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Designer walks: Rome — seeing a familiar city differently

Explore Rome through a designer’s eyes — from ancient architecture and typography to visual identity, wayfinding, food, and contemporary design. Rome is a city we keep returning to. After several visits, the question is no longer what to see, but how to look. In this Designer Walks story, we explore Rome through a designer’s eyes — its layers of history, typography, architecture, colours, visual identity, wayfinding and the contemporary design that exists alongside it all.

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Designer walks: Cuba — a city shaped by time

Cuba is a place where time seems to have taken a pause, yet creativity and visual storytelling remain in constant motion. Walking through the streets of Havana or other Cuban cities, one immediately notices how architecture, signage, and branding coexist in a unique and organic way. Unlike the neon-dominated commercial spaces of the Western world, Cuba’s streets tell their stories through handcrafted signs, hand-painted advertisements, and a rich blend of colonial and modernist architecture.

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Designer walks: Barcelona — meeting the designers behind the city

This time the Estonian Design Centre's inspiration trip took us to Barcelona, where together with the network of Estonian design companies we took a peek behind the scenes of their local design offices.

Barcelona is considered a hub of design in Europe as well as the world, which was evident in their comfortable urban space as well as the entire ambiance of the city.

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