SUBIMIT YOUR TRINKETS TO BE FEATURED ON UNION STREET 🔑🥛 For the final stage of the Union Street Transformation Project, we are asking people from across Dundee to contribute a small object or trinket that tells a story about a connection to Union Street Find out more 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/auds4ay8

For August, our Object of the Month has been selected by our Career Ready intern, Daisy-belle ❤️ 🧣 World Cup Scarf (2026) 📍 Dundee, Scotland Commissioned by @vadundee.bsky.social, and co-designed by printmaker Aoife Cawley and pupils from Rockwell Learning Centre 🦄

In May, Dundee based maker, Rhona Jack and Lebanese animator, Romy Matar created a collaborative mural at Kirk Lane footpath in Dundee's City Centre, titled Overlapping at the Seams 🖌️  🔗 You can read more about this collaboration here: https://cityofdesigndundee.com/projects/beirut-x-dundee-2026/

Design and Disability at V&A Dundee 💞 The landmark exhibition that centres disability as an identity and culture through design continues at @vadundee.bsky.social! 🗓️ Friday 5 June - Sunday 4 October 2026 🎟️ Admission FREE 📸 Photography by @grantandersondotme.bsky.social.

⏱️ You have until midnight on Wed (22nd July) to submit your expression of interest for this year's SAY Award design commission! We'd like to hear about proposed materials, concepts of what an 'award' could be and how they will celebrate music and design 🎵 🔗 www.sayaward.com/designcommis...

SAY Award Design Commission💡 Are you an artist, designer or maker living or working in a DD postcode? Do you have potential ideas for this year's SAY Award prizes that will embed sustainability + be inspired by the city of Dundee? We want to hear from you!

The SAY (Scottish Album of the Year) Award | Design Commission

Each year, The SAY Award Design Commission sees an artist, designer or maker to create bespoke prizes for the bands and artists being celebrated at The SAY Award Ceremony, highlighting the enduring links between music, art and design in Scotland. Previous makers have fabricated jesmonite arches, use...

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It’s time for a new Object of the Month! Utilising our window space at Central Library we display a different design object every month from across the Cities of Design Network 🪟 Our July object is: 🎴 Quality Toolkit  📍 Montréal, Canada

Do you have an idea for Dundee Design Festival 2027? Or a venue that could host a project? As we plan the DDF 2027 programme, we're keen to hear from anyone who's interested in connecting with us. 💬 To organise a chat, please email Lizzie Day on elizabeth.day@leisureandculturedundee.com

This morning @vadundee.bsky.social have announced that they will be the first venue to host V&A's David Bowie: On Tour 💫 😍 Coming to Dundee in November! This exhibition will be the first time highlights from David Bowie’s archive have been shared on this scale outside London - don't miss out! ⭐

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V&A Dundee: Exhibition: David Bowie: On Tour. Opens 4th November. It will also tour to Blackpool, Hull, County Durham and Bristol. www.vam.ac.uk/dundee/whats...

Due to popular demand, BOOKENDS has been extended until Thursday 9th July at Central Library! 📚 Make sure to drop-in and visit for free! 🤩 📍Level 1, Central Library, The Wellgate 🕐 Mon, Tues, Thurs + Fri: 9am - 8pm  Wed: 10am - 8pm, Sat: 9.30am - 5pm  Sun: Closed 📸 Photography by Lydia Smith.

In conversation with Jane Petrie 🎭 Join Leisure & Culture Dundee's Anna Day tomorrow evening as she sits down with renowned costume designer Jane Petrie! 📍 The McManus 🗓️ Tuesday 23 June, 6:30pm 🎟️ £10: https://tinyurl.com/ytkftn8t 📸 Photography by @grantandersondotme.bsky.social

BOOKENDS is now open at Central Library, ahead of Dundee Book Festival 2026 📚 📍Level 1, Central Library, The Wellgate 🗓️ Thursday 18 June - Sunday 21 June Every pair of bookends is unique, reflecting how each designer creates, thinks and designs differently 💭

Design for Scotland Lab 🗺️ Visit @vadundee.bsky.social before the end of June to explore projects and stories that showcase Scotland's design economy. Play the role of 'Future Minister of Design', learn about the missions for creating a national design policy, and share your views. 💬 📸 Lydia Smith

Dundee Book Festival 2026 📚 Join Dundee-based storyteller Erin Farley and Alistair Heather for a deep-dive into the lives of lighthouse keepers 🔦 📍Steps Theatre, Central Library 🗓️ Sunday 21 June, 10-11am 🎟️ £5: https://dundeebookfestival.com/product/erin-farley-lighthouse-lives/

We're delighted to share that Dundee-based print + textile designer Kate Scarlet Harvey has been selected for Scotland’s Creative Cities Living Heritage Residencies Programme! Kate will undertake a micro-residency at New Lanark, a UNESCO World Heritage Site on the river Clyde, later this month 🌊

SPOTTED! 👀 Design Lives Here supporters Studio Ordinary have gone BIG, printing a massive version of our design mark for their studio window! Just look at that soft pink glow 🌸 💻 Design Lives Here identity and graphic design by Stein Design.

