London Design Festival

❄️ HO HO HO! Season's Greetings from everyone at LDF. We'll be taking a festive break but we'll be looking forward to the new year, with preparations already underway for #LDF25 - make sure to mark 13-21 September 2025 in your calendars. #savethedate ✏️ @pentagramdesign

The festive countdown is on! 5 days to go until Rio & Friends Designers’ Christmas Market lands at OlympiaUK. Curated by artist #RioKobayashi industrial designer Flavia Braendle, for one day only, this extraordinary market offers a chance to discover unique, handcrafted pieces from some of London’s most exciting names in art and design. Hosted in the stunning ‘Off the Shelf’ pavilion—designed by Kobayashi for LDF24—the event features designer stalls, free art workshops, and festive drinks. Perfect for finding one-of-a-kind gifts or enjoying a creative day out, this is a Christmas market like no other. See you there 🎄   📍 Sunday 15 December, 11am to 3pm 🔗 For more information visit: https://lnkd.in/eanvmPEQ

✨ This festive season, Cascade by #LiangJungChen transforms OlympiaUK 'Off the Shelf' pavilion into a mesmerising celebration of motion, light, and material culture. Originally unveiled at #LDF24, the pavilion by #RioKobayashi and #WebbYates is a sustainable design masterpiece, crafted entirely from reusable materials. Chen’s installation features water-filled vessels that catch rain, ripple in the wind, and reflect light—creating harmony between nature and design, inspired by Feng Shui. 🎟️ Free to explore until 13 January 13 2025. 🔗 More info here https://lnkd.in/eanvmPEQ 📽️ Film by Yesenia Thibault-Picazo

We're hiring! - join our team and shape the programme for upcoming iterations of the Global Design Forum, the thought-leadership platform bringing together luminaries in the field to further design innovation and creativity. The Forum runs alongside both the London Design Biennale, next up June 2025, and the London Design Festival, Sept 2025, and is a great opportunity to build profile and relationships in the creative sector. Full information in JD attached. If interested, send CV and cover letter to me by EOD, Friday, 22 November - and please share on! London Design Festival London Design Biennale #design #jobs

“Energetically, I believe it serves as a space for dimensional transition, with a very high aura”. With Turkey celebrating 101 years of the Republic earlier this week, it is more than apt that 'Duo' by Turkish artist and designer, Melek Zeynep Bulut is on display at the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich – home to the world famous Royal Observatory, where the Prime Meridian divides the East and West Longitude. Befittingly, Zeyep Bulut's 'Duo' encapsulates the essence of ‘two’: a dialogue, an agreement, and the dynamic interplay between both centre and periphery. This idea of collaboration and partnership resounds throughout the installation as well as Turkey's long bilateral relations with the UK. Duo also responds to the charged, cavernous setting of the Painted Hall – originally designed in the 18th century by Sir James Thornhill as a dining hall for the Greenwich Pensioners adorned with 3,700 square metres of Baroque paintings of 200 kings, queens, and mythological figures. 📍Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, London SE10 9NN 🗓️ 28 October to 3 November 🎟️ LDF is offering 10% off tickets booked online using the promo code: LDFDUO24 🔗 Book your tickets at the link https://lnkd.in/egKzqn4j Valid until Saturday 02 November. Visitors on Sunday 03 November can benefit from the Painted Hall's First Sunday offer with entry for only £5. Under 16's go free but booking is required. Please go to the Old Royal Naval College box office to redeem your wristband and gain access to the Painted Hall. 📸 Mark Cocksedge

Accessibility in design isn’t just a feature; it’s the foundation of a truly inclusive world. At London Design Festival, we believe that great design serves everyone, regardless of ability, background, or circumstance. Design should act as a bridge that connects people, not a barrier. To support this vision, we’ve partnered with Samsung Electronics UK as part of their #DEI commitment, along with #AmyFrancisSmith, RIBA Architect & Accessible Design Specialist, to spotlight the gaps in accessibility awareness and consumer confidence in brands adapting for people in the UK with visible and invisible disabilities. Samsung undertook research that revealed that 80% of people believe brands miss out on over £274 billion annually by overlooking disabled consumers and not investing in products that cater to diverse individual needs. Ironically, three-quarters (76%) say they would stay loyal to companies offering accessible options. Samsung’s research underscores a vital message: accessibility isn’t just a core value - it’s an opportunity for brands to connect meaningfully and build lasting loyalty. Yet there’s more work ahead. We must continue to showcase spaces, products, and systems that promote inclusive design, driving both innovation and creativity. It’s inspiring to see Samsung leading this important conversation. We’d love to hear your thoughts. You can find out more by visiting: https://lnkd.in/eAsjj2fr #AD #InclusiveDesign #SamsungUK #DEI #DesignForAll

