a weekend for misfits and rulebreakers
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a weekend for misfits and rulebreakers 〰️
A weekend-long grassroots celebration of design, highlighting the sprawling Los Angeles’ design scene in digestible nuggets. Organized throughout 3 days in clustered, neighborhood-centric activations, this event invites both locals and non-locals to easily navigate the city’s widespread design community and experience LA on foot, scooter, bike, carpool, or via LA Metro.
This is an exploratory event about getting your hands dirty, making art, and getting to know the community.
LADW is an inclusive event that invites attendees to peek behind the curtain.
WHO WE ARE
A grassroots group of Los Angeles-based designers, makers, brands, and creatives who are excited to activate and celebrate Los Angeles design and all its wonders.
City-centric festivals are commonplace in the design world, but Los Angeles’ geography presents a unique challenge to bring people together. Thus, each iteration of LADW is intentionally geographically narrow, encouraging visitors to opt-in rather than stay home.
LADW aims to highlight emerging designers and heritage brands alike and bring together all sectors of the design industry including but not limited to… residential, commercial, and hospitality.
Congregating downtown and in Northeast LA, LADW invites the broader design community of Los Angeles and out-of-towners to meet the city’s emerging, independent creatives where they are and draw a throughline connecting other ends of the city to the east side.
LA Design Weekend is one of many wonderful design celebrations throughout the year. Our vibe is the more the merrier, no matter if you’re participating or attending, we hope you are as excited about design in Los Angeles as we are.
WHY WE ARE DOING THIS
WHO THIS IS FOR
People who love design, people who are curious about design, makers, creators, and anyone in between.
WHY THIS PART OF TOWN
Home to Los Angeles’ design and manufacturing history, LADW is excited to support the growing network of design studios in Central and Northeast LA.
LA is also a sanctuary for creatives who are off the beaten path. Frank Lloyd Wright said it best, “Tip the world over on its side and everything loose will land in Los Angeles.”
The city itself fuels creativity, inviting you to think outside the box and to participate in an experimental community that is quintessentially LA.
Our hope is to continue this grassroots movement all around Los Angeles throughout the year, highlighting each nook and cranny of this great and mighty county and its neighboring cities.
LA celebrates the weird, the unexpected.
Join us!
LEAVE YOUR CAR AT HOME
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LEAVE YOUR CAR AT HOME 〰️
We invite (and beg) you to leave your car at home!
Explore LA on foot, bike, scooter, via bus, RideYellow, or carpool.
LA Design Weekend is formatted so that you can hop and bop around different neighborhoods in Los Angeles and simultaneously meet designers and makers in their studios, see new work, and make new friends.
Not only is the weekend set up for you to do so easily and cost effectively, but we also do not want to overwhelm the neighborhoods with extra cars. Get discounts and learn more on our Travel page.
Every portion of the day is thoughtfully mapped so that you can explore a neighborhood for a few hours before making your way to the next.