Be Part of the NYCxDESIGN Festival
The NYCxDESIGN Festival returns on May 18-25, 2023! Be part of the design week that attracts thousands of visitors to New York City to celebrate global creative accomplishments, share new ideas, and inspire through design.
There are plenty of opportunities for local, national, and international designers and organizations to participate from group exhibitions, open studios, public installations, panels, virtual events, and more.
Read more about New York City’s official celebration of design here.
Share Your Interest In Participating in the 2023 Festival
Please complete the below intake form if you are interested in participating in the 2023 NYCxDESIGN Festival.
This initial intake form requests very basic information to get an idea of the design community’s existing plans and desire for collaboration. The submitted information will not be shared publicly, and the NYCxDESIGN team will follow up with an expanded form in early 2023 for you to approve/confirm information, and make updates with additional details.
Please complete the form by January 18 for your event to be considered for inclusion in NYCxDESIGN’s press announcement.
Live Event Registration
$200 live event registration fee includes:
- Event listing on the Festival website
- One NYCxDESIGN branded stand-up banner delivered to your event location (image here for reference)
- One Instagram story posted on the NYCxDESIGN channel in advance of your event
- A social toolkit including templates and graphics to promote your participation in the Festival
Virtual Event Registration
$100 live event registration fee includes:
- Event listing on the Festival website
- One Instagram story posted on the NYCxDESIGN channel in advance of your event
- A social toolkit including templates and graphics to promote your participation in the Festival
About
Each May, NYCxDESIGN presents an internationally renowned Design Week across the city, showcasing the immense talent and diversity of the city’s designers, makers, and manufacturers, along with cutting-edge design businesses and districts, and world-class cultural and academic design institutions.
Established in 2013, the NYCxDESIGN Festival now attracts hundreds of thousands of national and international visitors to the city, generating significant engagement with design and economic activity across the boroughs with hundreds of events about design and innovation, creativity, culture, inclusivity, sustainability, and resiliency.
Including major exhibitions, public installations, trade fairs, and dynamic programming and events, the Festival bridges into the broader world of design innovation in the city, shining a light on key talent and groundbreaking projects across the many spheres of the design world from product design to graphics to fashion to architecture and beyond.
The latest Festival in May 2022 included 200+ events across the five boroughs with 1,000+ participating New York City-based designers, earning a significant media reach of over 602 million and out-of-home impressions from newsstands, Link NYC, taxi and street pole banner campaigns exceeding 115 million. Click here to view the 2022 Festival recap.
We invite all members of the design community to organize a design event between May 18-25, 2023, as part of the NYCxDESIGN Festival. Group exhibitions, open studios, public installations, panels, virtual events, and more are welcome to be part of New York City’s official celebration of design.
Interested in hosting an event but need more information to inform your plans? Register for our Zoom Info Session on January 12 at 11:00am ET where we will share keys to success.
Interested in NYCxDESIGN Co-Producing Your Event?
We’d love to speak with you about custom opportunities where we together develop the content for a live or virtual event, and carry out highly specialized outreach to your specific desired target audiences. This could take the shape of a live or virtual panel discussion about a design topic of your choice, a pop-up activation in your venue, an installation in a highly trafficked public space, a career panel, and more. The co-developed event would receive premiere promotion at the Festival, and we’d conduct specific outreach efforts to your target community.
Fill out the form below to inquire about NYCxDESIGN event co-production opportunities.
By submitting this form, you will be opted into NYCxDESIGN’s email communications. You may opt out at any time.
Event Amplification Packages
Looking for opportunities to help your events stand out on NYCxDESIGN’s Festival channels? NYCxDESIGN can give extra promotion to your specific event as part of the Festival. These amplification packages will give your brand’s event significant visibility in front of NYC’s design-engaged community including design enthusiasts, interior designers, architects, engineers and other design industry professionals.
$3,000 Event Amplification Package
- 1 social post across NYCxDESIGN’s channels (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) promoting your event – 100,000+ followers NYCxDESIGN will work with client to determine ideal timing between February – April 2023
- Event included in 1 Festival e-blast in early to mid-April
- Event included in 1 daily e-blast during May Festival – to 12,500 highly engaged subscribers
- Event featured on Festival homepage for 2 days (during May Festival)
$5,000 Event Amplification Package
- 1 social post across NYCxDESIGN’s channels (Instagram, Facebook, Twitter) promoting your event – 100,000+ followers NYCxDESIGN will work with client to determine ideal timing between February – April 2023
- 1 Instagram takeover promoting your event (3 posts, 5 stories) – 80,000+ followers NYCxDESIGN will work with client to determine ideal timing between February – April 2023
- Event included in 1 daily e-blast during May Festival – to 12,500 highly engaged subscribers
- Event featured on Festival homepage for 2 days (during May Festival)
- Event included in May e-newsletter – 12,500 highly engaged subscribers
- Event included in a Festival Curated Itinerary (see example here)
- Event mention in April and May press releases distributed to media
NYCxDESIGN Festival Info Session
Interested in hosting an event during the NYCxDESIGN Festival this May but don’t know where to start? Join our Zoom Info Session on February 9 at 9:30am ET where we will share event hosting ideas and best practices for participating in the Festival. Complete the form below to RSVP for the Info Session.
By submitting this form, you will be opted into NYCxDESIGN’s email communications. You may opt out at any time.
Venue Submission Form
Do you have an available space that you’d like to activate with design during the NYCxDESIGN Festival?
Complete the form below to submit your venue.