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.

Lin Cheung | Sampler

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

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, 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.

Jewel Box

Allen Street Gallery 65 Allen Street, New York, NY, United States

Curated by Leroy Street Studio Interiors, Jewel Box is a lighting exhibition exploring the sculptural and functional poetry of the wall sconce.

Soft Landing

Galerie Shibumi 13 Market Street, Chinatown, New York, NY, United States

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.

The Family Show by LOVE HOUSE

Love House 179 E Broadway, New York, NY, United States

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.

Light/Lite

UrbanGlass Agnes Varis Art Center 647 Fulton Street, Brooklyn, New York, United States

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

Egg Collective presents Knock on Wood

Egg Collective 151 Hudson Street, New York, New York, United States

Egg Collective hosts “Knock on Wood”, an exhibition focused on artists whose process is intertwined with wood. Playing on themes of luck, while also exploring the idea of material kinship, the exhibition will highlight the reciprocal relationship between makers and their materials.

New Works by Bower Studios and Emily Mullin

Mociun and Bower Studios Showroom 683 Driggs Ave., Brooklyn, NY, United States

New works by Bower Studios and Emily Mullin, marking the first exhibition in Mociun and Bower's new Showroom.

Launch: Myr & Mylla by Note Design Studio

Kvadrat 475 Park Avenue (corner of 58th St.), New York, New York, United States

During NYCxDesign Kvadrat is celebrating the launch of Myr & Mylla with a special installation by Note Design Studio.

Visitors can explore these two new Kvadrat Febrik knitted textiles in an immersive installation centered around softness, volume and scale.

The Light Show: A Celebration of Illuminating Ceramics

A.MANO Brooklyn

A.MANO Brooklyn & Lois Aronow Porcelain present "The Light Show: A Celebration of Illuminating Ceramics," a curated group show featuring recent work by Brooklyn ceramic artists. The show will include candlesticks, candelabras, pendants, sconces, lamps, match strikers, mirrors and other objects designed to emit light or enhance the process of illumination.

Still Growing

Amélie du Chalard gallery 85 mercer street, NEW YORK, New York, United States

Amelie du Chalard invites Emily Marant to curate a design exhibition in her Soho Gallery during NYC x DESIGN WEEK from May 16th until June 9th 2025.

This exhibition traces the evolving relationship between design and the natural world in a time when permanence has lost its meaning.

Sri + Lawton Mull: ORDINARY SPLENDOR

Lawton Mull 1003 44th Avenue, Corner of 10th Street and 44th Avenue, Long Island City, United States

ORDINARY SPLENDOR Opening May 20 2025 5:00-8:00 May 21-June 25 2025 by appointment 1003 44th Avenue, Long Island City NY [email protected] Nordic art and design dealer Lawton Mull is thrilled […]