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Designer of the Year 2022. Interview with Ivan Khmelevsky

When the jury was selecting the designer of the year 2022, they reviewed the winning works of all the different competitions of the recent years and the people behind them. There was one name that started repeating and reappearing in different places and categories, again and again. This person is Ivan Khmelevsky. Ivan is a designer with a very elegant, minimalist, and modern design language, from whose work and style always glows through the idea and reasoning ability, together with brilliant innovativeness.

Marksteen Adamson: Campaigning should not be about shouting at each other

June 17, Marksteen Adamson will run a workshop: Stop Campaigning, Start Engaging. In his workshop he will focus on how to create social change projects that really have an impact and change behaviours.

Angela Oguntala: ‘‘The future is what we design it to be!‘‘

Angela Oguntala, a founding partner at foresight and design studio Greyspace, will be stepping on stage in Tallinn at Design Conference: ‘‘Beyond Design‘‘ on June 18.

European Design Festival and Workshops

On June 17, ED-Festival will also host four workshops for both designers and people working in the public sector. NB! The number of places in the workshops is limited!

ED-Festival Design Conference ‘‘Beyond Design‘‘. Meet the Speakers!

The European Design Festival Conference ‘‘Beyond Design‘‘ 2022 will take place on Saturday, June 18 at Kultuurikatel Creative Hub. Conference Schedule available!

Design Market

Once a year in December, we organise the largest design market in the region, presenting and selling well-curated selection of the most exciting works of designers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania etc.

Design map

The Tallinn Design Map leads you to the best Estonian design – whether in cafes and restaurants decorated with Estonian design, museums exhibiting design, or galleries and design shops.

Estonian Design Awards

The Estonian Design Awards recognise the best and the most noteworthy designers in the fields of product design, graphic design, web design and service design.

Design Bulldozer (finished)

The Design Bulldozer was a development programme for businesses. Running the programme with an experienced design manager helped companies to take advantage of design in the best possible way.

Design Driver(finished)

The Design Engine is a design audit programme whose aim is to define the company’s ability and need to use design.

Library

The Estonian Design Centre has published several books on design, which you can order here. The Design Centre also lends out nearly 300 books on design.

The website of the Estonian Design Centre received support from the creative industries programme for the development of support structures, joint projects and export capacity. The project “Creating added value with design” received 300,000 euros of support from Enterprise Estonia through the European Regional Development Fund. The project lasted from May 2015 to May 2017 and its aim was to increase the use of design among Estonian enterprises as well as boost the export volume and added value of design agencies. The project was used to carry out several activities, such as the Design Bulldozer programme, seminars, training sessions and study trips to match the needs of entrepreneurs and design agencies so as to meet the goals of the project.