London Design Festival

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Endless Staircase At St Paul’s Cathedral

Installation will coincide with London Design Festival.

Photo © Thomas Graham/Arup

Review: BE OPEN Sound Portal @ London Design Festival

Design you can’t see in Trafalgar Square.

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Eat At This 1950s-Style London Transport Cafe

Mind the wrap.

The Dezeen Book of Ideas

Tomorrow: Dezeen Super Store Pops Up in Seven Dials

“Designer” shopping with a difference.

Large Space Bowl by Sasha Wardell

Preview: Ceramics in the City @ Geffrye Museum

Browse and buy beautiful pottery at the Geffrye Museum

Aqualta_TimesSq-Night_NYC, 2009 by Ostap Rudakevych (c) Ostap Rudakevych.

Imagined Cities @ London Design Festival

Art meets architecture meets design meets coffee.

St Paul's Perspectives

Preview: London Design Festival

The LDF starts this weekend. Here’s our pick of the best events.

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Preview: Moquette For London @ Transport Museum

As a prelude to the introduction of one moquette to rule them all London Transport Museum hosts an evening about the history and future of its iconic seat covering fabric this week. The designers of the new textile will talk and there is a guided …

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In Pictures: Robot Army Takes Over Trafalgar Square

Outrace, the major installation at Trafalgar Square for this year’s London Design Festival, was switched on last night. Designed by Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar, the installation consists of eight robotic arms, borrowed from the Audi production line, and each fitted with a powerful light …

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Preview: London Design Festival

The annual celebration of all things design returns to London on Saturday, 18th September. For eight days the creative classes will be like pups in heat, and the hubs of Shoreditch and beyond will spin into overdrive as hundreds of events clamour for attention. Unfortunately, …

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Preview: Anti Design Festival @ Redchurch St

In response to, and in defiance of, a 25 year “cultural deep freeze” in the UK, the Anti Design Festival (ADF) will be launching a major assault on Redchurch Street later this month – going head-to-head with its commercial adversary, the London Design Festival. Think …