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Confessions of a Design Geek
The best of the London Design Festival 2015
This article was published 11 years The London Design Festival has been and gone for another year. If you want all the gory details, you’ll have to subscribe to our sister publication Fiera Magazine, but you’re in the right place for the edited highlights. Here are just a few of…
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out and about :: london design festival previews, LDF14
This article was published 12 years The 2014 London Design Festival is upon us! I thought I’d ease you in gently with a few things I spotted at Friday’s previews. First up, Lars Beller Fjetland‘s Cloche lamp for Wrong for Hay. Its heavy sand-cast iron base counterbalances the light spun…
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out and about :: jameel prize
This article was published 12 years I popped into the V&A last week to see the Jameel Prize exhibition. Awarded every two years, the Jameel Prize is a £25,000 international art prize for contemporary artists and designers inspired by traditional Islamic art, craft and design. The film above is a…
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feature :: walking barefoot on cork
This article was published 13 years One of the installations at the V&A for the London Design Festival was a cork floor. It was installed on a bridge over the Medieval and Renaissance Galleries and designed by FAT Architecture in collaboration with cork producer Amorim. The geometric pattern was inspired…
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photos of numbers :: 64b, 101, 62a & 49a
This article was published 13 yearsHappy Friday! I have been running around the London Design Festival, and couldn’t help but spot a few little photos of numbers… The 64b is just next to Najla El Zein’s Wind Portal in the V&A. The 101 one is part of 8-18, an exhibition of…
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photos of numbers :: 64b, 101, 62a & 49a
This article was published 13 yearsHappy Friday! I have been running around the London Design Festival, and couldn’t help but spot a few little photos of numbers… The 64b is just next to Najla El Zein’s Wind Portal in the V&A. The 101 one is part of 8-18, an exhibition of…
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out and about :: ldf13 at the v&a
This article was published 13 years The V&A is the “hub” of the London Design Festival for the fifth year running – a collaboration that sees LDF commissioning installations that fit within and around the existing V&A collection – as LDF Director Ben Evans said: “We don’t have blank walls…
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out and about :: god is in the detail
This article was published 13 years The London Design Festival is a kaleidoscope of visual stimulation – you will never see so much design in one place at one time. You rush around from one thing to the next wondering how on earth you’ll squeeze it all in, trying to…
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out and about :: guide to london design festival 2013
This article was published 13 years 2013 is the 11th year of this incredible celebration of global design. Last year the New York Times named London the design capital of the world – and I’ve got a feeling that this year, it’s going to be even better! I have hunted…
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interview :: neal fox, le gun
This article was published 13 years Memory Palace is a “walk-in story” at the V&A that brings to life a new work of fiction by the author Hari Kunzru: An “immersive exhibition experience” has been created through a series of commissions by 20 internationally acclaimed illustrators, graphic designers and typographers…
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interview :: ronan and erwan bouroullec
This article was published 14 years I spent a rather lovely Tuesday afternoon during London Design Festival ambling around a gallery space at twentytwentyone discussing the difference between art and design with Ronan Bouroullec – I love my job! Then I pinned both Bourourllecs down for a proper interview… There’s…
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out and about :: london design festival in pictures (part 2)
This article was published 14 yearsA 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…
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out and about :: V&A (LDF12)
This article was published 14 years The London Design Festival has landed! And day one contained enough excitement and inspiration for a week, which bodes very well for the rest of the week. I started the day at the V&A press preview (and was actually given a sticker which said…
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out and about :: V&A (LDF12)
This article was published 14 years The London Design Festival has landed! And day one contained enough excitement and inspiration for a week, which bodes very well for the rest of the week. I started the day at the V&A press preview (and was actually given a sticker which said…
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out and about :: london design festival 2012
This article was published 14 years 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…
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out and about :: installations at the V&A
This article was published 15 yearsI went to explore the V&A this weekend; ‘hub’ of the London Design Festival. I will come back to The Power of Making exhibition in another post. Today, I want to tell you about two of their installations. First, the Textiles Field designed by Ronan…
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interview :: fine cell work
Fine Cell Work is a social enterprise that teaches needlework to prison inmates and sells their products. Prisoners work while locked in their cells, and while the earnings give them hope, skills and independence, the work itself seems to give them some sort of peace. I spoke to Elena Hall to find out more.
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here's one I made earlier :: cyanotype
Inspired by a recent exhibition about camera-less photography at the V&A called Shadow Catchers, I thought I’d try my hand at cyanotype, a type of ‘sun printing’.