Create your online Design Studio
with innovative solutions
Access a suite of tools to manage your online design studio efficiently with time saving automation – all within a secure platform.
The Business of Design
Built for the industry by the industry.
How it Works
Your tools to support your online Design Studio
Ideas & Designers
A dedicated space to discover original ideas and connect with vetted, professional international designers
Original Ideas
The Original Ideas feature allows you to explore unique concepts created by international designers uploaded to their profile
Mood Boards
The mood board feature allows you to save and organize ideas for easy sharing with colleagues. You can create multiple mood boards.
Discover Designers
You can leverage BuyDesign’s international network of designers specializing in furniture, lighting, textiles, and more to accelerate time to market, reduce costs, and improve efficiency. If you don’t find what you’re looking for, the “Brief Management” feature allows you to create a detailed brief for tailored proposals
Create your online Studio
When you find a designer you want to work with, simply save them to your private online studio for easy access. You can organize and manage your favourite designers in one secure place, streamlining your collaboration process.
Brief Management
Manage multiple briefs in one place. You can brief individual or multiple designers simultaneously or create an open-call brief for the community.
Briefs & Open Calls
Create detailed Briefs or Open Calls (an Open Call is a Brief open to all designers) using our comprehensive form. Include customer and commercial requirements sections, technical considerations, and specific project goals. Once completed, share with your selected designers or engage with the design community, streamlining the process from start to finish.
Responses to your Briefs
Never lose track of your responses to your briefs. When designers respond to your briefs on BuyDesign, their submissions are sent directly to your private online studio. All submissions are organized in one place for easy access.
Archive your Briefs
Never lose track of your new or old briefs. Within Your Studio, you can create multiple briefs, and they are automatically saved in Your Studio’s ‘Brief Tab.’ You can create new briefs or retrieve a previous one and rename it to create a new one.
Agreements all in one place
In your online studio, upload and save multiple agreements, creating new ones or renaming old ones for reuse. Build a library of agreements to streamline the creation of new briefs. All agreements can be signed online with DocuSign, ensuring efficiency and convenience for both the business and the designer.
Pitch Management
Say goodbye to unsolicited emails from designers, which need to be replied to for courtesy and legal reasons.
Receive Pitches
Receive pitches from Designers directly to your online studio & mobile. Review and respond quickly and ensure no missed opportunities with the BuyDesign Pitch Management.
Decline or Connect
Decline pitches efficiently and quickly with one click using auto-pre-filled emails, affirming that you have viewed and responded, forming good business practices.
Intellectual Property
Ownership and Legal Issues: Built-in legal T&Cs for designers uploading ‘unsolicited Ideas’ ensure that the company receiving the pitch avoids IP issues and prevents potential disputes, safeguarding both the company and the designer. BuyDesign Pitch Management mitigates these issues by ensuring the designer takes full responsibility for their ideas and once a designer uploads an idea, the platform automatically dates and logs the activity, ensuring a clear record of submissions, which allows the business to respond effectively within their time frames and resource capacity.
Invite Designers to pitch
Overwhelmed by pitch emails? Invite designers from your platform and social media to openly pitch to you. Streamline the process and optimise your time and resources.
“Add us to your Website & Social Media to direct Designers to your online studio.“
For example, see: Raawii and Forma & Cemento.
Have an Idea? Are you a designer looking to collaborate with us? We have partnered with BuyDesign, an innovative design platform for Designers and Brands to connect, create and collaborate.
Pitch your ideas directly to us at www.buydesign.com. We review and respond every 3 months. We look forward to reviewing your ideas.
Privacy on BuyDesign
Your privacy is our priority. On BuyDesign, businesses cannot view each other’s activities,
and designers cannot see each others work. Your business is private in your online studio.
Need support to deliver your project?
Contact us to receive strategic consultation and guidance to manage your projects from industry professionals with over 30 years of experience in the design sector.
You’re in good company
Closing the loop between Designer, Manufacturer and Retailer
“Thanks to BuyDesign, we have introduced a range of fresh and exclusive products while championing design talent.”
Christina Carter, Buyer – Furniture, Décor & Textile, Anthropologie
Testimonials
“Finally with BuyDesign there is a professionally managed platform that can support a previously rather serendipitous system.”
Michael Young is an award-winning British designer, founder, and creative director of Michael Young Studio. Michael Young Studio was founded in 1993 to provide exclusive, quality design services across an eclectic range of markets – from interiors to technology.
Testimonials
“The role of designers has significantly changed in the last two decades…”
Luca Nichetto was born in Venice in 1976, where his artistic talents were inspired by the famous Murano glassmaking industry. Luca Nichetto founded his eponymous multidisciplinary design practice in Venice, Italy in 2006, specialising in industrial design, product design and design consultancy.
Testimonials
“BuyDesign is a brilliant innovation in breaking down these barriers and simplifying the process of commissioning design.”
Tom is co-founder of the London design studio Pearson Lloyd. He trained in Furniture Design at Nottingham, before completing an MA in Industrial Design at the RCA in 1993. Tom founded Pearson Lloyd with Luke Pearson in 1997.
Testimonials
“We are very excited for the possibilities BuyDesign gives Forma&Cemento.”
Marialaura is an architect, designer, and the creative director and owner of Studio Irvine. Since 2011, she has led Studio Irvine, where industrial products serve as the pulsating heart of design with notable clients such as Arper, Baleri Italia, Discipline, Faraone Mennella, Muji, MPlus, Offecct, Phaidon and Thonet.
Testimonials
“BuyDesign can change the dynamics of the relationship between designers and clients to their mutual benefit.”
Deyan Sudjic OBE is writer and broadcaster, specialising in the fields of design and architecture. Formerly the director of the Design Museum, ex Editor-in-Chief of Domus Magazine and founder editor of Blueprint.
Testimonials
“Finally, with BuyDesign, there is a platform which allows the different actors of the design world to be connected.”
Aldo Cibic is an influential Italian designer known for co-founding Memphis. His projects have been exhibited at Venice Architecture Biennale, and his work focuses on community and place design.
Testimonials
“BuyDesign is building a level playing field for the design industry…”
Nigel Coates, an influential architect and designer, challenges conventional notions of architecture and design by seamlessly integrating art and intelligence. His innovative ideas have translated into noteworthy buildings, interiors, and exhibitions worldwide, notably in Japan and the UK.
