The London Design Festival

I do love this time of year in London - Art show after art show after art show.
The London Design Festival is the UK’s biggest annual celebration of design made up of a range of design disciplines. The wide array of new ideas and activities which have made each Festival dynamic, different and uniquely London - supported by the government and leading well known businesses, the Festival offers a platform for the best design talent.

Goldsmiths : Make Believe
Goldsmiths, University of London have put on an exciting and innovative showcase of emerging design talent titled 'Make Believe' including the majority of projects from the Design Master programmes; MA Critical Practice, MA Design Future, MRes in Design and the MA Creative and Cultural Entrepreneurship alongside work from third year BA/BSc Computing & Interaction Design students.

"Paint has the potential to create worlds of make believe. Design has the potential to create worlds for us to believe in."

The work focused on the socio-cultural issues through a lens using developed and practiced means which in turn became the paint in which designers create the worlds for us to believe in.

It was hosted by Kinnarps at Covent garden and was open from 19 - 27 September

Central Saint Martins College of Art & Design
'Up All Night' was the annual showcase of post graduate work from Saint Martins and to be completely honest I was a little disappointed.

The design outcomes are wide and varied and explore elements of sensory and problem solving design, ranging from chocolate switches and flocked tiles to photographic Trompe L'oeil wallpapers.

Clearly accomplished young designers yet it was all very surreal and the purpose was very difficult to comprehend.