Vennels: Perth’s Little Streets 🏙️ This new exhibition developed in collaboration with Perth UNESCO City of Craft explores the fascinating past and present of the vennels, closes, alleys and lanes that have crisscrossed the city of Perth for centuries 🔨 📍 Perth Museum 🗓️ 29 May - 6 September 🎟️ FREE

Dundee Book Festival 2026 📚 Join Dundee-based designer Cally Booker in-conversation with Annie Marrs of @designdundee.bsky.social for an inspiring exploration of her new book, Designing and Weaving Double Cloth ➿ 📍Steps Theatre, Central Library 🗓️ 19 June, 2:30pm 🎟️ £5: https://tinyurl.com/2vwmsy2c

We're excited to share that our 2024 exhibition BOOKENDS will be reshown for the first time at Dundee Book Festival this June! 📚 📍Central Library, The Wellgate 🗓️ Thursday 18 June - Sunday 21 June 📸 Photography by Reuben Paris.

Our June Object of the Month is Louise Kirby's 'Dundee Delights Tea Towel' (2017) 🫖  Dundee Delights is an illustrated collection of products celebrating some of Dundee's delicious delicacies and iconic local places. This tea towel celebrates marmalade which was made in Dundee until 1992 🍊

Last Friday we were excited to preview @dundee.ac.uk DJCAD Degree Show featuring the work of over 400 students! With a huge range of inspiring work on display, don't miss out on its final weekend! ⌛ 📍 DJCAD, 13 Perth Road  🗓️ Sat 30 May, 10:00 - 20:00  + Sun 31 May 10:00 - 16:00  🎟️ FREE, Drop-in

We are delighted that Dundee Design Festival has secured funding from  @creativescots.bsky.social  Expanded Festival Fund to return in 2027! 🥳 🔗 Read more about the fund + each of the successful festivals across Scotland here: http://bit.ly/4dT5EiA

From Dundee to Alexandria, SHHE continues her musical explorations of water on new record Thalassa Ahead of very special shows at Dundee's Bonar Hall and @thequeenshall.bsky.social, we catch up with SHHE www.theskinny.co.uk/music/interv... #newmusicfriday

Spotlight On... SHHE - The Skinny

Following the release of her latest album, THALASSA, and ahead of two quadraphonic shows celebrating its release, we catch up with sound artist and producer SHHE.

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Exciting news! We've joined with Agency of None, Biome Collective, Bit Loom, tialt & Very Evil Demons to launch a new collaborative workspace! We're excited about what Hapworks_Studios can demonstrate for collective, visible creative infrastructure in Dundee & hope to welcome you to the space soon:

How flooding and rising rents forced Dundee's creative firms to open new hub

Six of the city's top creative companies now work in a shared office space.

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SHHE at Bonar Hall 📡 📍 Bonar Hall Park Place 📆 Thursday 28 May, 7:30-10pm 🎟️ £13-20, concession prices for artworkers 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/29fdra4v To celebrate the release of their new album THALASSA, Dundee-based SHHE presents a special hometown show performing live in quadraphonic.

GTMO 441: Games, Detention, Power 🕹 Join @biomecollective.bsky.social and @abertayuni.bsky.social for this public sharing of experimental playable media shaped by the lived experience of Mansoor Adayfi. 📍 Abertay University 🗓 Thursday 28 May, 5-8pm 🔗 events.humanitix.com/gtmo-441

GTMO 441: Games, Detention, Power

Public sharing from a week-long residency developing a video game based on the lived experience of Mansoor Adayfi, detained without charge at Guantánamo Bay.

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1/3 🖌️ We recently welcomed back project partner, Ahla Fawda for the launch of Overlapping at the Seams. Founder, Imane Assaf also spent time with local orgs @biomecollective.bsky.social  @creativedundee.bsky.social @scrapantics.bsky.social MAXwell centre + Transition Dundee in a cultural exchange 💬

In-conversation with Hannah Sabapathy 💬 📍Steps Theatre, Central Library 📆 Wednesday 27 May, 6-7pm 🎟️ FREE: https://tinyurl.com/2r9epdd2 ⭐ Part of Dundee Month of Design Hannah Sabapathy is a Dundee-based designer who interrogates the power dynamics behind South Asian and British textile history 🌿

WRITING COMMISSION ✏️ As part of 'A Poet in Every Port', Dundee Book Festival are commissioning a new poem celebrating creativity and innovation ❤️ 🗓️ Applications due 5pm, Friday 22 May 💷 £600 set fee 📍 Applicants must have a strong connection to Dundee 🔗 https://tinyurl.com/2de96jmu

OVERLAPPING AT THE SEAMS 🖌️ The new mural by Rhona Jack and Romy Matar has now launched! This project has been supported by the British Council's Momentum Follow-up Fund and is a collaboration between, UNESCO City of Design Dundee, Open/Close Dundee and Ahla Fawda. 📸 Photography by Ben Douglas.