
LCB Depot : Design Season 1In Autumn 2018 LCB Depot showcased a first
Design Season, celebrating the work of architects, digital designers, fashion designers, graphic designers & illustrators, designer-makers and graffiti artists. We presented a range of events, exhibitions and activities across September and October.
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See our
Design Season videos on our
YouTube Channel
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Read the Leicester Mercury feature
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Partners and collaborators:Bulb Studios
Create Leicester
GF Smith
Graff.io
Graffwerk
Grays Coffee Shop & Kitchen
Holland Alexander
Helen Howe
Jo Keogh/The Clayroom
Leicester Business Festival
Love Architecture/LRSA
Made in Leicestershire/Ruth Singer
PPL PRS - United For Music
The Unloved
We Ar Tex
Who Art Now
Will Wright
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Programme by date :September3 – 29 LOOP : graphic design & illustration open submission exhibition
until 14 Sept Print Room exhibition - Suzanne Balkanyi : No One Will Know How Happy I’ve Been
1 – end Dec GWOW4 : Gallery Without Walls exhibition
Wednesday 5 Creative Coffee networking for creatives 10am-12pm
Thursday 6 Design Season 1 & LOOP exhibition launch night 6-10pm (invite only)Saturday 8 Easy Saturday family day with graphic design & printing workshops 12-4pm
Thursday 13 We Ar Tex fashion popup with music 6-10pm
17-21
GF Smith Papers Heritage Cases exhibition
17-28Tacit : designer-maker showcase
17 Sept - 27 OctPrint Room exhibition - Jane Sunbeam
Thursday 20 LOOP Late : open exhibition, workshop, talk and tours by PPL PRS and GF Smith Paper 6-10pm
Thursday 27 Tacit Late : Makers' Yard designer-maker networking night 6-9pm
Friday 28 LastFriday street food night 4-10pm
LOOP Closing Party 6-10pm
Sunday 30 The Music of Minds : a lyrical journey 1.30-3pm
Sunday 30 Graffwerk street art tours 11am-2pm
October 1-31 Love Architecture exhibition
DMU/Loughborough University Schools of Architecture exhibition
1-13 Graffwerk : Leicester graffiti retrospective exhibition
Monday 1 Artificial Intelligence : arts/science showcase 7.30-9.30pm £5
Tuesday 2 Love Architecture : Leicester Planning Forum : the new NPPF 6pm
Graffwerk graffiti exhibition launch 7.30pm
Wednesday 3 Creative Coffee : networking for creatives 10am-12pm
Thursday 4 Love Architecture : regional meeting 1pm
Love Architecture launch party 6-10pm
INVITE ONLYSunday 7 Graffwerk graffiti jam (not at LCB Depot) 11am-5pm
Wednesday 10 Graffwerk graffiti symposium 6-10pm
Saturday 13 Easy Saturday family day with Graffwerk pen & Lego workshop 12-4pm
Love Architecture : Build Your Own Lego Leicester event 12-4pm
Love Architecture : Cultural Quarter guided walk 12pm
Tuesday 16 Love Architecture evening lecture : Evans Vettori Architects 6pm
Wednesday 17 Love Architecture : Photography for Architects CPD Seminar 4pm
Thursday 18 Create Leicester : networking for digital creatives 6.30-10pm
Saturday 20 Love Architecture : Following the LRSA trail 12pm FULLY BOOKED
Love Architecture : Challenge the Architect 12-4pm Lego free play + design your dream home
Love Architecture : Meet the Architect 2pm free one-to-one consultations
Sunday 21Love Architecture : Architecture Ale Trail 2pm
Monday 22Love Architecture : Pecha Kucha :
Leics is More 6pm
22-26 Makers' Yard fashion designers showcase
Wednesday 24 Love Architecture : RIBA EM Education Committee meeting 12-5pm
Love Architecture : RIBA LRSA Branch Meeting 6pm
Thursday 25Meet the Makers' Yard fashion designer 6-9pm exhibition/sales/social, free entry
Friday 26 Love Architecture : Charity Auction for Alex's Wish, at LastFriday 5pm
LastFriday street food night 4-10pm
Monday 29Love Architecture : Leicester Business Festival event :
Why Use An Architect - a client's point of view 6-8pm
Thursday 1 NovemberArchitect-Maker Closing Party at The Generator, 12 Frederick Street, Loughborough LE11 3BJ 6pm
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Love Architecture events are brought to the Design Season by
Leicestershire & Rutland Society of Architects. This is Leicester's first annual architecture festival, celebrating the city and county as a hub of architectural design and practice.
