Design Excellence Estonia
Design Excellence Estonia catalogue 2010 can be found here.
Design Excellence Estonia is the meeting place of the competences, opportunities and contacts of the Estonian design sector. This is where the best design bureaus of Estonia have gathered, being stronger and more diversified, and also more valuable partners for clients of design services, when acting together. For the clients and providers of design services alike, Design Excellence Estonia is a good opportunity for finding the best possible service from a single place.
Today, Design Excellence Estonia joins 20 acknowledged Estonian design companies, which offer the whole range of services available in this sector, being strong both in strategic, communication and industrial design and handicraft-based unique design spheres. Merged companies want to develop faster, acting together and focusing on joint marketing and penetrate foreign markets together.
Most of the members of Design Excellence Estonia can today boast of either direct or indirect business in foreign markets. Very different markets of products and services, designed and shaped by the members of the platform, should be highlighted here: the US, Canada, Australia, Japan, China, Scandinavia, Germany, Austria, France, the UK, Switzerland, Holland, Spain, Portugal, Poland, the Baltic States, Russia, Ukraine, Bulgaria, Romania, Slovakia, Slovenia and the Czech Republic. Apart from English, Russian and Finnish, the members of Design Excellence Estonia are able to communicate in Swedish, German, Hungarian, Spanish and Italian.
Experience with business in markets of such diversity definitely serves as acknowledgement of the potential of Estonian design in world-level competition. By supporting the export-oriented choices of the members of Design Excellence Estonia, Estonia has the opportunity to become a country known as a source of attaching real value to world- level products and services.
Professional designers have been busy in Estonia for a number of decades and the number of companies applying design as a part of their business tool kit is growing in today's economic situation. The point where these two worlds meet needs to be discussed: how could a good designer and a good client find each other and how could their cooperation lead to a successful product or service?
Production companies and service developers will obtain contacts and design-related guidelines for the development of high-quality and successful products and services from Design Excellence Estonia. The purpose of the platform is to create synergy, open doors and thus increase the profitability of companies through these contacts.
Design bureaus, having experience with business in foreign markets, are good partners for exporting Estonian companies. As we study, for example, the Chinese or Russian markets, we will see that a design bureau experienced in designing products or services for that specific market is a welcome addition to the team.
Read the Catalogue of the Estonian Design Agencies 2011:
