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The 15th edition of Design Miami/Basel, the return of London Design Festival and a special version of Salone del Mobile are just some of the many events featured in Dezeen Events Guide this month.

After over a year of fairs being cancelled and postponed due to the coronavirus pandemic, the global design fair calendar is back in full swing with a packed schedule of physical events in a month we are calling “Super September”.

These include Vienna Design Week, Design China Beijing, 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen and Maison and Objet in Paris.

Regular September events are joined by rescheduled shows such as DesignMiami/Basel and Milan design week, resulting in a diverse selection of listings.

Many other architecture and design events are also taking place around the world. In Amsterdam, What Design Can Do Live will explore climate change and justice through a programme of talks, while industrial designer Marc Newson will host a talk on Hyperconnectivity at the Powerhouse Museum in Sydney.

Read on for details of five highlights and see Dezeen Events Guide for more architecture and design events around the world.

Milan design week
5 to 10 September, Milan

Milan design week, which finally takes place after Covid-19 prevented it from happening last year, is the unofficial name for the world’s biggest annual design gathering.

It features the giant Salone del Mobile furniture fair, which this year hosts a special Supersalone edition curated by Stefano Boeri (above), plus hundreds of events around the city collectively known as the fuorisalone, which are spread out across several design districts in the city.

These districts will showcase installations and exhibitions featuring new design from a host of emerging as well as established designers, studios and brands.

3 Days of Design
16 to 18 September, Copenhagen

Attendees at Copenhagen’s annual design festival 3 Days of Design can expect to see shows, workshops and lectures spread across 200 showrooms and exhibitions.

The event showcases Danish products and concepts from lifestyle, lighting, furniture and interior design brands.

This year, Danish homeware brand Vipp will launch Vipp Pencil Factory (above), a venue for pop-up supper clubs located inside a former Viking pencil factory in Copenhagen. The intimate dining experience is the brand’s first foray into food.

London Design Festival
18 to 26 September, London

This year will be the 19th time that London Design Festival takes place in the UK’s capital. Offering up a mix of over 200 digital and real-world events, the festival will feature installations and exhibitions from both leading and lesser-known artists, designers and architects.

Events will be dotted around various locations, all within walking distance from each other in what the festival calls Design Districts. The V&A museum will host a series of installations and exhibitions exploring design and its relation to climate change, including a collaboration between mixed reality studio Tin Drum and Japanese architect Sou Fujimoto (pictured top).

Design Miami/Basel
21 to 26 September, Basel

The 15th edition of Design Miami/Basel is curated by Aric Chen (above) and showcases collectable design from artists and galleries around the world.

The event usually takes place in June, but, due to the coronavirus pandemic, the fair is one of several that have been rescheduled to happen in September.

The three-day event will explore the relationship between humans and the natural world through furniture, innovation and design.

Design China Bejing
24 to 27 September 2021, Beijing

Taking place later on in the month, Design China Beijing is a three-day event that celebrates both international and Chinese design.

Over 200 designers, galleries and brands will showcase design over the 12,000-square-metre space.

As well as the exhibition, the event features talks from over 30 design icons, including Feng Cao, Ab Rogers and more.

About Dezeen Events Guide

Dezeen Events Guide is our guide to the best architecture and design events taking place across the world each year.

The guide is updated weekly and includes virtual events, conferences, trade fairs, major exhibitions and design weeks, as well as up-to-date information about what events have been cancelled or postponed due to the ongoing coronavirus pandemic.

Inclusion in the guide is free for basic listings, with events selected at Dezeen’s discretion. Organisers can get enhanced or premium listings for their events, including images, additional text and links, by paying a modest fee.

In addition, events can ensure inclusion by partnering with Dezeen. For more details on inclusion in Dezeen Events Guide and media partnerships with Dezeen, email eventsguide@dezeen.com.

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Clearly, we’ve been looking at backpacks all wrong. Just 10 seconds into the video above, my sufficiently fancy laptop bag suddenly feels about as well-designed as a burlap sack. The way the Nest backpack by Tropicfeel behaves and unfolds, it rethinks bags completely. Instead of being a container to organize and store all your belongings, The Nest somehow lets you pack your life with you. Its individual compartments come apart, expand, and exist outside the bag, turning it into a detachable, modular, and expandable wardrobe/closet that unfolds when you unpack.

