2025/10/22
The 2025 Budapest Design Week was a national success: Hungary’s biggest design industry event series concluded in ten cities with more than 200 programmes and over 26,000 visitors.
Organised by the Hungarian Fashion & Design Agency (HFDA), Budapest Design Week proved yet again that design is both a community experience and an economic driving force. The national programme series took place in ten cities, including Pécs, Sopron, Debrecen, Győr, Kecskemét, Veszprém, Szentendre, Tata, and Balatonfüred, with over 100 contributing organisations.
Visitors explored the entire spectrum of design and fine and applied arts from material culture to digital innovation through interactive exhibitions, workshops, pop-up events, and professional discussions.
The national programme schedule included more than 130 events in Budapest and almost 70 beyond the capital: 40 exhibitions, 40 workshops, 60 unique programmes, interactive experiences, installations, pop-up events, and 20 professional discussions. Visitors could meet works by domestic and regional creators in design studios, cultural centres, and markets across the city.
The nationwide success of BDW highlights that Hungarian design is receiving increasing international attention, while contemporary design thinking and the experience of innovation are becoming accessible to the domestic audience.
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