This week's VDF highlights include a live interview with Li Edelkoort and messages from 35 designers

Virtual Design Festival launched this week! Here's a roundup of everything that happened in week one including live interviews, collaborations with cultural organisations and video messages from designers around the world.
Pre-launch
Video messages: we built up towards the launch day by releasing a few of the many video messages we've received from creatives around the world. On Monday, Aric Chen sent a message of hope from Shanghai while Liam Young described the apocalyptic scenes in Los Angele