LCB Depot : Design Season 1

This Autumn LCB Depot showcases a first Design Season, celebrating the work of architects, digital designers, fashion designers, graphic designers & illustrators, designer-makers and graffiti artists. We'll present a range of events, exhibitions and activities we have planned across September and October 2018 – come along to explore and interact with our many designers and design communities.

#



See our Design Season videos on our YouTube Channel

#

Follow developments @lcbdesignseason on Twitter and Instagram

#

Read the Leicester Mercury feature LCB Depot in Leicester plans autumn Design Season

#

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

#

Programme by date  :

September

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
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
17-28
Tacit : designer-maker showcase
17 Sept - 27 Oct
Print 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 School of Architecture/LRSA Presidents Showcase 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 exhibition launch night 6-10pm
Sunday 7     
Graffwerk graffiti jam (not at LCB Depot) 11am-5pm
Wednesday 10     
Graffwerk graffiti symposium 6-10pm
Thursday 11
Love Architecture : RIBA Access Consultancy Course 10am-5pm
Friday 12
Love Architecture : RIBA Access Consultancy Course 10am-5pm
Saturday 13         
Easy Saturday family day with Graffwerk pen & Lego workshop 12-4pm
Love Architecture : Build Your Own Lego Leicester event 12pm
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 : Cultural Quarter Guided Walk - following the LRSA trail 12pm
Love Architecture : Challenge the Architect 12pm
Love Architecture : Meet the Architect 4pm
Sunday 21
Love Architecture : Architecture Ale Trail 2pm
Monday 22
Love 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 25
Meet the Makers' Yard fashion designer
Friday 26           
Love Architecture : Charity Auction for Alex's Wish, at LastFriday 5pm
LastFriday street food night with fashion & street art performances 4-10pm
Monday 29
Love Architecture : Leicester Business Festival event : Working with an Architect 5.30pm

#

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.

#


Programme by design type:

Architecture

October

1-31
Love Architecture exhibition
DMU School of Architecture/LRSA Presidents Showcase exhibition
Tuesday 2
Love Architecture : Leicester Planning Forum : the new NPPF 6pm
Thursday 4
Love Architecture : regional meeting 1pm
Love Architecture exhibition launch night 6-10pm
Thursday 11
Love Architecture : RIBA Access Consultancy Course 10am-5pm
Friday 12
Love Architecture : RIBA Access Consultancy Course 10am-5pm
Saturday 13
Easy Saturday family day with Graffwerk pen & Lego workshop 12-4pm
Love Architecture : Build Your Own Lego Leicester event 12pm
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 : Cultural Quarter Guided Walk 12pm
Love Architecture : Challenge the Architect 12pm
Love Architecture : Meet the Architect 4pm
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 : Working with an Architect 5.30pm


Designer-makers

September

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


Graphic design, digital design, illustration, art, street art

September

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



Fashion

September

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
Friday 26
LastFriday street food night with fashion & street art performances 4-10pm






Please note that your personal data will only be stored by LCB Depot and will only be used by us to contact you regarding our services or opportunities for the creative industries. Your details will not be passed to third parties.