Posts Tagged ‘Max Fraser’

LDG EXTRACT: #JustSayHello

Monday, November 14th, 2011

LDG editor Max Fraser has a real issue with bad service, so much so that he felt compelled to write about it in LONDON DESIGN GUIDE 2012-2013 edition. Read about his ‘Just Say Hello’ campaign below and contribute your thoughts via Twitter, using the hashtag #JustSayHello. (more…)

LONDON DESIGN GUIDE 2012-2013 IS NOW AVAILABLE!

Monday, September 19th, 2011

It’s official! The new edition of LONDON DESIGN GUIDE 2012-2013 is now available, featuring totally new content and plenty of great features. Order your copy now for only £12 and we will dispatch it to you wherever you are in the world.

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LDG EVENT: LONDON DESIGN GUIDE BIKE TOURS in partnership with CLERKENWELL DESIGN WEEK, 24th-26th May 2011

Monday, May 23rd, 2011

Tally Ho! Cycle Tours - Clerkenwell

LDG editor Max Fraser is hosting bike tours around Clerkenwell during Clerkenwell Design Week. The leisurely tours take in the best design events of the festival and are conducted on elegant Pashley bikes supplied by Tally Ho! Cycle Tours. (more…)

EXHIBITION: ‘LAB CRAFT’ AT ARTS DEPOT (FINCHLEY), 6th May-26th June 2011

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

Eastwood-Bloom

Lab Craft: Digital Adventures in Contemporary Craft is an exhibition exploring the use of digital technologies in craft practice. The exhibition, curated by LDG editor Max Fraser, is showing at Arts Depot gallery in London as part of its 18-month tour of the UK. (more…)

VIDEO: ‘JOY OF LIVING’ CHARITY PROJECT IS EXPLAINED

Monday, March 7th, 2011

Max Fraser_Crane TV

Online video magazine – Crane TV – has made a short film about the Joy of Living charity exhibition, which is being organised by LDG editor Max Fraser. See interviews with Max, as well as designers Hannah Martin, Tom Dixon and Giles Miller. (more…)

CHARITY EXHIBITION: JOY OF LIVING AT SOMERSET HOUSE (ALDWYCH), 15th-21st March 2011

Friday, March 4th, 2011

Joy of Living

JOY OF LIVING is a charity project that unites over 100 leading lights in the design community to galvanise support for Maggie’s Cancer Caring Centres. LONDON DESIGN GUIDE editor, Max Fraser, has set the challenge to new and established UK designers to create a desirable artwork that expresses the joy of living - all starting from a simple sheet of A4 graph paper. BUY YOUR FAVOURITE ARTWORK ONLINE or visit the exhibition. (more…)

GIFTS: LDG CHRISTMAS SELECTION 2010

Friday, December 3rd, 2010

LDG gifts

It’s Christmas time and here LDG editor Max Fraser brings you his selection of gifts for the holiday season. As always, we would encourage you to buy well made items with lasting appeal to try to reduce the waste that comes with the merriment and excess. Enjoy! (more…)

EXHIBITION: TENT LONDON AT TRUMAN BREWERY (BRICK LANE), 23rd-26th September 2010

Friday, September 17th, 2010

chair

Tent London is regarded as the must-see event of the London Design Festival with over 200 emerging and established designers and companies presenting the very latest in furniture, lighting, digital and interior products. (more…)

LONDON DESIGN GUIDE IN DESIGN WEEK’S ‘HOT 50′ REVIEW

Thursday, January 28th, 2010

DESIGN WEEK HOT 50 SUPPLEMENT COVER

We’re delighted that LONDON DESIGN GUIDE has been included in Design Week‘s annual round-up of the “people making a difference in design,” which was released today (28th January 2010). (more…)

LDG EXTRACT: THE STATE OF STUFF

Tuesday, January 12th, 2010

The State of Stuff p158

Its January 2010 and the start of a new decade. It seems only right that at this milestone, we all consider what we’re doing right and what we’re doing wrong. In this LDG extract, editor Max Fraser confronts our insatiable appetite to consume and calls for change. (more…)