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Find designers outside your usual feed
Start from the designers page, filter by city, and discover studios working in places you may not already follow.
YOUR LOCAL DESIGN INFOPOINT
Design culture, city by city.
Acceso connects the pieces of local design culture: independent studios, projects, schools, museums, fairs, awards, and the cities around them. Start with a place, a designer, or an object, then keep moving through the network.
171 Cities mapped
500 Design studios
29 Countries covered
WHAT ACCESO DOES
A connected view of local design.
Acceso is built to make design scenes easier to read. It is a map, a discovery layer, and a growing index of the people and institutions that shape industrial, furniture, and product design around the world.
You can use it to find studios in another city, compare schools, browse current awards and competitions, save references, or move from a project to the wider context around it.
Explore the design map by city and jump from local clusters to individual listings.
Open map DesignersFind independent furniture, product, and industrial design studios across the world.
Browse studios DiscoverLook through objects and projects, then follow the studio or reference behind them.
See projects DirectoryCompare schools, museums, fairs, awards, competitions, and design institutions.
Use directoryTHE ECOSYSTEM
Every layer of a design scene, in one place.
- Independent design studios
- Furniture and industrial designers
- Design schools and programs
- Museums and permanent collections
- Fairs, biennials, and design weeks
- Awards and open calls
- Galleries, showrooms, and retailers Soon
- Manufacturers, workshops, and opportunities Soon
WHAT YOU CAN FIND
One project leads to its whole context.
Acceso is useful when you want to move between discovery and research. Browse a project, open the studio behind it, check what city it belongs to, then keep exploring nearby schools, museums, fairs, awards, and design references.
USE ACCESO TO
Move through design with a little more context.
Compare options
Weigh schools, awards, and open calls
Use the directory to compare education paths, prizes, deadlines, and institutions without jumping across tabs.
Save references
Build your own map of studios and objects
Create an account to save designers, projects, schools, and museums into a personal collection you can return to.
CONTRIBUTE
Know something we should add?
Send us a studio, school, museum, fair, award, competition, or design event that belongs on Acceso. Submissions help keep the map specific, current, and close to the people building each local scene.
Submit a listingBUILD YOUR MAP
Save what you want to remember.
Create an account to collect studios, objects, schools, and museums as you explore. Your map becomes a personal index of design references, not another endless feed.
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