The Market is an experimental design marketplace that focuses on designers as makers, featuring products designed and produced by the designers themselves—ranging from prototypes and samples to independently released label works. Designers take part directly as exhibitors and sellers, engaging in the full process of presentation and sales.

Following the Class and Main Exhibition programs, the same venue will be transformed into a dedicated market layout for four days during the third week. The Market visualizes the ongoing currents of contemporary design, creating a space where fragments of creativity and thought intersect between designers and consumers—inviting reflection on the evolving nature of creation and value.

In addition to designer-run booths, the Market will also host exhibits by design labels and companies, as well as a special section featuring books in collaboration with TOKYO ART BOOK FAIR 2025.

DESIGNTIDE TOKYO Market challenges new possibilities in the relationship between design and its surrounding environment, tracing the contours of the next tide in contemporary design.

As the boundary between product design and craft continues to blur, DESIGNTIDE TOKYO Market focuses on the designer as a maker, introducing a new kind of design marketplace.

Designs grounded in functionality and refined usability have long been integrated into everyday life as products of enduring value—and they continue to evolve. At the same time, a global movement known as “collectible design” has been gaining momentum. These works exist in the fluid space between product and craft, design and art—experimental creations that question existing values. Because they are not mass-produced, they possess a unique, collectible quality. In Japan, this movement is only just beginning to emerge, and the Market aims to visualize and accelerate this evolving tide.

Here, designers shape their ideas with their own hands, present them as works, and sell them directly. This is not merely a marketplace for objects, but a new form of value exchange—a living design platform where creators and consumers encounter each other anew. Beyond what is “commercially successful,” this is about the impulse to create, and from that impulse, the contours of the next era of design begin to take form.

DESIGNTIDE TOKYO Market exists as an experimental space to share the present moment of design, and to reexamine the future forms of consumption, creation, and value.