How Bali’s community is building a working model for design: Jia CURATED 2026
Jia CURATED closed its 5th edition, growing as a festival without losing the intimacy that made people fall for it […]
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Design events bring together designers, brands, institutions and audiences to present new ideas, products and research. This section covers design weeks, fairs, exhibitions, festivals and installations taking place across the international design calendar. From global events to independent initiatives, these occasions offer a snapshot of the industry's current priorities and emerging conversations. On DesignWanted, event coverage goes beyond launches to document the projects, exhibitions and people defining each edition.
Where is contemporary African design going?
The Africa International Design Awards (AIDA) just announced the winners of its first-ever edition, closing a submissions cycle that pulled […]
Saudi Arabia is quietly building its own design map
A year after its debut, ARTDOM Riyadh 2026 is coming back bigger, and it’s bringing with it one of the […]
Jia CURATED 2026: a festival rooted in the Indonesian landscape
From the 13th to the 17th of August 2026, Jia CURATED returns to Bali for its fifth edition, bringing together […]
The pulse of design: Maison&Objet unveils its new identity
September is the month of restarting, the beginning of the end of the year – and also the month in […]
The world’s best architecture 2026: research over spectacle
Architizer announced the winners of its 14th annual A+Awards on June 8, 2026 – the largest and most international architecture […]
China’s biggest furniture stage just rewrote its own rules
For anyone tracking where the global furniture industry is actually heading — not just where it’s been — CIFF Shanghai […]
“Don’t call me collectible!”: exploring furniture as a research object
An exasperating trend has settled over the design world in the last decade, and it is collectible design. What began […]
Moving walls and street basket: the new face of sport by 2050+
For festivals such as Concéntrico – the international architecture and design festival held every year in Logroño – the selection […]
Logroño as an urban laboratory: Concéntrico’s 12th edition
Twenty participants, three themes, and a city reconfigured through ephemeral architecture and design gestures: this is how the 12th edition […]
A vending machine became a storefront for independent design
The conventional design market has many steps: galleries, companies, showrooms, retailers, which all add markups to products, leaving the designer […]
Ten years of shaping design in Central and Eastern Europe
There is a part of Europe whose design industry has transformed almost beyond recognition over the past decade. Central and […]
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