Clerkenwell Design Week is a three-day annual festival celebrating design’s creative richness, its social impact and its power for change. Run in partnership by Media 10 and Mix Media Ltd, the event has been established to celebrate Clerkenwell as the heart of the design industry.
A Brief History: The name Clerkenwell comes from the Clerks’ Well in Farringdon Lane, where London parish clerks performed mystery plays in the Middle Ages. Since the Industrial Revolution it has housed craft workshops, printers, jewellers, clockmakers, printers and bookbinders – still flourishing to this day. Since the 1990s, architectural, design and other creative practices have flocked to Clerkenwell’s central studio and workshop premises.
Clerkenwell has long been regarded as the creative core of the UK – home to a plethora of new media agencies, graphic and interactive design studios and more than 200 architectural practices - more per square mile than anywhere else on the planet. In addition, Clerkenwell houses over 60 design showrooms.
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