Paris
Paris’s vitality, the quality of its professional network, its design education, and its sparkling creativity and cultural environment make it a one-of-a-kind international focal point for attracting global talents in search of development and innovation opportunities in the design and lifestyle sectors.
London
Following its debut appearance at the Milan Furniture Fair, designjunction is set to be the premier destination at this year’s London Design Festival, bringing together a stellar line-up of 30 international furniture and lighting brands.
Now in its fourth year, Brompton Design District is well-established as a leading destination during the London Design Festival (LDF). This year the programme promises to be stronger than ever with an international focus showcasing new design and makers from Mexico City to Vienna.
London
As a part of their summer festival commissions UP projects present three new works at the Thames Festival in London. We recommend checking out these contemporary projects along with the night carnival, which is Britain's largest illuminated night-time carnival procession, on the weekend of September 10 -11 '11.
London
Tramshed 2011 marks the second year of the Tramshed, a premier design event that made its debut at London Design Festival in 2010.
Improving upon the successes of last year’s event, Tramshed 2011 returns to its dynamic Shoreditch location with a diverse group of exhibitors known for their vibrancy and capacity to innovate
London
The Living Room will showcase a selection of products, furniture and printed works that have been designed and made in Britain.
London
KK Outlet challenged a group of leading artists, designers and stylists to take an everyday object, remould, rebuild and repurpose it to create an entirely new item using as little additional materials as possible.
An umbrella transforms into a flat pack kite
For sale signs become a flat pack birdhouse
A lightbulb becomes a micro-greenhouse
A sofa becomes a Pantomime horse
The Gwangju Biennale Foundation
Gwangju, South Korea
The title theme of this year’s Biennale, which has been co-directed by Seung H-Sang and Ai weiwei, is DOGADOBISANGDO – “Design is Design is Not Design.”
Milan
Endless, the first Italian solo show of the internationally recognized designer, presents a series of fine art works deriving from Lovegrove's personal research brought forward with the Liquid Collection, already included in the exhibition Endurance at Phillips De Pury, New York in 2007.
Tawian
Nendo presents a solo show at the Taiwanese government-sponsored National Taiwan Craft Research and Development Institute featuring two of their collections. ‘thin black lines’ is a collection of furniture formed from ‘still black’, so nendo wanted to use ‘active black on white’ for the exhibition space.
Los Angeles
Rethink LA, a collaboration of forward- thinking volunteers in the Los Angeles architecture, planning, motion graphics and design community, are exhibiting August 4 - September 4 2011 at the A+D Museum.
London
Note: this event has been cancelled, the speakers will be available to purchase later in the fall.
Out with the old in with the new.
On Saturday the 27th of August, Paul Cocksedge will be at the Round House in Camden transforming 12" vinyl records into elegant loudspeakers used to amplify sound from smartphones.
City Hall Park, New York
The Public Art Fund has presented the first outdoor career survey of Sol LeWitt’s sculptures. This landmark exhibition includes 27 works from this seminal artist’s modular, serial, geometric, and irregular structures series that attest to his lifelong engagement with the medium and present his most important ideas about sculpture.
London
On 24th June '11, a building appeared in the gap between the east and westbound traffic of the A12. Transforming the cavernous undercroft where the motorway crosses the Lea Navigation Canal, Folly for a Flyover has hosted a nine week programme of waterside cinema, performance and play.
Philadelphia
The Philadelphia Museum of Art will host the first exhibition in the United States to feature Zaha Hadid's product design.
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