Sentence examples for design capitals from inspiring English sources

(Their wares for this fall, for instance, are much freer of the ethnic influences and 1960's nostalgia that suffused the European design capitals). As more American companies and designers edge into the European marketplace - a coming trend - the old-style route may develop some interesting detours.

In 2006 Montreal was named a UNESCO City of Design, only one of three design capitals of the world (the others being Berlin and Buenos Aires).

In 1998, Holly Hunt, the owner of furniture and lighting showrooms in Los Angeles and other design capitals, visited Berger and saw a collection of illuminated crystal pendants, prototypes for the Firefly fixture.

One of Europe's most under-rated design capitals, Eindhoven's local Design Academy has produced several major Dutch artists including Maarten Baas, Marcel Wanders, Richard Hutten, and Jurgen Bey, and in 2003 was named by Time Magazine as the "The School of Cool".

So far, Seoul's realignment has been impressive enough to garner the prestigious appellation of World Design Capital 2010, a designation conferred by the International Council of Societies of Industrial Design to the city that best exemplifies "design-led development".

It's the country's design capital, the place where every aspiring young designer heads in hopes of becoming a powerhouse.

But London is the design capital of the world.

What's more, it was named this year's World Design Capital by an international design alliance.

I was invited because Helsinki is the World Design Capital 2012.

It's more evidence that Seoul is emerging as a design capital".

Autumn is the last chance to see Helsinki, the 2012 World Design Capital, before the snow arrives.