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SEInternational Design Day is a global moment to recognize design and its impact around the world. Each year, designers across disciplines come together to reflect on how design influences culture, community, and everyday life, and to honor the ways design shapes shared experiences worldwide.
This year, ICoD (International Council of Design) and SEGD (Society for Experiential Graphic Design) invite the global design community to explore The Spaces In Between, a theme that focuses on the nuanced moments, transitions and thresholds where human connection is formed. Often overlooked, these spaces quietly shape how people relate to one another, how belonging is felt, and how meaning is created.
The 2026 theme was shaped through a collaborative process developed in close dialogue with ICoD and SEGD. The effort was chaired by Aki Carpenter (@akichan43), SEGD Board President and Vice President and Chief Creative Officer at RAA (@ralph_appelbaum_associates), with contributions from Traci Sym (@littlemesses), SEGD Past President and Principal of plus & greater than (@plusandgreaterthan), and Nu Goteh (@nuthervandross), SEGD Board Member and Principal of Room for Magic (@roomformagic_). The theme was stewarded by Cybelle Jones, CEO of SEGD, with the visual identity created by Lucy Holmes (@lucyholmes_designer) of Holmes Studio (@holmes_studio). Together, this group shaped a theme that positions designers not only as makers but as facilitators of connection and care.
This International Design Day, April 27, SEGD and ICoD call on designers everywhere to pause, reflect, and engage with design as a connective force, honoring the spaces that bring us together and shape our shared future. You can participate by hosting or attending forums, creating events inspired by the 2026 theme, or sharing your ideas and projects with us on social media!
To help designers around the world get involved, a comprehensive IDD2026 toolkit is available for download from our website at the link in our bio.
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