Talk to Me explores the communication between people and things. All objects contain information that goes well beyond their immediate use or appearance. In some cases, objects like cell phones and computers exist to provide us with access to complex systems and networks, behaving as gateways and interpreters. Whether openly and actively, or in subtle, subliminal ways, things talk to us, and designers help us develop and improvise the dialogue.

First staged in 2003, the London Design Festival is one of the world's most important annual design events. The nine-day Festival programme is made up of over 200 events and exhibitions staged by around 160 partner organisations across the design spectrum and from around the world.

Hong Kong Design Centre & our sister’s organisation Hong Kong Ambassadors of Design will organise a 3-day market named “Design Mart” at InnoCentre for new designers and new design brands to expose their products to the general public. DESIGN MART aims to provide a platform for Hong Kong emerging creative talents to promote their original design works. Emerging designers & creative people are welcome to join. This also provides a great opportunity for the designers to communicate directly with the public and showcase their creative ideas.

Made in Brunel showcases the brightest creations from Brunel University’s globally renowned School of Engineering and Design. This generation’s emerging talent present an outstanding array of technological, sustainable, humanistic and virtual innovation. This year Made in Brunel represents the journey that our students undertake and the story behind the creations on show in June at Bargehouse. To witness the start of some of these journeys see the Exhibitors page and find out what our projects are all about.

The International Design Alliance (IDA) is a strategic venture between the international organisations representing industrial design, communication design and interior architecture/design. The alliance was created by its founding partners, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (Icsid) and the International Council of Graphic Design Associations (Icograda) in 2003. In 2008, the IDA welcomed the International Federation of Interior Architects/Designers (IFI) to the alliance as the third partner.

This year’s 5th edition of Lodz Design starts on October 20th, 2011. During the past four years the Festival has evolved from a local event consisting of several exhibitions, into the biggest such Festival presenting a wide range of Design in Poland. Owing to well-known experts, international visitors and guests participating in the Festival, it became renowned worldwide. The time that has passed since the first edition also allowed to clearly define the Festival’s character and structure.

Every day we discover new and interesting ways of using design to create value for business and society—from our traditional remit of designing identities, packaging, and products, to creating interactions and experiences, and more recently, supporting social and business innovation with business design. One of our greatest challenges is sharing our growing knowledge with colleagues from different disciplines and showing how design can make a difference to what they do.

re:publica is Europe’s most exciting and Germany’s biggest conference when it comes to blogs, social media, and our society in the digital age. From April 13 – 15 re:publica is going to take place in the heart of Berlin, with 2011 also being its 5th anniversary. The political and cultural, but most of all very zeitgeisty event has evolved from an informal blogger meetup to an essential date for media professionals. What once started with 800 attendees in 2007 attracted the impressive number of 2700 participants only three years later.

To coincide with the 2012 Olympics, this exhibition will showcase 60 years of British creative talent.

This installation features posters by three of Hungary’s foremost graphic artists, Mihály Biró, Sándor Bortnyik and Bertalan Pór, all of whom had been actively involved in the Socialist revolutionary movement that culminated in the short-lived Hungarian Republic of Councils in 1919.