Read a
Leicester Mercury feature on the festival, a feature in
Great Central magazine, and visit
Ash Sakula, the architectural studio that designed LCB Depot..
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Programme by design type:ArchitectureOctober
1-31
Love Architecture exhibition
DMU/Loughborough University Schools of Architecture exhibition
Tuesday 2
Love Architecture : Leicester Planning Forum : the new NPPF 6pm
Thursday 4
Love Architecture : regional meeting 1pm
Love Architecture launch party 6-10pm
INVITE ONLYSaturday 13
Easy Saturday family day with Graffwerk pen & Lego workshop 12-4pm
Love Architecture : Build Your Own Lego Leicester event 12-4pm
Love Architecture : Cultural Quarter guided walk 12pm
Tuesday 16
Love Architecture evening lecture : Evans Vettori Architects 6pm
Wednesday 17
Love Architecture : Photography for Architects CPD Seminar 4pm
Saturday 20
Love Architecture : Following the LRSA trail 12pm FULLY BOOKED
Love Architecture : Challenge the Architect 12-4pm Lego free play + design your dream home
Love Architecture : Meet the Architect 2pm free one-to-one consultations
Sunday 21
Love Architecture : Architecture Ale Trail 2pm
Monday 22
Love Architecture : Pecha Kucha : Leics is More 6pm
Wednesday 24
Love Architecture : RIBA EM Education Committee meeting 12-5pm
Love Architecture : RIBA LRSA Branch Meeting 6pm
Friday 26
Love Architecture : Charity Auction for Alex's Wish, at LastFriday street food night 5pm
Monday 29
Love Architecture : Leicester Business Festival event : Why Use An an Architect - a client's point of view 5.30pm
Thursday 1 November
Architect-Maker Closing Party at The Generator, 12 Frederick Street, Loughborough LE11 3BJ 6pm
Designer-makersSeptember
Thursday 6
Design Season 1 launch night 6-10pm
Tacit : designer-maker showcase
Thursday 20
Tacit Late : Makers' Yard designer-maker networking night 6-9pm
October
22-26
Makers' Yard fashion designers showcase
Thursday 25
Meet the Makers' Yard fashion designer 6-9pm free entry
Graphic design, digital design, illustration, art, street artSeptember
3 – 29
LOOP : graphic design & illustration open submission exhibition
until 14 Sept
Print Room exhibition - Suzanne Balkanyi : No One Will Know How Happy I’ve Been
1 – end Dec
GWOW4 : Gallery Without Walls exhibition
Thursday 6
Design Season 1 & LOOP exhibition launch night 6-10pm (invite only)
Saturday 8
Easy Saturday family day with graphic design & printing workshops 12-4pm
17 - 21
GF Smith papers Heritage Cases exhibition
17 Sept - 27 Oct
Print Room exhibition - Jane Sunbeam
Thursday 20
LOOP Late : open exhibition talk 6-10pm
Friday 28
LOOP Closing Party 6-10pm at LastFriday street food night
Sunday 30
Graffwerk street art tours 11am-2pm
October
1-13
Graffwerk : Leicester graffiti retrospective exhibition
Monday 1
Graffwerk graffiti exhibition launch 7.30pm
Sunday 7
Graffwerk graffiti jam (not at LCB Depot) 11am-5pm
Wednesday 10
Graffwerk graffiti symposium 6-10pm
Saturday 13
Easy Saturday family day with Graffwerk pen & Lego workshop 12-4pm
Thursday 18
Create Leicester - digital design networking 6.30-10pm
FashionSeptember
Thursday 6
Design Season 1 launch night 6-10pm
Thursday 13
We Ar Tex fashion popup with music 6-10pm
October
22-26
Makers' Yard fashion designers showcase
Thursday 25
Meet the Makers' Yard fashion designer 6-9pm, free entry