New York City’s official celebration of design returns from May 10th to 20th with the 10th year anniversary of NYCxDESIGN Festival.

The annual event attracts thousands of visitors from across the globe that make the trip to experience the very best in design at all scales and disciplines. As an international design capital, all five of NYC’s boroughs will play host to activations, tours, exhibits, talks, workshops and films taking place at museums, schools, neighbourhoods, galleries, restaurants and hotels.

The spectrum of events guarantees that everyone will get a chance to interact with art in their own way, whether it be through immersive public art installations or quiet walks through museum activations.

Visitors to the city can plan their journey via the festival website to tour over 100+events hosted across the city. To say there’s plenty to see and do in the next 10 days would be an understatement. The shortlist of events below should help you get started!

Immersive Experiences for the Public

• Central St. Martin / Design Transforms: Borders | 5/12 - 5/16

• Design Pavilion: Open to the Sky | 5/7 - 5/15

  • PRATT’s Pop Up/ Drop Off | 5/10 - 5/15

  • CLB Architect’s “FILTER” | 5/7 - 5/15

• Industry City Design Festival | 5/12 - 5/16

• Madison Avenue Art & Design Weekend | 5/13 - 5/15 

• MvVO Art Show at the Oculus | 5/10 - 5/31 

• Together We Thrive / Harlem Black Art + Culture Showcase | 5/11

• Wexler Gallery / Botanica — Inspired by Nature | 5/10 - 5/20

Exhibitions and Pop-Ups

• Apartment Therapy / Small/Cool NYC | 5/13 - 5/15 

• Carl Hansen & Søn with the Female Design Council: Craft in Transition | 5/10-5/20

• ChangeMakers__Architecture and Urban Design LAB | 5/16 

• Culture Object / Transcendental Design Reception | 5/10

• Danish Circular Design Pop-up | 5/10 - 5/13 

• Dieter Rams / Looking back and ahead | 5/10 - 5/24 

• Eventscape NYC / Glass Bridge Exhibition & Presentation (Design Trade Only) | 5/12 

• FAD Market | 5/14-5/15

• Industry City Local Exhibit: Tools! | 5/12 - 5/16

• Jean-Michel Basquiat: King Pleasure | 5/10 - 6/20 

• NYCxDESIGN Student Showcase Night | 5/19  

• RALPH PUCCI presents Lee F. Mindel | 5/10 - 5/23 

• Stellar Works Launches the Pagoda Chair by BassamFellows | 5/10 - 5/20

• SUITE NY / Design Editions | 5/10 - 5/20

• Sunshine Thacker Presents The Groovitational Collection | 5/19 

• Yuko Nishikawa’s “Memory Functions” | 5/10 - 5/11

Emerging Talent and Group Shows

• CURRENT: Ties of Contemporary Design | 5/10 - 5/31 

• Pink Essay Presents: Physical Education II | 5/13-5/16

• Radiator Show | 5/11 - 5/17 

Trade Shows   

• ICFF: International Contemporary Furniture Fair | 5/15-5/17

• WantedDesign Manhattan | 5/15-5/17

Talks & Receptions

• Brooklyn Navy Yard / Design Thinking Masterclass Series 5/10 - 5/18 

• Celebrating a Decade of Design with IDSA at NYCxDESIGN | 5/18  

• DWR Celebrates Women In Design | 5/11 

• Industry City Design Festival: The Talks | 5/12 - 5/15 

• IDSA Happy Hour - Sponsored by INDEED Innovation (Design Trade Only) | 5/13

• Spacestor / Insights Live Panel Discussion, Experiential Workplace Tour & Buffet Lunch (Design Trade Only) | 5/17

• SVA MA Design Research Writing and Critical Graduate Thesis Symposium | 5/17

• Talk at 1014: Vitra Design Museum presents "Plastic. Remaking our world." | 5/12

• “The Responsibility of Design”: A Talk Series of NYC design luminaries led by Laura Kohler, Kohler Co. and Debbie Millman | 5/13

• Vitra / Dynamic Spaces | 5/18  

• Villa Albertine & Mobilier National / "Modern Across the Ages" | 5/12

Tours and Studio & Showroom Crawls

• Brooklyn Navy Yard / Envision Your Career: Emerging Designers Tour | 5/14

• Brooklyn Navy Yard / Architecture Infrastructure Tour | 5/15 - 5/22 

• Eventscape NYC / Design + Fabrication Tours | 5/18

• Design Showroom Crawl Presented by AN Interior and The Architect’s Newspaper (Design Trade Only) | 5/11

• Humanscale / Saving the Planet One Product at a Time (Design Trade Only) | 5/10-5/20

• Industry City Design Festival: Open Studios | 5/14-5/15

• Makerspace NYC Brooklyn 3rd Anniversary & Studio Space Grand Opening | 5/14 

• Open Showroom Tour | Atlantic Avenue's Brooklyn Design District | 5/11

• Open Studio Crawls guided by NYCxDESIGN

  • Red Hook | 5/12 from 4 pm - 6:30 pm

  • Long Island City | 5/13 from 4 pm - 6:30 pm

  • Brooklyn Navy Yard | 5/14 from 2 pm - 4:30 pm

  • Flatiron | 5/19 from 4 pm - 6:30 pm

• Rockefeller Center Rink Level Guided Tour with INC Architecture and Design | 5/17- 5/18

• Snug Harbor Cultural Center / Yesterday & Tomorrow tour | 5/15

• The Potential of Networks: A 2022 Circular Economy | 5/10-5/28

• Theater District Walking Tours hosted by Rockwell Group (Design Trade Only) | 5/18  

• TRNK / Earthen Luminaries | 5/12 - 5/20

Museum Activations

• Cooper Hewitt Design Workshop and Talk at Industry City | 5/10 - 5/20

• Cooper Hewitt / Nature by Design: Botanical Expressions | 5/10 - 5/20

• From Studio to Museum: A dive into the world of floral design w/ Vitra and Museum of Arts and Design | 5/11

• The Museum of Arts and Design / Flower Craft | 5/14 - 6/26 

Hospitality Partners

• STAYxDESIGN | 5/10-5/20

  • Partners include the Ace Hotel (New York and Brooklyn), Arlo Hotels (NoMad, Midtown, and SoHo), the Thompson New York, and the CIVILIAN Hotel.

• DRINKSxDESIGN | 5/10-5/20

  • Partners include King’s County Distillery, Bar Blondeau, Dear Irving on Hudson, Comodo, As You Are, Llama San, Turk’s Inn, and Dear Irving Gramercy. Tickets for a special Happy Hour at King’s County Distillery on May 18 can be found here.

Films

• Industry City Design Festival: Architecture and Design Film Festival Screening | 5/12

• Screening of MAU at the Angelika Film Center | 5/13 - 5/20