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Jaan Sarapuu went to Macau for an internship. We talked to Jaan about what led to this choice and what experiences did Macau have to offer.

29.10.2024

As part of our this year’s International Internship Programme for design service providers, Jaan Sarapuu, a freelance graphic designer and owner of a design company, went to Macau to intern at the Untitled Macao design agency. We talked to Jaan about what led to his choice, what experiences Macau had to offer, and why design award competitions are important.

Digital services: lessons learned and the future of the field - an Estonian Design Centre seminar in the framework of the International Innovation Conference

05.08.2024

On 9-12 June, the ISPIM 2024 Innovation Conference, "Local Innovation Ecosystems for Global Impact”, was held in Tallinn. On the second day of the conference, as part of the event, the Estonian Design Centre hosted a seminar, "Unlocking the Future", which focused on service design, e-service innovation, and sustainable digitalisation.

Interview with Hegle Sarapuu-Johanson on service design

05.08.2024

Hegle Sarapuu-Johanson: “We're looking for a balance between how to provide a service to people, whether it's commercially sustainable, how expensive it is, and whether the technology will enable us to achieve our goals.”

Meet Futurist Estonia

18.06.2024

Futurist helps companies achieve their business goals by developing and improving the quality and ease of use of their digital services. Our questions about Futurist Estonia will be answered by Andres Kostiv, digital services strategist and UI/UX designer.

Mobi Lab, the agency that connects people and technology

28.05.2024

Mobi Lab embodies visions for the future, which are brought to life with the help of product managers, mobile digital product designers and mobile application developers. Veiko Raime, CEO of Mobi Lab, will talk about how the agency works, what their work is guided by, and what are the plans for the future.

Strategic Design Agency Neway

27.05.2024

Neway comprises experienced strategists, designers, developers, and project managers. They have been creating excellent brands and experiences since 2007. Our questions will be answered by Jaan Naaber, brand strategist and founder of Neway.

Meet the Creative Studio Brand New

13.03.2024

Brand New is made up of designers whose main focus is on branding, but not only. Read the interview with Risto Luhalepa, co-founder and designer of Brand New.

Type masters of Tallinn - Tüpokompanii

11.03.2024

Andree Paat and Aimur Takk, the founders of Tüpokompanii, talk about why typography is important and what drives their work.

A look back on the year 2023 and what to expect from 2024

29.02.2024

Though a challenging year in many ways, 2023 also brought a lot of interesting things for the Estonian Design Centre.

Meet the Creative Agency Kiri & Pilt

31.01.2024

The creative agency Kiri & Pilt consists of three members, the two designers, Birgit and Jaana, and the author of the texts, Brigitta. Their works are characterised by well thought out concepts, multilayered thinking skills, and the ability to see beyond the visual.

Mikk Tasa, Design Lead of Helmes: Openness is Key in the Design Process

24.01.2024

Helmes Design is an independent branch of the software company Helmes, which provides its clients with design-related support for solving problems both big and small, and helps to guide our clients in the right direction, even when they themselves don't see it so clearly yet.

What Value Does a Service Design Master Class Create for a Company?

22.01.2024

A total of 48 tourism companies completed the Master Class by Enterprise Estonia on Service Design and Digitalisation of Services for Tourism Companies from January 2022 to June 2023. A total of 25 excellent Estonian service design mentors attended the master class.

With Angela Oguntala and Luke Sturgeon on Strategic Foresight

16.01.2024

At the end of September 2023, Angela Oguntala and Luke Surgeon, from the Design Studio Greyspace, conducted a Future Foresight masterclass at the Design Center, and here we are happy to share the interview by Johanna Vallistu with them.

Designer of the Year 2022. Interview with Ivan Khmelevsky

04.04.2023

When the jury was selecting the designer of the year 2022, they reviewed the winning works of all the different competitions of the recent years and the people behind them. There was one name that started repeating and reappearing in different places and categories, again and again. This person is Ivan Khmelevsky. Ivan is a designer with a very elegant, minimalist, and modern design language, from whose work and style always glows through the idea and reasoning ability, together with brilliant innovativeness.

