Los Angeles Design Festival Announces 2014 Line Up

In June, Los Angeles celebrates its status as a global design capital with the annual creative bacchanal that is the Los Angeles Design Festival (LA Design Festival).
By: Los Angeles Design Festival
 
LOS ANGELES - May 28, 2014 - PRLog -- Now in its fourth year, the LA Design Festival is the first all-inclusive event of its kind to reach across LA’s unique geography and all design disciplines to galvanize the city’s creative talent for three weeks of collaborative, creative design-related events. This year, the LA Design Festival features over 60 events, including parties, installations, standing exhibitions, design shows, tours and workshops.

“LA Design Festival continues to grow with each year,” said Co-Founder Michael Sylvester.  “This year’s calendar features over 60 events, large and small, across Los Angeles. The Festival is produced by and for the design community and we thank everyone involved for their ongoing support."

“LA Design Festival is a reflection of this city’s unique character and our talented design communities. Decentralized, unexpected, and thoroughly exciting,” added Co-Founder Haily Zaki.

The LA Design Festival is an annual series of events staged around greater Los Angeles celebrating outstanding local and international design talent. This year, the LA Design Festival runs June 13 through June 29.

NEW EVENTS FOR 2014

OPENING NIGHT PARTY (June 13)
Natural Curiosities hosts the LA Design Festival’s opening night party. Live screen printing, beats by dublab. This is a ticketed event.

DESIGN HOOKY (June 13, 20 and 27)
This curated series of East, West, & Center City tours seeks to encourage Angelenos to see the city through a design lens. Join conversations with iconic LA figures like Michael Maltzan, Neil Denari, & Cliff Fong as well as a peek at Shepard Fairey’s Subliminal Projects Gallery & Studio Number One, Barbara Bestor’s Silver Lake studio, Jessica Alba’s The Honest Company, and a Designer Show and Tell at West Elm. Each tour culminates with an after-party.

DELAB’S DESIGN AND DIM SUM BIKE RIDE (June 14)
de LaB and Flying Pigeon curate the 6th annual design + dim sum ride from Glassell Park to Chinatown. Stops include artist Bari Ziperstein’s studio, Scout Regalia, and REMAP. Dim sum at Golden Dragon.

D-TOUR WITH PERKINS+WILL (June 17)
A self-guided design crawl that explores the best of delicious food, drink and design in Downtown LA, from 7th Street “Restaurant Row” to the edge of the Historic Arts District.  Pick up D-Tour maps at the newly renovated Perkins+Will space and show the map at participating venues for exclusive deals on food & drinks.  $5 parking and optional shuttle provided by Fig + 7th. Stops include: Mas Malo, Seventh & Grand, Golden Gopher, Casey’s, Broadway Bar & more.

AA VISITING SCHOOL LOS ANGELES  (June 16, June 17, June 23, June 25, June 27)
The AA Visiting School (http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/STUDY/VISITING/losangeles) is a worldwide network of design workshops and other programmes organized by the Architectural Association School of Architecture in London (http://www.aaschool.ac.uk/). Meet and hear from some of today's leading designers in a series of public lectures, panel discussions, a Pecha Kucha night, and more!

DWELL ON DESIGN AND HOME TOURS (June 20-22)
The largest design event in the nation starts June 20 at the LA Convention Center. Dwell will also host its popular home tours and showroom events during Dwell Design Week.

“CALIFORNIA DREAMING” OPEN HOUSE AT THE REEF (June 20)
The Reef, which includes Maker City LA and the LA Mart, hosts an open house to celebrate the relaunch of their creative habitat.  Art installations, 3-D printing, and all manner of resident “makers” will showcase their work, open their studios, and celebrate LA’s creative culture.

TACOS, TEQUILA & CAN LOVE (June 20)
End the Design Hooky West tour with tacos, tequila, and an interactive art wall with collaborative design studio and creative collective Chalk LA. .

A+D & THE ARCHITECT’S NEWSPAPER PRESENT HISTORIC BROADWAY URBAN HIKE (June 22)
“Mike the Poet” and West Coast Editor Sam Lubell take an urban hike to explore Broadway with a rare peek inside the historic theaters that line this storied street.

LAS: LOS ANGELES STORIES CURATED BY LAIY (June 26)
LA I’m Yours continues their ongoing storytelling series with a special design-focused conversation with LA designers.

“BREAK THE MOLD” AT WOVEN ACCENTS (June 27)
Break The Mold is a collaboration between artist Tanya Nolan, Cerno Design Director Nick Sheridan, ad exec turned furniture designer Amy Cherie, and Woven Accents Creative Director Ginna Christensen that celebrates the bravery and the act of true collaboration among different modalities of design.  This is the after party for the Design Hooky Center City tour.

CHINATOWN DESIGN NIGHT (June 28)
This art and design street party returns for the fourth year in a row. Coinciding with Chinatown’s Gallery Night, all design shops and art galleries will stay open late and feature new exhibitions along Chung King Alley.  Featured galleries include Fifth Floor Gallery, Red Pipe, Coagula Curatorial, Good Luck Gallery, Charlie James, and Automata.

NEW EXHIBITIONS FOR 2014:

ARTENICA PRESENTS AN INSTALLATION BY GERE KAVANAUGH (June 1 to July 1)
Legendary unsung LA designer Gere Kavanaugh collaborates with Artecnica to create a special installation that will be on view during the LA Design Festival.

LOC AND FIFTH FLOOR GALLERY PRESENT “GANBEI!” (June 14 to June 28)
LOC and Fifth Floor Gallery present “Ganbei!,” a temporary installation that will be suspended above the Chung King Fountain.  Subtly shimmering by day and brightly radiating  at night, Ganbei (which means “cheers!”) is a figurative and literal toast to all creative talent.

LA FORUM PRESENTS LINEAR CITY AND THE BIG ATLAS OF POOLS (June 19 to August 1)
The LA Forum’s summer exhibition opens at WUHO Gallery, featuring the work of Lane Barden and Benedikt Groß.

A+D PRESENTS “COME IN! SMLXLa”
See how an emergent group of LA-based designers are currently thinking and making in Los Angeles, in addition to their impact on the present-day city and its future.

AWARDS FOR 2014:

JULIA MORGAN ICON AWARD (June 13)
Legendary designer Gere Kavanaugh will receive the 2nd Annual Julia Morgan ICON Award at the Opening Night party hosted by Natural Curiosities.  Kavanaugh embodies LA’s eclectic and boundless creative culture.  This is the after party for the Design Hooky East tour, and is a ticketed event.

CELEBRATION: ASID AWARDS GALA (June 21)
Celebration honors design community trailblazers for achievements that improve our daily lives. Join designers and design lovers from around the country and enjoy an unforgettable evening.

AIA|LA RESTAURANT DESIGN AWARDS (June 21)
AIA|LA is celebrating the 10th anniversary of honoring the best-designed restaurants in Los Angeles and the world. The winners will be announced at Dwell on Design.

For more info and a full schedule of events: www.ladesignfestival.org

For hi-res photography and press inquiries, contact Haily Zaki (haily@ladesignfestival.org) or Christine Kim (christine@ladesignfestival.org).

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