As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria.
Created initially as a direct response to the pretty commerciality of the London Design Festival, the festival will shift the focus from bums-on-seats to brain food, and from taste and style to experiment and risk. The festival will provide a rare space for unhindered exploration and creative opportunity, where ideas may fail as equally as succeed.
At multiple venues around Redchurch Street in London’s Shoreditch area, the festival will incorporate exhibitions, installations, workshops, performances and talks in Art, Design, Product, Film, Sound, Fashion, Performance, Print and Interactive.
Directed by Neville Brody, the world-renowned graphic designer, the festival will be curated by a select group of leading practitioners in various fields. These curators include Daniel Charny, Terry Jones, James Payne, Harry Malt, Stuart Semple and Brody himself. To date, contributors include Stefan Sagmeister, Jonathan Barnbrook, Yugo Nakamura, Yomi Ayeni, and Mark Moore, as well as an open-submission route.
The main venue is the Londonewcastle Project Space at 28 Redchurch Street, and features a RadLab open workshop which will host four full-day creative explorations led by furniture and product designers and hosted by Daniel Charny. Other workshop installations will include the premier of a new trans-media film event by Yomi Ayeni, specially commissioned by the ADF, and an anti-fashion exploration produced by Let Them Eat Cake magazine. The Royal College of Art will host a one-day intervention, as will the London College of Communication.
As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria.Created initially as a direct response to the pretty commerciality of the London Design Festival, the festival will shift the focus from bums-on-seats to brain food, and from taste and style to experiment and risk. The festival will provide a rare space for unhindered exploration and creative opportunity, where ideas may fail as equally as succeed.At multiple venues around Redchurch Street in London’s Shoreditch area, the festival will incorporate exhibitions, installations, workshops, performances and talks in Art, Design, Product, Film, Sound, Fashion, Performance, Print and Interactive.Directed by Neville Brody, the world-renowned graphic designer, the festival will be curated by a select group of leading practitioners in various fields. These curators include Daniel Charny, Terry Jones, James Payne, Harry Malt, Stuart Semple and Brody himself. To date, contributors include Stefan Sagmeister, Jonathan Barnbrook, Yugo Nakamura, Yomi Ayeni, and Mark Moore, as well as an open-submission route.The main venue is the Londonewcastle Project Space at 28 Redchurch Street, and features a RadLab open workshop which will host four full-day creative explorations led by furniture and product designers and hosted by Daniel Charny. Other workshop installations will include the premier of a new trans-media film event by Yomi Ayeni, specially commissioned by the ADF, and an anti-fashion exploration produced by Let Them Eat Cake magazine. The Royal College of Art will host a one-day intervention, as will the London College of Communication.
