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UNESCO City of Design Dundee
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As the UK’s only UNESCO City of Design, we promote + champion design in Dundee + its role in improving lives. Delivered by Annie, Kirsten + Lizzie 👋
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Our 2025 Designer Trees have landed! Check them out at City Churches before 10 January 2026🎄

→ ‘Tinsel Trash' by Zoe Gibson
→ ‘The Christmice Tree’ by Hollis Crowe
→ ‘ARE WE THERE YET!!!' by John Fairley
→ ‘My Christmas Tree Was A…’ by Man Pin

📸 Photography by Richard Hancox for The Courier
A woman kneels beside a festive, green art installation adorned with small lights and bells, smiling warmly at the camera. A man stands next to a unique Christmas tree made from repurposed cables, set in an outdoor festive display. A man with long hair and a beard holds aloft a triangular train warning sign. He places the sign atop a large alternative Christmas tree made of road signs. Two people stand smiling beside a tall, triangular wooden Christmas Tree made of musical instruments in Dundee City Centre.
November 21, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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There's less than 1 week left to apply for our amazing designer residency in Whanganui, New Zealand 🇳🇿 

🗓️ Applications due 10am, Wednesday 19 November
💷 Fully funded accommodation and travel alongside a £2,240 stipend

Find out more + apply🔗https://cityofdesigndundee.com/open-call-textile-legacies/
November 13, 2025 at 2:51 PM
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🌺 SUPPORT THE CREATION OF DUNDEE’S COVID COMMUNITY MEMORIAL 🕊️

By donating to this colourful Memorial Garden co-created by local communities, you can commemorate a loved one or memorialise your experience of the Covid pandemic 🌳

Donate here by 30 Jan 26: www.crowdfunder.co.uk/p/dundee-cov...
Digital design render detailing a father and child walking past a corten steel artwork with integrated bench, in a garden. Digital design render detailing a garden with paths, planting, corten steel artworks and integrated benches in a city.
November 10, 2025 at 10:10 AM
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Today's the day! We're so excited to see Caird Hall taken over for this year's Scottish Album of the Year Award Ceremony featuring live performances from 2024 winners rEDOLENT, KT Tunstall, and more! 🏆

🎟️ Tickets available here: https://tinyurl.com/5bjp7ysu 
📸 Photography by Grant Anderson
A band of four members (rEDOLENT) posing inside the Caird Hall's theatre, with red velvet seats and ornate chandeliers overhead. Two members stand, two sit. Promotional poster for the Scottish Album of the Year Award ceremony on 6 November 2025, featuring KT Tunstall and others. Tickets available.
November 6, 2025 at 8:02 AM
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We're delighted to share more image's of No Comply's bespoke designs for SAY Awards made using their signature materials; repurposed skateboard decks and some gorgeous Dundonian walnut ♻️🛹

Find out more ⬇️
https://cityofdesigndundee.com/projects/say-award-design-commission-2025
A man and woman smile at each other while holding a colorful wooden object. More wooden pieces are on the table in front of them. Trophies made of wood and colourful skateboards with engraved text: "2025 The Winner" Wooden award engraved with “2025 SAY The Sound of Young Scotland Award” on a dark wood surface, featuring multicoloured striped edges made from skateboards. Four wooden awards with varied shapes and colourful edges made of skateboards, each engraved with "2025 SAY Award"
November 3, 2025 at 12:02 PM
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Whanganui X Dundee: Textile Legacies is a new residency programme that connects indigenous and ancestral textile practices between Whanganui, New Zealand and Dundee, Scotland to foster meaningful cultural and creative exchange 🧶

