Romanian Design Week 2018: May 17-28

Staged every year in May, Romanian Design Week is a 10 days festival that promotes design as a pad for cultural, social and economical growth. 

By promoting interesting ideas, energy and dynamism, vibrant exhibitions and extraordinary collaborations, RDW shows that Romanian design is so much more than what you can see at a first look. Events and showcases focus on product and industrial design, furniture, graphics, fashion, architecture and interior design. Besides the curated formats of the Main exhibition, the range of themes is also extended and transmitted by our partners, which host and organize connected events.

Romanian Design Week sees itself as a festival for and of the public and our aim is to make design accessible to a broad-based public. 30.000 design aficionados visited, each year, our main exhibition and the galleries, design studios and collateral events that were part of the RDW program.

The main exhibition includes, every year, over 150 projects of more than 100 designers, design and architecture studios. A board of curators selects the participants of the main exhibition, gathering under the same roof the best creative work developed by Romanian designers, artists and architects.

Besides the main exhibition, Romanian Design Week map includes connected events, hosted by design studios, design showrooms, creative hubs, boutique stores, art galleries, all united under the appreciation for great design.  

Check out and discover all the exhibition, parties and talks, part of the 10 days program of Romanian Design Week.

 

The festival’s international flair is reinforced by the introduction of a guest country. Up until now, these have included Netherlands (2014) and Denmark, Finland, Island, Norway and Sweden with a common project (2015). 
Besides the comprehensive network that has been built up over recent years by Romanian Design Week, creating multiple synergies, the great advantage for guest country primarily derives from media presence and publicity (local and international). In addition we invite international journalists and guide them through the festival, sometimes in individually planned tours. 

►Main Venue // Știrbei Palace

►Communication campaign // Rusu+Borțun Brand Growers

►Exhibition design // Attila Kim
►Categories // Advertising, Architecture, Digital Design, Fashion, Graphic Design, Interior Design, Photography, Product Design

►Curators // Șeban Alexandrescu, Adrian Soare, Domnica Mărgescu, Maurice Munteanu, Milos Jovanovic, Corvin Cristian, Cosmin Bumbuț, Mihai Gurei
►Extensions // Design your world exhibition, Students gallery, Architecture´s Night In
►Sponsors & partners // Peroni Italy, Pepsi, Intel, Entrance, Adidas, UniCredit Bank, Art Laboratoire

 

►Main Venue // The Palace of the Chamber of Commerce

►Communication campaign // Havas Worldwide ADDV

►Exhibition design // Attila Kim
►Categories // Architecture, Urbansim & Interior Design, Fashion, Advertising, Graphic Design & Branding, Product Design, Lifestyle

►Curators // Adrian Soare, Costin Popescu, Domnica Mărgescu, Maurice Munteanu, Mihai Gurei
►Extensions // Design talks, Fashion´s Night Out, Architecture´s Night In, Urban playground, Young designers exhibition
►Sponsors & partners // Peroni Italy, ING Bank, UniCredit, Pepsi, Băneasa Shopping City

 

►Main Venue // ARCUB Gabroveni

►Communication campaign // Havas Worldwide ADDV

►Exhibition design // Attila Kim
►Guest Country // Netherlands
►Categories // Architecture, Urbansim & Interior Design, Fashion, Graphic Design, Product Design, Game Concept Art & Design, Multidisciplinary

►Curators // Adrian Soare, Ovidiu Hrin, Domnica Mărgescu, Maurice Munteanu, Mihai Gurei
►Extensions // Play&Rewind exhibition, Design for Chance Center, Vienna Design Week Creative Embassy, By the clicking an eye, Nordic corner
►Sponsors & partners // ING Bank, Intel, Lenovo, Rompetrol, UniCredit Bank, Nescafe Dolce Gusto, Absolut 
►Institutional partners // ARCUB, Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest Municipality, 

 

►Main Venue // Amzei Market

►Communication campaign // Gavrilă & Asociații

►Exhibition design // Attila Kim
►Guest Country // Scandinavia (Denmark, Finland, Island, Norway and Sweden)
►Categories // Architecture, Urbansim & Interior Design, Furniture, Lighting & Deco, Product design, Fashion, Graphic Design & Illustration, Hybrid Design

►Curators // Adrian Soare, Ovidiu Hrin, Domnica Mărgescu, Maurice Munteanu, Mihai Gurei, Ștefan Barutcieff
►Extensions // A turn for the better, Diploma Selected, RDW Classics, Designers´ Parade, Show off
►Sponsors & partners // ING Bank, Lenovo, Philips, Burn, Amber, Gealan, Absolut, Grolsch, UniCredit Bank
►Institutional partners // ARCUB, Romanian Cultural Institute, Bucharest Municipality

 

 
2017

►Main Venue // Cobălcescu 45

►Communication campaign // Gavrilă & Asociații

►Exhibition design // Attila Kim
►Categories // Architecture, Urbansim & Interior Design, Product design, Fashion, Graphic Design & Illustration

►Curators // Adrian Soare, Ștefan Ghenciulescu, Ovidiu Hrin, Ștefan Vasilachi, Domnica Mărgescu, Andreea Bădală, Maurice Munteanu, Mihai Gurei, Emilian Cartiș
►Guest capsule exhibitions  // STANDPOINT, SHAPING HUNGARY - design in the 21st Century, HILARIOPOLIS by ADNBA, WHAT MAKES A HOME by IKEA, DISLOCATED/FOLDED/DISPLACED - A Visual and Interdisciplinary Dialogue, ROOM 40 – Deciphering contemporary jewelry design, TRANSFORMERS, NORMALITY, SUCH A BRUTAL WORD! - An artistic exploration into disabilities, 3D PRINTING THE FUTURE, TYPOPASSAGE
►Extensions // SHOW OFF, Architecture´s Night In
►Sponsors & partners // ING Bank, TASTEmakers, Absolut, gloiFUSE, Ciuc, Fortepartners, UPC, Entrance

►Institutional partners // ARCUB, PMB, Romanian Cultural Institute, AFCN, Bucharest Airports, The Netherlands Embassy in Bucharest

PRESS INFO

Stay close for fresh news about RDW 2018! For 10 whole days RDW boasts over Bucharest, presenting the processes, experiments and ideas, answers and solutions thought up by 200 designers. Come and be amazed, surprised or astonished.