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PAJAKI – ‘Spiders of Straw’ by Karolina MerskaBRIXI
Exhibition
Brixton Design Trail
8am to 11.30pm (closes 6pm Mondays)
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PAJAKI literally translates as ‘Spiders of Straw’ in Polish. Artist Karolina Merska has reimagined and reinvented these traditional Polish folk art chandeliers, constructing a giant PAJAK set to hang high in the eaves of Brixton Village Market for the duration of this year’s festival. |
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Brixton Street GallerySquire and Partners
Installation
Brixton Design Trail
Open 24 hours
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Following the success of Brixton Street Gallery in 2015, Squire and Partners return with an interactive outdoor art installation featuring original work by Squire and Partners, local street artists and the public, transforming this corner of SW9. |
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Electro CraftTord Boontje
Exhibition
Shoreditch Design Triangle
Mon – Sat 11am – 6pm, Sun 12pm – 5pm, Tue 20 11am – 8pm
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Electro Craft is an exhibition of electronic products created by a diverse group of designers who share a fascination with technology and beautifully made objects.
Made up of new and existing work, this show is about the craft of electronics and electronics made as craft. |
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London Design Biennale 2016London Design Biennale
Exhibition
11am – 7pm; Fridays & Thursday 22 September: 11am – 9pm
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2016 sees the first edition of the London Design Biennale, sponsored by Jaguar and brought to you from the team behind the London Design Festival. Taking over Somerset House, the Biennale explores big questions and ideas about sustainability, migration, pollution, energy, cities and social equality. |
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You Say You Want a Revolution: Records & Rebels 1966-70London Design Festival at the V&A
Exhibition
Brompton Design District
Mon – Sun 10am – 5.45pm, Friday 10am – 10pm
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This major exhibition will examine the optimism, ideals and aspirations of the late 1960s, expressed through music, fashion, film, design and political activism, and their relevance to contemporary life. |
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Soak, Steam, Dream: Reinventing Bathing CultureRoca London Gallery
Exhibition
Chelsea Design Quarter
Mon – Fri 9am – 5.30pm, Sat 11am – 5pm, Sun 18th 11am – 5pm
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Soak, Steam, Dream:
Reinventing Bathing CultureRoca London Gallery will be showcasing recent bathhouse projects by some of the world’s leading contemporary architects and designers. Curated by Jane Withers with exhibition design by Kellenberger- White. |
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This is TemporaryCamden Collective
Exhibition
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Camden Collective are running a series of events exploring the meanwhile use of buildings and temporary architecture, alongside an installation produced by Hackney practices Co-DB and R-A-R-A, which showcases the project’s history since 2009. |
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Lettering Workshops & Digital GhostsignsBetter Letters / Ghostsigns
Workshop
Bankside Design District
Mon – Sun 7am – 7pm (Digital Ghostsigns Tours), Sat and Sun 10am – 5pm (workshops)
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Hand Lettering Workshops introducing the basics of signwriting (17-18 September at Borough Market) and blackboard art (24-25 September at Hilton Bankside). Throughout the festival the new Ghostsigns Tours App is also available to discover the fading remains of painted signs around Bankside. |
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FEELINGS MATTERMobilab Gallery
Exhibition
Mon – Fri 9am – 7pm, Sat – Sun 11am – 5pm
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Mobilab Gallery presents FEELINGS MATTER.Selected works by TT Knecht, Atelier Peekaboo, Thevoz-Choquet, Tonatiuh Ambrosetti, and the highlight of the show, a new series of photographic images called “Synesthesia” by Clément Jolin. |
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Greater Toronto: New Artist TextilesTextile Museum of Canada
Exhibition
Sun 11am – 5pm, Sat 11am – 6pm
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Textile Museum of Canada presents new digitally printed fabrics designed by ten Canadian artists at London’s Fashion and Textile Museum from 16-18 September 2016. Featuring Kim Adams, Jaime Angelopoulos, Bill Burns, Lyn Carter, Bonnie Devine, Ed Pien, Tazeen Qayyum, Anu Raina, Seth, and Gary Taxali. |
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Re-Imagining Urban LifeBrixton Design Trail
Talk / Seminar
Brixton Design Trail
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A talk curated by Brixton’s design advocates on re-designing urban life. From how we use money, communicate change, manage a sustainable environment and shape the future. Participants include: Brixton Pound, Champion Agency, RCA students, London School of Econo, Reclaim and Brixton Buzz. |
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Light Capsules x GhostsignsAdobe / Ghostsigns
