London Design Festival

Es Devlin and Google to bring live poetry to Trafalgar Square

Set designer Es Devlin is collaborating with Google Arts & Culture and The Space on a unique London Design Festival project that sees history, digital design and public art merge in Trafalgar Square. Winner of the Panerai London Design Medal...

Michael Anastassiades’ public drinking fountains aim to beat London’s plastic pollution

Curator Jane Withers and collector Charles Asprey have joined forces to launch the London Fountain Co, which is set to unveil a contemporary public drinking fountain during London Design Festival next month designed for modern day life by Michael Anastassiades...

London Design Biennale 2018: 10 interactive installations to look out for

London Design Biennale (4-23 September) returns for its second iteration, this year exploring the theme of ‘emotional states’. ‘It’s a gathering like the World Cup,’ says Sir John Sorrell of the 40 countries, cities and territories that are taking...

Tom Dixon, Faye Toogood and more join Bill Amberg for new digitally printed leather range

When he came up with a new way of digitally printing leather this January, British designer Bill Amberg realised he was on to something. ‘Printed leather is either niche and expensive or has a nasty finish that looks like paint...

The made-to-measure magic of design duo Gučas Morgan

There is something gratifyingly green about Elena Gučas and Will Morgan, the duo behind design project Gučas Morgan. Hours are spent in discussion, solitary garments moulded to the body, fabrics chosen, cut and fitted over months. Their clothes are poetic collaborations...

Meet Forensic Architecture, the architectural nominees of the 2018 Turner Prize shortlist

A recent, major exhibition at the ICA brought the work of Forensic Architecture to a wider audience; and today’s 2018 Turner Prize shortlist announcement confirmed it – Eyal Weizman and his team are onto something big. From their academic base...

London Design Festival 2017: the highlights

Colour scheme: Peter Pilotto’s prismatic London townhouse takeover

Step inside the sprawling east London studio space of Peter Pilotto and among the rails of colourful and intricately embroidered clothes, toiles and fabric swatches, you’ll find a spectrum of Martino Gamper’s colourful ‘Arnold Circus’ stools. These angular pieces formed the seating...

Francis Sultana’s eclectic new collection draws on Coco Chanel and Catalan art

Maltese-born, London-based designer Francis Sultana is known for instilling his furniture with exotic and eclectic references – his latest collection, ‘Narmina’, is no different. The new offering touches on influences from haute couture and Coco Chanel’s sartorial credentials, to the...

Boundary breakers Jasper Morrison and Jaime Hayon turn their hand to fashion

Unravelling the ever-fraying seam between the worlds of fashion and industrial design, Jijibaba is the new ‘not-fashion’ menswear label from furniture designers Jaime Hayon and Jasper Morrison. To mark its mixed-medium identity, the collection has launched two times over, in different...

Opening up the urban experience

What is the future of city living? MINI LIVING is about extending the expertise of MINI design into the urban realm to create initiatives that explore new ways of living, working and interacting with the modern city environment. For this...

Alpine lines: rare Otl Aicher prints reveal a graphic designer ahead of his time

For Patrick Eley, creative director of design studio dn&co, German graphic designer Otl Aicher has long been a source of inspiration. ‘His work, particularly that of the Munich 1972 Olympics, is a design touchstone for us,’ Eley explains. ‘But...