Heralding the deluge of design that takes over London each year in September, London Design Festival’s annual London Design Medals have been announced today. Each year, four medals are handed out in celebration of excellence in the field of design, spanning a lifetime’s achievement to a star ascending. This year’s recipients are: Pat McGrath DBE who has been awarded the London Design Medal; Natsai Audrey Chieza who has been awarded the Design Innovation Medal; Harry Blakiston Houston who has been awarded the Emerging Design Medal; and Rei Kawakubo who takes home the Lifetime Achievement Medal.
The medals are hotly nominated and deliberated over by luminaries, practitioners, critics and commentators within design, including: Es Devlin CBE, Tristram Hunt, Yinka Ilori MBE, Alice Rawsthorn, Wai Shin Li and Jane Withers, to name just a handful of the esteemed jury this year. Ben Evans CBE, London Design Festival director, says of the accolades this year: ‘The 2024 London Design Medal winners exemplify the remarkable diversity and ingenuity that define our design and creative industries today. Their work demonstrates the boundless potential of design to inspire change, challenge conventions and shape our future. We celebrate their extraordinary achievements and thank them for their impactful contributions to the global design community and beyond.'
