Things to see and do at London Design Festival 2020
As the festival returns to the capital in both online and offline forms, Design Weeks picks the best of the line-up from talks to year-long installations.
Exhibition
Exploring exhibitions and their design, from specialist shows at the Design Museum through to blockbusters at the V&A and Science Museum.
BESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswyBESbswy
Everything you need to know about London Design Festival 2020
This year’s event will be going ahead with some significant changes in the face of the pandemic — here’s all the information you’ll need.
London Design Festival 2020 reveals big names for talks programme
Es Devlin, Paula Scher and Neri Oxman are among the line up for this year’s Global Design Forum, with panels, discussions and workshops taking place online.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in September
From exhibitions to books, there’s plenty going on this month for designers, their kids (and even their dogs) to catch.
V&A Dundee seeks to “decolonise” its galleries
The museum is re-examining how it portrays aspects of Scotland’s history which were underpinned by “the exploitation of enslaved and colonised people”.
James Dyson plans to open exhibition space in grounds of Cotswolds home
The industrial designer – and avid art collector – has partnered with architects at Wilkinson Eyre to create the gallery space, which is slated for completion in 2021.
Architecture for Dogs: Designing for a world “built on a canine scale”
Kengo Kuma and Toyo Ito are among the 16 designers and architects to have produced work for an exhibition that explores the “relationship between dogs and their people”.
Designers are helping the fashion industry spark a digital fashion revolution
The pandemic has forced fashion off catwalks and out of stores – this is how designers are helping move something famously tactile into the virtual world.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in August
While lockdown continues to ease, we’ve rounded up the best design activities for August – both indoors and outside – including a newly-opened exhibition.
First look: Inside the Design Museum’s electronic music blockbuster
Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers investigates the “futuristic dreams” of the music genre and its impact on design, art and society.
House of Illustration announces new name and £8m regeneration project
The gallery space dedicated to illustration has closed its site in Kings Cross and is regenerating a larger space in Islington, North London, which will now be known as The
London Design Biennale briefs call for “radical design thinking”
The biannual London design event and Chatham House are inviting submissions on issues from health to work from the international creative community.
The winners of the 2020 V&A Illustration Awards have been revealed
This year’s winners include a Twitter-inspired take on freedom of speech and a boundary-breaking book cover, as well as work inspired by refugees.
Design exhibitions and museums: reopening dates
As galleries and museums begin to reopen during the easing of lockdown, we’ve made a list of the best design picks across the UK.
London Design Festival 2020 reveals first installations
The annual festival has revealed the first of its line-up, which explores circular design and the possibilities of growing mangos in London.
“It could kickstart a revolution”: exhibition design post-COVID
As museums and galleries begin to open, we take a look at how exhibition design has been adapted for immediate needs, and how it could change forever.
Picks of the month: the best design events to catch in July
The country might be easing its way out of lockdown, but many of the design events for the month ahead are still taking place in the virtual world, here are
Design Week’s favourite projects from graduate season so far
The Class of 2020 has had an unprecedented end to their university careers but the work from this year’s grad shows impresses all the same – here’s our favourites so
V&A to hold virtual celebration to commemorate 50 years of Glastonbury
The week-long celebration will see the museum dive into its official Glastonbury archive to highlight 50 years’ worth of festival fashion, sounds, stages and memories.
How designers are bringing virtual museums and galleries to life
As COVID-19 shut down institutions, art galleries and museums have made pushes to be virtual. Could it be part of a bigger shift in the cultural sector?
London Design Festival 2020 to go ahead with extended deadlines
Given “overwhelming consensus” LDF will go ahead in September 2020, with a revised format featuring greater “online activity” and focus on the “local”.
Exhibition Futures Challenge launches to bring “magic” of live events to digital space
The competition’s winning entrant will receive £5,000, plus support to develop the idea alongside industry leaders and the Department for International Trade.
Museum of London looking for exhibition designer for £2m project
This is the second exhibition design tender launched by the museum for its new West Smithfield site, which has been designed by Stanton Williams and Asif Khan.
Creative team behind Glastonbury’s Shangri-La unveil new VR festival
Lost Horizon will feature a line up of DJs, underground acts and visual artists, accessible to the world in lockdown through a virtual reality platform.