Furniture designer Gareth Neal is creating playful pop-up picnic sites for the Vauxhall Collective. These picnics are sited in reclaimed urban spaces during a two day event held in two East London locations.
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
EVENT: THE URBAN PICNIC (BRICK LANE & HACKNEY WICK)
Tuesday, August 24th, 2010EXHIBITION: ‘NEW SIMPLICITY’ (BROMPTON), 24th July-8th August 2010
Thursday, July 22nd, 2010
The ‘New Simplicity‘ exhibition presents a range of simplistic ‘no frills’ products designed by both emerging and established international designers. Showcased at this Brompton gallery location are classic designs alongside new innovations utilising the latest Rapid Manufacturing technologies.
EXHIBITION: ESTABLISHED & SONS IN COLLABORATION WITH VENINI at Established & Sons LIMITED (Mayfair), 16th July-10th September 2010
Monday, July 19th, 2010
Housed at their Mayfair gallery, British producer Established & Sons is showcasing their collection of lighting and objects which they recently developed in collaboration with legendary Italian glass producer Venini. (more…)
EXHIBITION: JENS RISOM FURNITURE AT ROCKET GALLERY (SHOREDITCH), 2ND JULY-4TH SEPTEMBER 2010
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
At ninety-four years of age the Danish-born American designer Jens Risom has collaborated with Rocket Gallery and Benchmark Furniture, who have jointly secured the European rights to reissue his 1950s and 1960s furniture designs. The first collection of nine pieces is being exhibited at Rocket. (more…)
EXHIBITION: ‘PROTOTYPES AND EXPERIMENTS V’ AT THE ARAM GALLERY (COVENT GARDEN), 1ST JULY-28TH AUGUST 2010
Thursday, July 1st, 2010
This exhibition is the latest instalment in The Aram Gallery’s ongoing series exploring experimental aspects of design. The show focuses on architectural parts and allows trials and experiments of details, rather than models of whole projects, to take centre stage. A refreshing antidote to polished final pieces. (more…)
EVENT: NEW DESIGNERS 2010 AT BDC (ISLINGTON), 1ST-4TH JULY & 8TH-11TH JULY 2010
Tuesday, June 29th, 2010
New Designers exhibition is the leading showcase of graduate design talent as they emerge from the UK’s design courses, presenting everything from architecture to animation, furniture to fashion, graphics to glass. Hosted under one roof at Islington’s Business Design Centre (BDC), visitors can access over 3,500 new talents across the two-part event. (more…)
TOUR: DESIGN DETAIL TRAIL (CITYWIDE)
Thursday, June 24th, 2010
At LDG, we’re big believers that design is visible at every turn and nowhere more so than within the fabric of our cities. As we go about our daily business, we often neglect the beautiful, intelligent, timely, or quirky details that make up our built environment. The downloadable Design Detail Trail reminds us of what not to miss.
EXHIBITION: RCA SHOW PART TWO AT ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART (KENSINGTON), 25TH JUNE-4TH JULY 2010
Wednesday, June 23rd, 2010
The Royal College of Art’s talent pool of 2010 is on show within the college galleries in Kensington. This end of year showcase is an important time for talent scouts to pick up on the latest postgraduate talent and their challenging ideas. (more…)
EXHIBITION: ‘TORD BOONTJE: THE LACE MAKER’ AT MARSDEN WOO GALLERY (CLERKENWELL), 24TH JUNE-31ST JULY 2010
Tuesday, June 22nd, 2010
This exhibition by leading designer Tord Boontje overturns the conventional expectations of what lace might be. In this collection of work showing at Marsden Woo Gallery, Boontje employs traditional craft skills while substituting unorthodox materials, changing the references and subverting our preconceived notions of value. (more…)
EXHIBITION: ‘SWITZERLAND: DESIGN FOR LIFE’ AT A FOUNDATION (SHOREDITCH), 19TH JUNE-1ST JULY 2010
Saturday, June 19th, 2010
At a time when every nation seems to be showing off its cultural cards on an international platform, it would seem that Switzerland has also joined the ranks with an exhibition of Swiss graphic, product, and urban designers. (more…)
