Dumbo Design Day
May 20, 2026
Dumbo Design Day | May 20, 2026
Join us during NYCxDesign for a full day of Dumbo Design Day—insider tours, panels, projections, and an epic festival closing party!
With hundreds of architecture & design studios, and dozens of indie design shops, Dumbo was officially crowned a Design District in 2025—and we couldn’t agree more. Come check out what makes Dumbo the place to be for design. A different side of New York.
The line up:
Phaidon Design Library at Hudson Wilder
The Design Library will be open for the full duration of the NYC x Design Festival, Thursday, May 14th – Wednesday, May 20th at Hudson Wilder (142 Plymouth Street)
Additionally, on Thursday May 14, it will host
Todd Bracher Book Talk: Observations, Research and Design (Phaidon)
Date: Thursday, May 14th
Time: 6:00PM – 8:00PM
Location: Hudson Wilder, 142 Plymouth Street
Gallery Insider Tour
Dumbo Gallery Insider Tour
Date: Wednesday, May 20th
Time: TBD
Location: TBD
Sarah Sherman Samuel Book Talk: The Intersection of Art and Design (Abrams)
Date: Wednesday, May 20th
Time: 3:00PM – 5:00PM
Location: Powerhouse Arena
Brooklyn Movement x Creativity: A Design Workshop at Third Door
Date: Wednesday, May 20th
Time: 12:00 – 1:00 PM
Location: 95 Plymouth Street, Studio 604
Designers trained in somatic awareness stop asking ‘does this look right?’ and start asking ‘does this feel right in my body?’ That shift is not metaphorical. Research in embodied cognition consistently shows that bodily states shape aesthetic judgment: posture affects perceived weight, breath rate affects perceived pace, muscle tension affects perceived friction. Your body is already doing design critique. Learning to listen is the skill.
Your body knows bad design before your brain does. Movement × Creativity is a one-hour workshop that teaches designers to listen, to breathe before they critique, to feel before they finalize. Come spend your lunch break learning the design skill nobody taught you in school.
Grain & Grain — Bourbon, Boards & Craft with Mark Jupiter
Date: Wednesday, May 20th
Time: 4:00 – 5:00PM
Location: 202 Plymouth Street
To celebrate the expansion of one of DUMBO’s last remaining large-scale artisan manufacturing facilities, Mark Jupiter will host a one-hour immersive experience inside his workshop. “Grain & Grain” pairs a curated bourbon tasting with a live demonstration of five limited-edition charcuterie boards crafted in real time from reclaimed shop material. Each piece will be raffled to guests at the close of the hour. The event highlights the intersection of material, machinery, and handcraft, offering an intimate look at how raw lumber becomes refined design. A brief toast to the enduring importance of manufacturing within the DUMBO Design District will conclude the program, before transitioning into the neighborhood-wide celebration.
L+R “Meridian Meetup”
Date: Wednesday, May 20th
Time: 3:00 – 6:00 PM
Location: 20 Jay Street, Suite 924
Dumbo Open Studios
The following studios will be open to the public on Wednessday May 20 from 3:00pm – 6:00pm.
BIG: 45 Main Street
Photoville: Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
L+R: 20 Jay Street, Suite 924
Studio Delson Architecture P.C.: 20 Jay Street, Suite 636
HiLo: 68 Jay Street, Unit 211
MIOS: 64 John Street
Visual Comfort & Co.: 40 Washington Street
M Collection Home + Design: 14 Jay Street
inch: 55 Washington Street, Suite 654
Mark Jupiter: 202 Plymouth Street
JAM: 20 Jay Street, Suite 436
Bliss Lau: 195 Plymouth Street, Suite 603
SERRANO: 195 Plymouth Street, Suite 602
Third Door Brooklyn: 195 Plymouth Street, Studio 604
Canton Projects: 142A Plymouth Street
Pensa: 20 Jay Street, Suite 800
Dumbo x Design Closing Party
Join us at Superfine to toast design in Dumbo. Free drinks to the first 300 attendees. Music by DJ Conway Liao. Hosted by Team Dumbo, Pensa and Hudson Wilder.
Superfine | 126 Front Street
6 – 9 pm
And don’t miss this commemorative mug!
And be sure to stop in at Fishs Eddy at 81 Front St. They will debut their DUMBO mug this week, created in celebration of the neighborhood’s creative legacy.