Installation
Bankside Design District
Sat – Sat 8pm – 10pm (Projections, various locations), Mon – Sun 7am – 7pm (Digital Tours)
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Adobe Creative Resident Craig Winslow brings the ghost signs of Bankside to life through a series of site-specific light projections, and a projection mapping event on 21 September. Coinciding with the launch of the Ghostsigns Tours App, these offer a unique way to view London’s fading signs. |
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Lizzie for SMUG – The Pattern CollectionSMUG
Exhibition
Islington Design District
Sun – Tue 12pm – 5pm, Wed – Fri 11am – 6pm, Sat 10am – 6pm
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SMUG founder Lizzie Evans launches her first Pattern Collection. Think brights, pastels, loose brush strokes and splatters, all coming together in Lizzie’s signature style. Every purchase from SMUG during the Festival will be packed in a free tote featuring one of the patterns from the collection. |
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Goldsmiths Design FestGoldsmiths University of London
Exhibition
Sat – Sun 11am- 6pm
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Goldsmiths’ Department of Design is opening its doors to the public for a series of free events featuring the 2016 Postgraduate show, talks on Design from eminent designers, workshops and performances, and a showcase of design projects from our wider design community. |
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Serpentine Architecture Programme 2016: Pavilion and Summer HousesSerpentine Galleries
Installation
Brompton Design District
Mon – Sun 10am – 6pm
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Serpentine Pavilion 2016 designed by Bjarke Ingels Group (BIG)Serpentine Summer Houses 2016 designed by Kunlé Adeyemi (NLÉ), Barkow Leibinger, Yona Friedman, Asif Khan10 June – 9 October
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BREATHLESS: The Essence of GlassCzech Centre London
Installation
Brompton Design District
Mon – Sun 10am – 7pm
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‘BREATHLESS’ is an interactive exhibition based on Dechem Studio’s passion for glassmaking. Representing the essence of glass, from its inception to its presence in various forms located all around us, it features live glass blowing, a museum of glass curated by OKOLO, workshops and talks. |
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A Sustainable Vision For A Better FutureEcotopia
Installation
Brompton Design District
Mon – Sat 10am – 6pm, Thu 10am – 8pm (late opening) Sun 25 11am – 5pm
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Ecotopia is a multi-sensory installation exploring the appeal of Utopian thinking in envisaging a sustainable future for our planet and society. It showcases the ideas of leading scientists, academics, designers and architects who are currently looking at climate change and sustainable solutions. |
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Light PollinationiGuzzini UK
Installation
Brompton Design District
Mon – Wed 10am – 6pm, Thu – Fri 10am – 9pm, Sat 10am – 6pm, Sun 12pm – 5pm
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iGuzzini + UniversalAssemblyUnit present Light Pollination, an interactive digital artwork that celebrates the power of light. It has around 20,000 points of LED light. Enjoy this responsive artwork throughout the Festival. If you’re around from 5 – 6pm on weekdays, join us for an Aperol Spritz. |
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Power of PatternAdventures in Furniture
Exhibition
Islington Design District
Mon – Sat 10am – 6pm, Sun 11am – 5pm
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The Power of Pattern
A showcase featuring pattern and colour in collaboration with British brand Lewis & Wood and Zurich Design Studio. The Power of Pattern illustrates how space can be transformed with large scale design. A showcase of selected furniture, textiles and wallpaper. |
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A Smile in the Mind ExhibitionThe Partners
Exhibition
Mon – Sat 9.30am – 9pm, Sun 11.30 – 6pm
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Created by The Partners and part of the series curated by Futurecity at The Gallery at Foyles, the exhibition explores the use of wit in design and branding. Based on the updated design book ‘A Smile in the Mind’, it shows how wit powers the world’s biggest brands and most memorable creative work. |
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Omer Arbel: 44Barbican x Bocci
Installation
Clerkenwell Design Quarter
Mon – Sat 9am – 11pm, Sun 11am – 11pm
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Bocci’s immersive light installation 44 is the second site-specific commission for the Lightwell in the Barbican foyer. Designed by Omer Arbel, the light installation comprises of over 300 free-poured aluminium forms which are suspended from the ceiling by a matrix of thin cables. |
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Olalekan Jeyfious: Not My Business50Golborne
Exhibition
Tues – Thur 2pm – 6pm, Fri – Sat 11am – 6pm
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To coincide with the first London Biennale featuring a Nigerian Pavillion, 50 GOLBORNE Gallery is delighted to present a solo exhibition of works by Nigerian-American artist and designer Olalekan Jeyifous. |
