This year’s festival identity is inspired by the location of DesignMarch, the Northernmost capital in the world, Reykjavik, and its lively urban culture. .

DesignMarch is just around the corner, and here are some sneak peeks to the program. The complete event listings will be published shortly, stay tuned! .

Are you in Stockholm for the weekend? Check out the Icelandic events. .

WE LIVE HERE is a Nordic collaborative project that brings together a large group of design professionals. See the complete designer listings and the partners that form the great WE LIVE HERE family. .

Icelandic and Finnish designers join forces and “move in together” in an apartment in central Stockholm for Stockholm Design Week 2015. WE LIVE HERE is a combination of an exhibition and event space. .

Borgarmynd exhibits CITYMAPS, handcrafted maps of Reykjavík at Spark from January 16 to March 5. .

The 2015 DesignMarch program is shaping up to be the most exciting yet. This year’s dialogue will focus on play, hence the theme “PlayAway”. The festival is comprised of Iceland’s leading designers and architects working at the forefront of innovative design, which characterizes the Icelandic community. The deadline to register an event is January 25th. .

Spark Design Space exhibits State of the Art Design Projects from Iceland at Felleshus, Berlin from January 29 until April 10, 2015. .

Shoplifter exhibits Changelings at Capricious 88 in New York from January 11 until February 15, 2015. .

Three Icelandic buildings are nominated for the European Union Prize for Contemporary Architecture. .

Bergþóra Guðnadóttir, designer and founder of Farmers Market, designs a dress for a charity project Tau from Togo. .

Iceland Design Centre will publish a new magazine on Icelandic design and architecture. The first issue of the bi-annual magazine will come out in February 2015. .

Ho, ho, ho - it's Christmas time, and we celebrate with our annual Christmas Calendar over at blog.icelanddesign.is. .

In the Icelandic folklore, thirteen Christmas Lads come to town from the mountains one by one, starting 13 days before Christma. Design Studio HAF with Gunnar Karlsson has created 3D illustrations of the Christmas Creatures, and for the 3rd year, the creatures are projected to walls in downtown Reykjavik. .

Thórunn Arnadóttir receives the first Summit Travel Grant, a travel grant by Summit podcast that allows young Nordic designers to explore and exhibit at Stockholm Design Week 2015. .

The city of Reykjavík was awarded the Nordic Council Nature and Environment Prize 2014. .

Émilie F. Grenier receives 2014 Phyllis Lambert Design Montréal Grant to create a collection of urban narrative objects that will effect a dialogue between two UNESCO Creative Cities, Montréal and Reykjavik, Iceland. .

Design duo Postulína shows porcelain installation made up of a 1000 pieces inspired by snowfall at gallery Harbinger. .

Designs from Nowhere receives the first Icelandic Design Award. .

Dögg Gudmundsdóttir of Dögg Design will partake at SE, The Cabinet makers autumn exhibition 2014 with Sweet and Sour, a collection of benches for One Collection and Frank Switzer. .

Design studio Berlinord by Hrafnkell Birgisson and Sebastian Summa will partake in Istanbul Design Week as part of Berlin Design Selection 2014. .

Experience designer Nelly Ben Hayoun, trend forecaster Christine Boland, musician Zebra Katz and Vala Halldórsdóttir, Head of Content at Plain Vanilla are among the confirmed speakers for YAIC Conference 2014, taking place in Reykjavik on November 3-4, right before the Iceland Airwaves festival. .

Valerio Di Lucente (Italy), Erwan Lhuissier (France) and Hugo Timm (Brazil) of Julia, a London based design practice that combines graphic and spatial design will speak at the Iceland Design Centre lecture series at Harpa on October 28 at 8 p.m. .

The typeface by GUNMAD, a graphic design studio consisting of Guðmundur Ingi Úlfarsson and Mads Freund Brunse is an essential part of the new identity for the Sundance Film Festival 2015 Identity. .

The Society of Icelandic Goldsmiths celebrates its 90th anniversary this year, and the exhibition Splendor marks the occasion. .

Designer Gardar Eyjolfsson partakes in the group exhibition exploring the emerging global open source design movement opening on October 4 at Gallery Artisan in Brisbane. .

We are happy to announce the first annual Design Award to celebrate excellent new Icelandic design and architecture. .

Architect, artist Marcos Zotes exhibits multisensory installation AMAZE at Nuit Blanche, an all-night contemporary art event in Toronto, Canada on October 4. .

Once a month, building towards DesignMarch, Iceland Design Centre organizes an informal meeting for designers partaking in the festival. The first meeting in preparations of DesignMarch 2015 will take place on Friday, October 3 at 17.15 at Einar Ben. .

Nordic House exhibits textiles by the Swedish Jonathan Josefsson, also known as the graffiti artist Ollio. .