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Es Devlin to install poetry-spouting lion in London's Trafalgar Square

Es Devlin will add a fifth lion to Trafalgar Square for this year's London Design Festival, featuring a fluorescent coat and a mouth that continuously spouts out poetry. More

"Design is about form and art is more about ideas" says David Shrigley

As his giant thumbs-up sculpture Really Good is unveiled in Trafalgar Square, David Shrigley explains how his work straddles art, graphics and cartoons (+ interview + slideshow). More

Designers and students to protest in Trafalgar Square as threats to Erasmus programme emerge

Brexit crisis: designer Nelly Ben Hayoun, who is urging fellow creatives to join a demonstration in central London tomorrow, which has been organised to express "anger at the whole referendum process". More

Trafalgar Square crazy golf project for London Design Festival in doubt

London Design Festival 2016: organisers of the London Design Festival are discussing the fate of its flagship crazy golf project for Trafalgar Square after a Kickstarter fundraising campaign looked set to fail to meet its target. More

Replica of destroyed Syrian archway erected in London's Trafalgar Square

A replica of the Palmyra Arch – a 2,000-year-old Syrian architectural landmark believed to have been destroyed by Islamic militant group ISIS – has been erected in London's Trafalgar Square. More

Fourth Plinth proposals unveiled for Trafalgar Square

Six shortlisted proposals for the next art installation atop the Fourth Plinth in London's Trafalgar Square have been unveiled today, including a giant blue cockerel, a cash machine that operates a pipe organ and an enormous model of a battenberg cake (above). More

Tom Dixon in Trafalgar Square movie

Swarovski Crystal Palace video diary day 2: the second of our daily movies covering the London Design Festival is now up on swarovskisparkles.tv <<watch the movie>> More