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LA Design Festival 2025 Charts Future Course with ‘Design Futurism’ Across Four Key Hubs

Kiley HansberryJune 24, 202508 mins

LOS ANGELES – The Los Angeles Design Festival (LADF) is poised to become a focal point for forward-thinking creative exploration in 2025, centering its multi-day program around the theme of “Design Futurism.” Scheduled to commence on June 26 and run through June 29, the festival aims to delve into a “solution-oriented exploration of human potential”…

Latinx Futurism in East L.A.: Blending Tradition with Tomorrow

Summer StoneApril 22, 2025May 7, 202507 mins

East Los Angeles has long served as a vibrant crucible for Chicano art and activism, from 1960s mural movements to contemporary lowrider culture. Today, a new wave of creators is infusing that heritage with science-fiction aesthetics, digital technologies, and Afro-Indigenous cosmologies—ushering in “Latinx Futurism.” This essay examines how artists, designers, and technologists across East L.A….