Come 28 November to 8 December 2007, design will take centerstage in the city.

Be part of inspiring presentations of the best of international and Singaporean talents and innovation. Create platforms for networking, ideas exchange and collaboration. Help many come face to face with designs and designers from different cultures.

All these exciting events will happen at the Singapore Design Festival. This year’s Festival promises to have even more impact than before, as the DesignSingapore Council works with you to refine and enhance what the Festival has to offer for Singaporean and international visitors, partner organizations and the design community as a whole. Together, we will create the most exciting event of the year!

The Singapore Design Festival was first initiated in 2005 by the DesignSingapore Council (Ministry of Information, Communication and the Arts), as a biennial platform with the aim
to celebrate and promote design as a propeller of the new economy in Singapore, and to provide a gateway to Asia’s design community, and Asia to the world.

The Festival is multi-faceted, championing a broad range of design discipline and acts as the key umbrella event for the whole sector. Contributions to the Festival programme are made by a diverse range of Singaporean and International partner organizations - they range from design businesses, trade associations, galleries, retailers, museums, government bodies, media organization, and of course individual designers.

The Singapore Design Festival is open, inclusive and international in its outlook. It attempts to bring partners and audiences with the widest possible range of interest together to explore design issues, do business, exchange ideas, and have fun. Events staged as part of the Festival range from major international presentations to Singaporean showcases to trade events, alongside award ceremonies, talks, workshops, product launches, open houses and designer parties.

The unique preposition of the Singapore Design Festival is the focus on the design process and the conceptualization of ideas and the showcase of our emerging design culture.

In essence the Festival aims to transmute the design culture in Singapore and from around the world into an interactive and “live” presentation of the design process and its end products.

All of this is made possible by the fact that Singapore is an increasingly emerging creative design hub with a dynamic pool of Singaporean and international design talents and design-led companies. As the city where diverse culture converge and multi-national businesses gather to trade thoughts and commerce, the Singapore Design Festival is fast becoming recognized as a key event in the international design calendar.

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