Designer: Lúcid Design

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The Nest’s expanding design isn’t just about creatively using the space inside the bag, it’s also about creatively attaching modules onto the existing bag to give it more meaning. The Nest’s design is centered around 3 elements of living – Daily, Hobbies, and Adventure, and it comes with purpose-built accessories and add-ons that go with the bag’s design. At its very heart, the Nest is a 16L bag with all the frills you’d expect: storage for your laptop, compartments and pockets for your belongings and tech accessories, and an overall design that blends comfort with function and style. However, its relatively benign 16L design can expand by almost double, storing 30L when expanded. The base comes with a kangaroo pocket that’s perfect for storing bulky items you’d otherwise never put in your bag (shoes, for instance), and a spider net panel on the back provides even more storage, giving you extra room for extra belongings.

What transforms the Nest into a full-blown wardrobe are its cleverly designed add-on bags. The add-ons plug right into the Nest when you need to carry them around, but when you’re unpacking, they plug right out and become individual entities. The organizer ‘cube’ can be hung on hooks, expanding into a criss-cross of pockets to store your belongings, while the smart packing cube literally folds out into a slim makeshift wardrobe for all your organized belongings. In fact, the smart packing cube itself accounts for an extra 10L of storage – giving you dedicated soft ‘shelves’ for shirts, pants, undergarments, and other belongings. A hook on the top lets the smart packing cube be hung from anywhere too, like a mini vertical wardrobe. There’s a camera ‘cube’ too, specially designed to hold your camera and all its lenses and accessories. These cubes either go inside the bag, or attach onto them like modules, allowing you to store and carry more without really making the bag bulky or cluttered. On unpacking, they simply separate into their own elements, turning a seemingly small 16L bag into a veritable closet of all your belongings.

Another extremely clever design detail on the Nest is its ‘secret compartment’ which exists almost like a trapdoor inside the backpack. It stays flat when you don’t need it, but flips open into a sturdy compartment when you want to store something precious. This secret compartment is accessible through a concealed opening that’s literally impossible for thieves to access when you’re wearing the bag. The Nest is littered with other such functional details, like a sunglasses-holder, a special secret pocket for your smartphone, lateral straps to hold onto a tripod, metal clasps to hold everything together, and a pass-through panel to let you slide your backpack onto a wheeled suitcase.

The Nest comes from the folks at Tropicfeel, an innovation-driven team of 36 operating out of Barcelona responsible for creating two of the most funded outdoor shoes on Kickstarter in 2018 and 2019 respectively. The Nest is their sophomore bag, following the wildly successful Shell backpack, which raised over $2 million from nearly 8000 backers just last year. Building on the success of last year’s backpack design, the Nest is an everyday backpack that’s also purpose-built for your next adventure, and is designed to be more compact yet more accommodating. It comes in a single cabin-friendly 16L size that expands to 20L with the kangaroo pouch, while giving you an extra removable 10L storage thanks to the smart packing cube. Just the bag itself costs $128 on Kickstarter (or $200 retail) going up to $228 if you go for the backpack with all the accessories. Like every one of Tropicfeel’s products, it’s built to last, ships internationally, and comes backed by a robust lifetime warranty.

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If the iMac 24-inch model has one disadvantage, it has to be the USB ports on the back. the HyperDrive accessory with color correct front-facing module for sure gets over that problem for good.

The sleek, colorful and stylish-looking M1-powered iMac 24-inch model is for the most part great – that is until you are left groping around the back for the USB port to attach an external hard drive, security key or memory card. That paucity of the Apple machine is now fixed with a third-party accessory by Hyper that’s mindfully designed – to say the least. If you happen to own the cheapest model of the iMac 24-inch that has only two Thunderbolt/USB 4 ports, then this makes even more sense.

Even though the more expensive configuration models add a pair of USB 3 ports, they still lack an SD card slot for times when you need to use it. HyperDrive 6-in-1 USB-C Hub for iMac 24” is the savior with five front-facing ports for the easiest access to memory cards, USB storage, and charging of gadgets. It even has a 4K monitor compatible HDMI port on the back to keep away the thick cords from view. Mindful design indeed, I must say again!

Keeping up with the modern data transfer requirements the accessory has 3 USB (two USB-C and one USB-A) ports capable of 10Gbps transfer speed. For added advantage, the hub has a universally compatible microSD UHS-I reader and SD UHS-I card slot. Charging your gadgets is also going to be a breeze with 7.5W speed compatibility from the USB-A port.

The USP of HyperDrive hub is the way it clamps onto the iMac, seamlessly blending with the footprint of the machine and bringing the practical front-facing usage. The best part I like is the seven faceplates with each hub to match the different colored Apple iMac 24” models. Not only do they look good, but make your digital life smooth without any frustrations of coming short on available ports every now and then. Certainly, the accessory priced at $79.99 is better than any other available on the market.

Designer: Hyper

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