5 July, 2024 [EVENT]
The “Transforming Cube” is composed of eight connected cubes. It’s a mysterious toy that changes shapes and pictures as it flaps open. Draw illustrations, paste colored paper and photos, …
2 July, 2024 [EVENT]
When you need a design or creation, how do you commission a designer? How much budget is needed? How should the copirights be handled? There are so many things you don’t know, and a…
6 October, 2023 [EVENT]
Asahikawa, Kobe, and Nagoya has been Design Cities as part of the UNESCO Creative Cities Network (UCCN), and are jointly organizing the “往来(ourai)|Correspondence” conference to be held…
6 October, 2023 [EVENT]
The World Design Assembly will be held in Japan for the first time in 34 years since it was first held in Nagoya, Japan in 1989!
4 October, 2020
The UNESCO City of Design Subnetwork Meeting 2020, which is being hosted by Graz in cooperation with St. Étienne, focuses on the social, smart and sustainable aspects of urban development…
28 February, 2017
We are very pleased to share a link to short video, introducing the route of Sugihara and Japan related places in Kaunas, Lithuania. We hope you will enjoy it.
11 July, 2016
The Nagoya, UNESCO City of Design project was transferred from the jurisdiction of the Nagoya City Bureau of Civic & Economic Affairs to the Bureau of Tourism, Culture & Exchang…
30 June, 2015 [REPORT]
160 people attended the International Design Forum. In Forum Part 1, members of UNESCO Creative Cities of Design made a presentation about their initiatives. Through the presentation, we …
30 June, 2015 [REPORT]
After UNESCO Creative Cities Network Meeting Kanazawa 2015, in Nagoya we held the UNESCO creative cities (UCC) sub-network meeting of the design field. 10 members in the whole 16 UCC memb…
5 June, 2015 [REPORT]
We announced the new logo mark of “Nagoya, UNESCO City of Design” in the International Design Forum on Saturday 30th May 2015. The logo mark designed by Mr. Akio Ogawa was chosen from 181…