| Argentina |
 Centro Metropolitano de Diseno
 www.cmd.gov.ar
| CMD is a public institution created to assist companies, designers, and entrepreneurs in Buenos Aires with the aim of improving their competitiveness on the strength of design and innovation. |
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| Australia |
Design Institute of Australia
www.design.org.au www.dia.org.au
| DIA is a national organization for designers and design businesses for the Australian society to foster a healthy professional environment and deliver a range of tangible services and rewards to members. |
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National Design Centre
www.nationaldesigncentre.com
| NDC extends an understanding of design, its achievements, and its potential to a broad audience in Australia, and stages major public events that foster professional development across all design disciplines. |
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Australian International Design Awards
www.designawards.com.au
| AIDA is recognized by the Commonwealth Government and the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design [ICSID] for the design industry, and for its role in fostering a culture of design and innovation in Australia. |
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| Austria |
Design Austria
www.designaustria.at
| DA is Austria’s only professional association representing the interests of designers from all creative disciplines-graphic design and illustration, product design, and web design. |
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| Design in Austria |
| Belgium |
Centrum voor productontwikkeling |
Design Flanders
www.designflanders.be
| Design Flanders promotes designers, and stimulates companies and the public to use design. |
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Vlaams Instituut voor het Zelfstandig Ondernemen, VIZO
www.vizio.be |
| Belorussia |
Belarussian National Design Centre, BNDC
www.designcenter-bg.com (in Russian) |
| Brazil |
Design Center |
Fed. Das Industriales do Estado de Sao Paulo (FIESP/ CIESP)
www.fiesp.org.br (in Portuguese) www.fiesp.com.br (in Portuguese) |
| Bulgaria |
National Design Center
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| Canada |
Design Exchange
www.dx.org
| Design Exchange is Canada's design museum and center for design research and education. |
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Institute de Design Montreal
www.idm.qc.ca
| IDM promotes the long-term economic development of the region of Quebec by paying special attention to those where slow economic growth is prevalent or opportunities for productive employment are inadequate. |
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| China |
Beijing Industrial Design Center
www.bjidesign.com (in Chinese) |
Beijing Industrial Design Promotion Organization
www.beijingdesign.com
| BIDPO is designed to unite and organize all the industrial design related bodies, organizations, professionals and all people interested in industrial design. |
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| Cuba |
Officina Nacional de Diseno Intustrial
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| Czech |
Design Centrum of the Czech Republic
| Design Centrum is a public body which provides a variety of activities including journalism, exhibitions, information services, and organizing competitions, carrying out evaluations and offering expertise and implementation of design programmes. |
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| Denmark |
Danish Design Centre / Dansk Design Center
www.ddc.dk
| DDC is organized into five business areas: design promotion, communications, exhibitions, a conference centre / shop / cafe, and partner relations. |
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| England |
British Design Innovation
www.britishdesign.co.uk
| BDI is an organization whose services and professional membership reflect the increasing focus on open & collaborative innovation by designers, industry, universities and deal-makers. |
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Design Business Association
www.dba.org.uk
| DBA promotes professional excellence through productive partnerships between commerce and the design industry to champion effective design, which improves the quality of people's lives. |
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Design Wales
www.designwales.org.uk
| Design Wales provides design support for individual Welsh businesses and undertakes a wide range of activities to encourage and develop the use of design in Welsh industry and education. |
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The Design Council
www.design-council.org.uk
| The Design Council is a national strategic body for design that promotes the use of design throughout UK businesses and public services. It helps UK managers become the best users of design in the world, supported by the most skilled and capable design professionals. |
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| Estonia |
Design Innovation Center Estonian Academy of Arts
www.artun.ee |
| Finland |
Design Forum Finland
www.designforum.fi
| Design Forum Finland is maintained by the Finnish Society for Crafts and Design, and actively promotes the competitiveness and development of Finnish industry and culture through the means of design. |
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| France |
Agence pour la Promotion de la Creation Industrielle
www.apci.asso.fr
| APCI was created on the initiative of the ministers responsible for industry and culture, to contribute to the bringing together of culture, research and industry of French design. |
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Centre du Design Rhone-Alpes
www.centredudesign.fr (in French) www.cdra.asso.fr (in French) |
French Institute of Design
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| Germany |
Design Center Stuttgart
www.design-center.de/index_en.htm
