London Design Festival Highlights from DesignEX

London Design Calling

Last month saw the 12th annual London Design Festival wrap and for those lucky enough to make the journey across the equator, there was an array of exhibitions, installations and pop up features to feast on - and we've selected a few highlights here.

This year saw a number of landmark projects between unlikely collaborators take over the British capital, most notably among which was the Trafalgar Square 'A place to call home' installation by Jasper Morrison, Patternity, raw Edges and Studioilse, who constructed 'homes' from their imagination brought to life.

Another standout installation included 'Double Space for BMW - Precision & Poetry in motion', bringing design and architectural engineering to the reverent halls of the festival's home at the V&A Museum.

Continuing the theme of home, in this issue we also hear from designEX favourites Bromley & Co and CULT who are launching new ventures of their own - this time a little bit closer to home! Happy reading...

The designEX Team

LDF reflects design talent
From the 13th to the 21st of September, London was once again the focus of the design world with the annual London Design Festival. In its 11th edition, the festival falls during a sublimely inspiring month that also includes the London Fashion Festival and Frieze Art Fair.
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Designers look to home for inspiration
The London Design Festival is renowned for its landmark projects, which demonstrate some of the most inventive ideas in current design. This year the festival collaborated with Airbnb on 'A Place Called Home', which saw four highly acclaimed British designers explore their interpretation of home.
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Zaha Hadid creates impossible sculpture
The striking sculptural installation that emerged from the V&A courtyard during the London Design Festival this year was nothing short of the kind of boundary pushing innovation expected from its designer, Zaha Hadid Architects.
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