Design For The Future
9.22.2020
Experience the 10th annual LA Design Festival through window installations and exclusive vitrines on view at ROW from September 24th – 27th. The incredible series features notable independent artists, designers, and brands that embody LA’s creative spirit and future-facing ethos.
Stroll by the outdoor exhibit at your leisures and take in interactive displays like Design for the Future, Shell x Studio Left, and TunnelVision x LightRiders, the completely unique light-art installation designed to transport your consciousness into a destination unknown. Bonus: The exhibitions are open to the public and free, and so is 2-hour parking!
The completely unique light-art installation from Lightriders, the visual artist duo comprised of David Howe and Daniel Rizik-Baer, is designed to transport your consciousness into a destination unknown. Allow yourself to gaze into the tunnel and experience a hypnotic, sensory immersion as you slip into a new reality – the place where dark and light playfully intersect. Location: M-1, Ste 146
Joseph Lee is a self-taught artist who studies faces and the emotions that inhabit them. Lee focuses on the parallel between external reality and internal process by manipulating everyday faces and objects through segmented brush strokes, color choice, and volume, converging them into a complete and balanced whole. Location: M-1, Ste 148
Studio Left presents Shell, an installation that examines and celebrates the notion of enclosures. Inspired by the architecture of fish scales and various shells – nautilus, conch, and crustacean – the exhibit explores the natural armor that dazzles and reflects while it encloses and protects. Created by Renaissance woman Irma Hardjakusumah of Studio Left, who crafts spaces and experiences for stage, interiors, marketing, and everything in between. Location: Market Row, Bldg. 2, Ste 138
Designer and theorist Demar Matthews shows prints for his Unearthing a Black Aesthetic project at Shades of Grey. Unearthing a Black Aesthetic is an exercise in architectural anthropology. Demar's goal is to build a house that captures, speaks to, and is developed from, Black culture specifically based off of the values, norms, morals, and lifestyles of Black people in Watts, CA. Watts has a motto - We Are Taught To Survive (WATTS). Location: Shades of Grey. M2, Ste 110
Design for the Future features notable independent artists, designers, and brands who embody LA’s creative spirit. Diverse in aesthetic, discipline and materials, this creative cross-section of the LA design scene demonstrates why LA is such fertile ground. Featuring award-winning furniture designer Stephen Kenn, experimental design studio An Concept, the progressive furniture company Dims, and much more. Location: Dock Street, Bldg. 2, Ste 132
The INTRO / LA series returns for its sixth year, showcasing expansive window vitrines and photo installations from a cross-section of young and established brands. Presented by Small Office, the design resource and consultancy, this year’s exhibit features 15 revered designers such as Atelier de Troupe, Block Shop Textiles and Brendan Ravenhill. Location: Market Row, Bldg. 2, Ste 132
2020 EDGE Recipient Eunbi Cho shows a curated selection of her work at LA's favorite design store Poketo. As a ceramicist, her signature style is playful, curious, and technically surprising. View our IGTV to learn more about Eunbi before you head down. Location: Poketo. B1, Ste 174