| Design Center Stuttgart provides businesses with substantial support, enabling them to withstand increased competition, to function successfully and to introduce themselves to the design world. |
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Design Zentrum Nordrhein Westfalen
www.red-dot.de
| Red Dot is an internationally recognized quality label for excellent design that is aimed at all those who would like to qualify their business activities with the help of design. |
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iF International Forum Design GmbH
| This organization is responsible for all iF business areas - above all for staging the renowned iF award competitions, which exercise a decisive mediating role between design and industry, fulfilling this function for many years now in an objective and reputable manner. |
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German Design Council
www.german-design-council.de
| The German Design Council was founded to meet the growing need of the business world for information about design. It is one of the world's leading competence centers for communication and know-how transfer in the design field. |
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| Hong Kong |
Hong Kong Design Centre
www.hkdesigncentre.org
| The Hong Kong Design Centre encourages business owners and managers to think like designers and invest in strengthening their design capabilities. |
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| Hungary |
Hungarian Design Council
www.mft.org.hu
| MFT functions include the creation and direction of a comprehensive work program in the interest of the development of a national design culture in conformity with the objectives of economic, innovation, environment and educational policies. |
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| India |
Indian Institute of Technology Guwahati
www.iitg.ac.in
| IITG, the sixth member of the IIT fraternity, is organized with eleven departments covering all the major engineering and science disciplines. |
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National Institute of Design
www.nid.edu
| NID is one of the top 25 European & Asian programmed institutions in the field of design education and research. It has been a pioneer in industrial design education after Bauhaus and Ulm in Germany and is known for its pursuit of creating the program, ‘Designed in India, Made for the World.’ |
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| Indonesia |
Indonesia Design Center
www.designcenter.or.id
| The Indonesia Design Center was built to increase the quality of Indonesian products for highly competitive advantages both in domestic and international markets to improve the design capability of small, medium, and large businesses. |
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| Ireland |
Institute of Designers in Ireland
www.idi-design.ie
| IDI represents the interests of Irish designers. It promotes high standards of design, fosters professionalism and emphasizes designers' responsibility to society, to the client and to each other. |
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| Israel |
Israel Community of Designers
www.dexigner.com/design_news/1736.html
| The Israel Community of Designers has been established on the basis of industrial designers and graphic designers. It represents the professional community and focuses on promoting understanding of the design process and the potential of design in economic, cultural and social development. |
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| Italy |
Associatione per il Disegno Industriale
| ADI is an association of 750 manufacturers, as well as the most capable architects and designers in Italy. |
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| Japan |
International Design Center NAGOYA Inc. (IdcN)
www.idcn.jp
| IdcN is the largest integrated design center in Japan. It provides a wide variety of activities ranging from communication exchanges to research and development seminars, designer and design business venture training workshops, and planning and production sessions. |
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Japan Design Foundation (JDF)
www.jdf.or.jp
| JDF aims to promote design-related activities and industries, foster public awareness of design values, present future visions through design works, and accelerate international understanding and cultural development through global exchange programs. |
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Japan Industrial Design Promotion Organization (JIDPO)
www.jidpo.or.jp/en
| JIDPO is the only organization in Japan involved in the comprehensive promotion of design activities. It has been involved in a series of promotional activities with the cooperation of government agencies, industrial bodies, and individual designers. |
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| Malaysia |
Malaysia Design Council
www.malaysiadesigncouncil.gov.my www.mrm.gov.my
| The Malaysia Design Council aims to assist industries in appreciating the importance of quality and effective design management in product manufacturing, to develop activities for locally designed products to be promoted internationally and to be a repository of information on design to develop their design capabilities. |
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Malaysia Design Innovation Center
www.malaysia-innovation.com
| The Malaysia Design Innovation Center helps businesses generate ideas on building and managing brands, on achieving brand quality and brand promise, and on sharpening brand presence in their markets. |
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SIRIM Berhard
www.sirim.my
| SIRIM Berhad is an organization in industrial research, fulfilling the industry needs by blending new innovations with quality and standards. |
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| Mexico |
Mexico Design Promotion Center
www.centrodiseno.com (in Spanish)
