Design Week Philippines
2023

We are back! Let’s celebrate design that HEALS, INNOVATES, and TRANSFORMS, pushing against today’s undercurrent of crisis, to move the world, against all odds, towards HOPE.

14-21 OCT 2023

Get your dose of Vitamin Design throughout

October

Design Week Philippines is a celebration of Filipino design through Workshops, Talks, Tours, Atbp. For its 11th edition, Design Week celebrated “Design for All”, by going back to its roots, bringing design to the people by rethinking and reexploring what “for all” means.The country’s biggest festival for Filipino design is made for everyone communicators, creatives, culture workers, and the like. Wherever you are in the world, you can enjoy and learn from the best of the best through our first a hybrid experience since 2020.Design Week Philippines 2022 was filled with speakers, brands, agencies that represent a wide range of disciplines with the same goal: to celebrate Filipino design.

Partner Testimonials

Hear about us from a few of our design friends

Mookie Tamara

Animator and Instructor at Toon City Academy

“It gave us a platform to deliver some socially-relevant talks to a market that seeks We believe that this talk was a good first step to set us on that path and start setting a new standard or encourage the change we hope to see.”

Mari Martirez

Head of Business Development at Brand New Design Studio

“Design Week Philippines provides effortless partnerships. Being part of Design Week Philippines’ marketing activities has helped us promote our initiatives to a wider audience, gain credibility, acquire sponsors, and reach our organizational targets."

Particia Mendoza

General Manager at MATIC

“Since 2014, this would be the first time the Bamboo Workshops have been featured in Design Week Philippines. It helps to get the word out, and it’s always a great opportunity to see interest outside of Cebu.”

Past Editions

See how other editions of Design Week Philippines got to unite and grow design communities in the country. Together, we elevated the conversation, understating, and connection of people in design.

Design Week Philippines 2021 Edition

Design Week Philippines:Design Connec10ns

18-24 October 2021

Anchored to the theme Design Connect10ns, this year's festival explores design as a tool for creating impact-driven connections to activate interactions within the design ecosystem and leverage on these design connections to develop design-driven actions in creating smarter MSMEs and cities, in driving economic prosperity and competitiveness, and in response to social problems.

Design Week Philippines 2020 Edition

Design Week Philippines: Hyper Collaboration for a Better Normal

19-25 October 2020

What comes after The Great Reset? Thriving communities and endless opportunities for growth. This year's Design Week Philippines -  Hyper Collaboration for a Better Normal sees light in challenging times. We'll explore how we can work together and take today's visions into future and better realities through the lens of design and designers.With a total of 21 events, 14 partners, with over 70 speakers, for 7 days, Design Week Philippines 2020 is a completely digital celebration of virtual communities for creativity, innovation and hyper collaboration.

Design Week Philippines October 2019 Edition

Design Kaleidoscope: Live Differently Through Design

12 - 20 October 2019

The October 2019 edition of Design Week Philippines bannered diversity in creativity through a design kaleidoscope, and dared to ask: What happens when we look at the world differently through design?Design Kaleidoscope emphasized creative communities and hubs, leveraging on the diversified strengths and perspective of its people, paving for an artistic and communal chemistry that tackles opportunities to spark change and make it happen. In a design-driven community where interdisciplinary collaboration is key, what are we bringing to the group to influence change in our collective future? The event received cooperation from 63 partners, and organized more than 60 events in 12 cities around the Philippines attended by 11,370 people

Design Week Philippines April 2019 Edition

Design Kaleidoscope: Seeing the World Differently Through Design

12 - 19 April 2019

Design Week Philippines empowers design communities and hubs to fully embrace creativity and diversity. With Intramuros as our starting point in earlier editions, Design Week Philippines has flourished and is now commemorated in 11 cities, with 57 partners, and through 92 events organized and attended by 13,000 people. The theme embodied Design Center’s vision for the country’s design and creative sectors—bursting with color and fully embracing their diversity to empower the next driver of the Philippine economy. Through our collaborations with different designers, creatives, and hubs, we unleashed their inner child as they enter a state of play. Through the exciting lineup of activities we have in store for April, we helped people unlock unique views and applications of creativity and innovation.Design Week invited individuals from diverse backgrounds and disciplines to explore areas for collaboration through playful experimentation and free-form exploration. In our talks and workshops, different business-support organizations and industry experts guided participants as they make their way as sustainable enterprises in the creative industries.

Design Week Philippines October 2018 Edition

Creative Vortex: Celebrating Design

13 - 21 October 2018

For its October 2018 edition, DWP took on the theme of a creative vortex with a total of 38 partners, and organized more than 51 events in 6 cities around Metro Manila attended by 10,000+ people.In this multi-city celebration, Design Week Philippines acted as a force that gathered trailblazers, tinkerers, creatives and designers in a central interactive platform that complements the continuously expanding pool of ideas, best practices, breakthrough thinking, and collaborative networks that usher in trade opportunities in the Philippine design industry.Through this edition, Design Week Philippines grew together with the increased presence of creative hubs in the country. Creative hubs, after all, are catalysts of innovation, driving inclusive growth in the creative economy and positive changes in cities. Design Week Philippines puts a focus on these hubs to support their initiatives and gain further traction as a building block of the creative ecosystem and training ground of future design leaders

Design Week Philippines April 2018 Edition

Design Tribes: Building up on Creative Vibes and Tribes

14 - 22 April 2018

Design Week Philippines partnered with the metros’ key creative hubs to celebrate design and celebrated a nine-day borderless creative festivity with its powerhouse team of 55 partners, 57 events in 7 cities all over the metro attended by 11,381 people.Design Week Philippines offered a series of design talks, design tours, hands-on workshops, exhibitions, art booths, live performances, outdoor film showing, weekend market and a lot more to make sure you get your dose of design, creativity, and good vibes. The line-up of activities was geared towards gathering creative tribes and aficionados, and engaging them to spark greater creativity and innovation.Beyond the spirit of creativity of the celebration, Design Week established connections and invigorated deeper partnerships among the country’s design and creative communities to support this initiative. Building connections and communities has always been at the core of Design Week Philippines. It also created a movement by engaging partners and partner events to show the diverse ways of celebrating Design Week Philippines, and eventually make design and creativity a way of life in the Philippines, and build on each other’s ideas.

Design Week Philippines October 2017 Edition

Design Renaissance: Celebrate Creativity and Design

14 - 22 October 2017

In its 2017 edition, Design Week Philippines has focused on Intramuros as the central location for all things creative and design-related, with the aim of mobilizing it as a creative hub. Design Week Philippines, as a multi-faceted celebration of design, art and creativity, continued to bring a series of activities, talks, workshops and installations inside the walls of Intramuros to stimulate artistic energy and inspire creative industries inside the locale.Design Week Philippines spearheaded a fun-filled, creativity-charged nine-day festivity through its design talks, design tour, creative workshops, installations, weekend market, and more. The event received cooperation from 29 partners, and organized more than 48 events in 4 cities around the Philippines attended by 11,000+ people.

Selected Features

Tara! Let’s celebrate Filipino design!

As we get ready to gather in-person and online, remember that the future of Filipino design is brighter when we work together.

See you in October 2024!