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:
Art in DUMBO Insider Gallery Tour
Enjoy a complimentary lunch and visit an artist residency program, artist studios, and galleries led by Two Trees Cultural Affairs Director, Ariel Willmott
1:30pm, 20 Jay – Meet + Lunch at Triangle Arts Residency including studio visits with Yixuan Wu and Christopher Paul Jordan.
2:15pm, 20 Jay – Cheryl Wing-Zi Wong, artist working at the boundary of art, architecture, and the public realm
2:40pm, 68 Jay – Zander Schlacter, artist, designer, and creative consultant working with home textiles, apparel, wallpaper, stationary, and more
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.
Sarah Sherman Samuel Book Talk: The Intersection of Art and Design (Abrams)
Date: Wednesday, May 20th
Time: 3:00PM – 5:00PM
Location: Powerhouse Arena
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 Wednesday May 20 from 3:00pm – 6:00pm.
At Emily Warren Roebling Plaza
Photoville
At 45 Main Street
Peterson Rich Office (Suite 426)
Post Company (Suite 844)
BIG (9th Floor)
Sixpenny (Suite 1020)
At 40 Washington Street
Visual Comfort
At 55 Washington Street
inch (suite 654)
Snøhetta (suite 900)
At 14 Jay Street
M Collection | Home + Design
At 20 Jay Street
Lucky Risograph (Suite 217)
Emily Nam Studio (suite 309B)
Serrano (Suite 602)
JAM (suite 436)
Studio Delson Architecture P.C. (suite 636)
Pensa(suite 800)
L+R (suite 924)
At 68 Jay Street
HiLo (Suite 211)
At 64 John Street
MIOS
At 142A Plymouth Street
Canton Projects
At 195 Plymouth Street
SERRANO (suite 602)
Bliss Lau (suite 603)
Third Door Brooklyn (suite 604)
At 202 Plymouth Street
Mark Jupiter
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.
Untapped Print Edition 004: Launch + Site-Specific Performance
Doors at 5:30PM, Performance AT 5:45PM
Reception to follow, 6:00PM – 8:00PM
HENRYBUILT: 16 MAIN ST
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
Kin & Company’s Inside~Out
Inside~Out, the fifth exhibition of outdoor design curated by Kin & Company, will be sponsored by DEDON & Gloster and hosted by Two Trees Management on the rooftop terrace.
8:00AM – 6:00PM at 45 Main Street – 10th Floor Rooftop
By appointment only
PIT ROOM
On view at Zarolat
Dumbo x Design Closing Party
Join us at Superfine to toast design in Dumbo. Music by DJ Conway Liao. Featuring Dumbo design companies Bliss Lau, Canton Projects, Hudson Wilder, L+R, M Collection Home + Design, Mark Jupiter, MIOS, Pensa, SERRANO and SOAR NY.
Free drinks to the first 300 attendees!
Hosted by Team Dumbo, Pensa and Hudson Wilder.
Free! No RSVP needed.
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.