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London Design Festival
Posted by: Cane on 13th Sep 2010 in Creative Report
Now in it’s 8th year, the London Design Festival will start on Saturday. Here are a few ways you can get involved, give a little, and take a little home.
DRAW...
What must be the most fun Trafalgar Square installation yet, ‘Outrace’ created by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram, is eight robotic arms borrowed from an Audi production line. Visitors can control them remotely to trace letters and write messages in the air with light.
If you can’t make it there, you’ll be able to try it out remotely online here, although it's probably not quite as much fun.
16 - 23 September, Trafalgar Square.
LISTEN…
The V&A Museum is the focal point of the festival. Hit iTunes to download a special ‘Hidden V&A’ iPod tour of the gallery, led by Geoff Opie. It promises to uncover the hidden secrets of the history of the world's biggest museum of decorative art and design.
DONATE…
Previously handled by the likes of Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid, this year’s Size + Matter project allows you to see something cool, and do something useful at the same time…
Outside the Royal Festival Hall near Waterloo will be designer Paul Cocksedge’s sculpture ‘Drop’. It’s a golden coin, three metres across, standing on edge, and magnetised all over. For the month that it’s there, the small change attached by passers-by is expected to accumulate into an entirely new surface.
Best of all, the festival’s corporate partners will match every penny given, with a one pound donation to Barnardo’s. With the Bank of England base rate down to half a percent, there aren’t many places you can you see a 10000% return on your investment these days.
18th September - 17th October, Royal Festival Hall.
WATCH…
95 year-old men don’t come much cooler than Robin Day. You’ll know his polyprop stacking chair, after all there are 20 million of them around.
‘Contemporary Days,’ a new documentary film about him and his late wife Lucienne’s work is premiered during the festival. A Q&A with filmmaker Murray Grigor follows.
7 – 9pm 21st September, Hochhauser Auditorium, V&A Museum.
STUFF…
For the first weekend of the festival, textile magazine Selvedge, along with illustrator Alice Stevenson and printers Thornback & Peel will be re-creating Trafalgar Square inside the V&A’s Sackler Centre. At ‘Feed the Birds’ hundreds of stitched pigeons will be available for visitors to pick-out and then stuff themselves. "Why?" you ask, "Why not?" we say.
18th & 19th September, Sackler Centre, V&A Museum.
GRAB…
Get yourself a free piece of original art by this year’s Size + Matter creator, Paul Cocksedge. ‘A Gust of Wind’ will be a one-night-only affair next Friday evening at the V&A. Three hundred pieces of Corian formed into the shape of sheets of blown paper will be exhibited for just a few hours, and then given away to the attending public.
Several of the previous Size + Matter designers have gone on to win the London Design Medal, so perhaps think of this as an investment.
6.30 – 10pm, 24th September, V&A Museum.
CREATE…
Finally, if hearing about the PM’s silverware has inspired you (see ‘Downing Street Silver Trust Collection’) then visit ‘Whizz Bang!’ to have a go at making a spoon or a bowl for yourself, with a little help from the experts of course.
10am – 4pm 21st September, Sackler Foyer, V&A Museum.
Lead image: Robin Day's stacking chair. Below image; the Audi robots in their original setting. Source: Outrace
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Posted by: Cane on 13th Sep 2010 in Creative Report
Now in it’s 8th year, the London Design Festival will start on Saturday. Here are a few ways you can get involved, give a little, and take a little home.
DRAW...
What must be the most fun Trafalgar Square installation yet, ‘Outrace’ created by Clemens Weisshaar and Reed Kram, is eight robotic arms borrowed from an Audi production line. Visitors can control them remotely to trace letters and write messages in the air with light.
If you can’t make it there, you’ll be able to try it out remotely online here, although it's probably not quite as much fun.
16 - 23 September, Trafalgar Square.
LISTEN…
The V&A Museum is the focal point of the festival. Hit iTunes to download a special ‘Hidden V&A’ iPod tour of the gallery, led by Geoff Opie. It promises to uncover the hidden secrets of the history of the world's biggest museum of decorative art and design.
DONATE…
Previously handled by the likes of Marc Newson and Zaha Hadid, this year’s Size + Matter project allows you to see something cool, and do something useful at the same time…
Outside the Royal Festival Hall near Waterloo will be designer Paul Cocksedge’s sculpture ‘Drop’. It’s a golden coin, three metres across, standing on edge, and magnetised all over. For the month that it’s there, the small change attached by passers-by is expected to accumulate into an entirely new surface.
Best of all, the festival’s corporate partners will match every penny given, with a one pound donation to Barnardo’s. With the Bank of England base rate down to half a percent, there aren’t many places you can you see a 10000% return on your investment these days.
18th September - 17th October, Royal Festival Hall.
WATCH…
95 year-old men don’t come much cooler than Robin Day. You’ll know his polyprop stacking chair, after all there are 20 million of them around.
‘Contemporary Days,’ a new documentary film about him and his late wife Lucienne’s work is premiered during the festival. A Q&A with filmmaker Murray Grigor follows.
7 – 9pm 21st September, Hochhauser Auditorium, V&A Museum.
STUFF…
For the first weekend of the festival, textile magazine Selvedge, along with illustrator Alice Stevenson and printers Thornback & Peel will be re-creating Trafalgar Square inside the V&A’s Sackler Centre. At ‘Feed the Birds’ hundreds of stitched pigeons will be available for visitors to pick-out and then stuff themselves. "Why?" you ask, "Why not?" we say.
18th & 19th September, Sackler Centre, V&A Museum.
GRAB…
Get yourself a free piece of original art by this year’s Size + Matter creator, Paul Cocksedge. ‘A Gust of Wind’ will be a one-night-only affair next Friday evening at the V&A. Three hundred pieces of Corian formed into the shape of sheets of blown paper will be exhibited for just a few hours, and then given away to the attending public.
Several of the previous Size + Matter designers have gone on to win the London Design Medal, so perhaps think of this as an investment.
6.30 – 10pm, 24th September, V&A Museum.
CREATE…
Finally, if hearing about the PM’s silverware has inspired you (see ‘Downing Street Silver Trust Collection’) then visit ‘Whizz Bang!’ to have a go at making a spoon or a bowl for yourself, with a little help from the experts of course.
10am – 4pm 21st September, Sackler Foyer, V&A Museum.
Lead image: Robin Day's stacking chair. Below image; the Audi robots in their original setting. Source: Outrace
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