomatic network of the […]
The CATIA User Symposium Europe (CUSE) brings CATIA users together to learn, share, and connect. On 16 June, join hands-on workshops in Creative Design, ICEM, MBSE, and advanced mechanical techniques. On 17–18 June, attend keynotes, domain sessions, and live demonstrations while networking with experts. Discover new tools, techniques, and sustainable approaches to product development, all […]
Every two years, WDO invites cities and regions worldwide to bid for the World Design Capital® designation. WDC is intended for cities that strategically leverage design to drive economic, social, cultural, and environmental progress. The bid process brings together government, industry, academia, and the local design community to shape a shared vision for sustainable urban […]
In its commitment to advancing the global glass industry, Şişecam launched the Şişecam Glass Symposium in 1985. Over the following 40 years, the symposium steadily evolved into an international event, attracting hundreds of distinguished participants from both industry and academia. As one of Europe’s premier platforms for glass science and technology, the Şişecam Glass Symposium has been organized simultaneously with the International Commission […]