Find out more + apply ⬇️
cityofdesigndundee.com/open-call-te...
Text atop a photograph of textile work. Words read "Dundee x Whanganui: Textile Legacies, Funded Residency Opportunity, Applications due 19 November" Text atop a photograph of textile work. Words read "1 month in-person residency in Whanganui, New Zealand, Connecting indigenous and ancestral textile practices between Dundee + Whanganui, two UNESCO Cities of Design"
October 29, 2025 at 10:07 AM
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We’re happy to begin sharing more about our Design Lives Here supporters! First up it’s Jamie Stein of Stein Design ⬇️

“Hiya, I’m Jamie, a freelance designer and the founder of Stein Design, my solo design consultancy focused on brand and communication design"

cityofdesigndundee.com/design-stori...
A smiling, male presenting figure sits at a computer desk. They are dressed in bright orange, matching the wall behind their desktop computer. Stacks of leaflets read "Eye to the future" Three posters advertising a local vets pet plan service are stacked side by side A large glass window with graphic window vinyl's in red, purple, blue and yellow. The sun shines through the graphics creating shapes on the floor.
June 11, 2025 at 10:35 AM
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Our new supporter scheme, Design Lives Here, officially launched in May! 🎉

Our first cohort include those working in fashion, graphics, games, museums, coffee shops and so much more…

Find out more ➡️ cityofdesigndundee.com/design-lives...
June 11, 2025 at 10:31 AM
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🗺️ DUNDEE DESIGN TRAILS NOW LAUNCHED 🗺️

Four brand new free trails of Dundee are now available to collect from The McManus: Dundee's Art Gallery & Museum, Central Library and @vadundee.bsky.social!

More details here ➡️ cityofdesigndundee.com/design-trails/
An outstretched arm holds four paper maps that all read boldly 'Dundee Design Trails'. In the background stands a large, grand building with tall columns. Three people gather round a paper map. They look happy and excited to be reading. A young woman sits on a large concrete staircase, excitingly reading a map. A laughing woman wearing white headphones is seated on a large concrete bench. She holds a paper map.
May 6, 2025 at 3:26 PM
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Welcome to Design Lives Here, UNESCO City of Design Dundee’s supporter scheme celebrating and showcasing individuals, organisations and businesses in Dundee who align with design values 👋

Sign up here to join our first cohort ⬇️ cityofdesigndundee.com/design-lives...
May 1, 2025 at 9:27 AM
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Dundee Month of Design will return for 2025 this May! 🎉

DMoD is Dundee’s celebration of the design activities the city has to offer with a public programme packed full of exhibitions, talks, workshops and more!

Find out more and submit your event here ➡️ cityofdesigndundee.com/dundee-month...
Painterly splodge in pink and white cover a dark blue background. In the centre, bold pink text reads "Dundee Month of Design May". Two logos in the lower right corner read "City of Design Dundee" and "UNESCO Member of the Creative Cities Network"
March 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
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We’re very excited to launch our brand new display, 'Object of the Month' at Dundee’s Central Library. Utilising our new window space, we will be displaying a new design object every month from across the UNESCO Design Cities Network 💞

Our first object on display is The Mythical Beast of Kaunas 🦈
A hand holds a soft toy up high. The toy is an angular beast in grey and black fabric with embroidered teeth and eyes. It is graphic and minimal in design. An arm cuddles a soft toy. The toy is an angular beast in grey and black fabric with embroidered teeth and eyes. It is graphic and minimal in design.
March 10, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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📚 JOB OPPORTUNITY WITH EDINBURGH CITY OF LITERATURE 📚

Edinburgh City of Literature Trust are looking for a new Director for the world’s first UNESCO Creative City! Check out more info from them here: cityofliterature.com/new-director/
March 5, 2025 at 2:44 PM
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We’re so excited to see 'Design, Dance, Play' open @vadundee.bsky.social! The interactive installations include ‘Dance Floor Memories’, which encourages visitors to revisit their favourite dance floor memories through music and movement, and ‘Game Designer’, a design tool inspired by mini golf ⛳️
A female presenting figure in a pink jacket sits in a yellow soundbooth. A second figure with long blond hair smiles through the booth's window. A small child stands in a large yellow space with headphones on. Figure drawings and text line the walls. Children run around a large pink space. Wooden panels, ramps and jumps are strewn across the floor. Two young children attentively watch a ball running down a steep ramp.
February 27, 2025 at 11:25 AM
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We're so excited to hear that Central Library is a Scottish finalist for Library of the Year at The British Book Awards! 📖