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| Netherlands |
Beroepsorganisatie Nederlandse Ontwerpers / Association of Dutch Designers (BNO)
www.bno.nl
| BNO promotes the business, social and cultural interests of designers in the Netherlands. |
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Project Bureau Dutch design Awards
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Vorgevingsinstituut / The Netherlands Design Institute
www.design-inst.nl
| The Institute provides information about design schools, job search, materials, and more. |
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| New Zealand |
Design Forum Finland
www.dinz.org.nz
| The Institute represents the membership of professional designers from spatial, graphic, product, craft/object, design management, design education, fashion, lighting and interactive media. |
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| Norway |
Norwegian Design Council
www.norskdesign.no
| The Council promotes the use of design as a strategic tool for innovation to achieve greater creation of value in Norwegian trade and industry. It is a resource-center for companies that want to use design as a key tool for innovation and business development. |
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Norsk Form
www.norskform.no
| Norsk Form is an information and project based institution that serves interdisciplinary studies, innovation, debate and network-building in the fields of design, architecture and urban area planning. |
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| Philippines |
Product Development and Design Center (PDDCP)
| PDDCP mandates development, promotion, and enhancement of design of Philippine-made products. The Center services the design needs and requirements of small and medium enterprises. |
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| Portugal |
Portuguese Design Center |
| Romania |
Fundatio Romana Pentru Design
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| Russia |
Russian Research Institute for Industrial design
www.advtech.ru/vniite/vniitee.htm
| VNIITE was set up within the USSR State Committee for Science and Technologies to establish and develop industrial design all over the country. It provides a post-graduate course which has the right to confer the degree of candidates and doctors of science in the disciplines. |
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| Singapore |
Design Singapore Council
www.designsingapore.org
| Design Singapore Council supports bringing design to business board rooms and to new audiences and markets. It works with government agencies, the design community, industry and academic institutions to promote design in business and education. |
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| Slovak Repblic |
Slovak Design Centre, SDC
www.sdc.sk(in Slovak) |
| South Africa |
Design Institute South Africa
www.designinstitute.org.za
| This institute supports the economic and technological development of South Africa through the promotion of the benefits of design. |
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| Spain |
Barcelona Design Center
www.bcd.es (not in English)
| The Barcelona Design Center is to promote design as a key factor for company innovation and competitiveness, as well as a discipline improving the quality of life. |
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Centro de Diseno
www.dzdesign.com (in Spanish)
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Instituto Mediana y Pequea Industriales Valenciana
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| Sweden |
Svensk Form
www.svenskform.se/English
| Svensk Form is an association formed by the Swedish government to promote Swedish design, encourage involvement in design and disseminate information about the possibilities design can offer the individual, culture, society and industry. |
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The Swedish Industrial Design Foundation
www.svid.se
| SVID focuses on industrial design and works along the lines of a much broader spectrum to demonstrate design as a force for development for target groups including industry and commerce, local government, designers, universities and colleges. |
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| Taiwan |
China Productivity Center
www.cpc.org.tw
| CPC is both the first and the largest management consulting agency established in the Republic of China (Taiwan). It is a leading brand in the promotion of active innovation, creating value and increasing knowledge in all local enterprises. |
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Taiwan Design Center
www.tdc.org.tw
| TDC functions as an international design launching platform that services creative design development using design policies, technological research, industry support, intelligent management and nationwide promotion. |
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| Thailand |
Thailand Creative & Design Center
www.tcdc.or.th
| TCDC supports the creation of opportunities for Thai people to access sources of knowledge for their new inspirations. It aims to raise public awareness of using design to add value to their products along with helping Thai designers work to gain visibility in the local and global marketplace. |
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| USA |
Design Management Institute (DMI)
www.dmi.org
| DMI is an international nonprofit organization that seeks to heighten awareness of design as an essential part of business strategy. It become the leading resource and international authority on design management. |
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Industrial Designers Society of America
www.idsa.org
| IDSA promotes the industrial design profession, advancing the quality and positive impact of design. It leads the profession by expanding connectivity and influence to members and inspiring design quality through professional development and education. |
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