Dezeen launches interactive map and digital guide for London Design Festival 2026
Dezeen has launched its digital guide and interactive map for the 2026 edition of London Design Festival, giving visitors a way to navigate 11 participating districts spread across the city. The festival runs from 12 to 20 September and is now in its 24th year. Dezeen
The 11 districts on the programme cover a wide arc of the capital: Bankside, Blackhorse Creates, Brompton, Chelsea, Dalston to Stokey, EC1, Fleet St Quarter, Mayfair, Park Royal, Shoreditch Design Week and Soho. Each district runs its own cluster of events, showrooms and installations, and the new interactive Google map is designed to help visitors move between them. Dezeen
London Design Festival promotes the city as the design capital of the world, according to the festival's own website. The 2026 programme includes Landmark Installations, Special Projects, the Global Design Forum and a Partner programme. London Design Festival
The guide itself is part of Dezeen Events Guide, the architecture and design publication's listings platform for events worldwide, which is updated weekly. Listings come in three tiers. A standard listing costs £150 and includes the event name, date, location, a website link and up to 50 words of text. An enhanced listing at £200 adds an image at the top of the page, an image in the listing preview and up to 100 words. The featured tier at £400 includes all of the above plus a post on Dezeen's Threads channel, placement in the featured events carousel for up to two weeks and 150 words of text that can carry commercial information. Dezeen
The illustration accompanying the guide announcement was created by Ross Becker. Dezeen
This is the fourth major design-festival guide Dezeen has launched in 2026. The publication rolled out its Milan design week guide on 8 April, followed by a guide to NYCxDESIGN in New York on 1 May and a guide to 3 Days of Design in Copenhagen on 21 May. Dezeen; Dezeen; Dezeen
Back on 1 April, Dezeen had flagged that the London guide was coming soon, alongside a roundup of five architecture and design events to watch in April. The full guide went live on 27 August. Dezeen
Among the festival's districts, the Soho Design District brings together architects, food and beverage specialists, PR and branding agencies, property investors and other stakeholders, running the full length of the festival from 12 to 20 September. London Design Festival
For visitors, the interactive map solves a familiar problem: London Design Festival's appeal has always been its sprawl, with installations and open studios scattered from Park Royal in the north-west to Blackhorse Creates in the north-east. Having a single digital tool to plot a route across 11 districts turns a daunting itinerary into something plannable.
Partner packages for the 24th edition are available through the festival's website. London Design Festival
