Design is absolutely everywhere you look. Saying things, solving things, making you feel things. Trying valiantly, cooly, to put the world in order.
Today is International Design Day (IDD). Established in 1995, it marks the 1963 founding of the International Council of Design. IDD’s 2026 theme, The Spaces In Between, is about noticing the thresholds beyond finished objects, “where design quietly does its most meaningful work.”
That work’s larger scope is beautifully articulated on @internationaldesignday’s Instagram:
“Across continents and decades of practice, the belief stays the same: design can do more. It can connect people to place, turn ideas into experiences, and help communities see themselves in the spaces they inhabit.”
Here’s to that – and to Hallmark getting onboard with IDD cards designed by industry folks. We know a guy.
