Perth Design Week’s 2023 and 2024 programs of exhibitions, talks, walks and more were brought together by co-founders of the event, architect Sandy Anghie and designer David Smith. The concept is based on successful Design Weeks across Australia and around the world.

Perth Design Week is a ‘coalition of the willing’ - a group of people and organisations Sandy and David are leading, working together to create this event.

The project started as a collaboration, the idea being that there is a broad array of design based organisations with budgets for their own individual annual events. If these organisations rearranged their diaries to hold events in a particular week each year, we have the start of a Perth Design Week. And that’s exactly what has happened in 2023 and again in 2024.

The list of participants in 2024 was over 60, with major partners including the Western Australian Museum Boola Bardip, State Buildings, Curtin University, UWA and North Metropolitan TAFE - all of which are back on board for PDW 2025.

And in 2024 PDW went global! It was a privilege to collaborate with renowned global architecture practice OMA and Italian based, international furniture brand, UniFor - presenting PRINCIPLES in a highly innovative, interactive and inclusive installation ‘Principles Square’ at Cathedral Square.

Our growing group of major partners and event partners are listed below.

With the creation of Perth Design Week, Perth can now take its place among the great cities of the world where interest and value in good design is celebrated with a dedicated public festival. Our city’s new Design Week highlights and acknowledges local design leaders and the fruits of their labour.

It’s an opportunity to recognise our design community is incredibly diverse and comprises people working across all disciplines – architecture, interiors, landscape, planning, fashion, graphic design, service design and product design. It’s about design at all scales but all working to a common goal - to improve how we all live and work.

Perth Design Week 2025 is set to be held from Thursday 20 March through to 27 March 2025 at venues across Perth city an beyond.

Anyone interested in being involved can contact Sandy Anghie and David Smith via hello@perthdesignweek.com