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About

About Dusk

Dusk is Swiss Design Week in Montreal — a week of talks, ateliers, and salons for product designers, on site and online.

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Why Dusk

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Why Dusk

The week takes its structure from the day itself: keynotes in the morning, hands-on critique in the afternoon, conversation at night. It takes its values from Swiss design: clarity, function, and the quiet power of form.

For

Product designers

Practitioners who want sharper craft and clearer systems.

Format

Day, studio, night

Three kinds of session, one rhythm, every day.

Where

Montreal and online

On site at the Montreal Design Centre, or free from anywhere.

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Hosts

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Hosts

Montreal, Canada

Montreal Design Centre

The venue and home of Swiss Design Week, hosting every stage, atelier, and gathering.

Montreal, Canada

Dusk Programme Team

The small team of designers and organisers who curate and run the week.

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Partners

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Partners

Lisbon, Portugal

Modulor Studio

Design studio and room partner for workshops and ateliers.

Basel, Switzerland

Ratio Studio

Creative studio partnering on typography and design systems sessions.

Zurich, Switzerland

Swiss Digital Studio

Product design partner and home of the programme chair.

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Sponsors

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Sponsors

Madrid, Spain

España Innovación

Supporting accessible, performant web engineering on the programme.

Milan, Italy

Italia Digitale

Supporting UX research and proportion-led interface design.

Stockholm, Sweden

Lucid Room

Supporting colour, white space, and critique sessions.

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Last edition

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Last edition

The week in pictures

Opening talk in the gallery space

Motion Lab — Animation for UI

Lucid Room — critique session

Modulor Studio — systems workshop

Programme chair Anna Müller

Typography with Emil Steiner

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Dusk.

Swiss Design Week in Montreal. A week-long programme of talks, ateliers, and residencies exploring the precision and poetry of Swiss-inspired product design.

10–16 November 2025 · Montreal Design Centre

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