London Design Festival
(All Pictures taken at the London design festival 2010 by cnowojewska)
The wow factor for this year's festival is supplied by Outrace, the Trafalgar Square installation by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram featuring giant robots on loan from Audi.
Luxxbox
A contemporary twist on a utilitarian and industrial aesthetic, the Watch Out pendant is a convergence of party vibe and built-to-last industrial strength.
Marc Pascal is a mid-career designer/maker who is as fascinated as ever about colour, shape and form. Marc trained in both fine art and industrial design but has always loved to work with his hands. This, combined with his passion for creating objects that bring a beauty and delicateness to the spaces they find themselves in, results in delightful and entirely individual lighting.
www.marcpascal.com
These objects were on show at 'Matilda' 13 of Australia's best designers
Born in Australia to Greek parents, Ilias Fotopoulos developed a passion for textiles at a very early age. Ilias is showcasing his most recognisable works from the Braille Project (launched in Tokyo in 2007), where he questions the accessibility of design and interaction through three-dimensional Braille. The story of the Braille wallpaper often makes people smile. It starts a dialogue about the life that unsighted people lead and seeks to create a level of social awareness. Listen and Reecord is a short story written by a Japanese writer, Juro Osawa.
www.ilias.com.au
www.ilias.com.au
The Listen & Record wallpaper won the ID Design distinction award in late 2009 and was also collected in January 2010 by the Cooper Hewitt Design Museum in New York in January 2010 to be part of its permanent collection.
50 Redchurch Street, London E2 7DP
Goldsmiths post graduate MA design show at Shoreditch town hall
Loosely based on the concept of 'making believe', belief or truth reference to Elaine Scarry's book 'The body in pain', relating more in the sense of making, invention and fabrication. A new paradigm, a new ethical lens through which to consider the consequences and effects of our 'practices' as designers can be seen to 'in form' all of the work that is presented at the MA Graduate Designer show.
RCA post graduate MA design show
The Design Products Collection – Entrance Gallery
The Design Products Collection – Entrance Gallery
The Sustain exhibition showcases objects, thinking and solutions to issues and arguments in the ever-more-complex arena of sustainability. The RCA aims to inspire and challenge a new creative generation of artists and designers to embrace and address sustainability in their work, demonstrating how principles of sustainability and responsibility can fuel innovation, and support and enhance real-world strategies for change.
From nutshell jewellery to life-changing solutions to global water shortages, to re-using textile waste to reduce landfill, RCA graduates demonstrate the systems-thinking creativity of cross-disciplinary practice that is unique to the world’s most influential postgraduate art and design school.
IDE with iGuzzini & Fratelli Guzzini – Upper Gulbenkian Gallery
The collaboration of Innovation Design Engineering with Italian design company iGuzzini and Fratelli Guzzini resulted in two unique projects. Bin 2 Bin explores integrating cyclical sustainable materials for use in domestic consumer products. The designers had to consider sustainable materials lifecycle, consumer education, then produce a bin made from recycled materials.
This exhibition launches The Design Products Collection, exclusively created by young graduates and staff associated with the RCA Design Products Department, led by Professor Tord Boontje, and made available commercially for the very first time. The intention of the Collection is to present more widely the wealth of creative ideas within the Department, and to assist the designers at an early stage in their careers. It will expand with new editions at regular intervals
Royal College of Art, Kensington Gore London SW7 2EU
Tent London (digital)
Tent Digital is the only annual showcase for digital creatives and digitally enabled design during the London Design Festival and was described as a highlight of the Festival in 2009.With increasing integration of technology in our lives, this industry is now one of the most innovative fields of design. The work on display is thoroughly interactive; responding to and engaging with the audience in beautiful and sometimes amazing ways.
Tent London (Industry & Design by Slip making products better)
Tent London returns to the Truman Brewery to showcase a mix of home-grown and international design talent. Among the highlights will be a pop-up café and bar by award-winning London design studio Vonsung. Elsewhere visitors can expect to see new products from the likes of Sessio, And furniture and Moore Designs.
Tent London (Main Designers Show room)
Tent Selects showcases the work of the next generation of world class designers.