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Sonos Studio LondonSonos
Open Studio
Tue – Sun 10am – 6.30pm
020 8744 6966
Free Event
WiFi
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Sonos Studio will host a programme of free events centred around music and design throughout London Design Festival, including workshops, talks, screenings and listenings. Go to Sonos.com/studio and the Sonos Studio London Facebook page for the latest programme information and how to attend. |
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Presents KaikadoMargaret Howell
Installation
Mon – Sat 10am – 6pm, Sun 12pm – 5pm
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Join us at Margaret Howell from
16:00 – 18:00 on Tuesday 20 September for a demonstration by Takahiro Yagi of Kaikado showing the highly skilled handmade process of making a tea caddy. |
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Drop-in Design: Visual StoriesLondon Design Festival at the V&A
Workshop
Brompton Design District
Sun 10.30pm – 5pm
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Play with images and text and build stories for your own booklet in this activity designed by Goethe V&A Photography Resident Helmut Völter and graphic designer Ina Kwon. |
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MelissaMelissa
Installation
Mon – Sat 11am- 7pm, Sun 12pm – 6pm
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GALERIA MELISSA HOSTS AN INTERACTIVE INSTALLATION DESIGNED BY VIVIENNE WESTWOOD TO CELEBRATE THE ANNIVERSARY OF THE ICONIC ROCKING HORSE BALLERINA SHOE. |
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V&A Dundee presents: Northern LightsLondon Design Festival at the V&A
Installation
Brompton Design District
Room 55, Clore Study Area, Britain 1500 – 1760, Level 2
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Ahead of opening in 2018, the creative team behind the development of V&A Museum of Design Dundee expose the current strengths of contemporary Scottish design talent and production |
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The Camera ExposedLondon Design Festival at the V&A
Exhibition
Brompton Design District
Mon – Sun 10am – 5.45pm, Fri 10am – 10pm
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As the camera fades from view, this display brings the camera itself into focus, including early images of photographers with their cameras, photographs featuring cameras by Eugène Atget, Lee Friedlander, André Kertesz, Phillipe Halsman, Weegee and others. |
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Arches Brixton CreativesBureau Of Silly Ideas and Valentia Studios
Open Studio
Brixton Design Trail
Mon – Fri 12pm – 6pm, Sat, Sun 10am- 6pm
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ABC is located in central Brixton railway arches & host open studios with an occasional bar, performances and workshops.
Bureau Of Silly Ideas, Club Silly and Valentia Studios welcome you to a home of artists, eccentric vehicles, framers, radio controlled street furniture, sculptors & upholsterers. |
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Supergraphics with Kellenberger-WhiteLondon Design Festival at the V&A
Talk / Seminar
Brompton Design District
Sun 11am-12pm
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Eva Kellenberger and Sebastian White met and began their creative partnership at the Royal College of Art. The designers are in conversation with Tom Banks, Acting Editor for Design Week. |
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Screengrab: Screen Printing SessionLondon Design Festival at the V&A
Workshop
Brompton Design District
Sun 11am-12.30pm, 2pm-3.30pm
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Join Screengrab for an introduction to screen printing. Run by Royal Academy printmaking fellow Josie Molloy, this workshop is designed to make screen printing easy for beginners and families. |
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Typographic Time Machine Workshop at the V&AType Tasting
Workshop
Brompton Design District
Sat and Sun 11am-5pm
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Drop in and customise a letter to recreate a moment in time—past, present or future. Add your letter to the display that will grow throughout the weekend, designed to transport viewers through time and typography. Share a photo of your letter on social media with #TimeType. |
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Stone Cutting DemonstrationsSalvatori
Workshop
Mon – Sun 10am – 6.30pm
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STONE CUTTING DEMONSTRATIONEvery day of London Design Festival, an expert letter cutter will be demonstrating their craft live in the brand new Salvatori showroom, with each cutter taking inspiration from a particular period of epigraphy and working on a different type of Salvatori stone. |
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Tour: London Design Festival at the V&ALondon Design Festival
Walks / Tours
Brompton Design District
12pm, 2pm, 4pm daily; Friday 6pm, 7pm, 8pm
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Join a free, guided tour of the London Design Festival at the V&A, taking in a host of installations and displays around the building. Departing from the LDF Desk in the Main Entrance at 12pm, 2pm, 4pm daily; also 6pm, 7pm, 8pm on Friday. Duration approx. 1 hour. |
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