DesignMarch in Reykjavik

As Northern Lights season is starting to draw to a close now, people are flocking to the worlds most northerly city to set up camp in one of the many hotels before taking advantage of the extra long days and explore the beautiful countryside.  If driving around the island and seeing volcanoes, geysirs and waterfalls isn’t really your thing, but you still want to travel to Reykjavik, why not take a look at DesignMarch, the most important annual design event taking place in Iceland.

Running for the sixth time this year, DesignMarch 2014 is the biggest and most important one to date.  Taking place across four days (27th - 30th of March) over 100 individual events are taking place across the city, turning it (for a limited time anyway) into the home of design.  Showcasing everything from fashion to furniture, architecture to food; the DesignMarch will be exhibiting the best of local and international names right alongside each other.

One of the most exciting things to look forward to at DesignMarch are the DesignTalks which take place on Thursday the 27th in Reykjaviks Harpa centre.  From 9:30 am to 4pm you can expect talks from such leading figures in the design world as Marco Steinberg,  Mikael Schiller and Calvin Klein to name a few.  Tickets for DesignTalks are available from the Harpa website here.  For anyone particularly interested in fashion, make sure you reserve tickets for the fifth annual Reykjavik Fashion Festival which runs alongside DesignMarch and DesignTalks in Harpa over the same dates.

For all other events taking place at DesignMarch, take a look at the full program listings on the website.  You can see  brief run through of each event taking place along with its location and times.  Details are also available on the best places to stay and how to get to Reykjavik for anyone who’s never been to the city before.

So that was our little roundup of DesignMarch, if you’re planning on making the trip, don’t forget to to download Trippa Reykjavik for iOS or Android.  If you’re not planning on visiting the worlds most northerly city why not take a look at one of our other guides, say Trippa Athens, Barcelona, Berlin, Cardiff, Helsinki, London, Marseille, Oslo, Palma, Seville and Stockholm which are all now available on over 90% of Smartphones.