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The Vanguard of neoteric thought

The local success of the global grad show is indicative of a place [uae] at the vanguard of noeteric thought.

Architectural Digest

One of the greatest gatherings of innovators ever

McGetrick spent months choosing the best thesis projects from the world’s design schools. This year’s crop fills the atrium of a glassy office building in the Dubai Design District. An arm of the Dubai government not only paid for the Global Grad Show but also brought all 150 designers to Dubai for five days, in what must be one of the greatest gatherings of innovators ever

Forbes

There's something amazing about this

For something with such a plain-sounding name, there may be nothing quite like the annual Global Grad Show--especially when it comes to capturing that sci-fi feeling of glimpsing the future.

CNN

Life-changing designs form students who want to save the world.

The pen, musical instrument and more could be found at the Global Grad Show, part of the fourth Dubai Design Week, which ran from November 13-17. The design week has rapidly become a regional networking opportunity with large commercial value, but that hasn't stopped grassroots innovation from pushing through.

Wired

Every year in Dubai the global Grad show celebrates the best design schools around the world

Every year in Dubai the Global Grad Show celebrates the best of design schools around the world: here are the 10 most interesting apps of this edition

Absolutely Education Emirates

Designers for good

These are forward-thinking ideas that are chosen based on how they can accelerate change and improve lives.

Arab News

Next-gen design

Highlights from the Global Grad Show at Dubai Design Week, which showcased 150 innovative and potentially life-changing designs created by students from around the world, ranging from high-tech scientific solutions to conceptually simple physical objects.

Architectural Digest

What Does the Future of Furniture Look Like?

Last week’s Global Grad Show in Dubai, an annual presentation of leading graduate work from design schools around the world. This year, 150 inventions from 100 universities and 40 countries were shown. A number of furniture projects there demonstrated the concerns that students are currently facing.

Cool Hunting

Dubai Design Week 2018: Highlights from The Global Grad Show

Brendan McGetrick opened the fourth edition of Dubai’s Global Grad Show, one of the main attractions of Dubai Design Week. For this year’s show, McGetrick selected 145 graduation projects by students from 85 design schools and universities across five continents. The theme, “Belief in AI,” centered on the necessary questions around artificial intelligence and its links with design, education, art, spirituality and beyond

Disegno

A New Experience

Dubai Design Week’s annual showcase of graduate projects featured work by students from almost 100 schools in 45 countries across the world, with a strong focus on social and environmental impact.

Design Boom

10 most fascinating graduate projects from dubai design week 2018

The global grad show – an integral part of dubai design week each year – continues to grow in magnitude in terms of size, university numbers and innovative projects. the 2018 edition was similar in that sense, but, most excitingly, it forbade the typically trade show-like layout in favor for an exhibition space designed by bryony roberts . the space naturally wrapped around the displays, placing projects side by side in their categories: innovation, equality, universal design, and impact

Design Milk

Home Design and Lifestyle Highlights from Dubai Design Week’s Global Grad Show 2018

But every year, outside downtown Dubai, in the Dubai Design District, the city also hosts the largest annual exhibition of student designs in the world. It’s not the Dubai you may have first associated with: the old, ancient crafts, souks and spices, or glassy exteriors and metal frames that house corporations. These products on show are modest, crafted by students, and more often than not are created to solve a social problem. This is Dubai Design Week’s Global Grad Show.

Dezeen

Eight designs from Middle Eastern graduates at Dubai Design Week

A device that turns street lights into floatation devices and a washing machine designed for long-haul truck drivers are among our pick of the best designs presented by graduates from the Middle East at this year's Global Grad Show in Dubai.

Elle Decoration Italy

150 optimistic design projects for the city that believes in the future (and young people)

Compared to the first editions of the Global Grad Show, today's is revealed in a "more critical approach to technology: today many designers design spaces liberated from the tech, demonstration that it is not true that younger generations are obsessed with it

Icon Design Magazine

The fourth edition of Dubai Design Week

Looking ahead to the future, the Global Grad Show will take care of it, presenting 150 projects dedicated to the interactions between design and technology from some of the best universities in the world.

