London Design Festival Landmark Projects

Our Landmark Projects projects have become very much the public face of the London Design Festival. Over the last few years we've been inviting some of the greatest designers and architects in the world to experiment with new materials and processes - often in some very familiar London spaces. 

Ben Evans, Festival Director explains: 'What we've tried to do is match major public places within the city with architects and designers." Those major public places have included some of London's most high profile spaces; Trafalgar Square, the Southbank Centre, the V&A, Somerset House, Covent Garden and St Paul's Cathedral. 

The sheer popularity of these sites allows us to reach beyond our core audience of design fans and professionals. As Evans says, "We are also interested in reaching people who don't really think they know what design is."

Add spectacular, intelligent large scale installations, often created with public participation in mind, and you have a way of making great design a tanglible, celbrated addition to London's cityscape.

The London Design Festival's Landmark Projects are something we're very proud of; no other international design event has created such a remarkable legacy of public work, extending design's vocabularly and drawing a huge public to the work of some of the world's most innovative design thinkers.

Take a look at our Landmark Projects by navigating the menu on the left and you'll see what a rich, eclectic body of work we've built up over the years.