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Design Flanders
Office, 6th floor
Koloniënstraat 56
1000
Brussels,
Belgium
T : +32 (0)2 227 60 60
info@designflanders.be
www.designvlaanderen.be
Design Flanders works for companies:
it supports companies in their search for designers,
it guides managers who use design in their company by means of workshops in design management, company visits and contact days,
it shows their new products in its gallery,
it stimulates to participate in fairs,
it subsidises projects that stimulates design in an economic manner.
Design Flanders works for designers:
it looks for new talent during its Spring and Autumn Selections,
it selects and promotes designers working in a contemporary and high-quality manner with crafts and graphic and industrial design,
it subsidises designers who do research in a creative way,
it organises exhibitions, colloquiums, lectures, workshops, international competitions,
it dvises individual designers and offices starting up their studios.
Design Flanders works for a large public:
it inventories the field of contemporary design in Flanders in the broadest sense of the word,
it provides topical and accurate information via the database on its website,
it publishes a topical magazine called Kwintessens and a newsletter,
it presents the "Henry van de Velde Awards & Labels",
it organises the Design Triennial,
it develops a Design Library.
Design Flanders works throughout the world:
Via numerous international networks: European Design Forum (EDF), Bureau of European Design Associations (BEDA), International Council of Societies of Industrial Design (ICSID), World Crafts Council (WCC), European Textile Network (ETN) and Design Management Institute (DMI).