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.

The Quixote Thinking Festival is, by definition, an unprecedented space in Spain of research and reflect on current issues from the perspective of Human Centered Innovation. Understood under the concept of Summer School, it seeks to combine the training of new generations with the development of concrete ideas which are able to apply in a short to medium term.

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.

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.

What Design Can Do! celebrates the power of design and its problem-solving abilities. This two-day conference presents design as a catalyst of change and renewal and as a means of addressing the societal questions of our time. The aim of the conference is to demonstrate the value of a design mentality as a response to the challenges of today’s world. With a line-up of international speakers from all design disciplines, it will be the platform for designers to manifest the social potential of their profession.

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.

The Vitra Design Museum traces these conditions and influences in its new exhibition and presents the high art of reduction as the quintessence of design. Divided into twelve sections grouped under the headings Manufacture, Function, Aesthetics and Ethics, the exhibition puts forth the motifs, motivations and strategies pursued by design in its quest for efficiency. The fact that Vitra Design Museum concentrates on tendencies in furniture design – though by no means exclusively – proves to be a decisive advantage, as furniture supplies this complex theme with particularly vivid arguments as a proxy for everyday culture and our attitude toward the world.

How Wine Became Modern explores the visual culture of wine and its stunning transformation over the last three decades.

Following the successful first festival «spatial arts – life in search of style» in 2006, that dealt with the trailblazers of scenography from various disciplines and the second event «staging the stage – scenography inspired by performing arts» in 2008, that was dedicated to the exponents of Scenography in performing arts, the festival 2010 will focus on examining the actual core business of scenography, i.e. “exhibiting and staging” in and around museums: «Exhibit! – scenography in exhibition design» will consequently be its title!