Architecture, Interiors, Furniture and Product: Design Events You Can Not Miss in 2018
If you have been following our blog or our brand, you already know that ARCHYI. team is inspired by nature and moved by passion. The passion for communication, for creating unique solutions that help to improve environments, particularly work environments, that motivate and potentiate collaboration, communication, creativity, and focus.
But there are other things that truly passionate us and serve as an inspiration for our creative product development team.
Design… Design thinking, design breathing… Design applied to architecture, Interiors, Furniture, product. And as any design lover, we have impulse and need to keep up with trends, novelties, new concepts, approaches, materials, visions…
The problem is that with hundreds of design fairs, conferences and trade shows taking place around the world every year, it can be hard to choose which to attend. Of course, we would love to be present as an exhibitor in all of them, but ARCHYI. is a newly launched brand with a long path to go, so we are mostly visiting and exploring, searching for good design, innovation, and inspiration.
If you are one of those people that also breathes design, here is a list we’ve compiled to help you out in the task of choosing the best design events to attend from now until the end of the year! An interesting preview to over 20 of the best design events that you cannot miss still happening in 2018
JULY 2018
Starting this week, we recommend the New Designers Part II from tomorrow 4th to Saturday 7th July, in the Business Design Centre, in Islington, London. 3,000 breakthrough talents under one roof showing their creations concerning Product and Industrial Design, Furniture Design, Spatial Design & Interiors, Graphic Design, Illustration and Animation, Motion and Digital Arts.
Later this month, from Thursday 19th to Sunday 22th July, the AIFF – Australia’s premier buying and networking destination for the furniture industry – takes place in Melbourne’s Exhibition Centre, Australia. Leading brands showcasing the latest products & furnishings, in a show that is a part of Decor + Design, Australia’s No.1 Interiors Event.
AUGUST 2018
The only great Design event of the month is São Paulo Design Weekend, taking place between Wednesday, the 29th August and Sunday 2nd September, São Paulo, in Brazil.
São Paulo Design Weekend is a celebration of Latin American design and it includes annually, more than 300 independent and simultaneous events, from trade fairs to cocktail parties, public and private activities, promoted in strategic points of the city such as Museums, Galleries, Studios, Stores, Shopping Centers, Parks, Public Squares, Universities, Colleges and other organized by companies, professionals, educational institutions and NGOs.
SEPTEMBER 2018
September is one of the most intensive months when it comes to events worth attending. Starting in the 4th of September, taking place in London, until Sunday 23 September, The 2018 London Design Biennale, where international designers from up to 40 countries, cities and territories will be taking over the entirety of Somerset House, exploring how design affects every aspect of our lives – the way we live and how we live – and influences our very emotions, being and experiences, our “emotional states” expression that will be the theme of this year exhibition.
From Thursday 6 to Sunday 16 September, Helsinki Design Week – the largest design festival in the Nordic countries, held annually in September, the multidisciplinary festival presents design from a number of fields as well as fashion, architecture and urban culture. The Finnish festival program contains around 250 events every year and includes both events targeted for professionals and the general public, including exhibitions, fashion shows, talks, and workshops, along with a growing number of satellite events.
Almost simultaneously, from Friday 7 to Saturday 15 September, happens the Paris Design Week, in France. Over its 7 editions, this event has become a reference on the international design scene. Taking place as it does at the same time as key influential professionals from the fields of design, decoration, fashion and art meet up in Paris. In close coordination with Maison&Objet trade show, it takes advantage of the presence of 3,000 exhibitors and 80,000 professionals from 140 different countries, as well as guaranteed media attention.
Between Tuesday 11th and Friday 14th September, in Shanghai, China’s international furniture expo, better known as Furniture China, returns to Shanghai with contemporary and traditional designs. Taking the lead in the industry for over two decades. As one of the world’s leading B2B trade fairs, over 100,000 participants are involved in the show every year.
In the second half of September, stay tuned for the London Design Festival, from the 15th to the 23rd September. Taking place all over the UK capital, the LDF for short includes installations at the Victoria & Albert Museum, as well as a series of design shows, like the renowned London Design Fair and 100% Design.
Reflection room Flynn Talbot design installations-London design festival 2017
Feria Habitat in Valencia, in Spain, is scheduled between 18th and 21st September and is the most famous household design and decoration trade fair in Spain. Hosting around 600 exhibitors, this trade show focus on products made in Spain.
From 22 September to 4 November, all attentions turn to Turkey, for the fourth edition of one the most thought-provoking biennales in the design calendar. The Istanbul Design Biennial is being curated by Belgian design critic and teacher Jan Boelen, and will focus on how design education can change in the age of information, under the theme “A School of Schools”.
Next, it will be time for Vienna Design Week, occurring, obviously in Vienna, Austria from 28 September to 7 October. Austria´s largest design festival, with a variety of locations and events in Vienna. The festival, curated by Lilli Hollein entered its 12th round this year. Opening up creative processes and giving scope for experimentation on-site are core elements of the festival concept.
