NYCxDESIGN is guided by core values of community, creativity, inclusivity, diversity, and sustainable design for the greater good. Beyond our annual Festival, our year-round programming provides a platform for NYC’s diverse design talent, from students and emerging designers to seasoned professionals. Each program fosters connection, education, and inspiration, empowering the next generation to use design as a powerful tool for positive impact and addressing the world’s most pressing needs.

Ongoing

Exhibition: Scott Sueme at Uprise Art

Uprise Art 264 Canal Street #4W, New York, NY 10013

In his solo exhibition at Uprise Art, artist Scott Sueme presents paintings, assemblages, and works on paper that explore artmaking as a form of record-keeping, using pictographic and geometric glyphs to capture fleeting moments with intentional observation.

Parsons Festival

Parsons School of Design at The New School Parsons School of Design 2 West 13th Street, New York

Parsons Festival is an annual event series that showcases the creative and intellectual achievements of Parsons School of Design graduating students—a diverse and talented group of artists, designers, architects, photographers, filmmakers, technologists, scholars, and strategists—to the campus community and the greater public here in New York City.

Lin Cheung | Sampler

In the Gallery at Brooklyn Metal Works 640 Dean St. 2nd Floor. Brooklyn, NY 11238, Brooklyn

Sampler is a curated selection of new and recent jewelry by Lin Cheung, exhibiting for the first time in New York. 2025 marks ten years of gemstone carving for the […]

Curated By Lexus

Lexus Storefront 401 W 14th Street, New York City

Introducing "Curated By Lexus", a new storefront concept in the Meatpacking District of Manhattan! This pop-up retail space showcases exciting new Lexus vehicles, exclusive merch, artwork and photography from local artists, and more surprises, including a hidden immersive bamboo garden to explore!

Vehicles on Display:
- 2025 IS 500 Special Appearance Package
- 2024 GX 550
- 2025 LX 700h
- 2025 LC 500 Convertible

Saya Woolfalk: Empathic Universe

Museum of Arts and Design 2 Columbus Circle

The first retrospective of the artist’s two decades of world-building installations, the exhibition showcases Woolfalk’s ambitious fictional narrative of an imagined race of women known as “Empathics.” Woolfalk has created for the Empathics’ their own distinctive visual imagery, symbolism, and folklore, which reflect her investigations of African, African American, Japanese, European, and Brazilian art, craft, and storytelling. In this parable told through garment-based sculptures, video, paintings, works on paper, and performances, cultures mix, clash, and are ultimately transformed through shared understanding.

The Dumbo Projection Project

Manhattan Bridge Anchorage, and Dr. Susan Park Dumbo Archway Plaza, Pearl Street at Water Street, Brooklyn

Dumbo-wide video art exhibit, projected onto the neighborhood's most iconic infrastructure, the Manhattan Bridge and the BQE. Where else can you see trucks, taxis and subways passing by atop world […]

Soft Landing

Galerie Shibumi 13 Market Street, Chinatown, New York

Art / Design installation/exhibition featuring 3 women artists who specialize in furniture and decor.

IDSA Design Leadership Bootcamp

PARK Academy is partnering once again with the Industrial Designers Society of America (IDSA) to proudly offer another exclusive intensive and impactful professional design leadership training program to the design community.

This annual Bootcamp with a growing community of esteemed empowered alumni will be celebrating its fifth consecutive bootcamp as which coincides with IDSA's 60th Anniversary.

This intensive interactive 6-week training program will help you build the competencies (knowledge, skills, and attitude) in 5 key subject areas to help you step up and stand out in leading design for business.

Learn how to manage the complexities between leading and managing design across people, processes, and content. Learn how to speak the language of design for business and how to deliver more value and more positive impact across the triple (people, planet profit) bottom line.

POVISON PRESENTS: THE EFFORTLESS HOME PREMIERE

The Angelika Film Center 18 W Houston St, New York

Povison reimagines the Angelika Film Center as your home's red carpet premiere. Visit the immersive "Effortless Home Premiere" pop-up during NYC Design Week's SoHo Design Day 5/17. Don't miss the Cinema Home Café-fully styled with Povison furnishings. Sip, lounge, and experience the magic of movie-going meets home design.

The Family Show by LOVE HOUSE

Love House 179 E Broadway, New York

This May, contemporary design showroom Love House expands to the Lower East Side with their first ground-floor showroom. A new design destination for this vibrant neighborhood, Love House debuts a gallery-forward space with The Family Show - a curated exhibition featuring new, exclusive pieces from the incredible talents they represent.

Design Pavilion by Lexus at Hudson Yards

Hudson Yards Public Square and Gardens at 11th Avenue and Hudson Blvd East, near Vessel, New York

For the first time in years, Design Pavilion, New York’s premier public design exhibition, will coincide with NYCxDESIGN, presenting an immersive, interactive experience in partnership with luxury automotive brand Lexus. […]

Light/Lite

UrbanGlass Agnes Varis Art Center 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn

UrbanGlass welcomes you for an exhibition of lighting design from regional and local makers in glass.

Creative Week

The One Club Gallery 450 west 31street 6th floor, NY

The One Club champions the global creative community throughout the calendar year, with efforts culminating in the celebration of Creative Week, held annually in May in New York City.

Union Square Partnership’s Annual 14th Street Mural Installation

14th Street between University Place and Broadway 37 E 14th St

Union Square Partnership (USP) is pleased to present the 5th Annual 14th Street Mural in Union Square: a 7,500 SF asphalt mural that will be installed over five days with the help of community partners and volunteers. USP’s mural program brings unique artwork from established and emerging artists while celebrating the rich history and cultural significance of one of New York City’s most dynamic neighborhoods.

School of Art and Design 2025 Graduating Student Exhibition

Fashion Institute of Technology 300 7th Avenue (Corner of 7th Ave and 27th Street) Fred P. Pomerantz Art and Design Center, New York

The Fashion Institute of Technology School of Art and Design presents the 2025 Graduating Student Exhibition, showcasing the work of more than 600 student graduates in 16 areas of study.

PELLE: Lines, Squares and Painterly Light

PELLE Showroom Gallery 55 Ferris Street, Brooklyn

PELLE’s May exhibition continues the ongoing visual and material exploration
between seemingly isolated acts—drawing, painting, and design.

Italy On Madison 2025

Italian Trade Agency in New York 33 East 67th Street, New York

For the occasion, ITA’s historic townhouse at Madison Avenue and 67th Street will be transformed into a captivating Italian home, featuring more than 100 pieces from over 40 Italian furniture […]

Stephanis Sabbe and Dennis Scully Share Stories

FRATO 500 Park Avenue, New York

On Tuesday, May 13, you’re invited to Portuguese contemporary furnishings brand Frato’s beautifully appointed Park Avenue showroom for cocktails and an electrifying conversation between Business of Home Podcast host Dennis Scully and Nashville-based designer Stephanie Sabbe, who just published her first book, Interiors of a Storyteller.

POLMAR Gallery – The Art of Craft: Redefining Collectible Design

25 Greene Street 25 Greene St., New York

This conversation will explore how contemporary design is bridging the gap between functional craftsmanship and fine art. The panel will discuss the rise of collectible design, the value of handmade and bespoke pieces, and how galleries like POLMAR are shaping a new narrative around interiors as curated spaces