Marksteen Adamson: Campaigning Should Not Be About Shouting at Each Other

08.06.2022

June 17, Marksteen Adamson will run a workshop: Stop Campaigning, Start Engaging. In his workshop he will focus on how to create social change projects that really have an impact and change behaviours.

Angela Oguntala: ‘‘The future is what we design it to be!‘‘

02.06.2022

Angela Oguntala, a founding partner at foresight and design studio Greyspace, will be stepping on stage in Tallinn at Design Conference: ‘‘Beyond Design‘‘ on June 18.

European Design Festival and Workshops

27.05.2022

On June 17, ED-Festival will also host four workshops for both designers and people working in the public sector. NB! The number of places in the workshops is limited!

ED-Festival Design Conference ‘‘Beyond Design‘‘. Meet the Speakers!

18.04.2022

The European Design Festival Conference ‘‘Beyond Design‘‘ 2022 will take place on Saturday, June 18 at Kultuurikatel Creative Hub. Conference Schedule available!

Let‘s meet Ukrainian digital illustrator, graphic designer and artist Nadya Plyamko

04.04.2022

Last week we had a talented visitor from Ukraine at our Estonian Design Centre office - digital illustrator, graphic designer and artist Nadya Plyamko.

EDC and Estonian Design Agencies are expressing support to Ukrainian refugees who are designers!

10.03.2022

If you are a refugee Ukrainian designer, developer or other professional in creative field, please let us know! Several Estonian Design Agencies are willing to offer a job, internship for refugee Ukrainian designers until the situation in your homeland stabilises.

Design studio Sviiter summary of the 2021

24.01.2022

Stepping into 2021 we had kind of mixed emotions but overall very cool year with several new clients in our briefcase.

GROW Design Leadership Programme Q&A

17.01.2022

GROW Design Leadership Programme is for professionals who are looking for ways to take the next step in their career and become the design leader their company needs. The programme will start in mid February 2022 and lasts 9 months. 

Anton Koovit’s UCity Pro is a typeface for the future, found in 1970 Lancia Stratos Zero

26.10.2021

Published by Fatype Type Foundry, of which Anton is one half of alongside Swiss type designer Yassin Baggar, UCity Pro interrogates the modern significance of geometric typefaces in relation to its predecessors.

How could we encourage designers to incorporate circular design methods more into their work? 4 questions to GROW

14.09.2021

We asked four circular design related questions from Kinge Gardien and Andreas Linnell who will be guiding the Circular Economy Masterclass in the end of September.

Speed up the transition with Circular Design

24.05.2021

On 29 March 2021, Design Forum Finland, Estonian Design Centre and the Swedish Industrial Design Foundation (SVID) organized the webinar “Speed up transition with circular design”.

First peer-learning workshop of the project ‘Design Impact Observatory’ (DesImO)

19.05.2021

The 1st peer-learning workshop of the project ‘Design Impact Observatory’ (DesImO) was held online on May 11th and 12th 2021.

New Project: Design and Creativity Development Toolkit

20.04.2021

The official start of joint project “Design and Creativity Development Toolkit” will be carried out within the framework of a strategic partnership of three EU countries - Latvia, Estonia and Denmark.

The DesImO project 

22.03.2021

Estonian Design Centre, Business and Cultural Development Centre – KEPA (Greece), Design Society Fond (Denmark) and PDR’s Design & Innovation Policy Team (Wales) came together to exchange good practices and collaboratively propose solutions through a Horizon 2020 funded project – Design Impact Observatory (DesImO).

Horizon 2020 - Design Challenge Pilot

15.03.2021

Business and Cultural Development Centre – KEPA, Estonian Design Centre and PDR’s Design & Innovation Policy Team came together to exchange good practises and collaboratively propose solutions through a Horizon 2020 funded project – Design Challenge Pilot.

