December 6, 2024, Quezon City, Metro Manila, Philippines /EINPresswire.com/ — The DTI-Design Center of the Philippines marked 2024 as a transformative year, advancing its mission to strengthen the Philippine Design in innovation ecosystem, elevate Filipino design, support micro, small, and medium enterprises (MSMEs), and foster community growth sustainable
We are honoured to reflect on a year of achievements that demonstrate the enormous creative potential of Filipinos.— Executive Director of the DTI-Design Centre of the Philippines, Rhea Matute
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The Design Centre commemorated the year 2024 in a Media Salo-salo held Thursday in the First United Building. In 2024, the agency strengthened alliances and created possibilities for Filipino designers and companies to prosper in a rapidly changing global market. Encouraging MSMEs to achieve greatness in the world The triumph of the national program for recognising design excellence, the Good Design Award 27 of the 84 nominated entries—an 87% increase from the previous edition—were awarded the coveted Good Design Award Philippines. The Philippines’ prospects in the worldwide market were confirmed when nine of these winners’ designs were granted Japan’s well-known G Mark.Philippines, was one of the year’s high points.
Maria Rita Matute, Executive Director of the Design Centre, stated, “We help new micro-, small-, and medium-enterprises (MSMEs) not only demonstrate their creativity, innovation, and social impact on the world stage, but also open up new and higher value international trade rates through programs like Good Design Award Philippines and collaborations with Good Design Award Japan (G Mark).”
Working with pinyapel®, a sustainable, non-wood substitute for the pulp and paper industry, is a key component of the Design Center’s projects. A platform for guiding Philippine MSMEs towards green entrepreneurship is the Design x Pinyapel® initiative. This collection is the outcome of the cooperation and co-creation between the agency, Creative Director Milo Naval, and 21 enterprises for the manufacture of the materials to their transformation into interior items. Pinyapel® is pulp formed from discarded pineapple leaves.
Along with the UK, Germany, and Taiwan, the Design Centre was honoured to participate in a worldwide discussion on democratising design at the World Design Policy Conference in San Diego, California. One of the world’s models for democratising design is the Philippines.
Bringing the Philippine design community together
The International Design Conference (IDC) and Design Week Philippines, the Design Center’s premier events, continue to be essential forums for inspiration and cooperation. While Design Week Philippines expanded to eleven regions nationwide with co-organized events with industry partners that showcased Filipino innovation and inventiveness, this year’s IDC attracted around 800 onsite attendees.
The National Museum of Fine Arts’ “50 Years of Philippine Design and Beyond” exhibit, which ran from December 12, 2023, to April 21, 2024, marked another important cultural milestone in the year. With its captivating visual history of regional creative landmarks from the 1970s, this historic exhibition gave the audience a deep understanding of how design has changed the dynamic between creativity and business both domestically and internationally.
As we prepare for the introduction of the first national design policy and the Philippine Skills Framework Design, we are pleased to reflect on a year of achievements that demonstrate the enormous potential of Filipino creativity. We’re still dedicated to ensuring that design is transformational and accessible to everyone as we go forward,” Matute stated.