What’s On
Discover a series of thought-provoking exhibitions, installations, workshops, talks and more, exploring the power of design in the modern world.
Bankside is one of London’s most creative and cultural districts, running along the Thames from Borough Yards to Oxo Tower Wharf. It is a place with a rich industrial heritage and home to world-famous destination brands such as Tate Modern, Shakespeare’s Globe and Borough Market, making it one of the most visited districts in London and an area of landmark commercial and residential developments.
For 2024, in addition to hosting many first-time designers, Bankside will become a hub for typeface. Expect a packed programme of events, talks and interactive installations based around typeface and typography. In addition, the district is home to LDF’s only trade show ‘Material Matters’, celebrating the importance of materials in design and architecture.
Discover a series of thought-provoking exhibitions, installations, workshops, talks and more, exploring the power of design in the modern world.
Afro Symbology' is a three-day installation, exhibition and workshop celebrating African pictorial expression and proverbial creativity.
A series of five jacquard-woven blankets that bring the beauty and heritage of Asafo flags into the contemporary home.
Highlighting a range of ceramic works inspired by the use of textiles.
Throughout the festival, visitors will be able to eat and drink their way around the neighbourhood, sampling menu items from the wide array of restaurants and bars.
Better Bankside is hosting leading creative agencies and typeface designers to discuss the inspiration behind their work.
Learn about the area's fading painted signs, their stories of the signs and the companies they advertised.
Can Explainable XAI gear us toward an empathetic future? Step into the 'Board of Dinner' AI menu/recipe generator, an interactive experience where you elect your board member.
Insights into a historical studio building and its present day inhabitants, Art&Graft.
Dilara uses architecture and human interactions to explore how a metropolitan lifestyles affect our emotions and mindset
How can we grow our graphics instead of printing them to support greenery and air quality in cities?
Kristjana S. Williams is a multidisciplinary artist, whose work spans fine art collage pieces, hand cut 3D artworks, illustration, animation and digital design.
Jane Parker is a qualified London guide, a typographer, designer and keen photographer. For many decades she has been 'collecting' and researching London's oven-overlooked details.
Bringing together over 50 world-leading brands, designers, makers, manufacturers and organisations to celebrate the importance of materials and their ability to shape our lives.
From millinery to ceramics, weaving to leatherworking and much more, a haven for the design and craft-curious is waiting to be discovered.
Featuring new patterns and fluoro colours, each will be hand-screen printed by Dan Mather Studio in Yorkshire, on a range of coloured paper supplied by Fedrigoni.
The graffiti art mural reflects the urban vibrancy and industrial history of Bankside, London.
Get hands-on with Pith®, build, and take home your own one-of-a-kind Yuzu Notebook.
Discover how typography narrates time, place and memory. Time-travel through London in this multi-sensory tasting talk with locally-sourced food and drink tasters.
Type Thursday is a monthly gathering for type and letterform lovers hailing from all disciplines and levels of expertise.
Art Academy and JTRE London host three days of free art and design workshops at the brand new academy campus at Triptych Bankside.
Come join for a relaxing day of crafting and mindfulness.
Explore how design can foster empathy, compassion, care and love in our daily lives: for ourselves, our communities, society and nature.
