In October 2025 LCB Depot’s annual Design Season showcases work from architects and designers from Leicester and beyond, this year responding to our theme ‘Home’.
Our main focuses for the exhibition are the creatives who worked on places that have helped make Leicester home in the past, and will do in the future- Jewry Wall Museum and LCB’s brand new sister workspace Canopy, opening soon.
The recently reopened Jewry Wall involved lots of Leicester/shire based creative organisations such as Maber architects, interactive designers Heritage Interactive, as well as LCB Workspaces tenants Haley Shape Design, globally renowned experience designers, and ImageNova video production agency.
LCB’s forthcoming creative workspace Canopy was built by Leicester architecture firm RG+P and features branding by Moving. You can also have a sneak preview of Public’s new cafe space and a preview of the first tenant the Leather Conservation Centre.
Finally there’ll be selected designers from our open call including fashion, furniture, and photography and art responding to the theme.
Exhibition
Open weekdays 11am-5pm from Monday September 29th to Friday October 24th (+ when open for events). You can also follow the season on social media @lcbdepot for designer spotlights and info about the Design season events
Events
Fri September 26th, 5-10pm Design 2025 Launch featuring VR architecture experience from Maber Architects and Leicester Poet Laurente Mr Shay Poems about Home. Plus as part of Last Friday there’s the usual food, drink, music and comedy, and as part of @cqlates late openings and events in venues across Leicester’s Cultural Quarter. LCB Gallery entry free, Last Friday tickets £2 in advance or £2.50 on the door https://wegottickets.com/f/13940
Tues 30th, 2pm Leicester Forward. Join Fashion Enter and Apparel and Textiles Manufacturers Federation (ATMF) for an exciting opportunity to strengthen the local fashion and textile ecosystem, supported by Leicester City Council, as part of the UK Shared Prosperity Fund (UKSPF) initiative. If you’re involved in the local fashion or textile industry and want to know more, join us to be part of this growing movement. To find out more, visit https://atmf.co.uk/
Weds 8th, 7.30am Business Breakfast: Breaking the Blueprint: Building a Design Business from the Ground Up. Simran Kotecha shares her journey of founding Simran Design Ltd straight out of university and growing it into a commercial interior design studio delivering impactful workspaces, hospitality venues, and wellness spaces across the UK and internationally. FREE https://tinyurl.com/LCB-DEPOT-OCT-25
Sat Oct 11th, 12-4pm Making Space family day Join our monthly creative family day, this month exploring design – build a building with an actual architect, make rockets to the moon with National Space Centre, and make space in your tummy as we’ll be cooking up what we’ve grown in our garden this year! PLUS the return of the Apple Press- bring your own Apples! Part of @cqearlies. Creative activities in venues across Leicester’s Cultural Quarter. FREE – let us know you’re coming via https://linktr.ee/culturalquarterearlies
PLUS
Love Architecture Festival
Thu Oct 2nd, 5pm. Social – Drinks and Networking
Sat Oct 11th, 11am Guided Exploration of New Walk
Thu Oct 16th, 5.30pm. LRSA Pub Quiz
Sat, Oct 18th, 3pm. Pub Crawl
Sat Oct 25th. 3pm The Jewry Wall Museum Project Tour
Find out more and book tickets via https://www.lrsa.co.uk/
Designers
Arch Creative
Haley Sharpe Design
Heritage Interactive
ImageNova
Jo McLeish- The Media Room
Leather Conservation Centre
Maber
Megan Walker
Our programme is run by and for creatives based in Leicester, the East Midlands and beyond and is brought to you in partnership with Vehicle Arts
