In a country with no significant “design industry” to speak of, we have produced a “creative festival” with the international conference FUTURE. as main program segment.

In the same way that the working class was dominant in the early decades of the 20th century, and the service class in its second half, will the CREATIVE CLASS dominate the economic and cultural life in the 21st century.

“I have had a certain vision of Serbia my entire life” – to paraphrase General De Gaulle’s famous first sentence, in his “Mémoires de Guerre”, if not too inappropriate a comparison for the profane topic of design. This is the vision of a “society of knowledge”, which firstly requires a culture of knowledge – in my case with the help of my […]

The theme of the conference was “INNOVATION SQUARED“. BDW is namely trying to find a common denominator of global and local, economic and cultural developments, and to integrate them into one key theme for the whole festival through which we chose lecturers and exhibitors.

As heart piece of the DESIGN WEEK from the 7th to the 9th of June, our famous three-day educational conference FREEDOM SQUARED will be focused on scenarios for the future: finding solutions, ideas, models, tendencies for the FREEDOM needs of the entire SEE region, based on European values and standards, with the goal to define, understand and establish frameworks for a future society of FREEDOM.

Today is a good day in deed. You only need to take a look at bdw’s mission and vision statements, to find out that what you are holding in your hands might not look like a giant step for mankind, but certainly marks a completely new perspective for bdw. It is namely our firm intention to serve the creative community between Milan and […]

The globally sensational creative industry conference will be held again in Belgrade from May 8 to 10, 2008. Crème de la crème in world branding, advertising, design, architecture, publishing, new media and business will show you their vision of MODERN LIVING. The conference programme, divided into three thematic parts (Modern Classics, Modern Luxury and Blade […]

Changes that shape the new world can be in the best way noticed in creative disciplines, which long for them by default, but now those changes become the key drivers of the overall modern economy.

The First Belgrade Design Week festival sets out with a two-day conference market², a first ever “speed-dating”-project of the most important creatives in the Serbian advertising scene, all gathered at one place and in one day.