Celebrating its ninth year, the capital’s leading annual extravaganza London Design Festival is to be the largest and most significant yet, returning to the city this September with almost 300 events. (more…)
Archive for the ‘Design’ Category
EVENT: LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL (CITYWIDE), 17th-25th September 2011
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011EXHIBITION: ‘OBJECT ABUSE’ AT KK OUTLET (Shoreditch), 2nd-25th September 2011
Thursday, September 1st, 2011
In an exhibition titled Object Abuse, KK Outlet has challenged a group of leading artists, designers and stylists to remould, rebuild and repurpose everyday objects to create entirely new items using as little additional materials as possible. (more…)
EXHIBITION: ‘MIND OVER MATTER: ALAN FLETCHER’S THE ART OF LOOKING SIDEWAYS’ AT KEMISTRY GALLERY (SHOREDITCH), 25TH AUGUST – 1ST OCTOBER 2011
Saturday, August 27th, 2011
Kemistry Gallery has joined forces with Fletcher Studio to host the exhibition Mind Over Matter which celebrates ten years of Alan Fletcher’s publication, The Art of Looking Sideways (Phaidon). Mind Over Matter looks into the making of this celebrated work through original material and notes from Fletcher’s archive. (more…)
EXHIBITION: ‘THIS IS DESIGN’ AT DESIGN MUSEUM (BERMONDSEY), 24th August 2011-22nd January 2012
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
London’s Design Museum is celebrating items from its permanent collection in an exhibition titled ‘This is Design’, which examines the impact of design on the modern world and how it shapes our lives and contemporary culture. (more…)
EXHIBITION: ‘PROTOTYPES AND EXPERIMENTS VI: CASTS & MOULDS’ AT THE ARAM GALLERY (ALDWYCH), 28th July–27th August 2011
Wednesday, July 27th, 2011
‘Casts & Moulds’ is the sixth instalment in the on-going exhibition series, Prototypes and Experiments, presented by The Aram Gallery. This exhibition focuses on casting and moulding techniques as a means of manufacture, showing prototypes of design details as well as whole cast projects. (more…)
EXHIBITION: ‘KENNETH GRANGE – MAKING BRITAIN MODERN’ AT DESIGN MUSEUM (BERMONDSEY), 20th July-30th October 2011
Tuesday, July 19th, 2011
London’s Design Museum celebrates the work of Britain’s leading product designer, Kenneth Grange with his first UK retrospective showing his work, design journey and the role he has played in making Britain modern. (more…)
EXHIBITION: ‘SITTING AND LOOKING’ AT SOMERSET HOUSE (ALDWYCH), 30th June-5th September 2011
Wednesday, June 29th, 2011
‘Sitting and Looking’ is an exhibition at Somerset House that brings together a juxtaposition of bespoke 21st-century design objects by ten renowned artists. Curated by internationally acclaimed furniture designers Jim Partridge and Liz Walmsley, visitors are encouraged to consider, sit amongst and even touch the objects, some of which are for sale.
EXHIBITION: ‘SHOW RCA 2011′ AT ROYAL COLLEGE OF ART (KENSINGTON), 24TH JUNE- 3RD JULY 2011
Thursday, June 23rd, 2011
Show RCA, Royal College of Art‘s annual postgraduate exhibition, returns this year to showcase the next generation of artists, designers, writers and thinkers simultaneously for the first time since the 2007 Great Exhibition. Show RCA 2011 features a culmination of the studio work and research of 431 graduating art and design students in a range of disciplines.
EXHIBITION: ‘WATCH ME MOVE: THE ANIMATION SHOW’ AT BARBICAN ART GALLERY, 15th June – 11th September 2011
Thursday, June 16th, 2011
The Barbican Art Gallery is presenting ‘Watch Me Move: The Animation Show‘, an extensive exhibition of animated imagery produced over the last 150 years, bringing together industry pioneers, independent film-makers and contemporary artists. (more…)
EXHIBITION: ‘CLEAR YOUR HEAD EVERY DAY’ BY ANTHONY BURRILL AT OUTLINE EDITIONS, 10th June-16th July 2011
Thursday, June 9th, 2011
One of London’s destinations for graphic art – Outline Editions – has welcomed graphic artist Anthony Burrill to curate a month-long solo show entitled ‘Clear Your Head Every Day’. Burrill is best known for his woodblock prints of uplifting and thoughtful slogans. (more…)
