Mark your calendars for Belgrade Design Week:

Belgrade Design Week is the first festival of creative industries and modern business in Serbia and the South East European region, and it covers an area of more than 100 million people from Milan to Istanbul. For 4 years in a row, Belgrade Design week has been successfully developing the intercultural and business dialogue between the global design scene, local and regional creative industry and the city of Belgrade.

Main program: BDW 09 consists of the three-day international conference "SPEED2", and for the first time, the five-day creative industries' and design-fair "designPark"

Featured areas: object and graphic design, architecture, branding, advertising, music, digital media, TV, art, publishing, film, fashion, media and design related retail in general.

Satellite program: BDW initiates, connects and engages various spaces and authors to showcase their exhibitions, workshops, panel discussions and presentations at over 50 locations in Belgrade, all under one name "Belgrade2".

Running from May 25-31, 2009.