You can find out more about the awards and hear from the amazing Dundee Libraries team here: tinyurl.com/44cva8wu

Winners are announced on March 12th 🎉
A map of the UK is centred in a square image. Text reads 'Library of the Year Regional & Country Finalist Scotland'.
February 21, 2025 at 3:30 PM
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Fellow UNESCO Creative City, Edinburgh City of Literature, have loads of amazing opportunities now open for Scottish writers including an international residency in Estonia! 🇪🇪

More details here ➡️https://cityofliterature.com/
A large, beige stone building stands on an empty street. It is surrounded by large trees and looks very peaceful.
February 14, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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We’re over the moon to be presenting ‘Sounds of the Future’ as part of dundee radio club's 48- hour listening festival this weekend 💫

📍https://dundeeradio.club/
⏱️2pm 7-8 February

This recording was originally developed for Dundee Design Festival 2021 by @agencyofnone.bsky.social 💕
A figure with long hard, grasping a tin of juice, rides a hoverboard. A futuristic city, with flying cars and large signage is seen in the background. An A3 poster for dundee radio club, listing all the contributors involved in their listening festival, 7-9 February. The poster is a light shade of purple and includes a QR code.
February 5, 2025 at 5:33 PM
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Especially wonderful to see a feature of Dundee's rare books collection, hosted by Local History at Central Library, on display alongside a new mural by local designer James Moorwood of @bitloomgames.bsky.social.

Be sure to stop by to see all the gorgeous wee details in-person! 👀
A fragile looking book sits under glass. It shows a full colour print of 4 geisha's dressing for the day whilst a row of soldiers wait in the courtyard outside. A hand drawn character, with a crocodile head, places a book on a shelf. Sitting a top the shelf is a myriad of miniature characters and figures including a small character with antlers and small mouse-like character in a wheelchair.
January 27, 2025 at 5:40 PM
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Creative Central at Central Library is now open! 🎉

Thanks to the Dundee Libraries team for inviting us along to the launch - great to see the reuse of space and all the brilliant facilities available for both self-led and group making 💕
A blue hardback book titled The Handbook of Home Design is held in front of a shelf of design related books 3 comfy looking sofas in green and grey fabrics face each other. Coffee tables with potted plants and leaflets sit in front of them. The area is surrounded by shelves of art and design related books
January 27, 2025 at 5:36 PM
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SDAY is back for its 6th year, this time celebrating the theme of “Shaping The Future Together”! These awards are open to Dundee based students or young professionals (aged 35 and under).

👉 You can find out more about the categories, prizes + how to apply on sday.design
Poster for the 6th Shenzen Design Award for Young Talents. The poster features both english and mandarin text. The central graphic is orange and blue geometric design.
January 15, 2025 at 12:07 PM
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Dundee is the UK’s first and only UNESCO City of Design. The global designation as a Creative City acknowledges Dundee’s rich design heritage, its thriving contemporary design sector and a city committed to using design to solve problems and make Dundee a better place to live.

Welcome to our page ☺️
Two designers stand behind a pink desk. Behind them the walls have been painted with large graphic shapes in pink, blue, yellow and black. Young people dressed in orange t-shirts parade down a cobbled city street whilst holding an elephant sculpture, made from paper tubing and cardboard. A young boy and an adult woman both hold a squeegee and press bright red ink through a screen to create a print. The red ink matches their bright red aprons. Two young children share a controller to play a videogame. Either side of them stands an adult, one dressed in a vest, the other with a large winter coat on.
January 7, 2025 at 3:46 PM