Fourteen highlights at Paris Design Week 2026
Our guide to Paris Design Week 2026 features exhibitions and installations reimagining the Arc de Triomphe and La Bastille, while historic courtyards and gardens frame mesmerising showcases.
Homo Faber 2026: fine craftsmanship shines in Venice
Homo Faber 2026 brings together 700 handcrafted objects from artisans around the world, staged within Es Devlin’s immersive installations. At its core, the biennial showcase “explores the fundamental relationship between light, materials and the human hand.”
Design Miami Seoul 2026: Korean Architecture, Craft and Technology in ‘Resonance’
At Design Miami Seoul 2026, a new generation of South Korean collectible design fuses material memory and local craft, updating the traditional idea of home.
Marimekko takes over Matti Suuronen’s iconic Futuro House during Helsinki Design Week
Marimekko brings its distinctive visual language to Matti Suuronen’s space-age icon, setting bold textiles and playful patterns against the Futuro House’s futuristic curves. It’s an unlikely but fitting dialogue between architecture, print and materiality.
Helsinki Design Week 2026: Ten Highlights In The Finnish Capital
A wild mushroom bar, a pavilion devoted to darkness, a Space Age house reimagined — Helsinki Design Week 2026 champions the creativity that sparks when people, ideas and places genuinely meet.
Euro Banknotes Redesigns Explore Europe’s Identity
Ten designs, one currency, a continent deciding how it wants to see itself. Whether it’s Maria Callas or a kingfisher on the note, Euro banknotes are about to get a lot more personal.
Decoy Font: The Typeface Designed to Outwit AI to Keep Your Words Human-Only
Built on optical illusion science, Decoy Font lets designers hide messages from prying AI algorithms, one blurred letterform at a time.
Inside Design Parade 2026: French Riviera’s Design Fest
Southern France thrives with creativity: Design Parade 2026 spotlights Magritte-inspired interiors, candle clocks, hybrid lamps, and Pre-Columbian Pokémons.
Crosby Studios’ ‘Home of Football: Home & Away’ exhibition explores soccer’s cultural legacy in New York
Pelé’s 1958 World Cup jersey, rare memorabilia and a bright green carpet: fashion, art, and design collide at the ‘Home of Football’ showcase, exploring soccer as a catalyst for identity, creativity and belonging.
The Design of the Match Ball of the FIFA World Cup 2026 Carries Three Flags
The Official Match Ball for the tournament layers embossed textures, host-nation colours and graphics, and is empowered by cutting-edge technology.
GAME ON: Helle Mardahl Casts Candy Crush in Glass
In Copenhagen, the Danish designer’s GAME ON installation brought mouth-blown glass to life through colour, symmetry, and the irresistible logic of play.
Bread & Butter 2026: designers explore bathing routines through intimate pairings
Teapots, pitchers, soap trays, brush holders – In Copenhagen, the Bread & Butter exhibition explores bathing rituals through design pairings across cultures.
Ukurant Makes Space: eight highlights by emerging designers in Copenhagen
From a lamp using gravity to shine and a lounger tracing the arc of a spinal column. This year’s Ukurant exhibition blurs craft and function.
Fritz Hansen’ SOUND CLUB makes some noise in Copenhagen
A listening bar, DJ sets in the courtyard, and a podcast lounge — music and design speak the same spatial language at Fritz Hansen’s Sound Club. The 3daysofdesign installation explores what great interiors are truly for: composed around people, not objects.
Aalto 90 Pavilion: Iittala Scales Up a Design Icon in Copenhagen
Built in low-carbon aluminium, the Aalto 90 Pavilion reimagines a design classic as a monumental, walk-in public installation.
Form Follows Seam: Designers Show What A Sewing Machine Can Do In Copenhagen
Stitched lamps, enfolded chairs, a leather sling suspended in steel — Erwan Bouroullec, Foster + Partners, and more work with the sewing machine for the VÆRKTØJ exhibition at 3DaysOfDesign.
Genova Design Week 2026: Five Highlights in the Italian city
From a compact home in a shipping container to totemic sculptures 3D-printed from reclaimed marine plastic, Genova Design Week 2026 explored the theme Equilibrium through a thoughtful programme of sustainable installations.
3DaysOfDesign 2026: Copenhagen’s Design Celebration
From Alvar, the 90th-anniversary pavilion for Aalto’s vase, to sewing-machine craft and listening bars — here is everything worth seeing at 3DaysOfDesign 2026.
Melbourne Design Week 2026: Eight Exhibitions That Resonated
Champagne buckets, cutlery as philosophy, and 100 chairs. Melbourne Design Week 2026 celebrated craft, material, and process.
After the Fair: QuadroDesign repurposes its Salone del Mobile booth as a public toilet in Zambia
From a five-day fair stand in Milan to a permanent architecture. The QuadroDesign booth by Giacomo Moor is set to provide toilet facilities alongside a coal market in Africa.
Beyond the Obvious: Hazel Villena on Latin Design Identity
Being a Latin designer in a city as open-minded as New York comes with fewer barriers than one might expect — yet, as Hazel Villena notes, there remains a quiet pressure: “expectation that our work should look visibly Latin.”
The Latinx Designers You Need to Know from New York Design Week
From monumental park sculptures to arrival-inspired furniture, Latinx designers brought some of the most compelling work to this year’s NYCxDESIGN.
Open House Milano 2026: Where Creatives Thrive
Open House Milano 2026: Explore where Milan’s ideas take shape, from architecture offices, co-working spaces and designers’ homes.
Resonance: Fung+Bedford’s origami lighting shines in a London church
Resonance is a luminous, large-scale installation that finds its home — and its foil — in one of London’s most ancient and atmospheric Norman churches.
Clerkenwell Design Week 2026: Your Essential London Guide to EC1
Paper sculptures, tactile beads and coffee-ground bricks: Clerkenwell Design Week 2026 proves good design is anything but ordinary.
Light Fantastic: Twelve eccentric lighting designs shine in NYC
NYCxDESIGN 2026: the eccentric lighting designs turning New York’s nights into something worth staying up for.
Joris Laarman weaves craft and technology at Friedman Benda’s Symbio exhibition
In New York, the Dutch designer’s Symbio and Ply Loop collections merge computational design and biodegradable materials.
Inside Uncanny Valley: The Haas Brothers’ Wildly Hybrid World
At the Haas Brothers’ Uncanny Valley exhibition, zoomorphic creatures, algorithmic landscapes, and hand-built ceramics collide.
Six highlights at the inaugural Montreal Design Week
From repurposed convent benches to serendipitous sloping dinner sets and a design exploration of softness. The first edition of Montreal Design Week marked a turning point for the Quebec capital, confirming its status as an evolving UNESCO Design City.
NYCxDESIGN 2026: seventeen must-visit exhibitions in New York City
Biophylic benches, quirky creatures, listening bar consoles, and more. We rounded up some of the best exhibitions and installations at NYCxDESIGN 2026.