London Fields Design School

Our design picks of the Week 💡

Image 1: Artist Sharmista Ray has transformed a pair of pickleball courts with a colourful geometric mural titled ‘Geometry of Play’. The colourful courts are inspired by the Indian game Pachisi, with interlocking circles, triangles, grids and pathways, making a kaleidoscopic composition.

Image 2: London-based design studio ChaChaanTeng, in collaboration with Hot Sauce, have designed and created a physical world for Heinz Mayo, with the UK’s first automated sandwich bending machine serving mayonnaise-based sandwiches.

Image 3: Studio Officina82 have reimagined a traditional Italian hay barn ‘barchi’ as a timber treetop retreat. Elevated in the Ligurian-Piedmontese Alps, the tree house sits in the canopy of a sloping forest, made of light plywood panels, exposed structural timber, and simple built-in elements to keep an understated interior.

Our Design Picks of the Week 💡

Image 1: London studio Cake Architecture has completed a communal wellness facility in London for White Rabbit . Complete with a 65 person sauna and an amphitheatre-style lounge designed to evoke the energy of a nightclub, the wellness facility named Arc is positioned as an alternative to conventional nightlife culture.

Image 2: Robert Beatty has directed the music video for "Introit / Prophecy at 1420 MHz," the lead single from Boards of Canada’s Inferno - the band's first album in over a decade. By blending his signature graphic style with analogue textures and distorted imagery, Beatty defines the album's mysterious visual identity.

Image 3: Erwan Bouroullec's latest wall-mounted lighting design uses a crinkled Tyvek diffuser, making every setup unique. Instead of a fixed design, the lamp is intended to be molded and personalised by the owner

Looking for a career change?

Summer is the perfect time to bring fresh ideas to life and take your design skills in a new direction. Whether its spatial, 3D or graphic design, our courses are centred around practical, real-world learning, giving you hands-on experience with the tools and techniques used by industry professionals. Grow your confidence, create impressive portfolio projects, and start transforming your ideas into finished work from day one.

Join us at our London Fields studio in Hackney, where personalised guidance and career-focused support help you strengthen your creative practice. In as little as six months, you could be ready to step into the design industry and begin building a career you’re passionate about.

Our Design Picks of the Week 💡

Image 1: Christine Kalia explores material transformation and industrial archaeology through Mission Seating, a collection of chairs, armchairs and benches crafted from repurposed aluminium window components.

Image 2: House of Baby treats a Brixton restaurant interior as a live, immersive painting for Banh Banh. Integrating custom iron-oxide pigments, heavy sand-textured walls, and hand-painted metallic screens, the design evokes a poetic nod to modernist architecture.

Image 3: The Collective merges functional utility with workplace performance through Collective Cast, a sleek, wall-mounted writable surface that redefines the conventional whiteboard.

Our Design Picks of the Week 💡

Image 1: EJR Barnes subverts traditional object archetypes with Super Ego GT, an avant-garde sculptural piece that fuses automotive sleekness with bold post-modern geometry. Finished in a high-gloss lacquer, the design challenges the boundary between functional furniture and pure artistic expression.

Image 2: Daytrip Studio crafts an atmospheric, cinematic interior under a Hackney railway arch for Cafe Kowloon. Combining industrial corrugated steel walls with hyper-glossy cherry red tables and curved caramel leather banquettes, the space subverts traditional hospitality tropes.

Image 3: Atonemo and NTS collaborate on a pocket-sized wireless radio streamer that serves as a tactile antidote to black-box technology. Featuring bowl-shaped physical buttons and a heavy analogue dial wheel, the device prioritises physical interaction over screen-glance utility.

August units and workshops at LFDS💡

Take advantage of August to sharpen your technical capabilities and advance your software knowledge.

Day units this month include 3D Printing, InDesign, Revit, Photoshop, SketchUp, Vectorworks.

Evening units include Photoshop and Rhino in addition to our regular student tutorials and workshops.

Email the studio to book.

Our Design Picks of the Week 💡

Image 1: The London Museum chronicles the adaptive reuse of Smithfield's historic General Market into a sprawling, modern cultural ecosystem. The architecture honours the original Victorian ironwork while inserting subterranean brick galleries that reframe urban preservation.

Image 2: Goldstein Heather expands a classic Victorian terrace through a dramatic, four-storey rear extension defined by rhythmic brick arches. The interior anchors the soaring volume with a sculptural timber spiral staircase and bespoke green-veined marble elements.

Image 3: Little Troop shapes a hyper-minimalist visual narrative for slow-crafted skincare label Bon Elliot. Combining stacked editorial typography with raw, translucent glass packaging, the identity mirrors the tactile layers and transparency of clean beauty.

Our Design Picks of the Week 💡

Image 1: 03 Arch+, Eneff Architekten, Illiz Architektur and Westner Schührer Zöhrer rethink urban housing through a collective living project in Freiham that prioritises community, flexibility and shared space. The architecture balances density with openness, using warm materials and interconnected communal areas to encourage interaction and everyday connection.

Image 2: Lea Colombo explores colour, tactility and emotional expression through a series of vibrant stone objects carved from red jasper. Blurring the line between sculpture and functional design, the collection embraces softness, ritual and sensory engagement through bold material experimentation.

Image 3: Matchbloc creates a platform that connects emerging creatives with opportunities across the design industry, helping freelancers and studios build more meaningful collaborations. Through a clean, accessible digital experience, the project reframes creative networking as something more transparent and community-driven.

Make June Your Creative Reset 💡

June is the perfect time to bring fresh ideas to life and take your design skills in a new direction. Our courses are centred around practical, real-world learning, giving you hands-on experience with the tools and techniques used by industry professionals. Grow your confidence, create impressive portfolio projects, and start transforming your ideas into finished work from day one.

Join us at our London Fields studio in Hackney, where personalised guidance and career-focused support help you strengthen your creative practice. In as little as six months, you could be ready to step into the design industry and begin building a career you’re passionate about.

Our Design Picks of the Week 💡

Image 1: DEMO Festival spotlights emerging voices in motion design through an energetic visual identity that celebrates experimentation, collaboration and digital storytelling. Blending dynamic typography with immersive animation, the festival creates a platform for contemporary motion practices to thrive.

Image 2: Playrise reimagines playground infrastructure with a modular system designed for children living in refugee settlements. Built for adaptability, accessibility and ease of assembly, the project uses play as a tool for connection, resilience and community-building.

Image 3: Designers and artists across London are reshaping public space through installations and interventions that prioritise inclusion, accessibility and collective experience. The projects explore how art and design can foster belonging by making urban environments more open, participatory and reflective of diverse communities.