The Good Life Italia

Future without limits

Experimentation never stops. This is demonstrated by the projects of the young winners at the last Dubai Design Week.

iO Donna (Italian)

From Dubai design projects for the fashion of the future, between hi-tech and creativity

From the label that makes the storytelling of the jacket to the jacket with a survival kit inserted. From the shoe that breaks down to the bracelet that monitors stress. At the Global Grad Show in Dubai the graduation projects of design schools from all over the world: original ideas, super-technological, sustainable. And sometimes a little crazy.

Live Mint

Dubai Design Week’s local design alchemy

These young minds will bend science to design a world that I cannot even imagine

Monocle Radio

Dubai Design Week

We praise the organisers for spotlighting graduates, prompting discussion about education and empowering female designers.

News Atlas

Seven brilliant inventions from the world's biggest student design show

There were 150 inventions on display at the 2018 Global Grad Show, including contributions from the likes of MIT, Harvard and London's Royal College of the Arts. Taken as a whole they provide some fascinating insights into how this next generation of designers is thinking about the future

News Atlas

Diving into the minds of a tomorrow's designers with curator Brendan McGetrick

These projects serve as not just one-off inventions to solve single problems, but as fascinating insights into how the next generation of designers see the world and the kind of future they want to build.

New Scientist

Global Grad Show: How should we design for the world’s end?

At the Dubai Design Week last November, I met a new generation of graduates sharing designs for the end of the world

The Telegraph

From fake rain to bespoke chandeliers, what not to miss at Dubai Design Week 2018

Now by a long way the biggest creative festival in the Middle East, the show attracts architects, designers, creatives and graduates from all over the world

The Times of India

Dubai’s recently concluded Global Grad Show, which featured a number of Indian designers who came up with novel solutions to all kids of problems

Dubai’s recently concluded Global Grad Show, which featured a number of Indian designers who came up with novel solutions to all kids of problems

Architectural Digest

This mega-exhibtion in Dubai pushes the boundaries of innovation.

The Global Grad Show at Dubai Design Week showcases submissions from 92 design schools that aim to change the world for the better

CoolHunting

Design problem-solving from 43 countries across six continents

Sometimes graduate shows can be a mixed bag. There are great ideas but poor output or beautiful products without much to say. That said, some such shows are exceptionally interesting, and this is the case with Global Grad Show.

CNN

How the next generation will design a better future

One of the world's largest showcases of student work, the Global Grad Show will display 200 projects pulled from the degree shows of 92 leading design and technology programs from 43 countries.

Forbes

A massive showcase of forward-looking design projects dreamed up by graduate students of design from around the world

At this year's Global Grad Show, a massive showcase of forward-looking design projects dreamed up by graduate students of design from around the world as part of Dubai Design Week—the latter were firmly on display.

Designboom

Global Grad Show exhibits largest student gathering at Dubai Design Week 2017

Returning for a third year as part of the Dubai Design Week 2017, the Global Grad Show welcomes innovative inventions from graduates of the world’s leading design and technology universities. likened as the ‘Oscars’ for graduate design, 200 forward-thinking projects from 90 establishments and 40 different countries will be on exhibition from November 13th to 18th, 2017.

Elle Décor Italia

Design for the Apocalypse: the Dubai Global Grad Show

For the second consecutive year, this event was hosted during Dubai Design Week to discuss the future of design starting from the pure creative spirit we can only find in students.

The Economic Times

These graduates are designing a better world 

At Dubai’s Global Grad Show which features the cream of young design talent from across the world

TL Magazine

Jewellery for Carpal Tunnel Syndrome?

MIKO+, the winner of the Progress Prize at the 2017 Global Grad Show in Dubai, presents an alternative to physical therapy: gilded pink brass jewellery

BBC

Ideas for the future from Dubai

Global Grad Show features 200 innovative projects form 43 countries

Wallpaper*

Dubai’s Global Grad show tackles social and environmental problems through diverse design

Since its inception three years ago at the inaugural Dubai Design Week, the Global Grad Show has proved itself to be one of the weeklong event’s most successful concepts.

DAMN°

Dubai Design Week; The Global Grad Show Grows up

Here in Dubai, there are fully recyclable football boots from Switzerland; a living sea defence system from Taiwan; textiles that turn pollution into water from the Netherlands; and a brilliantly low-tech terracotta water purifier from Peru, to name just a few. Full of enthusiasm and not yet jaded by experience, these young designers aren’t afraid to tackle the big issues.

