London Design Festival

London Design Festival is one of the most important events on the international design calendar. The nine day celebration, now in its 17th year, sees almost a million design enthusiasts, from 75 countries all over the world, descend on the city. With each Festival edition comes the London Design Medals. Considered one of the most highly coveted accolades in the design world, each medal highlights a practitioner who has made, and is making, an exceptional difference to our lives through their creative, innovative and imaginative approach to design. Past winners include David Adjaye, Zaha Hadid, Es Devlin, Richard Rogers, Margaret Calvert, Dieter Rams and Paul Smith.

Image Credits: Walala Lounge by Camille Walala, Void by Dan Tobin Smith and The Experience Machine, Legacy by various designers, Life Labyrinth by PATTERNITY, Please Be Seated by Paul Cocksedge and supported by British Land

WHAT WE DID FOR London Design Festival

A series of four short films will take an intimate look at each medal winner and the elements that drive their practice. We are thrilled to work with London Design Festival to create these four legacy films.

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LATEST PRESS RELEASES

12 Aug 2021

London Design Festival 2021: Zetteler’s highlights

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02 Jul 2021

The Zetteler guide to LDF 2021

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FILMS WE’VE MADE

Dame Vivienne Westwood, Lifetime Achievement Medal 2019

With a four-decade history of disrupting, transforming and enhancing UK fashion design Vivienne Westwood is a more-than-deserving winner of LDF’s Lifetime Achievement Medal. Fusing her creative work with fierce and impactful environmental activism, Westwood continues to demonstrate how design and the creative industries can trigger positive change.

Tom Dixon OBE, London Design Medal Winner 2019

From his 1980s beginnings as a self-taught designer welding his own furniture to the head of his internationally renowned eponymous brand, Tom Dixon is one of the most celebrated talents to emerge from the UK design scene – and a more-than-deserving deserving winner of the London Design Medal 2019.

Ross Atkin, Emerging Design Medal Winner 2019

LDF’s Emerging Design Medal is given to the designer who has made the biggest impact within five years of graduating. Few designers have done as much, as quickly, as 2019 winner Ross Atkin, the East London designer blazing a trail in assistive technology and accessibility-driven innovation.

Daniel Charny, Design Innovation Medal Winner 2019

Co-founder of creative consultancy From Now On and founder of Fixperts, Daniel Charny has built a career advocating for the power of craft and making to solve real-world problems. In recognition of his contribution to design education, Charny has been awarded the Design Innovation Medal 2019.

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NEWS + IDEAS FEATURES

30 Sep 2019

Award-winning films

There are few more coveted accolades in the UK design world than the four London Design Medals awarded each year at the London Design Festival. Given in recognition of outstanding contribution made by individuals working in the field of design. London Design Festival commissioned Zetteler to create a series of short films to offer an insight into the diverse working lives and creative approaches of each of the winners: Tom Dixon OBE, Dame Vivienne Westwood, Daniel Charny and Ross Atkin.

31 Aug 2019

Zetteler’s guide to LDF 2019

Buckle up, this year’s London Design Festival looks set to be a good one. With an increasing interest in environmental and social issues, plus some very fun projects to boot, here are the exhibitions, talks and events we can wait to see this year. Only a few sleeps left!

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