London Design Festival

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Inside Seen Studios’ House of Astrid & Miyu

As part of the recent London Design Festival (14–22 September) creative agency Seen Studios debuted a retail space focused on creating meaningful c...

Retail : Design : Fashion

Big Ideas

Material Matters 2024: Playful Ecology

Self-described as a ‘design version of Desert Island Discs’, Material Matters has long focused on those materials that have proven transformative f...

Design : Technology : Sustainability

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London Design Festival 2023: Designing for Longevity

Three key themes emerged during London Design Festival 2023, each centring around the concept of designing for longevity.

Design : Health & Wellness : Technology

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LDF 2018: Punkt adds 4G capacity to its minimalist phone

Punkt has launched the MP02, a mobile phone that balances streamlined design and access with global connectivity.

Technology : Mobile Phones : Digital

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A roving installation driven by mind control

At this year’s London Design Festival, the Design Museum will host Mind Pilot, a robotic airship that can be controlled using the mind.

Digital : Media : Far Futures

Micro Trends

Digital Fabric

As new technologies help to facilitate fashion-buying in digital spaces, brands are exploring how they can translate the tactility of materials int...

Fashion : Retail : Digital

Viewpoints

Will the future fashion showroom really live online?

As brands explore the potential of digital showrooms enabled by virtual reality, will fashion buyers be willing to put their money on collections t...

Fashion : Retail : Digital

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A retrospective on the stand-out projects at London Design Festival

Following the London Design Festival 2017, LS:N Global reflects on five of the most thought-provoking works.

Product Design : Food & Drink : Culture

Design Directions

Raw Movement

Inspired by human movement and touch, wellness interiors and packaging designers are embracing a raw aesthetic, experimenting with primitive shap...

Human Movement : Blok London : Boutique Fitness

Design Directions

Forests

Forests is a series of temporary installations that challenge our perception of public spaces and translate the ideas of the sharing economy into t...

MINI Living : Placemaking Futures : London Design Festival

Design Directions

The Cloakroom

Faye Toogood Studio put craft and craftsmanship on the map at London Design Festival.

Faye Toogood : The Cloakroom : Design

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LDF Network Evening 2015: James Shaw

London – Designer James Shaw uses many words to refer to his work, but ‘craft’ is not one of them.

James Shaw : Designer : Craft

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LDF 2015: Luxury Re-assessed

London – Artist, collector and set designer Anna Lomax’s exhibition Luxury Goods explores changing definitions of luxury by upgrading or downgradi...

Anna Lomax : Pound Shop Culture : Luxury

Big Ideas

London Design Festival 2015 Preview

London Design Festival hopes to re-invent itself both as more culturally ambitious and more approachable to the wider public through a ne...

London Design Festival : Somerset House : Preview

Big Ideas

Mind-blowing idea

US – Mindblower is a new platform that helps people to turn their product ideas into reality.

Mindblower : I2P : Inventor

Design Directions

London Design Festival 2014

Channelling the spirit of The Polarity Paradox, the London Design Festival 2014 embraced the extremes. Tongue-in-cheek, playful aesthetics and ex...

Anti-Materials : Neo-Kitsch : Painterly Primitive

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Sensory treat: Studio Appétit launches food platform at London Design Festival

London – Combining the worlds of beauty and fashion with food, Studio Appétit has launched its new food platform, Things of Edible Beauty.

Studio Appétit : V&A : Things Of Edible Beauty

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London Design Festival 2014: Lee Broom launches new marble lighting

London – As part of the 2014 London Design Festival, Lee Broom has launched his new Nouveau Rebel lighting and accessories collection.

Nouveau Rebel : Lee Broom : Lighting

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London Design Festival 2014: Illuminated installation plays on the idea of time

London – As part of the 2014 London Design Festival, a trio of designers have created a time-inspired installation that is on show at the Victoria ...

Candela : London Design Festival : Panerai

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London Design Festival 2014: Hybrid digital and analogue sculptures at V&A

London – For its last project under the moniker T/Shirt Issue, the Berlin design collective spent six months in residence at the Victoria and Alber...

The T/Shirt Issue : London Design Festival 2014 : Victoria And Albert Museum

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Reflective space: Barber Osgerby goes upside down at the V&A for London Design Festival

London – Design studio Barber Osgerby has teamed up with BMW’s design team for a collaborative installation on display at the Victoria and Albert M...

BarberOsgerby : London Design Festival 2014 : BMW

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Taking the plunge: River potential on show at London Design Festival

London – The rivers and waterways of London have great potential. We just aren’t seeing it yet. At least, that is the premise of Urban Plunge, an e...

London : London Design Festival 2014 : Wonderwater

Design Directions

Andrew Stellitano: Designer and Art Director

Synaesthetic Selling : Convergence Culture : Sensory

Design Directions

London Design Festival 2013

A lively and experimental mood was in evidence at the 2013 London Design Festival, which explored vibrant colour applications, visions of science a...

London Design Festival : Magnetism : Vibrant Colour

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London Design Festival 2013: Strek Collective

London – Oslo-based Strek Collective, a design studio made up of four young Norwegian designers, was represented at the London Design Festival 2013...

London Design Festival : Oslo : Natural Materials