The award-winning Modesto Architecture Festival, from September 16 – 23, 2018, is going to have, as usual, something inspirational and informative for everyone: tours, exhibits, international movies, workshops, speakers, installations, interventions, kid’s activities, and special events with a variety of community partners. The festival mission is to celebrate architecture and architectural design as both an art and a science and to heighten public awareness of architecture, landscape, and urban design.
Beijing Design Week is definitely China’s most important design event. Occurring from 26 September to 5 October 2018. Exhibitions and installations are created in Beijing’s hutongs, industrial warehouses and artists’ communities under this year’s theme LIVING is GIVING!
OCTOBER 2018
October is also a busy month for design lovers, starting with the Biennale INTERIEUR 2018 that this year opts for a more compact and professional format and will run for 5 days from October 18 to 22 in Kortrijk, Belgium. INTERIEUR 2018 will be a Biennale where young talent takes center stage. In addition to an innovative scenography by Claudio Saccucci and Roxane Van Hoof from Studio Verter – an archetypal piazza that will cross and connect several halls.- and custom installations, the upcoming edition also surprises with a city festival at a unique location.
In October of each year, the Dutch Design Week (DDW) takes place in Eindhoven. This year will happen from October 20 to the 28th. The biggest design event in Northern Europe presents work and ideas of more than 2600 designers to more than 335,000 visitors. In more than hundred locations across the city, DDW organizes and facilitates exhibitions, lectures, prize ceremonies, networking events, debates, and festivities. Young and upcoming Netherlands-based designers present conceptual and experimental design across the city at this firm favorite on the design week schedule.
From October 23 to 27, ORGATEC, the Cologne trade fair that focuses on furniture, lighting, flooring, acoustics and media technology for workspaces will be showing interior architects, designers, other interested professionals and visitors from all over the world, how innovative, intelligent and collaborative workspace solutions can promote company culture and make shared successes possible in a time where new work culture concepts have been rising and influencing the way we perceive our workspaces. Industry experts look at trends and best practice in the Trend Forum panel discussions. Amongst the visionary space and interiors concepts and innovative technologies that are driving forward new forms of cooperation and inspiring new ideas, ARCHYI.’s collaborative workspace design solutions and concepts, will help immerse visitors in the world of work of tomorrow and beyond! And this is the reason why ORGATEC will be the design event of the year. Do not miss the chance to visit stand D54 at Halle 11.2. and be inspired by ARCHYI.’s solutions.
In Mid-October, Designart Tokyo takes place in Japan. Following its launch last year, Designart will return in 2018, bringing a number of exhibitions and talks to Tokyo with the aim of revitalizing the city’s creative scene. DESIGNART is a new word that redefines the things that touch us and bring emotion to our everyday lives through function and beauty. It is also the name of the movement to spread and share this amazing concept.
NOVEMBER 2018
International designers present furniture, lighting, textiles, and technology in the fourth edition of Dubai Design Week that will take place from 12-17 November 2018. Key events include the region’s leading design fair Downtown Design and its showcase dedicated to limited-edition design, Downtown Editions; the Global Grad Show that brings together works from 100 of the most innovative universities across the world; and Abwab, the curated and interactive project containing original design from the Middle East, North Africa and South Asia.
As the end of the month is coming closer, it is time for the World Architecture Festival that is moving to Amsterdam in 2018. From 28 to 30th November, a three-day event program that centers around the awards, and culminates in a gala dinner where the coveted World Building of the Year prize is announced. It is the only architecture event where keynote talks from the industry’s most influential figures sit alongside live judging presentations from over 500 award finalists plus global networking and an international product exhibition.
Produce. Workshop, Fabricwood, Singapore
Taking place alongside the World Architecture Festival, from 28 to 30th November, the INSIDE World Festival of Interiors is a three-day event, dedicated to celebrating, sharing and inspiring outstanding interior design professionals and architects as well as the year’s best interior design projects… It is the only global interiors festival where keynote talks from the industry’s most influential figures sit alongside live judging presentations from over 500 award finalists plus global networking and an international product exhibition. INSIDE is the sister event to the World Architecture Festival.
DECEMBER 2018
With all the choice throughout the year, it seems that Europe gets calmer and, in the last month of the year, design events are a lot less, mainly occurring in the United States. Nevertheless, the ICFF, International Contemporary Furniture Fair, The South Florida edition – that will take place at the Fort Lauderdale Convention Centre, from 4 to 6th December – as well as Design Miami, from 5 to 9th December – are events that are really worth attending.
Design Miami brings together gallerists, designers, curators, and critics from around the world to celebrate and promote collectible design. Each year also sees installations created by leading designers. Occurring alongside the Art Basel fairs in Miami, USA each December and Basel, Switzerland each June, Design Miami/ has become the premier venue for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating a collectible design. Concerning the ICFF, it annually lures those in determined pursuit of design’s timely truths and latest trends to an encyclopedic exhibition of up-to-the-moment offerings, as well as a series of fascinating, fun, edifying programs, and a packed schedule of exhibits and features.
Hoping this short guide is truly useful and you have a blast visiting these events, exploring and absorbing new perspectives, ideas, emotions, and inspirations, we finish this post inviting you to drop by our stand at Orgatec2018 if you happen to pass by Cologne at the end of October.
In the meantime, stay tuned for more events that ARCHYI. team may find out or decide to participate.
