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Design Market. Photo by Aron Urb

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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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Design Diplomacy 2019

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Estonian company creates a tiny floating house that moves with its owners

Kodasema, a design firm, built a floating home that can be recycled and put together (or taken apart) in a single day.

The design of Game of Thrones

In light of the release of the last season, let's go through some of the best examples of great design in GoT.

Alice Rawsthorn illustrates bad design and warns against its dangers in a recent talk

Alice asked why 'good design' commands so much of our attention when there are just as many if not more examples of bad design.

Design helps to save coral

Humans are builders and creators - with those skills we are helping to save coral.

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.

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.

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.