İstanbul Design Week is more than just a showcase for designers, it is a creativity platform presenting reference points for designers to draw their path. İstanbul Design Week is a connection point for creative ideas from different disciplines of design.

What differentiates İstanbul Design Week from similar design events is firstly it’s venue, the Old Galata Bridge. The century old bridge is one of Istanbul’s most important landmarks and used as the main exhibition area of İstanbul Design Week. Promising an extraordinary experience, the Old Galata Bridge has a total exhibit area of 10,000 squaremeters, a perfectly central location and a very unique atmosphere.

Istanbul Design Week, takes place 2010 Istanbul European Capital of Culture project under the name of Design 2010. With its theme of ‘meeting’, Design 2010, will make Istanbul a meeting point for Turkish designers and the international design world, by events, exhibits, panels, conferences and competitions all over the city.

Mission
Bringing together the “Producer” who wants to be the “creative brand” and the “Designer” who wants to be “unique-innovative”.
Strengthening the design-city-individual triangle.
Ensuring Istanbul’s place among international design centers.
Positioning Istanbul as one of the corporate and experimental centers of design.
Treating Istanbul as a design object itself, connecting Istanbul’s cultural layers with design and introducing the city to the world.

Words about Istanbul Design Week

“From the little we know about Istanbul it is a place of enormous creative energy with a developing design scene that is not so established and not yet set in its ways, for us the wider cultural environment is the most interesting thing, the diversity of culture is like nowhere else in the world, we are always inspired by music, we want to meet as many people as possible and have as many conversations as we can in the hope that we will end up doing something with people in Istanbul that is relevant, innovative and appropriate and useful. Istanbul is the most exciting city in the world that we have been to so far, is it Europe, is it Asia? Makes us dizzy just thinking about it. Are we in a mosque or what?”

Piers Roberts ve Rory Dodd
Designersblock

“Sitting astride two continents and blessed with a striking architectural heritage, Istanbul has been a heavyweight cultural destination for millennia. As an annual conduit, meeting point and record of Turkish creativity, Istanbul Design Week is destined to play a key role in the formation of a unique design aesthetic.”

Daniel West
icon magazine