The team at Tent London travel extensively seeking out the best design talent and are delighted to support an area within Tent London 2010, which will present a handpicked selection of UK and international design graduates from a range of disciplines. These will include the best examples of emerging talent from furniture, ceramics, textiles, graphics, jewellery and product design.
Tent London (MA Kingston show)
Norwegian Prototypes is Kim Thome and Amy Hunting. In 2009 we invited some of our favourite Norwegian designers to exhibit with us during London Design Festival.
In 2010 we invited them all back and asked them to bring one designer of their choice with them, and to this time design a product that could fit in their hand luggage suitcase. The results were exhibited during London Design Festival (September 2010) and can also be found on this site.
Jasper Morrison (24b Kingsland road shop-black door)
British designer Jasper Morrison, in collaboration with new swiss start-up brand of consumer electronic products punkt., has developed DP01 telephone. RADO r5.5 watch by jasper morrison.
Akaram furniture store
http://www.jaspermorrison.com
Kemistry Gallery (Designs of Lou Dorfsman)
The Tramshed (The dwelling lab)
feat. Hans Wegners CH468 chair for Carl Hansen
Designers Block (Bargehouse-furniture, lighting, product, architecture and textiles)
Kemistry Gallery (Designs of Lou Dorfsman)
Kemistry Gallery is celebrating the work of legendary designer Lou Dorfsman, art director for the CBS network.The exhibition centres on his most notable creation, the 11-metre wide handmade wooden typographic wall that he namedGastrotypographicalassemblage. Created during an era when designers were both artisans and well-trained communicators, the wall is the largest modern typographic artefact in existence, described by Michael Bierut as ‘an irreplaceable piece of design history.’ With custom type created by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase, the wall contains almost 1500 individual characters.
Kvadrat and BMW's collaboration - The dwelling Lab
A unique sculpture Patricia Urquiola and Giulio Ridolfo have created a design whose daring elements inc cone like structures to draw in viewers to the usually sealed interior.
Initiated by De La Espada’s founding director Luis de Oliveira, and delivered by respected design-event experts Deborah Spencer and Alice Breed. The Tramshed will feature up to 25 international brands exhibiting in a striking post-industrial venue, originally used as an electricity power generating station for the Shoreditch tram system.
This major collaborative showcase will present authentic high-end design brands including De La Espada, Benchmark, Studioilse, Autoban, Michael Sodeau, Dezeen Watch Store, RVW, Matthew Hilton and Kvadrat.
The Akram Gallery (Ineke hans mind sets)
Retrospective of this Dutch designers work and 1st solo exhibition.
The Akram Gallery (German comp Tecta: hidden Classics)
The Aram Gallery is an independently curated space that encourages and promotes understanding of contemporary design, by presenting experimental and new work with a special interest in the work of designers and artists in their early careers. Tecta championed the modern movement producing furniture designed by marcel breuer, walter groupius, alison and peter smithson for nearly 40 years.
The Aram Gallery is an independently curated space that encourages and promotes understanding of contemporary design, by presenting experimental and new work with a special interest in the work of designers and artists in their early careers. Tecta championed the modern movement producing furniture designed by marcel breuer, walter groupius, alison and peter smithson for nearly 40 years.
feat. Hans Wegners CH468 chair for Carl Hansen
Designers Block (Bargehouse-furniture, lighting, product, architecture and textiles)
Perimeter Art & Design (Paola Petrobelli: An installation of glass works/lights and objects)
Collaborating with the same Murano glass maker since her beginnings, Petrobelli
works in simple and rigorous sensuous shapes that express the architectural formal qualities of the glass which she emphasizes through her sophisticated use of colours. She rejects the purely decorative glasswork in favour of functional objects such as floor or tables lamps, suspensions, table ware and vessels. Petrobelli has worked on commissions for prestigious domestic projects in the United Kingdom and in Italy, often connected to major players of the contemporary art world. She is also involved in public design projects, and – for example – recently created the lights for the Club at the Ivy in London.
Tom Dixon (New Store opening- Wharf building, Portobello Dock)
The shop showcases the full Tom Dixon range of lighting and furniture including new pieces from the latest collection, 'Industry'. An exclusive selection of work from international concession brands, curated by Tom, are also presented here for the first time.
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