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Dubai Design Week Continues to Grow, Cementing Dubai as the Design Capital of the Middle East

Held under the patronage of Her Highness Sheikha Latifa bint Mohammed bin Rashid Al Maktoum, Vice-Chairman of the Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, and also in collaboration with Dubai Design District (d3) and sustained by Dubai Culture & Arts Authority, Dubai Design Week will certainly be returning for its fourth version from 12-17 November, 2018.

Taking place at areas across the city, this year's program will be one of the most comprehensive to this day, with greater than 120 firms participating and also 230 occasions taking place, encompassing exhibits, commissioned setups, awards as well as competitions, talks as well as workshops, excursions and experiences for layout lovers and also public visitors alike.

An accessible meeting point for the worldwide design community, because its commencement in 2015, Dubai Design Week has ended up being a platform for growing as well as making it possible for the region's layout scene, attracting 60,000 site visitors to the occasion at d3 alone throughout the 2017 version.

Dubai Design Week will this year launch its first app, permitting visitors to create customised timetables on the go based upon preferences and interests as well as to be the very first to obtain notified of must-attend launches and also events.

d3's Ceo, Mohammad Saeed Al Shehhi, claims: d3 is once again thrilled to be the strategic partner and host of the fourth edition of Dubai Design Week. For 2018, we are proud to add d3s UAE Design Stories exhibition to the programme and highlight several projects under d3s Design for Good initiative which supports and promotes social change within the UAE. It's always important for us to continue to support the growth of the design industry as a whole and it is events like this that celebrate design from across the region which truly cement Dubai, and d3, as a design destination.

Accompanying the event, this November will see the official opening of the Jameel Arts Centre, Dubai's very first modern arts museum, the inaugural Fikra Graphic Design Biennial in Sharjah, the first of its kind in the region, as well as a series of tasks staged at Alserkal Method, strengthening November as the annual focal point for layout and also and creativity in Dubai.

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