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Explore Australia’s top design events with industry-leading experts throughout the year.

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Design events 2025

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DO25 Design Pub Quiz

It’s part quiz, part chaos, all design. Bring a team or make one on the night!

$1 to $35

22 May 2025

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Accessibility and Inclusion

Can you imagine a future where products are accessible to everyone, no matter your background? Join the journey to make meaningful change in accessible design.

$395 to $495

05 Jun 2025

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Design Outlook 2025

Back by popular demand and as a reimagined format, DO25 invites 350 of Australia’s brightest minds for a day dedicated to celebrating, supporting, and advancing design.

$495 to $795

03 Jul 2025

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Design Leadership 2025

Discover the future of design leadership with Australia’s top design leaders and visionaries. Together we’ll celebrate and advance the craft of design leadership.

$395 to $495

26 Mar 2025

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We're here to celebrate, support, and grow design in Australia

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Leadership roundtables

Our highly successful roundtables format returns in 2025, where we’ll discuss three pressing topics across design leadership, network, and celebrate design together.

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Business School

Finally. A business school for design leaders and senior practitioners that bridges the increasing gap between design and business acumen. Facilitated, focused, and highly impactful.

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Design Conferences

From our large format DO festivals like DO22, DO23, and DO24, to our smaller more intimate formats like Design Research or Accessibility and Inclusion.

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Community support

We sponsor and support other design events in the community, like our great friends at UX Camp Melbourne.

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DO24

High Fidelity

Our third festival, and biggest yet, will bring together over 2,000 attendees for the week-long festival and explore the very best of our craft from strategic design to product and experience design. Pragmatic, inspiring, different.

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DO23

Rediscover Creativity

Our second design festival brought together more than 1,600 people to explore creativity across several open houses, meetups, the conference day and workshops.

Learn more about DO23

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DO22

Reconnecting Design

Our first design festival reconnected over 1,200 participants to discuss design leadership, scale, impact, and the role design can play in creating better outcomes for all.

Learn more about DO22