Welcome to the

Design Center of the Philippines

We effect positive change through design.

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Who we are

The Design Center of the Philippines is an agency under the Department of Trade and Industry, mandated to promote the use of design as a tool in strengthening the national competitiveness of Philippine products and services, and in empowering Filipino micro, small, and medium-sized enterprises (MSMEs) and designers for the local and global markets.

ABOUT

Core & Fore

Design Center’s efforts go beyond promoting the value of good design and onto inspiring creative industries to create human-centered products, services, and spaces that make an impact in the Philippines and in the world. From enhancing human experiences to enabling inclusive and sustainable economic growth, we ensure that design plays its role as a creative, strategic, and innovative tool for positive development.

Ideas & Action

Creative ideas drive industries forward, and we help ensure that they do. In cultivating a healthy creative economy, we make design accessible to encourage MSMEs, manufacturers, and designers realize innovative concepts that has the potential to better lives, simplify systems, and boost economic growth.

Collaboration & Innovation

Our shared goal to strengthen the country’s design ecosystem motivates us to build meaningful partnerships with industry leaders, key influencers, and policy makers. Being the only national agency for design, we serve as a hub for creative minds to exchange ideas, share experiences, and explore solutions that inspire good design and innovation for nation-building.

What we've been up to

The Design Center continues to cultivate the country’s creative capital, and strengthen the culture surrounding design as a response to design’s role in accelerating businesses by creating new value, new markets, and new user experiences.

WHAT WE DO

Philippine Banquet at Revelations International Biennial of Craft and Creation

The Design Center’s DNA is based on the spirit of the artisan-designer, recognizing that the Philippines is a nation of makers, crafters, and creators, who use their minds, hands, and hearts to create new ideas, objects, images, experiences, and systems. The Philippines marks its maiden participation at the Revelations International Biennial of Craft and Creation with a curated exhibition that reflects this enduring ethos as well as Design Center’s continuing commitment to inspiring, nurturing, and celebrating the next generation of artisan-designers.

IDx Conversations: Design’s New Purpose

Hosted by WDO Member Design Center of the Philippines, IDx Conversations: Design’s New Purpose was an online conversation on 29 June featuring five Filipino design leaders and game changers who are stepping up in their design approach to shape The Future We Want. June 29 is World Industrial Design Day.

International Design Conference 2023: Design-led Renaissance

IDC 2023, with the theme ‘Design-led Renaissance,’ unveils the significant shifts and the transformative possibilities unfolding within nations, cities, businesses, and individuals, as design ascends to a more prominent position in reshaping every fabric of economies and societies.

Design Innovation 1

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Design Services 1

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Design Thinking Academy Bootcamp

Geared towards making design thinking as a national competency, the Design Center of the Philippines introduced its Design Thinking Academy + Policy Lab initiative in November 2023. Design Center of the Philippines tapped experts from Germany’s Hasso-Plattner Institute (HPI) to instill need-finding, sensemaking and creative problem solving as critical components of a design mindset.

Business Design at the Intersection of Purpose, People, and Context

Geared towards making design thinking as a national competency, the Design Center of the Philippines introduced its Design Thinking Academy + Policy Lab initiative in November and December 2023 through the conduct of a Design Thinking Academy + Policy Lab bootcamp and masterclass. The Masterclass entitled “Business Design: At the Intersection of People, Context, and Purpose” supported the needs of export-oriented Philippine Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises (MSMEs) in creating new values for a discerning global market.

Design Learning 3

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Design Policy 1

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Design Policy 2

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Design Policy 3

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Design Protection 1

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Design Protection 2

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Design Protection 3

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