Probably the most coveted occasions within the world design calendar, OFFF Barcelona returns this spring for its twenty sixth version, bringing collectively a few of the most influential voices in creativity, artwork and digital design.
Happening from 16–18 April 2026 at Disseny Hub Barcelona, OFFF continues its long-standing mission to behave as a gathering level for the trade’s most modern thinkers, providing audiences a uncommon glimpse into the inventive processes shaping modern visible tradition.
This yr’s programme displays each OFFF’s worldwide attain and its roots in Barcelona as a inventive capital. Trade leaders, together with Emmy Award–profitable director Seth Epstein (LOS YORK), Nils Leonard (Unusual Inventive Studio), Reuben Wu, Maggie West, Valtteri, Björn Kusoffsky (Stockholm Design Lab) and Noah Dillon type a part of a various line-up spanning branding, movement, images, structure, artwork path and experiential design.
Structure performs a very outstanding position within the 2026 programme, marking Barcelona’s designation as UNESCO World Capital of Structure. In response, OFFF has curated talks from main structure studios together with Foster+Companions and CODA, reflecting the town’s affect on the worldwide constructed atmosphere and its ongoing dialogue between design, tradition and concrete life.
Pictures and image-making additionally take centre stage this yr. Artists comparable to Reuben Wu, identified for his technologically pushed reimaginings of landscapes, and Noah Dillon, the photographer behind the quilt of Rosalía’s LUX album, spotlight the competition’s continued curiosity in how new instruments are reshaping visible storytelling.
A visible identification formed by collaboration
OFFF 2026’s visible marketing campaign has been developed in collaboration with Unusual Inventive Studio, with the competition’s inventive path offered by co-founder Nils Leonard as a part of the programme. Titled What We Make It, the marketing campaign explores creativity as a collective act that is formed by shared references, concepts and experimentation quite than particular person authorship.
Framed as each a mirrored image and an invite, the marketing campaign positions creativity as one thing that emerges underneath the best situations: collaboration, openness, and intentional development. It additionally speaks to wider conversations inside the inventive industries round authorship, homogenisation and the position of group in shaping tradition.
Bringing work into the general public realm
This yr’s Essential Titles, designed by PJ Richardson, might be screened outside for the primary time as a part of The Display screen programme, projected onto the façade of Disseny Hub Barcelona. The initiative, which is open to the general public, underscores OFFF’s ambition to maneuver past the convention format and embed inventive work instantly into the town.
The Display screen programme will run throughout all three nights of the competition and is split into two elements: an open name showcasing work from the OFFF group, and a curated choice of site-specific items by invited studios and artists. Confirmed contributors embody Burton Rast, Somnia Lab and OnionLab.
New codecs for a altering trade
Alongside its headline talks, OFFF 2026 introduces Suggestions & Methods, a brand new collection of small-group periods designed to foster extra intimate, sensible exchanges. These 25-minute periods, combining quick talks with viewers Q&A, will cowl subjects starting from profession improvement and management to reinvention and inventive resilience, reflecting the trade’s evolving wants.
The addition indicators OFFF’s consciousness of shifting skilled realities, as creatives more and more search areas that supply tangible perception, peer connection, and inspiration.
A worldwide platform with native roots
Based in Barcelona in 2001, OFFF has grown from a distinct segment design gathering into a world inventive platform, increasing by initiatives comparable to OFFF On Tour and OFFF Studio. Regardless of its development, the competition has remained carefully tied to its host metropolis, drawing on Barcelona’s cultural vitality whereas attracting a world viewers of designers, artists and technologists.
As OFFF enters its twenty sixth yr, it exemplifies a competition balancing scale with substance, bringing collectively high-profile names, rising practices and new codecs at a second when the inventive industries are actively reassessing how, why and for whom work is made.
