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World Industrial Design Day 2024 celebrated the theme of let's get emotional, engaging the global design community in a month-long social media campaign that explored the power of emotion and empathy in design. On 29 June, designers from across the globe came together to host a diverse array of events, workshops and gatherings.
Under the theme of The Future We Want, World Industrial Design Day 2023 explored what kind of future designers around the world are striving towards. In early 2023, WDO launched a public call to gather future-focused insights, ideas and actions from across the global design community. Taking inspiration from these contributions, WDO developed an online comic entitled The Future We Want, which was shared on 29 June.
World Industrial Design Day 2022 marked the 65th anniversary of WDO. Reflecting on more than six decades of championing design for a better world, WDO celebrated WIDD 2022 under the theme of leadership, recognizing the many ways in which designers are leading the charge towards a better future. On 28-29 June, we hosted a 24-hour virtual event, let’s talk: leadership. Highlighting diverse leadership perspectives and insights, this virtual event featured conversations with top design leaders and thinkers as they discussed how they are mobilizing change and driving impact in their communities and around the world.
WDO celebrated the theme with a 24-hour virtual event entitled let's talk: diversity. Designers, educators and experts on diversity and inclusion shared their stories, points of view and actionable steps we can all take to continue to design for a better world.
Our theme this year was celebrated in across the world with virtual exhibits, talks, competitions and activations on social media. Even beyond, 20 June, we continue to encourage designers everywhere to turn a critical eye towards their designs, and reflect on the steps they can take to challenge the status quo and contribute to a more diverse, inclusive industry.
World Industrial Design Day 2020 celebrated the amazing power of ‘Design for Everyday Life’. At a time when most were sheltering-in-place due to the COVID-19 pandemic and most WIDD events were postponed or transitioned online, WDO developed a virtual campaign for our community to take the #WIDD2020 pledge. Unified by a collective commitment to design for a better world, video pledges were submitted from around the globe, engaging our community in a unique dialogue about our relationship to the everyday products we use and/or design.
WDO and the team at Global Goals Jam have joined forces to launch the first World Industrial Design Day 2019 Mini-Jam (designathon) under the theme of the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal 12: Responsible Consumption and Production. The global design community was invited to explore local challenges and identify ways design can help ensure sustainable consumption and production patterns by “doing more and better with less”.
In alignment with the United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goal (SDG) #3: Good Health and Well‑being, World Industrial Design Day™ (WIDD) 2018 explored ways design can help improve our physical, social, mental and emotional development. Participants were encouraged to showcase ways in which industrial design can incite happier, healthier and more enjoyable lifestyles by tackling across section of socioeconomic factors.
One of the ways in which industrial design can make a positive difference in the world is through sustainable design. Inspired by the United Nations' Sustainable Development Goal #12: Responsible Consumption and Production, we asked designers to 'think outside the box' and showcase how they are designing more sustainable products.
When it comes to explaining who we are and what we do for a living, there are times when defining our industry can be complex. What is industrial design today and what does an industrial designer do? This World Industrial Design Day, let's start talking.
There are important changes that have inspired a new kind of industrial design practice to emerge within recent decades, yet the official definition for the profession dates back to 1969. Picking up from the momentum of previous years, World Industrial Design Day 2015 activities revolved around the theme 'Redefine Design'.
When it comes to explaining who we are and what we do for a living, there are times when defining our industry can be complex. What is industrial design today and what does an industrial designer do? World Industrial Design Day 2014 explored these questions.
'Industrial design is open' was the World Industrial Design Day 2013 theme. To celebrate, Icsid invited participants to explore ways in which industrial design is open and accessible to all. A series of design talks, lectures, and exhibits were at the core of the celebration.
2012 marked the 5th anniversary since the inception of World Industrial Design Day. To celebrate the milestone, the organization asked the global design community one simple question - What is industrial design?
In celebration of the 4th annual World Industrial Design Day on 29 June 2011, Icsid invited designers and design enthusiasts from around the globe to spread awareness and initiate events reflecting the theme: ‘Industrial Design: How does it improve your life?’
In celebration of World Industrial Design Day 2010, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) invited designers from around the globe to initiate events reflecting the theme ``Industrial Design: Humane solutions for a resilient world``.
In celebration of World Industrial Design Day 2009, Icsid invited designers from around the globe to initiate events reflecting the theme ‘Industrial Design: the product of human creativity’.
World Industrial Design Day 2008 was the first international observance created uniquely to provide an occasion to highlight the merits of the profession and its impact on the quality of life.
