Global Grad Show is an exhibition of innovation from the world’s leading design and technology schools. The show is an inspiring and optimistic look at what is in store for the next generation. The 2018 edition showcased 150 of the inventions shaping our tomorrow. Solutions ranging from the physical to the virtual, high-tech and complex to small and conceptually simple. Technology for doctors that can identify cancer cells using a pen, solutions to combat declining bee populations, a ring that helps the visually impaired to retain their independence, affordable ways to tackle climate change and much more.
THE GUARDIANTHE GUARDIAN
Wallpaper
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.
16.11.18
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
15.11.18
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.
26.11.18
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.
23.11.18
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
15.11.18
Absolutely Education Emirates
Designers for good
These are forward-thinking ideas that are chosen based on how they can accelerate change and improve lives.
30.11.18
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.
16.11.18
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.
19.11.18
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
16.11.18
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.
07.01.19
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
17.11.18
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.
17.12.18
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.
20.12.18
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
14.11.18
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.
30.11.18
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.
25.04.18
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.
21.11.18
Live Mint
Dubai Design Week’s local design alchemy
These young minds will bend science to design a world that I cannot even imagine
23.11.18
Monocle Radio
Dubai Design Week
We praise the organisers for spotlighting graduates, prompting discussion about education and empowering female designers.
18.11.18
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
19.11.18
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.
22.11.18
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
20.12.18
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
13.11.18
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
25.11.18
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
16.11.17
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.
16.11.17
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.
27.10.15
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.
16.11.17
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.
10.10.17
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.
20.11.17
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
26.11.17
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
20.12.17
BBC
Ideas for the future from Dubai
Global Grad Show features 200 innovative projects form 43 countries
08.12.17
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.
05.12.17
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.
01.12.17
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.
21.11.17
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
20.11.17
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.
18.11.17
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.
16.11.17
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.
16.11.17
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.
15.11.17
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.
13.11.17
Gulf Today
Young minds, novel designs
The global grad show at the upcoming Dubai Design Week focuses on invention and innovation.
11.11.17
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.
10.11.17
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
09.11.17
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.
02.11.17
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.
01.11.17
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
25.10.17
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.”
23.10.17
Economist Espresso
Tomorrow’s Designs
The future hasn’t yet arrived, but some of the designs are already in.
22.10.16
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.
11.10.17
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.
10.10.17
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.
20.01.17
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.
15.11.16
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.
09.11.16
