
Barcelona Design Centre
BCD is a private non-profit foundation, which was set up in 1973.
Our mission is to promote design as a key factor for company innovation and competitiveness, as well as a discipline improving our life standards.
Among other, these are BCD’s funding objectives:
BCD collaborates with the main professional, training and cultural institutions of our country, as well as with the international promotional design bodies of other countries around the world.
BCD is the first step for companies willing to improve their design management skills. Design management allows a company to use the input design in an efficient way for a better fulfillment of its corporate goals.
BCD does not answer to private interests, but it promotes actions for the benefit of professional and business world and of the general society.
Our mission is to promote design as a key factor for company innovation and competitiveness, as well as a discipline improving our life standards.
Among other, these are BCD’s funding objectives:
- To emphasize the economical, social and cultural relevance of design
- International diffusion and promotion of Barcelona as a design capital
- Co-operation with central, autonomous and local administrations to encourage design attention
BCD collaborates with the main professional, training and cultural institutions of our country, as well as with the international promotional design bodies of other countries around the world.
BCD is the first step for companies willing to improve their design management skills. Design management allows a company to use the input design in an efficient way for a better fulfillment of its corporate goals.
BCD does not answer to private interests, but it promotes actions for the benefit of professional and business world and of the general society.

