Founded in 2005, Belgrade Design Week is the first festival of creative industries and modern business in Serbia and the South East European region, covering an area home to more than 100 million people from Milan to Istanbul. For five years now, Belgrade Design Week has successfully forged intercultural and business connections between the global design scene, the regional creative industries and the city of Belgrade.

During the next edition of BDW, Belgrade will once again become the global capital of creative ideas and host to the most impressive participants list ever. Bjarke Ingels, Jaime Hayon, Mario Nanni, Marti Guixe and Jacob van Rijs of MVRDV are just some of the brilliant lecturers who will share their knowledge, experience and ideas with a passionate audience.

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DesignMarch is an event organized by the Iceland Design Center from the 18 to the 21 of March. Whether it is Icelandic designers exhibiting interesting new designs, work in progress or old favorites, the aim of DesignMarch is to create a refreshing town fair, where Icelandic design meets the media, the public and tourists. All over the city – in abandoned warehouses, shops, galleries, restaurants and even in the streets – Icelandic design is bursting forth.

DesignMarch aims to imbue the city with life, with design at every step. In 2010, vacant shop premises were filled with Icelandic design; cafés served their refreshments in Icelandic crockery; exhibitions and installations were seen all over town. Not to mention shops outside the city center, exhibitions and open studios.

DesignMarch also included a series of lectures, seminars, film screenings, and a new approach to city sightseeing, guided by architects.

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Stockholm Design Week and Furniture Fair is organized in partnership with Möbelimportörernas Branschorganisation (the trade association for furniture importers), Sveriges Möbelhandlare (Swedish Federation of Furniture Retailers) and Trä- och Möbelindustriförbundet (Swedish Federation of Wood and Furniture Industry). Northern Light Fair takes place alongside the Furniture Fair. The event took place from February 9th to the 13th, 2010.

During the week, approximately 650 exhibitors (750 in total together with Northern Light Fair) display their products and get the chance to meet roughly 40,000 visitors, just over 1,050 of whom are journalists or photographers (about 25% come from countries outside Sweden). The international visitors represent about 50 different countries.

The seminars and talks include highlights such as Henrietta Thompson, Design & Arts Editor at Wall- paper* magazine, speaking on the subject of “A New Design Nation: building a country of national treasu- res without falling back on cultural stereotypes”, and Paul Smith talking about where he finds inspiration for in-store décor. Torbjørn Anderssen, one of the founders of Norway Says, will be sharing his views on whether there is such a thing as typical Norwegian design, while Global Color ResearchTM Mix Publica- tions will be holding a seminar entitled “The How and Why of Colour Trend”.

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The BCN Design Week, organized yearly by BCD Barcelona Design Centre, is an international business focused congress framed in the field of design and aimed at those companies and professionals in any industry or productive services that use knowledge and creativity as a driver of its business activity.

The various events and activities included within the BCN Design Week offer the attendees the opportunity to learn, share and delve into varied design related topics, in order to promote Barcelona as a city of creativity, design and knowledge, strengthening the relationship between business and design and fostering greater understanding and awareness of design and its strategic value.

This year the BDW will celebrate its fourth edition positioned as a leading event for promoting and debating design and a date on the international calendar that can’t be missed. From 26th to 30th of October, businesses of diverse productive or services sectors, professionals and experts of the world of design as well as prestigious speakers will give themselves appointment in a platform of experiences in which the main topics to be addressed are Design Thinking & Creativity, Design Management, Mobile Design or Family business and Creativity, among other topics.

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