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We connect you with clients, complement your
skills and reward the best.

For entrepreneurs

Would you like to grow your business through design? Estonian Design Centre is the best place to start.

For the public sector

We counsel and train how design can lead to innovation in public sector.

Estonian design

We have a strong focus on bringing together the best examples of Estonian design, designers and design offices.

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The DesImO project

Estonian Design Centre, Business and Cultural Development Centre – KEPA (Greece), Design Society Fond (Denmark) and PDR’s Design & Innovation Policy Team (Wales) came together to exchange good practices and collaboratively propose solutions through a Horizon 2020 funded project – Design Impact Observatory (DesImO).

Horizon 2020 - Design Challenge Pilot

Business and Cultural Development Centre – KEPA, Estonian Design Centre and PDR’s Design & Innovation Policy Team came together to exchange good practises and collaboratively propose solutions through a Horizon 2020 funded project – Design Challenge Pilot.

Circular Design HOW TO? session on circular design and sustainability

Is sustainability the defining innovation and opportunity of this generation?

85 amazing Estonian designers & brands to check out

We made your life easier and gathered together 85 Estonian brands & designers. Christmas shopping, let‘s go!

Postponed! Estonia Design Centre Design Market

Postponed! Estonia Design Centre Design Market will take place on December 6 at Telliskivi Creative City.

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.