Circular Design HOW TO? session on circular design and sustainability

04.01.2021

Is sustainability the defining innovation and opportunity of this generation?

85 amazing Estonian designers & brands to check out

11.12.2020

We made your life easier and gathered together 85 Estonian brands & designers. Christmas shopping, let‘s go!

Postponed! Estonia Design Centre Design Market

22.10.2020

Postponed! Estonia Design Centre Design Market will take place on December 6 at Telliskivi Creative City.

DCP Pilot Action Setup workshop, 23–25 September 2020 

14.10.2020

This 3-day workshop aimed at jointly developing the pilot action that is going to take place in Thessaloniki in the next period for addressing an urban social challenge, with the participation of local SMEs.

Estonian Design Awards 2020 Virtual Gala

16.09.2020

Estonian Design Awards 2020 Virtual Gala will take place this September 18

Estonian Design Awards 2020

24.04.2020

Works can be submitted from April 23 to July 6 2020

Framm and circular design audit

10.03.2020

Framm circular design audit comprised an observational analysis, interviews with the management and a workshop with the employees.

New Export Programme kick-off meeting for designers

05.03.2020

Today kicked-off our new Export Programme for estonian design agencies.

Conducting a peer-learning workshop, in the framework of the Design Challenge Pilot (DCP) project.

03.03.2020

On 5 and 6 February 2020, a thematic workshop was held between the DCP project partners at the Estonian Design Center in Tallinn.

Join Estonian Design Centre Design Market in December 2019 – APPLY NOW!

10.09.2019

Application DEADLINE - September 23 2019!

Design Diplomacy 2019

19.08.2019

Prior registration requiered!

Estonian company creates a tiny floating house that moves with its owners

30.04.2019

Kodasema, a design firm, built a floating home that can be recycled and put together (or taken apart) in a single day.

The design of Game of Thrones

15.04.2019

In light of the release of the last season, let's go through some of the best examples of great design in GoT.

Alice Rawsthorn illustrates bad design and warns against its dangers in a recent talk

08.04.2019

Alice asked why 'good design' commands so much of our attention when there are just as many if not more examples of bad design.

Design helps to save coral

03.04.2019

Humans are builders and creators - with those skills we are helping to save coral. 

Thoughts On Designing For The Existence Of Children

27.03.2019

Children are great! Right?...

Let your staff have a bit on the side and your business will reap the rewards

26.03.2019

„It’s easy for CEOs, directors, designers to get buried in the day-to-day of creative agency life."

Groveneer receives distinction for high design quality in the Red Dot Award: Product Design 2019

25.03.2019

The Red Dot Award: Product Design is one of the world’s largest design competitions. In 2019, designers and manufacturers from 55 countries entered more than 5,500 products in the competition.

Next Design Market will take place on December 15 2019

20.03.2019

Bit Finer, one of the boldest digital agencies from Estonia received two awards at the German Design Award 2019.

06.03.2019

The two UX/UI projects, KAFO and Tavex, that received the awards have had an enormous amount of success so far, making the German Design Award 2019 as the seventh award so far.

Radis shelf LIFT won German Design Award 2019 Special Mention award

06.03.2019

This year, for the first time, an Estonian designer is awarded with a 2019 Special Mention prize at the German Design Awards.

Bevira

05.03.2018

Bevira is a business software that helps businesses save time by automising their business processes.

International Wood Architecture Conference 2017

05.03.2018

International Wood Architecture Conference in Tallinn brings together top architects and engineers from around the world who have stood out with innovative use of wood in their works. For the second consecutive year they asked us to make the brand – including logo, colors, typefaces, web – for the event.

KAFO – the Ferrari of coffee and customer service

04.12.2017

The story how Bit Finer made ecommerce website for KAFO. 

CollectNet

13.11.2017

CollectNet, leader in the sector of robotics based parcel deliveries, addressed Mobi Lab to design their user experience and develop their different mobile services and products.

