Dubai Design Week 2017 is inarguably the most important design event in the Middle East, bringing together designers, architects, artists and thought-leaders in a six-day long celebration of design and creativity.This year, the city comes alive with over 200 events and activities spread across various locations. Dubai Design District (d3) is the festival’s hub with 90 events slated to take place here. DIFC, Etihad Museum, and Hamdan Bin Mohammad Heritage Centre are the other top buzzing venues attracting design lovers from different parts of the world. Downtown Design trade show returns to the festival with its fifth edition, featuring 25 countries and an impressive array of 150 contemporary designers. London’s The Royal College of Art, California’s Stanford University and Melbourne’s RMIT are among the 90 top universities participating in the annual Global Grad Show, the world’s largest exchange platform for design graduates. The exhibition “Abwab,” which translates as doors, celebrates regional design talent. The works are presented in a remarkable pavilion created from recovered bedsprings by Fahed + Architects at d3. The venue is also the setting for talks led by Sir David Adjaye, one of the world’s most influential architects who has won a nomination for Beazley designs of the year for National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington, D.C. “Iconic City,” “GraphicsRCA : 50 Years and Beyond” and “Once Upon Design” present a curation of works ranging from graphic design to contemporary product and furniture design. Specially commissioned installations dot the exhibition space at d3 including an eye-catching structure that plays with light devised by Lujaine Rezk and Albert Kolambel. “The team has been thrilled to work with an incredible range of designers, companies and sponsors to stage an event that is bursting with possibilities for visitors from near and far,” says William Knight, Head of Design for Dubai Design Week. d3’s COO, Mohammad Saeed Al Shehhi, adds, “Each year, this event is growing in size and reach and it will continue to be an anchor platform for the design community.Dubai Design Week runs through November 18, 2017.For more details, visit: http://www.dubaidesignweek.ae/Click on the slideshow for a sneak peek at the fair. Read more