British designer Samuel Ross has been named artistic director of the London Design Biennale for 2025, which will mark the fifth edition of the UK design event.
Ross, who is the founder of clothing brands A Cold Wall and SR_A SR_A, as well as the Black British Artists Grants Programme scheme, will also showcase a series of large sculptural artworks for the biennale.
The event will take place at Somerset House in central London over the course of three weeks and will include a talks and events programme as well as installations by local and international designers.
"London's consistent spirit of experimentation and palpable artistic culture, remain a fresh forum for global thinking," Ross said.
Above: Samuel Ross has been named artistic director of the London Design Biennale. Top: the event will take place at London's Somerset House  "Taking part in the 2025 London Design Biennale as artistic director is an honour, I look forward to collaborating with each practitioner, ideally fuelling a spirit of experimentation, blurring the edges of where design meets art," he added.
Under the theme of Surface Reflections, next year's edition of the London Design Biennale will look at how external influences and internal experiences come together to create ideas.
"The elder and child versions of ourselves, in spirit, harvest experiences pooled from the same well," Ross explained. "The time between each visit to the well does not distort the composition ...