Los Angeles Design Festival (LADF) Announces 2025 Dates and Programming

LOS ANGELES - Feb. 26, 2025 - PRLog -- The Los Angeles Design Festival (LADF) returns June 26-29, 2025, with a bold new theme: Design Futurism. The city-wide celebration of design will explore how design shapes the future of human experience, gathering visionaries, creators, and communities to spark dialogue and innovation across various design disciplines.

Since its founding in 2011, LADF has championed Los Angeles as a global design capital, fostering accessibility and inclusivity across all creative fields. The four-day festival will feature exhibitions, installations, panel discussions, workshops, studio tours, and city-wide activations, connecting local talent with global creative industries.

"Los Angeles is a city shaped by memory, imagination, and the hands of those who build, rebuild, and define," says LADF Executive Director, Erika Abrams. "The 2025 festival will explore how design serves as both a reflection of our past and a tool for shaping what's next—whether by reviving ancestral knowledge, preserving the spirit of this city, or speculating on the futures ahead."

Design Futurism is not about predicting the future—it's about creating it. This year's theme challenges designers to reimagine how we connect, create, and challenge existing narratives, focusing on human-centered innovation beyond technological spectacle. LADF 2025 invites participants to experiment fearlessly and imagine new possibilities for Los Angeles and beyond.

Key venues across the city include ROW DTLA, Helms Bakery District (Culver City), DTLB, and Art Center Pasadena. Programming includes:

• Thursday (June 26): Emerging Designers & Awards Night
• Friday (June 27): City-Wide Activations & Block Party
• Saturday & Sunday (June 28-29): Keynotes, Workshops & Salons

LADF 2025 will feature four major content tracks, each offering a unique perspective on design's evolving role:

• L.A. Forever (Co-curated by Frances Anderton) – Examining design's role in shaping a resilient, sustainable Los Angeles post-wildfires.
• Revenge of Analog – Celebrating the resurgence of analog media, craftsmanship, and tactile design in a digital era.
• The Ancestors Have Answers – Exploring indigenous and ancestral design knowledge as solutions to contemporary challenges.
• I Have Seen the Future – A deep dive into cutting-edge advancements in AI, robotics, and emergent technologies.

Beyond the core tracks, LADF will explore cross-cultural design, advocacy, material innovation, fashion as a design language, everyday design, and the intersection of food and design. A special focus on the 2028 Olympics will highlight how design can shape the city's infrastructure and cultural identity ahead of the global event.

The Los Angeles Design Festival invites all designers, thinkers, and makers to participate through sponsorship, community partnership, or submitting event proposals at ladesignfestival.org. Whether through attending events, showcasing work, or engaging in conversations, LADF 2025 is an opportunity to craft an intentional, design-driven future.

For more information: www.ladesignfestival.org.