Indy Design Week 2026

Indy Design Week is a nonprofit-run design festival held annually in Indianapolis since 2018, bringing a week of conversations, workshops and meet-ups to venues across the city.

The festival highlights the people and processes shaping Indianapolis’s design community, spanning disciplines from graphic and product design to architecture and urban design. Its programming includes talks and panel discussions, hands-on workshops, studio visits and informal meet-ups, along with a conference and job fair connecting designers with employers. Run by a local nonprofit, Indy Design Week aims to build connections within Indianapolis’s creative and design scene and raise the visibility of design as a discipline within the city’s broader civic and business life.