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.
What we do
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've been up to
IDx Conversations: We > Me champions transformative design rooted in Kapwa
In celebration of World Industrial Design Day, the DTI-Design Center of the Philippines solidified its bold commitment to inclusive innovation and nation-building through design with the successful staging of IDx Conversations 2025: We > Me, a high-level roundtable and public platform that marked a historic shift in national policy thinking
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What's coming up
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.
Resources
Steal Like an Artist
An inspiring guide to creativity in the digital age, Steal Like an Artist presents ten transformative principles that will help readers discover their artistic side and build a more creative life. Its positive message, graphic look, and illustrations, exercises, and examples put readers directly in touch with their artistic side.

How we serve
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