London Design Festival 2025 is set to put colour centre stage, with installations and experiences that prove just how powerful it can be in shaping the way we feel, connect, and create.
At YesColours, we’re passionate about exploring colour’s sensory and emotional impact, so we’ve handpicked five highlights you won’t want to miss, from monumental light sculptures to immersive colour labs. Plus, we’re joining the conversation ourselves with a special lunchtime talk on Play as a Design Language.
Material Matters: Space House.
Step inside London’s modernist landmark for a journey through colour, texture, and reinvention. From golden pine resin to shimmering recycled PVB film, this showcase proves how innovation and sustainability can reshape the palette of design.
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The Power of Colour: Holly Hunt, London.
Dive deep into how colour influences mood and interiors. This vibrant programme explores bold palettes and intentional colour use in design, perfect for anyone curious about how hues transform space.
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Relay Design Projects: Future Focus Exhibition.
Happening within the Shoreditch Design Triangle during LDF25, Relay Design Projects returns with 'Future Focus' - a commissioning platform spotlighting designers pushing the boundaries of form, material, and innovation .
Their exhibitions routinely blend experimental material pairings, vibrant forms, and cross-disciplinary craft, which means it’s not just about colour, but also the material depth behind it.
Join Relay Design Agents & YesColours for a Lunchtime Talk
Play as a Design Language How might designers use playfulness and colour not just as visual elements, but as tools to enhance engagement, interaction, and wellbeing in product design?
A lunchtime discussion chaired by design journalist Ali Morris (Dezeen, Wallpaper, Kinfolk) with Emma Bestley (Co-founder, YesColours) and Richard Healy (Creative Director, Relay Design Agents).
RSVP to join the Future Focus Talk: Play as a Design Language. with YesColours at London Design Festival 2025
Beacon by Lee Broom: Southbank Centre.
Supported and produced by BROKIS and Materials Assembl, this is a monumental brutalist-inspired lamp-post sculpture that pulses in sync with Big Ben’s hourly chimes. Crafted from recycled textured glass, Beacon is both an environmental statement and a mesmerising play of rhythm, light, and shadow.
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Colour Lab: From Field to Studio.
Hosted by colour researcher and trend forecaster Laura Perryman, founder of Colour of Saying. This is an immersive journey that traces colour’s origins, from natural sources to creative application. This open studio brings the lifecycle of colour to life, showing how pigments move from raw inspiration to design reality.
Open Studio, free, all welcome & Lab Sessions, tickets required.
Tamart: The ‘tt Lounge Bar’: The Wax Building, Shoreditch.
For WAX 2025, Tamart transforms its showroom into the ‘tt Lounge Bar’, a vibrant social space split across hotel, bar, and penthouse zones. Inspired by the clubs of yesteryear, it’s a place of comfort, conversation, and connection. The debut of Highgate Bar Stools and Liberty-upholstered Clore Lounge Chairs anchors the installation in both elegance and colour-rich detail.
Address: Tamart
The Wax Building
4 Garden Walk
London EC2A 3EQ
Whether you’re drawn to experimental materiality, bold chromatics, or sensory immersion, these five installations prove that colour is at the heart of LDF25.
At YesColours, we believe colour is more than just a visual choice, it’s a language of connection, creativity, and wellbeing. London Design Festival 2025 captures that spirit brilliantly, from immersive labs to bold sculptural statements. We’re excited to not only highlight these unmissable installations, but also take part in the dialogue through our lunchtime talk on Play as a Design Language.
Whether you’re a designer, creative, or simply colour-curious, LDF25 is a chance to experience the transformative power of colour in all its forms. If you’re an interior designer looking to bring these ideas into your own projects, YesColours offers dedicated colour consultations to help you create spaces that truly come alive.