Events

LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL

London Design Festival, envisioned by Sir John Sorrell CBE and Ben Evans CBE in 2003, stands as an annual celebration of creativity, drawing the country’s foremost thinkers, practitioners, retailers, and educators to promote design excellence in the city. With its inaugural launch at Bloomberg on 25 March 2003, the festival garnered widespread support from design luminaries, educational institutions, government bodies, and London organisations, a testament to its vision that remains robust two decades later. Having welcomed a record-breaking 600,000 individual visitors from over 75 countries in 2019, and marking its 20th anniversary in 2022, the festival continues to propel London’s design industry forward, solidifying its stature as a global hub for business, culture, and tourism. Reverberating worldwide, the London Design Festival has served as a model for design weeks and festivals globally, solidifying its position as a pivotal moment on the cultural calendar.