How the Estonian design company helped to launch an international humanitarian foundation Bring Hope

06.11.2017

How an unexpected call to a design studio led to the launch of an international humanitarian foundation Bring Hope which has helped over 700,000 war refugees in the last two years

Mobile applications for TV and radio of ERR - Estonian Public Broadcasting

29.08.2017

ERR - Estonian Public Broadcasting, is well known for producing and broadcasting high-quality content and programs. ERR programme is extremely diverse, with a wide range of channels and formats, addressed to very diverse target audiences. The goal of ERR and Mobi Lab's cooperation was to update the mobile experience of public radio and television applications / services.

R-kiosk becomes a franchise

28.08.2017

R-kiosk is the local market leader in convenience stores and fast food. It was also in the process of rebuilding its business model through franchising. A franchise is something that people have heard about, but associate predominantly with global brands like Subway and McDonald’s. So, in order to successfully build a franchise network, R-kiosk wanted more than just to delegate responsibility. R-kiosk wanted to become the benchmark for helping to build small businesses and supporting entrepreneurs.

Defining UX&UI design for humans

12.10.2016

DUX explains what UX&UI design means for them.

Designer of the month Joosep Volk:  "It is important to learn something new from each new project."

03.10.2016

On September 16, the honourable ADC*E Designer of the Year Award went to Joosep Volk. Over the years, he has stood out thanks to his impeccable work ethic, and dominated animation categories – this year was no different.

Tallinn Bicycle Week 

03.06.2016

Tallinn Bicycle Week (est. 2011) is an urban cycling and bike culture festival that is set out to give the streets back to the people and have fun while encouraging a healthy and conscious urban lifestyle.

Coverfox

19.05.2016

A mobile application to buy and compare insurance policies for Indian startup Coverfox.

Visual identity for new banking service Pocopay 

18.05.2016

Pocopay is a revolution in everyday banking. Built on a brand new infrastructure, it enables people to send and receive money in an instant.

Felix will make you an artist

18.05.2016

Tank's client Põltsamaa Felix came to the company with a fun label drawing competition idea.

Südameapteek

18.05.2016

Südameapteek believes the best customer is healthy and active one.

X-road explainer animation

18.05.2016

Tetris, the game the whole team behind the X-road animation had played on various Sovietera gameboy derivatives in their Eastern European childhoods, needs neither introduction nor explanation.

From book store to entaintainment world

18.05.2016

Back in 2009, Apollo was a chain of 7 book shops

Teamweek

05.10.2015

Teamweek is an online project planner and team calendar created by Toggl founders.

Ööloom – entertainment, not just a product

03.09.2015

“It all started when Karmen needed Christmas gifts for friends, but she didn’t find anything emotional, functional or affordable enough. In these moments creativity and handy craft skills come to help a lot of Estonians. So for the gifts a few animal shaped sleeping masks from felt were made."

Design, inspired by extreme sports

02.09.2015

Young designer Johanna Tammsalu just recently arrived from her long studies abroad to Estonia, but has already shaken the Estonian design scene with her new and innovative brands and designs. Her works range from huge ceramic lamps to jewellery and photography.

Designer of the month – Marit Ilison ♥

27.08.2015

Marit Ilison is a fashion designer, multidisciplinary artist and also a drummer who’s active on the international design scene and she does it all very purposefully, wisely and successfully.

Bold Tuesday

18.06.2015

Bold Tuesday is a design company that offers bold dreams in the form of interactive world maps and posters.

Disainiosakond

10.06.2015

Disainiosakond was founded in 2011. It seems to have been a rather proliferous year for the creation of design bureaus, because the same year has popped up in several other similar interviews regarding their outset.

KOOR

14.04.2015

In Estonian „Koor“ means several things and the founders were aware of that as they chose the word to be the name of the design agency.

Designer of the month - Mihkel Masso

13.04.2015

From the beginning of April, Mihkel Masso belongs to the 5-member club of Estonian designers, who have been awarded with the RedDot design award.

Designer of the month – Veiko Liis

12.02.2015

Product designer Veiko Liis has been called the savior of Estonian economy. He is doing it with the foldable jug for milk that has been sold over 50 000 pieces by now.

