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Design Market. Photo by Aron Urb

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Next Design Market will take place on December 15 2019

In this Spring, there won‘t be an Estonian Design Centre Design Market. Instead there will be Design Tour during Tallinn Music Week.

Bit Finer, one of the boldest digital agencies from Estonia received two awards at the German Design Award 2019.

The two UX/UI projects, KAFO and Tavex, that received the awards have had an enormous amount of success so far, making the German Design Award 2019 as the seventh award so far.

Radis shelf LIFT won German Design Award 2019 Special Mention award

This year, for the first time, an Estonian designer is awarded with a 2019 Special Mention prize at the German Design Awards.

Bevira

Bevira is a business software that helps businesses save time by automising their business processes.

International Wood Architecture Conference 2017

International Wood Architecture Conference in Tallinn brings together top architects and engineers from around the world who have stood out with innovative use of wood in their works. For the second consecutive year they asked us to make the brand – including logo, colors, typefaces, web – for the event.

Design Market

Twice a year, in winter and spring, 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.

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

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

Design Driver

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.

Design for Europe is a web platform that showcases the best design examples and tools as well as stories on how design leads to innovation in both business and the public sector.

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 lasts from May 2015 to May 2017 and its aim is to increase the use of design among Estonian enterprises as well as boost the export volume and added value of design agencies. The project is 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.