Accessibility in design isn’t just a feature; it’s the foundation of a truly inclusive world. At London Design Festival, we believe that great design serves everyone, regardless of ability, background, or circumstance. Design should act as a bridge that connects people, not a barrier. To support this vision, we’ve partnered with Samsung Electronics UK as part of their #DEI commitment, along with #AmyFrancisSmith, RIBA Architect & Accessible Design Specialist, to spotlight the gaps in accessibility awareness and consumer confidence in brands adapting for people in the UK with visible and invisible disabilities. Samsung undertook research that revealed that 80% of people believe brands miss out on over £274 billion annually by overlooking disabled consumers and not investing in products that cater to diverse individual needs. Ironically, three-quarters (76%) say they would stay loyal to companies offering accessible options. Samsung’s research underscores a vital message: accessibility isn’t just a core value - it’s an opportunity for brands to connect meaningfully and build lasting loyalty. Yet there’s more work ahead. We must continue to showcase spaces, products, and systems that promote inclusive design, driving both innovation and creativity. It’s inspiring to see Samsung leading this important conversation. We’d love to hear your thoughts. You can find out more by visiting: https://lnkd.in/eAsjj2fr #AD #InclusiveDesign #SamsungUK #DEI #DesignForAll

“Energetically, I believe it serves as a space for dimensional transition, with a very high aura”. With Turkey celebrating 101 years of the Republic earlier this week, it is more than apt that 'Duo' by Turkish artist and designer, Melek Zeynep Bulut is on display at the Painted Hall at the Old Royal Naval College in Greenwich – home to the world famous Royal Observatory, where the Prime Meridian divides the East and West Longitude. Befittingly, Zeyep Bulut's 'Duo' encapsulates the essence of ‘two’: a dialogue, an agreement, and the dynamic interplay between both centre and periphery. This idea of collaboration and partnership resounds throughout the installation as well as Turkey's long bilateral relations with the UK. Duo also responds to the charged, cavernous setting of the Painted Hall – originally designed in the 18th century by Sir James Thornhill as a dining hall for the Greenwich Pensioners adorned with 3,700 square metres of Baroque paintings of 200 kings, queens, and mythological figures. 📍Painted Hall, Old Royal Naval College, London SE10 9NN 🗓️ 28 October to 3 November 🎟️ LDF is offering 10% off tickets booked online using the promo code: LDFDUO24 🔗 Book your tickets at the link https://lnkd.in/egKzqn4j Valid until Saturday 02 November. Visitors on Sunday 03 November can benefit from the Painted Hall's First Sunday offer with entry for only £5. Under 16's go free but booking is required. Please go to the Old Royal Naval College box office to redeem your wristband and gain access to the Painted Hall. 📸 Mark Cocksedge

A look back at the highlights from ‘Resilience and Repair’ supported by Türkiye Design Council Türkiye Tasarım Vakfı at this year’s Global Design Forum. Talks centred around how can design help to preserve cultural identity post disaster? And how can architecture and design protect, and reinforce cultural identity, trust and belonging in a time of crisis, and how much of a priority should this be? Speakers included #LDFEmergingDesignMedal Winner #HarryBlakistonHouston, Founder, #InsulateUkraine #IevgeniiaGubkina, Architect, Architectural and Urban Historian, and Curator #AmmarAzzouz, Research Fellow, University of Oxford #MehmetKalyoncu, Founder and Member of the Board of Trustees, Türkiye Design Council #MarioBalducci, Humanitarian Architect, Article 25 #LoukiaIliopolou, Partner, Foster + Partners; #FurkanDemirci, Chairman, #TürkiyeDesignCouncil and #Cem Yilmaz, Co-founder, KEYM Urban Renewal Centre #BeaSennewald, Director of Projects, Article 25 Full recorded sessions available on the LDF YouTube channel #LDF24 #GDF

“First, I perceive an abstract energy field, and then I find myself shaping it.” A unique creator and capacious thinker with a background in visual arts and architectural design, #MelekZeynepBulut, founder of melekzeynepstudio has been exploring the interplay between mind and matter “for as long as I can remember”. To round up the 2024 edition of LDF, an equally audacious and ambitious new work, Duo, is situated in the Painted Hall at Greenwich’s Old Royal Naval College. Conceptually inspired by notions of duality and oppositional forces – centre and periphery, inside and outside, night and day, time and space, or simply, two people in conversation. The intensity, balance, and oscillation that occurs through the space and its parts depend on the contact with whoever enters it. Bulut sees it as a “game of perception” that turns visitors into active participants – or, as she puts it, “game-changers”. 'Duo' now showing in the Painted Hall at Old Royal Navy College until 3rd November. Tickets required. Book at the link https://lnkd.in/egKzqn4j *** TICKET INFO *** LDF is offering 10% off tickets booked online using the promo code: LDFDUO24 Valid until Saturday 02 November. Visitors on Sunday 03 November can benefit from the Painted Hall's First Sunday offer with entry for only £5. Under 16's go free but booking is required. Please go to the Old Royal Naval College box office to redeem your wristband and gain access to the Painted Hall. 📸 IAMJACK #LDF24 #MelekZeynepBulut #Duo