CDW2025

Clerkenwell Design Week is always a standout on the design calendar — a celebration of creativity, craft, and collaboration across one of London’s most design-focused district. This year makes no exception with bold ideas, thoughtful applications and a clear undercurent of progress towards more circular, wellness and human-centred spaces. Supporting inspiring installations and thoughtful partnerships that explore themes of colour, reuse and tech.

Tech meets texture on Clerkenwell Green

Helping businesses take a leap forward in their workplace wellbeing offer – Aqua Libra’s range of workplace hydration options cover everything from integrated tap systems through to their breakthrough Flavour Tap. Aqua Libra’s pop up on the green for Clerkenwell Design Week combines technology and design with a palette of repurposed, recycled and reused materials in fresh colourways. 

Collaborating with Durat – one of the oldest manufacturers of recycled solid surfaces – to develop a collection of surfaces that complement the powder coated or brushed stainless steel tap body finishes. Durat was established in Finland in 1990 to create a sustainable material that combines recycling and design. A polyester based solid surface material, Durat uses post-industrial plastic collected from manufacturing and waste management companies in Sweden and Finland.

Humankind Colour and Texture Lab

How can colour be an act of care?

That is the question at the heart of Altro x Colour of Saying’s Colour and Texture Lab, giving designers and architects an opportunity to create their own human-centred palettes, and reflect on how colour and material impact our basic needs. Beyond aesthetics, the workshops encourage designing with purpose and considering the connection between health, wellness and humanity. 

Humankind Colour delves into the profound relationship between colour, wellbeing, and sensory design, exploring the nuance that caring colour choices can contribute. Durat finishes beautifully complement curated mood boards alongside Altro's flooring textures, from soft neutrals to vibrant contrasts, both highlighting the sensory benefits and physiological qualities of different hues.

Intelligent Signage Design 

An interactive session combining 3D modelling and augmented reality to explore the future of signage. Architectural signage and brand implementation specialists Ascot Signs present the experience from their showroom in the heart of Clerkenwell, showcasing the potential of materials for impactful architectural wayfinding, including Richlite, a recycled compressed paper surface.