The Los Angeles Design Festival (LADF) returns June 26-29, 2025 with a citywide celebration of community, creativity, and inspiring design. This year's theme, "Design Futurism," is a solution-oriented exploration of human potential. When envisioning the future, design is inherently a part of our collective imagination: a tool for reimagining how we connect, create, and challenge existing narratives. This concept expands beyond the exploration of technological spectacle. This year, LADF invites all to explore Design Futurism through various lenses of our collective human experiences.
Founded in 2011, LADF is the only biennial, citywide, multidisciplinary design festival in Los Angeles. It activates cultural corridors from Pasadena to Long Beach and transforms spaces – sidewalks, studios, rooftops, galleries – into stages for bold new ideas. Through hands-on workshops, installations, keynotes, tours, and block parties, the festival blurs the boundary between maker and audience, platform and playground.
