Swarm
Carpenters Workshop Gallery are presenting the first solo show by digital design trio Random International. The works on display include Swarm – a solid mass of LEDs that responds to sound, enabling it to react to the motion and noise made by people in its vicinity.
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Tramshed
Across London there was a fantastic number and variety of exhibitions and events to enjoy during this year’s London Design Festival. From Tent London, the Origin craft fair and the myriad galleries and showrooms around Shoreditch in the east, to the best young talent at Designersblock on the Southbank and the boutiques around the Brompton Road in the west, there was barely enough time to fit it all in. Here are a few of my highlights from a great week.
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This year’s 100% Design offered the usual variety of established and emerging companies with many of the most interesting ideas to be found in the 100% Futures section. There was also a strong international presence with a number of countries choosing to exhibit their best young talent collectively. Here are a few of my favourites from a strong show.
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Drop is an installation piece commissioned by Size+Matter whose remit is to bring design to the attention of the public by providing an established designer with a brief to produce a work in collaboration with a manufacturer that will occupy a prime location on London’s Southbank for the duration of the London Design Festival.
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Moooi showroom
Moooi have set up shop next door to Tom Dixon at Portobello Dock, opening a grand 250 m² showroom on the ground floor of the Grade II listed White Building. The space provides a fantastic setting for a complete display of the Moooi range including bold contemporary designs by Front, Ron Gilad, Studio Job and Maarten Baas.
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Sticks, Stones and Broken Bones - Studio Toogood and izé
This installation by Studio Toogood and izé at the Garage, SW3 (next door to Mint) is worth a look during the festival. It shows a range of products cast from sticks, stones and bones and adapted for utilitarian use as door and cabinet handles and coat hooks. These metal objects take on an eery quality in their new context whilst retaining a tactility and familiarity resulting from their organicism. They clearly follow the current trend for all things taxidermic as covered in previous posts on Julia Lohmann and Death in Design.
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This year’s London Design Festival promises to be bigger and better than ever with new spaces, exhibitors and symposia adding to the usual panoply of events taking place all across the city.
View the full post to see my list of what not to miss this year:
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David Watkins has been at the cutting edge of jewellery design since the sixties. His experimental approach to materials and love of bold graphic forms are the foundation upon which he has built a portfolio of ground breaking designs in a variety of precious and low value materials.
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Iʼm posting this from Milan because the volcanic eruption on Wednesday means that I havenʼt been able to get back to London for the last four days. For me this isnʼt too much of a problem because Milan is a fantastic city with wonderful memories of when I lived here in 2005. What follows is a summary of some of the most interesting things that Iʼve seen around the city in the past few days.
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There was a lot to see around the city during this yearʼs Fuori Salone with a new area in Ventura Lambrate hosting the RCA and Design Academy Eindhoven among others as well as the usual hotspots of Zona Tortona, Brera and around Duomo in the centre. I was fortunate to be staying in Brera and so was within walking distance of many of the most interesting showrooms and galleries including Studio Job and Pieke Bergmanʼs presentation of their Wonderlamps for Dilmos. These oversized everyday objects were produced in a beaten bronze finish and embellished with Bergmanʼs fluid glass that dispersed the light creating strange sculptural objects.
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