London Design Festival 07

September 28th, 2008

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Designersblock have curated seven window installations by designers KithKin, Postlerferguson (above), Matthew Plummer-Fernandez and other at Selfridges department store in London. More »

October 9th, 2007

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Particle is a modular shelving system by Dominic McCausland of Wilder Creative. More »

October 8th, 2007

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Stuart Haygarth has sent us a new photo of Optical, a chandelier made of lenses from unwanted prescription spectacles. More »

October 7th, 2007

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British furniture brand Established & Sons presented an exhibition called Elevating Design in London last month, during the London Design Festival. More »

October 3rd, 2007

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HiKARI is a series of timber lights by Danish designer Rasmus Fenhann, which were exhibited at the Made in Denmark exhibition at 100% Futures in London last month. More »

September 30th, 2007

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Designer John Harrington showed his Cut Glasses chandelier (below) and illuminated cornice (above) at designersblock in London last weekend, during the London Design Festival. More »

September 27th, 2007

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Karen Ryan presented a new range of work called Untitled Lights at designersblock in London last week. More »

September 26th, 2007

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Designer Alexander Kneller presented these two chairs at the Tent London show over the weekend, during the London Design Festival. More »

September 26th, 2007

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Dandilight is a product exhibited at the 100% Futures show at 100% Design last week, by young designer Benjamin Hubert. More »

September 26th, 2007

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Swarovski Crystal Palace video diary day 9: the final video in our series on the London Design Festival features the Tent London and designersblock shows in East London <<watch the video>> More »

September 26th, 2007

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Swarovski Crystal Palace video diary day 8: the penultimate video in our series documenting the London Design Festival features interviews with Jamie Hayon, Matthew Hilton (below) and Libby Sellers of Gallery Libby Sellers plus young designers Benjamin Hubert (whose Dandilight is shown above) and Dominic McCausland <<watch the video>> More »

September 25th, 2007

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PizzaKobra, a new table light designed for iGuzzini by Ron Arad, gets its UK launch tonight at iGuzzini’s London showroom. More »

September 24th, 2007

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Here are photos of Grandmateria, the inaugural exhibition at Gallery Libby Sellers in London. More »

September 24th, 2007

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Swarovski Crystal Palace video diary day 7: Maarten Baas, the Design Museum and the Lomography project in Trafalgar Square feature in the seventh of our daily documentaries about the London Design Festival, commissioned by festival sponsor Swarovksi Crystal Palace <<watch the movie>> More »

September 24th, 2007

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Swarovski Crystal Palace video diary day 6: we spent the weekend uploading three more mini documentaries to swarovksisparkles.tv, as part of our project documenting the London Design Festival for festival sponsor Swarovski Crystal Palace. More »

September 23rd, 2007

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The blog of design showcase Designersblock show photos of the opening of this year’s London event, held on Friday night. More »

September 23rd, 2007

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Freedom of Creation unveiled a new range of rapid-prototyped products at 100% Design in London this weekend. More »

September 23rd, 2007

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Here are photos of Trash Luxe, an exhibition curated by Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at Liberty in London. The show features furniture, lighting, homewares and jewellery by young designers who use cheap or worthless materials to create luxury products. More »

September 21st, 2007

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Swarovski Crystal Palace video diary day 5: today’s movie features Trash Luxe, the exhibition curated by dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs at Liberty in London. <<watch the movie>> More »

September 20th, 2007

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The Hulger Indian Call Centre is an installation running during the London Design Festival by web-phone brand Hulger in conjunction with Beyond the Valley. More »