London Design Festival

The London Design Festival is a city-wide design event that takes place over nine days every September. Conceived by Sir John Sorrell and Ben Evans in 2003, the concept was to create an annual event to promote the city’s creativity, drawing in the country's thinkers, practitioners, retailers and educators to a deliver a diverse celebration of design.

The Festival programme is made up of over 400 events and exhibitions staged by over 300 partner organisations across the design spectrum and from around the world. The Festival also commissions its own projects and produces a Guide every year, containing information about activity.

Festival audiences are significant, with an estimated direct audience of over 375,000 people from over 75 countries in 2015.

Over 2000 international design businesses took part in the 2015 London Design Festival including exhibitors at five Design Destinations: 100% Design, Decorex International, designjunction, Focus/15, Tent London & Super Brands London.

In 2015 seven Design Districts participated in the Festival, from Brompton to Bankside, each offering a programme of events, exhibitions, talks and tours. 2015 also saw the Festival inhabit Somerset House for the first time, which hosted several key events and installations.

Since 2009 the Victoria & Albert Museum has acted as the central Hub location for the London Design Festival.

In 2015 the V&A hosted a broad range of commissioned activity spread throughout the Museum. This included 14 specially-commissioned installations, over 50 events, talks and workshops which were attended by 4,900 people and regular daily tours of the Festival installations. During the Festival period, the V&A received 109,997 visitors.

Since 2007, the London Design Festival has been commissioning leading designers and architects to create installations in London’s public spaces during the Festival. Locations for these installations have included Trafalgar Square, the Southbank Centre, the V&A, Somerset House, Covent Garden, St Paul's Cathedral and Greenwich Peninsula.

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