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
As part of London’s Open House weekend on 17 and 18 September 2011, the future home of the Design Museum at the former Commonwealth Institute building will offer public tours before construction begins in earnest.
It will be the last chance for the public to see this remarkable 1960s site before it re-opens as the new Design Museum in 2014.
INDEX: Award is the biggest design award in the world. The coveted award carries a total purse of €500,000 (more than US$700,000) and takes place in Copenhagen’s new breathtaking Opera House in front of an audience of more than 1,000 Danish and international designers, politicians, business leaders, students, celebrities, etc. who are all invited to the ceremony to celebrate design that makes a difference in people’s lives.
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.”
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