#jonurm spring-summer 2015

10.02.2015

The spring-summer 2015 collection by young fashion designer #jonurm is inspired by Chinese portraits from Ming to Qing.

SOFTREND + REET AUS + UPCYCLING = ZERO WASTE!

06.02.2015

Estonian furniture manufacturer Softrend started collaboration with designer and fashion theorist Reet Aus and created upcycled sofa cushion collection.

Designer of month - Priidu Zilmer

05.02.2015

At the end of last year, a brand new communication app called Wire was launched in Berlin

Artproof - printed art

11.12.2014

An art printing company Artproof was established in 2007 when three good friends decided to try out as entrepreneurs and opened a printing house named Aprint, which later was changed to Artprint.

DESIGNER OF THE MONTH – MARE KELPMAN

26.11.2014

Mare Kelpman is a textile designer whose textile studio is aimed to create lifeful production, which would bring joy for their users all their lives.

SHAKA WEATHER STATION IN TURBULENT WINDS

12.11.2014

Estonian Design Centre had an interview with designer Mihkel Güsson, who was awarded the design award BRUNO for the best industrial design at Estonian Design Awards 2014 competition.

Recipe of a successful ice cream business – passion, strong brand and collaboration with professionals.

24.10.2014

Ice cream company La Muu was awarded as a the Design Applier of the Year on the Best of Entrepreneurship Awards. But good design doesn’t grow on empty space – the place has to have content.

Designer of the month - Uku Kristjan Küttis

14.10.2014

This year ADC*Estonia awarded the best graphic and web designer of the year in context of Estonian Design Awards. The jury voted the winner almost unanimously graphic designer and one of the founder of design agencies AKU - Uku Kristjan Küttis.

Estonian Design Awards: Service Design finalists

23.09.2014

Less than two weeks, on 26th of September the winners of the Estonian Design Awards will be announced.

VOOG

27.08.2014

Voog is a tool for creatives to build beautiful, design-driven websites for themselves and their customers.

Reval jeans masters summer bow to the grey

06.08.2014

One of the representative of Nordic quality and durability Reval Denim Guild released recently this year’s limited summer collection

Design manager of the month - J.Margus Klaar

12.06.2014

J.Margus Klaar is the founder and partner of the design agency Brand Manual and whose daily work is to strategically consult companies in the field of service design and branding.

Sound-absorbing panels MOON and FeltBERRY

04.06.2014

Sound-absorbing wall panel and space divider MOON are made from a specially designed three-dimensional felt muffle

Graphics for election show

27.05.2014

For the second year, the identity and on-screen graphics for Estonian Television’s election shows were made together with Estonian Academy of Art’s graphic design students

Designer of the month – Aap Piho

22.05.2014

Designer Aap Piho who is behind design and production company Warm North started off as interior architect.

Longing for sleep

08.05.2014

Longing for Sleep by Marit Ilison is a conceptual collection inspired by the haunting wish to sleep during the dark wintery time in Estonia

Pöide beer

05.05.2014

After a long wait, Saaremaa island again has its own proper brew

Sofa Cosmo

30.04.2014

Oot-Oot Studio designers and founders Marko Ala and Joonas Torim designed vintage-looking sofa Cosmo.

Jazzkaar set design

28.04.2014

This year music festival Jazzkaar celebrated their 25th anniversary and besides great music there is also good reason to talk about design.

Cumulus–one boat, three souls

25.04.2014

A trio of sailing enthusiasts created a boat design that was novel, and outstanding in terms of its usability

Kriss Soonik Loungerie SS14 collection

23.04.2014

Kriss Soonik SS14 collection from the luxe loungerie brand

Designer of the month - Kärt Ojavee

21.04.2014

Meet Kärt Ojavee – Estonian textile designer who specilizes in creating and developing smart textiles

Sille Sikmann’s men shoes

21.04.2014

Sille Sikmann launched her Sheckmann label in 2011
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