New Atlas

Bright ideas from the world's biggest student design show

Global Grad Show showcases the brightest ideas from design and technology universities all around the world, with 200 projects made by designers hailing from 92 schools across 43 different countries.

Elle Décor Italia

How Design can help make the world a better place

Dubai’s Global Grand Show, the world’s largest student gathering, is all about fresh ideas on how design can help us build the future

Domus

Design for the Apocalypse: the Dubai Global Grad Show

At the Dubai Design Week, more than 200 students from all over the world responded to global emergencies through design. We saw them all, here is an overview.

Al Bayan

200 Designs at Global Grad Show Exhibition at Dubai Design Week

The annual Global Grad Show is one of the most prominent events of the Dubai Design Week. A gathering that brings together innovative projects offered by graduates from the world's largest design universities which are focused on enabling sustainability and communication.

Forbes

These 5 Simple Design Concepts Could Show The Future Of The Home

When it comes to sketching out the future of the home, there are two types of design concepts: Big, bold ideas that feel just a bit too big and too bold to ever come to market; and simple upgrades that fit seamlessly into the way we actually live our lives.

AMEinfo.com

Dubai Design Week: Slick, sleek and chic

Global Grad Show, which reinforces its position as the world’s largest and most diverse meeting of design graduates, showcasing 200 projects from 92 universities across 43 countries.

CNN Style

Bright ideas and forward-thinking prototypes from some of the design world's most promising young talents

One of the world's largest showcases of student work, the Global Grad Show will display 200 projects pulled from the degree shows of 92 leading design and technology programs from 43 countries.

Gulf Today

Young minds, novel designs

The global grad show at the upcoming Dubai Design Week focuses on invention and innovation.

BLOUART INFO

'Dubai Design Week 2017': The World of Design Comes to the Middle East

London’s Royal College of Art, California’s Stanford University and Melbourne’s RMIT are among the 90 top universities participating in the annual Global Grad Show, the world’s largest exchange platform for design graduates.

DESIGN IN DABA

Dubai Design Week Highlights the best in student innovation

Dubai’s Global Grand Show, the world’s largest student gathering, is all about fresh ideas on how design can help us build the future

Xpress Dubai

NYU AD students scale new heights, track Burj Shadow

Abu Dhabi Students of NYU Abu Dhabi have scaled new heights by using the Burj Khalifa as a tool for scientific inquiry to track its imposing shadow and study the rotation of the Earth.

Herskhazeen

An Interview with Brendan McGetrick

Curated by renowned author and designer, Brendan McGetrick, the Global Grad Show presents projects based on McGetrick’s personal interpretation of design that emphasis on innovation that transcends technology and exists independent of wealth.

ARBITARE

Dubai Design Week Talent Scout

The third edition of Dubai Design Week will give more space and attention to the young participants and their innovative ideas

The Architect’s Newspaper

Kitchen tools that help the blind and elderly cook with ease

Kevin Chiam designed Folks, a range of kitchen tools for the blind based on familiar cooking instruments, sensory feedback, and tactile cues. Aptly named, the collection aims to allow those without sight to prepare food “just like common folks.”

Economist Espresso

Tomorrow’s Designs

The future hasn’t yet arrived, but some of the designs are already in.

designMena

Students from the Middle East present innovative designs for Global Grad Show

The Global Grad Show aims to highlight how the next generation will shape the future through design, science and innovation. the 2017 edition, which will be housed in a tent of its own, includes projects by 23 young creative minds from universities within the region.

Trend Nomad

Good Simple Ideas - English

Young designers probably will not come up with a solution how to cure Alzheimer’s disease, but for sure more and more of them come up with brilliant ideas how to help patients, their families and carers to do their daily activities. Several good and yet very simple examples were recently shown at Dubai Design Week.

Architectural Digest

Global Graduates: Nine technology-led designs featured in Dubai at the Global Grad Show in Dubai

Visionary designs showcased at the Global Grad Show in Dubai shine a light on the emerging talent shaping our future.

South China Morning Post

Life-Improving tech at global student fair

Dubai Design Week’s exhibition of young graduates’ projects offers hope that a new generation of designers is more concerned with improving quality of life than simply churning out yet another iteration of the modern chair.

Design Indaba

Empower, Connect and Sustain

The collective intelligence of the exhibition not only pointed to some of the most pressing issues of our time but also highlighted how design can connect people.