Iceland's annual design event spotlights Reykjavik's resourceful and sustainably minded creative community together with playful purpose.

Shaped by millennia of fire and ice, the Icelandic landscape is renown for a transcendent and majestic minimalism ? violent volcanoes, glacier-carved fjords, black sand beaches, and uninhabited spans of hoary highlands. It is an environment that defines “unforgiving.” But look closer and one begins to notice an abundance of flora and fauna not just persevering, but flourishing across this unique landscape. Voluminous mats of moss, unyielding locks of lichen, fluffy arctic foxes, and adorably rounded puffins are but just a few inhabitants of the volcanic island. The close knit Icelandic design and craft community exhibits a similar resiliency and resourcefulness shaped by the local landscape, attributes on full display each year across Reykjavik under the banner of DesignMarch. With over 100 exhibits hosted over the span of five days across Reykjavik, alongside the accompanying DesignTalks conference hosted within the luminous Olafur Eliasson-designed Harpa concert hall, DesignMarch offers Iceland’s brightest emerging talents and established brands the opportunity to showcase their latest efforts, many emphasizing the use of locally sourced, recycled, and sustainable materials in service of circular design. Below are some of our favorite exhibits from this year’s DesignMarch:
The Airbag by Studio Flétta fo...