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.

Curated By Lexus

Lexus Storefront 401 W 14th Street, New York City, United States

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, USA

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.