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For designers

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.

Events

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Designblog

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Defining UX&UI design for humans

DUX explains what UX&UI design means for them.

Designer of the month Joosep Volk: "It is important to learn something new from each new project."

On September 16, the honourable ADC*E Designer of the Year Award went to Joosep Volk. Over the years, he has stood out thanks to his impeccable work ethic, and dominated animation categories – this year was no different.

Tallinn Bicycle Week

Tallinn Bicycle Week (est. 2011) is an urban cycling and bike culture festival that is set out to give the streets back to the people and have fun while encouraging a healthy and conscious urban lifestyle.

Coverfox

A mobile application to buy and compare insurance policies for Indian startup Coverfox.

Visual identity for new banking service Pocopay

Pocopay is a revolution in everyday banking. Built on a brand new infrastructure, it enables people to send and receive money in an instant.

Design Market

Twice a year, in winter and spring, we organise the largest design market in the region, presenting and selling the work of designers from Estonia, Latvia, Lithuania and the Nordic countries.

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.