The first Designers’ Saturday took place in Langenthal in 1987. Since then there have been twelve of these biennial occasions, to provide support for the Swiss design scene whilst giving it a publicity platform and stimulating its further development.

Inaugurated in 2000, the Triennial program seeks out and presents the most innovative designs at the center of contemporary culture. In this fourth exhibition in the series, the National Design Triennial will explore the work of designers addressing human and environmental problems across many fields of the design practice, from architecture and products to fashion, graphics, new media, and landscapes. Cooper-Hewitt curators Ellen Lupton, Cara McCarty, Matilda McQuaid, and Cynthia Smith will present the experimental projects and emerging ideas for the period between 2006 and 2009.

A Better World By Design is a three-day internationally acclaimed conference that will impel you to make change locally and globally.

Designers of 7 countries will share their professional experiences in the 4th. International Design Festival.

The exhibitions department presents "The Rules of Play," the first solo show in the Southeast by Cuban-born artist Alexandre Arrechea.

Co-founder of the New York based firm 2x4, one of the most innovative names on the contemporary scene, Sellers presents a selection of works including projects for Prada and Nike.

Creative Week is a celebration of creativity in advertising, design, digital media, music, film and the fine arts, taking place in New York throughout the second week of May 2010.

The fifth edition of Belgrade Design Week will be held from May 29th to Jun 5th 2010 and it will again transform Belgrade into a true epicenter of creativity, where leading international design superstars will lecture at the BDW’s centerpiece, the international conference “SMART2”.

The RCA graduate summer shows take place as four separate exhibitions this year across the College’s two campuses in Kensington and Battersea. The Conran Foundation’s support of SHOW RCA is now in its fifth year. With the Foundation’s generous help, over 400 art and design postgraduate students will exhibit work of exceptional quality, imagination and technical skill, in a series of public exhibitions that is one of the high points in the art and design calendar.

In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance.