Welcome to the first of our new regular feature on the website, called 4×4. In an easily digestible format, we get selective about design by featuring 16 of the best products, exhibitions or designers. Here, we feature our 4×4 selection of the best design exhibitions taking place on the eastern side of the city during London Design Festival, saving you from trawling through mountains of choice. (more…)
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…)
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…)
The Museum of Everything is one of Europe’s most successful new independent museums and the only British museum dedicated to un-international, untrained and undiscovered artists. The Museum of Everything returns to London with Exhibition #4 – its most ambitious show yet. (more…)
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…)
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…)
‘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…)
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…)
‘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.
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.
