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London Design Festival
runs Sat Sep 13 Sep 21.
www.londondesignfestival.com
V&AFESTIVALHUB
A good place to get to grips with
the festival is the V&A,which
will act as a central hub hosting
talks,events and exhibitions.
Barber & Osgerby have suspended
giant moving mirrors (below) on
the Raphael gallery ceiling that
will mess with your perception.
During the V&A’s Digital Weekend
(September 20 and 21) you can
discover how a team of chemists
and fashion designers have
created a colour-changing ink; or
get your body 3D scanned in the
‘Open Source Body’ installation.
Typography geeks should visit
over the Graphics Weekend
(Saturday 13 and Sunday 14)
when Penguin’s art director
Jim Stoddard discusses the
publisher’s book covers from the
last decade. You can also play
an online game that reveals your
personality through your taste in
fonts. We always knew those fans
of Comic Sans were a bit suspect.
www.vam.ac.uk.Sat Sep 13 Sep
21.Various prices.
DESIGNDISTRICTS
Technically not organised by the
LDF crew but arranged to coincide
with the festival,six key hubs will
be set up across London: Chelsea
Design Quarter,Clerkenwell
Design Quarter,Shoreditch Design
Triangle,and Brompton,Islington
and Queens Park Design Districts.
In these areas you can expect late-
night shopping events at design
UNITDSHOPAND
RESTAURANT
Inspired by the mingei Japanese folk
arts movement that championed
functional and affordable
handicrafts in the 1920s and ’30s,
this shop in Whitechapel will sell
affordable homeware from a range
of local artists and makers. To prove
how useful the pieces are,they will
be utilised in a series of temporary
restaurant evenings including
organiser Saskia Pomeroy’s ramen
night and an outlandish theatrical
Brick Lane Banquet hosted by artist
Rebecca Davies and Ottolenghi
sous chef Rosie Healey.
www.unit-d.co.uk.
Sat Sep 13 Sep 21.
ed
d
s
destinations such as Skandium
and The Conran Shop as well as
exhibitions in galleries including
the Geffrye Museum,which hosts
‘Ceramics in the City’ (above).
The launch evening features
ceramicists demonstrating their
craft while the weekend includes
children’s workshops to get little
hands involved.
www.geffrye-museum.org.uk.
Sep 18 Sep 21.Free.
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festival
highlights see
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