photos of numbers :: 8, 5 & 2
Today’s photos of numbers post is a London Design Festival special – I spotted all of these while out and about at the festival. The first one was in the Brompton Design District - and I know it doesn’t look like it, but it was throwing it down with rain, when I took this picture! The...
out and about :: designjunction (LDF12)
I was really pleased when confessions of a design geek was chosen as a media partner for designjunction this year, and having written so much about the show in the run up, I couldn’t wait to see it in the flesh. I’ve told you all about the venue and several of the exhibitors, so I’ll...
out and about :: london design festival in pictures (part 2)
A few more snaps from London Design Festival… from top: Interviewing the incredible Sarah Elenany, a problem-solving product designer who’s found herself in the world of fashion, as part of the V&A’s Salon Talks - I also interviewed Marina Willer, Pentagram‘s first female director; Benjamin Hubert‘s prototype lampshades made of tights (honestly!) at designjunction; Bocci‘s fabulous...
interview :: joy of living part 2
I’d heard of Maggie’s before I met Max, but it was his passion for the way that they use design to make people’s lives better that really got me hooked. Last year he created an event called Joy of Living, named for something Maggie Keswick Jencks once said: “It is important not to lose the...
interview :: tokyobike
In the midst of London Design Festival preparations, tokyobike‘s Neil Davis was kind enough to find time to talk me about why design matters, slowing down and enjoying your city, and just how, when and why cycling became so damn cool… So, just how, when and why did cycling become so damn cool?! For our cool Dutch...
creative spaces :: designjunction
From the largest Royal Mail Sorting Office in the UK in the 90s, to a venue for a massive illegal rave in October 2010, to the backdrop for an Alexander McQueen fashion show earlier this year, this month’s creative space has seen its fair share of action. The brutalist building will soon be home to London Design Festival’s...
interview :: canteen / vg&p
I can still remember the first time I walked into a Canteen. It was the one under the Royal Festival Hall and I felt like it had been designed just for me. The sort of understated mid-century design that makes my heart flutter and ethically sourced British food. I couldn’t believe my luck. And it...
out and about :: london design festival 2012
This Saturday sees the start of London Design Festival (whoop!) – the time of year when the capital is bursting at the seams with design and designers. After the Jubilee and the Olympics, London already feels like the capital of the world and this is the 10th LDF, so it’s going to be a good...
interview :: outline editions
I am delighted to announce that confessions of a design geek is a media partner for designjunction 2012. designjunction launched at last year’s London Design Festival and this year is taking over a 1960s sorting office as the backdrop to over 100 international brands, smaller cutting-edge labels, design shops, installations, pop-up restaurants, bars, and cafes, working ‘flash’...
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