About

Design Friends is a non-profit association gathering together people who are interested in design and its creation, whether it is graphic or not. We, together with our members, propose many activities such as conferences with well-known designers, evenings and events focussed on creativity.

Design Luxembourg – Design Friends

Founded in 1995, Design Luxembourg is a body of professionals working in the design field in Luxembourg. As an association it groups together independent designers and studios active in the domains of visual communication and industrial design at their broadest definition. In its role as a professional lobby, Design Luxembourg aims at promoting the design profession towards local companies in order to demonstrate a.o. the business benefits of design on a local and an international level. In doing so, they strive for a better recognition of the design profession in general and, more ideologically speaking, they divulge the social and cultural values of design.

From 2004 to 2008, Design Luxembourg organised 7 lectures starting with Wim Crowel and ending with Bob Gill.  

As a veritable spin-off of Design Luxembourg, Design Friends was created in 2009. Design Friends is, in fact, perfectly complementary to Design Luxembourg: whereas – upon the creation of Design Friends – Design Luxembourg keeps its active lobbying role in the Luxembourg business field, Design Friends takes over the organisation of lectures and events.

Design Friends’ mission is to put great design and fantastic designers in the spotlight and share these ideas with a larger audience of BOTH professionals and design lovers. Therefore Design Friends tries to have a programme as diverse as possible, so that each area of design can be treated and discussed. By publishing catalogues, Design Friends also lobbies for a better understanding of design.

It is the members of Design Friends, together with several dedicated companies, who finance the annual programme of lectures and events via their membership.

• To be kept up to date on any Design Friends activity
• To take part in the Design Friends 'special events' reserved for members only
• Free entry to Design Friends events (minimum of 4 events per year)
• To receive a catalogue and a poster from every conference

... become a member!

Design Friends is really hoping to bring together a maximum of 'design addicts', so please do not hesitate to relay this message to your friends and/or colleagues who might share this interest.

Feel free to contact us in the event of any question or if you have suggestions.

Silvano VIDALE (President)
Arnaud MOURIAMÉ (Vice-president)
Heike FRIES (Treasurer)
Nadine CLEMENS (Secretary)

Mike KOEDINGER (Boardmember)
Pit KUFFER (Boardmember)
Stéphanie ROLLIN (Boardmember)
Anabel WITRY (Boardmember)
Guido KRÖGER (Boardmember)