Meet the artists and designers who are changing the creative scene in Los Angeles and beyond.

Artwork by Monica Ahanonu
This year marks the 10th edition of the annual LA Design Festival and the time ever that the festival will be completely virtual. Presented by Squarespace, it will include a creatively exciting program that includes the annual LA Design Festival Awards Night and Design Block party, installations that can be viewed virtually or safely in-person at ROW DTLA, workshops, and tours of projects and design studios.
For the full schedule of events, click here.
Every year, the LA Design Festival Awards Night celebrates unique and creative talents with the ICON Award, given to an iconic woman that has made her mark in LA through her work, character and creative leadership, and the EDGE Award, given to emerging new talents. We?re excited to share this year?s honorees!
The 2020 ICON recipient is Frances Anderton, host of DnA: Design and Architecture on KCRW, author, curator, and LA?s widely recognized doyenne of design. When asked about what?s next for LA, and for herself, Anderton had this to say:
?The pandemic has made LA yet again a magnet for people looking for a big city culture with a garden city feel. But the garden city has to grow ? up. I hope LA will meet its destiny with imaginative density: multi-story housing designed for indoor-outdoor living and working ? for all pay grades. If the brilliant Philip K. Dick foresaw a world of Androids dreaming ...