Welcome to BuyDesign
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Brief the design community
Brief individual or multiple designers simultaneously or create an open call for the community.
1. Fill out the brief form, the more detail you can provide, the clearer the brief
2. Choose who receives the brief, or make it an open call to the community
3. Receive proposals straight to your account for your to review
4. Review proposals and negotiate terms directly with designers to collaborate with
Discover original products by category
Furniture
Seating, tables, storage, beds, outdoor furniture, and children’s furniture.
Lighting
Ceiling lights, floor lights, desk and table lights, wall lights and outdoor.
Accessories
Home accessories, utility, home office, small storage, bathroom accessories
Cook & Dine
Tableware, Drink ware, Cookware, Barware and Accessories
Lifestyle Products
Tech accessories, sport & travel
Pattern & Illustration
Abstract, Animal, Floral, Geometric, Kids, Nature, Statement pieces.
Furniture
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Harry Batchelor
I’ve always been interested in construction, drawing and learning some basic carpentry. From this, I was inspired to study Architectural Engineering at university and turned my hand to furniture design.
Lighting
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Silvia Ceñal
Silvia Ceñal implements creativity as a tool to design furniture, lighting, and products for people. This is the basis of the “Silvia Ceñal Design Studio,” established in 2015 in the Basque city of San Sebastian. Here, she designs for well-known companies in the furniture sector, including Treku, Ondarreta, and Woud, to name a few.
Decor and Home Accessories
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Nigel Coates
Nigel Coates is an architect whose work encompasses buildings, furniture, and ideas. As if both driver and conceptual vehicle, his drawing exhibits a characteristically fluid line. His designs are produced by many well-known brands including GTV, Fornasetti, Poltronova, Alessi, and Slamp. His work features in the collections of the Victoria & Albert Museum in London, FRAC in Orléans, the Tchoban Foundation in Berlin, and M+ in Hong Kong.
Creating your first Brief
Discover how to create your first Brief with this easy step-by-step guide.
You can create a brief for an individual designer, or brief the whole BuyDesign Studio with an Open Call. If you have any issues or questions, please do not hesitate to contact our team.
Cook and Dine
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Jon Eliason
Jon Eliason Design Studio is a well-established design company based in Sweden. The company has showed it´s talent by receiving assignments from the most recognized Swedish companies: Ikea, Ahlens, Sagaform, Orrefors Jernverk, Gustavsberg, Vedum, Nybro Crystal, Gense etc, helping them create lucrative and strong design concepts and beautiful designs.
During the last year the company has extended it´s design business to an international market with clients such as Benesse (Japan), Villeroy & Boch (Germany), EQ3 (Canada), Miniso (Japan) and Tai-trust (China).
Lifestyle Products
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Mario Alessiani
The functional beauty is the main core of Mario design, where the attention is not focused on shaping but on HOW TO SHAPE, in order to have the most efficiency in the production phase and the object has the will to communicate with its aspects, communicating people how they are done in the most honest way. He has been selected among the best under 30 Italian creatives.
Pattern and Illustration
Our Designers are selected for their design credentials, industry experience and professionalism. Click product images to link through to their profiles, add your favourite designers to your online studio and brief designers who have potential.
Featured Designer: Katy Binks
Born of a love of colour, a fascination with architecture and a passion for print, graphic artist Katy, collaborates with brands, creatives, architects, interior designers and property developers to create designs, spaces and places that inspire.
Based in London and the North West, Katy Binks is a multidisciplinary artist and designer with a broad and colourful creative practice. She discovered her passion for design and printmaking while studying Graphic Arts at the University of East London, before joining the highly regarded MA Printmaking course at Camberwell College of Arts
BuyDesign Resources
Here you can find detailed explanations of the different features on the platform for buyers and designers. This is a growing resource page which we will be adding to as to further improve the experience of BuyDesign.
If you have any questions about how BuyDesign works, or need specific assistance do not hesitate to write to us either on the contact page, or via info@buydesign.com
Account setup
At BuyDesign, your account is completely private, and you can edit all of your account information as needed. To access your account settings, simply navigate to the “Account” section on the website. From there, you can update your personal information, such as your address, phone number, and social links.
Image Guidelines
To ensure coordination and consistency, all images of products should use the standard BuyDesign image templates. These templates include company logos, designer portraits, product images (such as furniture, lighting, and accessories), and pattern and illustration mock-up examples.
Royalty calculator
Use the BuyDesign Royalty Calculator to estimate the average Annual Royalty Flows over a period of years. Input the RRP and wholesale price of your product, adjust variables like the percentage of royalties and expected sales volume, and see how they affect your potential earnings.
Buyers
Find helpful resources for setting up your account, creating briefs, browsing the marketplace, and saving products to moodboards. Our collection of resources will help you maximise your experience on buydesign.com
Designers
Find helpful resources for setting up your account, creating your first products, receiving briefs, answering open calls and more. Our collection of resources will help you maximise your experience on buydesign.com
Payment information
BuyDesign uses Stripe Connect as its payment system to facilitate secure and reliable transactions between buyers and designers.
Stripe Connect offers various payment methods and features to ensure seamless payments. If you need help setting up your Stripe Connect account, refer to the Designer Setup section or contact our support team.
Brief our international designers
Create your design studio by connecting to our global, ever-expanding hub of professional designers, from innovative graduates to internationally renowned studios.
Gain access and create your studio with our diverse, international network of designers, whose furniture, lighting, pattern, illustration, and industrial designs are waiting for you to discover.
