This October Riga will become a design city, since a festival Design.Future 2011 will take place here for the seventh consecutive year. This year is remarkable with two significant events – Baltic Nordic Design Week and 3rd Riga International Young Designers Biennial, whose motto is – Design for All and Everyone. The organizers of the festival - Design Information Centre - welcome international applications from design schools and individuals. Don`t miss the deadline – April 25, 2011!

Within the framework of Design.Future 2011, in October this year Riga city will become a design space - exhibitions, seminars, conferences and workshops will take place, Design Days will be organized in shops, design and architecture offices and educational institutions. The 3rd Riga International Young Designers Biennial will be held at the Museum of Applied Arts and Design. On October 1st the European Design Day will be celebrated.

“Design.Future has become a significant event in cultural life of both Riga and Latvia. Our objective is to facilitate and popularize design, as well as to enhance the inclusion of designers into processes of European and world design life. Through the seven years long history of the festival, we can follow the emergence of a new and strong generation of Latvian designers who enter the design world in an ambitious way.” This is how development of Design.Future is described by Inese Petersone, curator of the festival.

The goal of the Design Information Centre is to shape Riga into a design centre of the Baltic region and explain to the public the importance of design in our everyday life. In order to achieve this goal, an aggregate of events should be organized in national cultural life thus activating and developing quality design life in Latvia. The design festival Design.Future is one of such events, the programme of which provides an opportunity to become acquainted with the best achievements of the world design. Exhibitions, seminars and conferences are the forum for hearing opinions of world-known design specialists, for seeing achievements of Latvian design and for understanding development trends of the world design.