Design:Made:Trade is a diverse and inspiring trade exhibition space of over sixty 3×3 metre VISY cardboard booths, including some of Australia’s leading furniture, fashion and industrial design brands.

Design:Made:Trade returns for its third year and will be accompanied by a huge number of programs including workshops, talks, exhibitions and displays. This historic site comes alive with activity during the first week of the Festival, register to visit if you are part of the design industry or enjoy the event during the days opened to the public.

Design:Made:Trade will open from July 15 to 18, 2010 at Royal Exhibition Building, Carlton, Victoria.

www.stateofdesign.com.au

In celebration of World Industrial Design Day (WIDD) on 29 June 2010, the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID) invites designers from around the globe to initiate events reflecting this year’s theme:

“Industrial Design: Humane solutions for a resilient world”

This topic was selected to facilitate collaboration within the industrial design community with the goal of producing tangible solutions to world problems.

“This theme stems from the immense response received from our recent ‘Uniting Designers in Disaster’ initiative launched on Facebook on 22 January in light of the disaster in Haiti and conveys the important role industrial design can play in global issues,” stated President Mark Breitenberg.

While the theme for WIDD 2010 calls on the design community to contribute their knowledge and skill, this day of observance is significant in fostering a global understanding of industrial design and all that it encompasses.

Events will take place in the following countries: Australia, Belgium, Canada, Chile, China, Colombia, Germany, Ireland, Iran, Russia, South Africa, Turkey and United Kingdom.

For a list of events go here.

www.icsid.org

DMY Berlin is an international design network for contemporary product design. At the yearly DMY International Design Festival Berlin both renowned and young, experimental designers launch new products, prototypes and foresighted projects. The exhibition is accompanied by a wide program of symposia, designer-talks and workshops, able to reflect current topics of contemporary design and to reveal necessary future trends of design and its related disciplines.

In collaboration with the Bauhaus Archiv / Museum für Gestaltung, DMY yearly assigns the DMY Awards for excellent projects. With international exhibitions and activities in Europe, Asia and South America, DMY gives visibility to unconventional and innovative projects and products that go beyond the mainstream.

www.dmy-berlin.com

Since 2006, AIGA (American Institute of Graphic Arts) San Francisco has organized San Francisco Design Week as a way to reach out to a diverse community of over 20,000 Bay Area design professionals as well as local businesses, non-profits, entrepreneurs, students, the design-savvy public, tourists, and more. AIGA SF will be partnering with the San Francisco chapters of the American Institute of Architects (AIA), the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA), the Interaction Design Association(IxDA), the Society for Environmental Graphic Design (SEGD), and Adobe Systems, to sponsor a full week of events highlighting the diversity and professionalism of the design community around the bay. Their goal is to raise public awareness of the impact that all design: graphic, product, interior, fashion, architecture, advertising, etc, has in the San Francisco Bay Area.

San Francisco Design Week will take place from June 14 to June 19, 2010.

www.sfdesignweek.org

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 fifth Belgrade Design Week, taking place from June 3 to 5 2010, 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.

www.icff.com

On November 18, 1999, the Chinese government officially decided that Shanghai would bid for the 2010 World Expo. With support from home and abroad, Shanghai won the bid on December 3, 2002, at the 132nd General Assembly of the International Exhibitions Bureau.

Expo 2010 Shanghai China will centre on innovation and interaction. Innovation is the soul, while cultural interaction is an important mission of the World Expositions. In the new era, Expo 2010 Shanghai China will contribute to human-centered development, scientific and technological innovation, cultural diversity and win-win cooperation for a better future, thus composing a melody with the key notes of highlighting innovation and interaction in the new century.

Expo 2010 Shanghai China will also be a grand international gathering. China shall endeavor to attract about 200 nations and international organizations to take part in the exhibition as well as 70 million visitors from home and abroad, ensuring the widest possible participation in the history of the World Expositions.

Expo 2010 Shanghai China will be open from May 1 to October 31, 2010.

en.expo2010.cnp

From the 14th to the 19th of April 2010, the Milan Fairgrounds will play host to the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, Euroluce (the International Lighting Exhibition), the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition and SaloneSatellite, every last centimeter of exhibition space totally sold out.

The range of goods on offer is always varied, with its infinite choice of furnishings, furnishing accessories, lighting products and young designer prototypes. At first and very rapid glance over the items that the 2,723 companies, 911 of them from abroad, are intending to showcase, it is clear that the credit crunch has not led to a damping down of creative energies.

The event will also host the Salone Internazionale del Mobile and the International Furnishing Accessories Exhibition and Euroluce, the International Lighting Exhibition.

www.cosmit.it

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.

www.icelanddesign.is

Next March 25th, 2010, the new showroom Davide Groppi in Barcelona will open, in the heart of Born. This is an exhibition space designed by the creative and multidisciplinary hop! design studio. The area is signed by the Italian interior designer Paolo Tosi, who shared, from a long time, friendship and feeling with Davide Groppi and its projects.

This is the first exhibition and single brand sale space of Davide Groppi in Spain, is an innovative concept in many aspects: not only is a place for exhibition and sales, but above all a space for projecting where designers and creatives can offer and share their experiences, united by the taste and the search for minimal and essential light.

Within this space, are located, in fact, other activities related to the design world, from fashion to photography through architecture. 200 square meters where white and black alternate in a game of full and empty; frameless windows and white divisions at different heights, in contrast to the walls with the texture of marble and iron, mark the working areas of the other activities developed into the area.

The showroom is aimed at both designers, architects, professionals and the general public. A space oriented to understand light, performed in its many applications and nuances of purity and functionality.

www.davidegroppi.com

Premiere Classe at the Jardin des Tuileries is the essential event in the creative world of Paris.

In twenty years and twice a year, Premiere Classe sets up at the heart of the French capital, when Paris becomes the stage on which the creators’ catwalks are set. Premiere Classe presents a selection of cutting-edge, top of the range creators, who influence the purchasing of an exclusive international distribution. From young designers to well-established brands, from urban labels to craftsmen, our teams have always put forward the products’ beauty and know-how, no matter the background and origin.

In October 2009, Premiere Classe celebrated its 20th birthday. To start this new decade, the trade show layout was entirely rethought, with the shoe offer now concentrated at the other end of the tent. This change created an added source of energy and gave the visitors the opportunity to discover the trade fair and brands with a new eye.

To spice things up, Premiere Classe welcomed 20 new brands this session. Among them, shoe designers Michel Perry, Rodolphe Menudier, Daniele Michetti, but also Thierry Mugler who, for the first time, was introducing his shoe collection on a trade fair. As for bags, My Suelly and Fausto Santini have definitely drawn the attention of buyers, just like Fiona Paxton and Simon Harrison for jewels.

Premiere Classe is the junction between Luxury and Creation.

Upcoming Premiere Classe Events:
PREMIERE CLASSE TUILERIES: 1 – 4 October 2010
PREMIERE CLASSE PORTE DE VERSAILLES: 4 – 7 September 2010
WHO’S NEXT & PREMIERE CLASSE IN DUBAI: 19 – 21 October 2010

www.premiere-classe-tuileries.com