Design Daze: December Events 2025

Design Daze Out: December Events 2025

'Tis the season for appreciation.
December in London is less a month than a mood. The city leans into the merriest time of year with a theatrical level of confidence. Streets glitter, galleries glow, and design takes on the role of the festive storyteller, closing the year with experiences that are both celebratory and profound.

We are stepping into spaces that invite us to indulge, to revel and to let creativity reroute our routines. Here are the art, culture, and design moments we’re looking forward to this December.

Winter Open Studio & Market

The festive winter edition of the popular Open Studios offers a chance to visit the letterpress studio, bindery, publishing studio, gallery & shop. Meet makers, browse books and prints and catch new launches and portraits by Wilfrid Wood. It’s a celebration of craft and community at the year’s close.

At the London Centre for Book Arts, 13 Dec 2025

STACEY GILLAIN ABE: Garden of Blue Whispers

Garden of Blue Whispers marks a new chapter for Ugandan artist Stacey Gillian Abe, following her debut solo exhibition with Unit. Running across December and January, the show continues her exploration of memory and inheritance, with indigo and embroidery central to this new body of work.

At Unit London, 4 Dec 2025 – 31 Jan 2026

PRIEST: PAPER CUT

4 Dec 25 – 18 Jan 26
at Saatchi Gallery
Saatchi Gallery becomes a giant children’s art table in this new installation by PRIEST. Crayons, glue sticks, popsicle stick houses and pipe cleaner figures fill the space, reimagining childhood play as social archaeology. Beneath the colour and chaos lie reflections on London’s hidden layers of class, culture and everyday humour.

More Info: www.saatchigallery.com

Harland Miller

This new display brings Harland Miller’s monumental Letter Paintings to the Design Museum, co‑curated with Tim Marlow. Large canvases are shown in the Helene and Johannes Huth Gallery, while works on paper from the same series are presented in the Garfield Weston Mezzanine. Together they trace the artist’s ongoing engagement with language, scale and design.

At the Design Museum, 10 Dec 2025 – 25 Jan 2026

 

Soane Late: A Georgian Christmas

Celebrate the season, Georgian-style, at Sir John Soane’s Museum London. If you’ve never visited, this is the perfect opportunity. Wander Sir John Soane’s rooms by candlelight and discover a treasure trove of sculptures, paintings and artefacts. There will be a choir, mince pies and a display in the historic kitchen of Soane’s housekeeper, Mrs. Conduitt’s Georgian winter recipes.

At Sir John Soane’s Museum London on 19 Dec

 

 

Charlie Mackesy: An evening of drawing, music and stories

Mon 1—Sat 6 Dec 2025 Barbican Hall
Meet the man who broke open your heart with his touching, modern day fable, "The boy, the mole the fox. and the horse." An opportunity to get a glimpse into Mackesy's creative process including all "the missteps and miracles along the way, from the quiet act of sketching alone at a kitchen table to the unpredictable journey of creating an Oscar-winning animated short film."

And if that wasn't enough, there's a chance to get a peek at Mackesy's highly anticipated new book, "Always Remember: The Boy, the Mole, the Fox, the Horse and the Storm."

More Info: www.barbican.org.uk

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