The NYCxDESIGN fest is a showcase of New York City’s top designing talent, bringing in hundreds of thousands of international and national designers, makers, architects and manufacturers to the City to exhibit new and exciting creations.
What do they do?
The festival started as a city initiative by the NYC Economic Development Corporation to help creatives collaborate across different disciplines. It has since become a nonprofit organization that hosts this annual festival featuring 300,000 designers from around the world. The goal of NYCxDESIGN is to educate up-and-coming creatives about design and to encourage them to, well, create, helming year-round programs that increase diversity, equitable opportunity and inclusion within the City’s myriad design professions.
How can you take part?
The 2023 edition of the NYCxDESIGN festival includes a comprehensive list of events running from now through the end of May (though the website marks the official dates as May 18–25). The month kicks off with Re-ordering Architecture: Making Machine and Material Kin at the Usagi Gallery on May 5. A collection of four 3D-printed digital columns, the exhibition shows the marriage between the physical and digital space in architecture and design.
Following weeks will feature an exhibition from an acclaimed British designer, Samuel Ross: Coarse, at Friedman Benda beginning May 10, as well as the Omet Pop-Up Gallery and Pratt Institute’s Pratt Shows: Design opening on May 11, among others.
From May 18 to May 27, the festival will host Formal Disruption: Pierre Paulin and the State Commissions of the 1980s at the renowned Demisch Danant gallery. The work of the celebrated French interior designer takes center stage with innovative and avant-garde pieces from the decade.
Tickets are available for purchase now at each individual participating gallery and event.
More cultural events are taking place this May at institutions across the City as part of It's Time for Culture. Check them out here.