
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.

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.

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.

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…)

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…)

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…)

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…)

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.

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…)

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…)

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…)