17 August e-Bulletin

Exactly one month to go! The countdown begins to the world's most creative design festival. With so much going on we like to highlight some of the events you might want to go and see.

That's why in the run up to the London Design Festival this e-Bulletin devotes itself to showcasing some of the key events we have coming up during the Festival. Over the next few weeks you'll be receiving news about our own Landmark Projects - specially commissioned by the London Design Festival. And with even more Partners taking place this Festival, you'll be getting regular updates about their work too.

Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: Textile Field

The V&A / 17-25 September

Given the run of almost the entire Victoria and Albert Museum to work in, French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have chosen to tranform The Raphael Gallery, collaborating with the Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat to give the public a very different perspective on the 16th century masterpieces. More

Visualisation for Textile Field by Ronan & Erwan Bourroullec

Murray Moss: Industrial Revolution 2.0

V&A / 17 - 25 September

Will 3D printing revolutionise production? New York design gallerist Murray Moss ponders the fast-developing phenomenon of 3D printing by curating an exhibition throughout the V&A's galleries of extraordinary works that could not have been made without the technology. More

Bloom table lamp by Patrick Jouin 

John Pawson: Perspectives

St Paul's Cathedral / 17 - 25 September
If it's the Festival's ambition to show the best of design in London's public spaces, there are few such places as iconic as St Paul's. With Perspectives, a grand master of minimalism gives us a entirely new way of seeing one of architecture's classics. More

John Pawson in the Geometric Tower at St Paul's. Photo Philip Sinden

London Design Film

Deadline / 9 September
Do you make films? And love design? Win one of three top-of-the-range Wacom Intuos4 Wireless pen tablets in our London Design Film competition. The best short films will be featured on wallpaper.com/video where you can vote for the winner - plus we'll be showing the shortlisted entries at the Digital Hub at the V&A. Rough and ready or slick and professional, we're looking for movies that express the creativity and excitment of design in London. More

Wacom Intuos4

PARTNER EVENTS

designjunction

Victoria House Basement / 22 - 25 September
Hitch Mylius, Cappellini, Benchmark, Another Country, Beau McClellan, Anglepoise, Jake Dyson, Globe Zero, Bocci and more line up to be part of designjunction's debut at the London Design Festival 2011. More

Victoria House Basement

12:grn:hrs - design a green car in a day

Design Council / 23 September
Design a green car in a day? That's the provocative eco-challenge set by Green Car Design. Working intensely with professional car designers and environmental experts, could you conceive a low carbon vehicle in 12 hours? More


Green Car Design

The Power of Making

The V&A Porter Gallery / 6 September - 2 January 2012
The V&A and the Crafts Council celebrate the role of making in our lives with an exuberantly eclectic selection of over 100 made objects, by amateurs and professionals. More

Crochetdermy bear by Shauna Richardson

Thierry Dreyfus: Wall Rupture for Flos

Atrium / 19 - 23 September
A dramatic beam of golden light produced by twisting LED light threads erupts the wall's surface to create this dramatic lighting installation by Drefus at Atrium's newly redesigned Centrepoint showroom. More

Wall Rupture by Theirry Drefus

Republic of Fritz Hansen

Repubic of Fritz Hansen / 17 - 25 September
The Danish Design brand Republic of Fritz Hansen, founded by the legendary Arne Jacobson collaborator Fritz Hansen, lands in London, launching its new store as part of the London Design Festival. More

Republic of Fritz Hansen

Graphic Design Walk

East London / 23 September
Join a hosted graphic design walk through the studios of 15 of London's women graphic designers, ending the day with an evening of celebration. More

Enlightened Waste

Marion Friedman Gallery / 17 - 25 September
French-Mexican designer Thierry Jeannot and Austrian artist Gisela Stiegler use waste packaging material to create enchanting light objects, inluding a chandelier made out of 1500 PET bottles, made with the help of poor Mexico City inhabitants. More

Chandelier by Thierry Jeannot

B&B Italia

B&B Italia, Brompton Rd / 17 - 25 September
Celebrating the 10th anniversary of their London store, B&B Italia present their latest collection featuring designs by Antonio Citterio, Patricia Urquiola, Gabriele and Oscar Buratti - as well as the latest edition of Jeffrey Bernett's Landscape chaise longue. More

Landscape by Jeffrey Bernett 

Martha Freud Design: Mixed Messages

Camley Street Natural Park / 17 - 25 September
Martha Freud heads to a Wildlife Trust natural park for an exhibition to introduce a new collection of objects and lights inspired by our urge to label and compartmentalise. More

Talking Tealights by Martha Freud

Vitsœ: Made by Britain

Vitsœ / 26 August - 14 October
With its production HQ in Camden exporting to over 50 countries, Vitsœ underscore their role as an exemplar of design-led British manufacture with an exhibition in their showroom demonstrating their local supply chain, plus a series of talks on the year's hottest design topic; how can we best champion homegrown production? More

Vitsœ's 606 Shelving System designed by Dieter Rams

Mind Over Matter: Alan Fletcher's The Art of Looking Sideways

Kemistry Gallery / 25 August - 1 October
Marking the tenth anniversary of the publication of The Art of Looking Sideways by the late graphic design icon Alan Fletcher, Kemistry Gallery present an exhibition of original material and notes documenting thirty years of Fletcher's work. More

Alan Fletcher 

London International Creative Competition Awards Ceremony

Richmix / 19 September
Book tickets for the awards ceremony for this juried competition for innovative visual arts. More

The next e-Bulletin will be on September 1st. Look out for news about AL_A's Timber Wave and this year's Size + Matter commission featuring David Chipperfield Architects.

It'll also include details of the London Design Festival Breakfast Talks with Surface magazine, plus The Google Design Lectures. And lots more too, of course.