A multi-disciplinary showcase of UAE-based creative talent, The UAE Designer Exhibition is a curated feature situated at the heart of Downtown Design, offering early-career designers a platform for visibility and commercial opportunity.

With the aim of providing a platform for the local creative community, the UAE Designer Exhibition primarily focuses on presenting emerging talent and young practitioners with opportunities to break into the region’s market to launch new works, gain visibility, face audience feedback for further development and generate potential commercial leads and avenues for collaborations.

This exhibition seeks to highlight designers passionate about creating emotionally resonant objects welcoming design pieces that are tactile, physically comforting, nostalgic with quality and contemporary design at the centre.

Encouraging designers and studios to explore materiality and form as well as incorporating the use of technology and today’s fabrication processes, the submitted works should be durable, feasible to produce, and influenced by cultural and regional contexts, and in fitting with the Downtown Design fair’s mandate of high-quality and contemporary design.

Contributing to building a diverse local creative scene, designers, makers, and independent studios based in the UAE and producing work locally can apply to participate in the 2025 iteration of the UAE Designer Exhibition and have their works showcased to a vast audience of B2C and B2C visitors at Downtown Design, 5-9 November, including opportunities for mentorship with globally renowned profiles of the creative industry, as well as opportunity for participation in showcases taking place internationally.

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