Sri Lanka Design Festival (SLDF) is where creativity, culture, and business intersect. As a platform connecting Sri Lanka’s creative industries with the world, SLDF is a gateway to the island’s vibrant community of designers, artisans, and innovators. Each year, the festival offers a fresh perspective on Sri Lanka, South Asia’s most promising creative hub, bringing together design, arts, crafts, dance, and music in a celebration of local creative industries.

 

Launched in 2009 by the Academy of Design (AOD), SLDF was born to fulfill the long term vision to establish Sri Lanka as South Asia’s creative hub. Over the past fifteen years, it has become the country’s most influential platform for showcasing creativity as a driver of economic growth and cultural enrichment, drawing regional designers, entrepreneurs, thought leaders, and innovators. It’s a place where local and international creatives, makers, and thinkers congregate to make new connections , gain exposure, and celebrate how their work shapes new futures.

 

SLDF provides a space for timely conversations and meaningful exchanges between local talent and global audiences. Each edition of the festival features a thoughtfully curated program of exhibitions, fashion shows, industry talks, workshops, and performances, attracting students, academics, and practicing professionals of creative industries from across the globe. 

 

At its core, SLDF is about celebrating creativity’s role in shaping economies and societies, and inspiring new futures in the making.

 

For more information, contact info@aod.lk.