Dezeen Wire: designer Ron Arad is awarded the London Design Medal 2011 at a ceremony at St Paul’s Cathedral tonight as part of the London Design festival. The medal is awarded annually for a lifetime’s contribution to design and the city. It was awarded last year to Thomas Heatherwick, who was included in the judging panel this year.

Watch a series of interviews with Ron Arad on Dezeen Screen and see all our stories about his work here.

Ron Arad‘s cylindrical cinema screen made of 5600 silicon rods opens at the Roundhouse in London today. Watch a time-lapse movie of the installation’s construction on Dezeen Screen. More »

Dezeenwire: designer Ron Arad is to create an installation at London’s Roundhouse in August this year to host performances by designers and musicians including Hussein Chalayan and Javier Mariscal. More »

This residential building by Israeli designer Ron Arad is to begin construction in Tel Aviv at the end of this year. More »

In our fourth and final movie made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, Arad describes how he tailored the exhibition to the gallery space. More »

In this third of four films Dezeen made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, Arad explains why he wanted movement to be a key part of the show. More »

Dezeenwire: Justin McGuirk, editor of icon magazine, launches his new blog for The Guardian with an attack on designer Ron Arad, whose Ron Arad: Restless exhibition opened at the Barbican recently – The Guardian

Related stories: see our special Ron Arad issue of Dezeenwire.

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In our second of four films made to coincide with the Ron Arad: Restless exhibition at the Barbican in London, we asked Ron Arad (above, pictured while studying at the Architectural Association) about his upbringing in Israel and how he found himself working as a furniture designer in London. More »

Here are some photographs of the exhibition Ron Arad: Restless, currently on show at the Barbican in London. More »

It’s Dezeen night at the Barbican’s Ron Arad: Restless exhibition in London next Thursday, 11 March and we have 50 pairs of tickets (worth £10 each) to give away for the show and the Dezeentalks we’re hosting that evening. More »

Ron Arad: Restless opens at the Barbican in London tomorrow and in the first of four films we made to coincide with the exhibition, the Israeli-born designer shows us around his studio in Chalk Farm, London. More »

London designer Ron Arad has created a polycarbonate version of his famous Well Tempered Chair for the forthcoming exhibition of his work at the Barbican in London. More »

Dezeenwire: the Design Museum Holon have announced that the new building by Ron Arad Architects will be inaugurated on 31 January 2010. See press release below. More »