The London Design Festival e-Bulletin highlights the extraordinary range and depth of design activity taking place in the city — and beyond — all year round.

Welcome to the last e-Bulletin of what's been a great year for us. Think January and February are a quiet time? Think again...

Partner events

Winter Selection

Gallery Fumi / until 28 January

Exhibition of one-offs and original works by names like Max Lamb, Johannes Nagel, Rowan Mersh, Jeremy Winbtrebert, Kranen/Gille, Paul Cocksedge, Joe Pipal, Eelko Moorer, Simone Brewster and Study O Portable; plus photographs by Zygmunt Rytka. More


Jungle Vase by Eelko Moorer

Send to Print / Print to Send

Aram Gallery / 13 January - 25 February

A timely exhibition abut how 3D printing techniques are changing the approach of emerging designers; featuring Assa Ashuach, Riccardo Bovo, Michael Eden, FAT, Freedom of Creation­­, Jump Studios, Markus Kayser, Dirk vander Kooij, Chau Har Lee, PearsonLloyd, Chloe McCormick & Nicholas O’Donnell-Hoare, Serie, Superfusionlab, Silvia Weidenbach and Unfold. More


Large Oval Yellow Bloom by Michael Eden

Christmas art mash-up

Outline Editions / until 24 December

Signed editions, woodblock prints and cut-outs by some of the most original graphic artists working in London at the moment, including Anthony Burrill, Patrick Thomas, Kristjana S Williams of Beyond The Valley and Noma Bar, plus clothing and jewellery. More

Visual Editions

Vitsœ / until 3 January

Vitsœ make good use of their 606 Shelving System, using it to display the intriguing work of independent book publisher Limited Editions. More 


Composition No 1 by Marc Saporta, a book that can be read in any order by Visual Editions

Christmas pop up

Ligne Roset Westend / until 22 December

Fly swatters and transluscent plastic tableware from Milan, oil soaps and patchwork kilim cushion covers from Istanbul; Ligne Roset Westend have a few suggestions for your Christmas stockings. More

Bye Bye Fly Swat by Giulio Iacchetti for Pandora based on Milan street map

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Watermans Gallery / until 1 January

Exhibition showcasing innovative work by South Asian Digital Art and Design graduates. More

Merge by Shafiah Latif, a project exploring Eastern and Western culture through language

Winter sale

Molteni & C / until 18 January

Big reductions on show stock from the Italian furnishing company's Shaftesbury Avenue flagship store. More

Buddy Tables by Hannes Wettstein

Mark Braun with J. & L. Lobmeyr: Fortune

Gallery Libby Sellers / until 26 January

Mark Braun's 22 engraved carafes are reminder of our good fortune: to have clean, freely available water. The carafes are handcrafted by the Austrian glass company Lobmeyr, each with a representation of a river, a glacier of a lake. More


Fortune carafes by Mark Braun

Future Map 11

Zabludowicz Collection / 12 January - 5 February

Return of the annual show exhibiting the best cutting edge talent from the graduating year at University of the Arts London, picked by a panel including Lulu Guinness and etsy.com's Matt Stinchcomb. More

Russian Spirit Look 1 by Mariya Kotova, BA (Hons) Fashion Design Technology: Surface Textiles

Give and Take Sale

Few and Far / 2 January - 31 January

Priscilla Carluccio selects clothes, jewellery, vintage and contemporary furniture, toys and craft work from UK, India, France, Morocco and Italy; 5% of sale proceeds go to St Mungo's homeless charity. More


Eu/Phoria chairs by Paola Navone for Italian company Eumenes

The Temporium

Monmouth Street / until 24 December

Dezeen's pop-up design store returns to central London this Christmas with over 20 designers and brands. Products by Established & Sons, Dominic Wilcox, Another Country, Paul Cocksedge, Jaime Hayón and more.  More


Empty Memory USB sticks by Logical Art

Vitra Christmas Market

Vitra / until 22 December

Clerkenwell hosts this designer maker market featuring members of the Craft Central network, plus new editions of classics Vitra, Belux and Falcon Enamelware. The market donates 10% of proceeds to Shelter, the homeless and housing charity. More

RCA Student Work-in-Progress show

Royal College of Art / 12 - 18 January

Students from the Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery, Fashion, Textiles, Painting and Sculpture programmes present their work. More

RCA Student Work-in-Progress show

Royal College of Art / 1 - 6 February

More RCA student work from their Animation, Architecture, Design Interactions, Design Products, Innovation Design Engineering and Vehicle Design programmes. More

Kristmas

Kemistry Gallery / until 22 December

Prints, books and zines from Parra, James Joyce, Daniel Eatock, Geoff McFetridge, Experimental Jetset, Gestalten, Visual Editions. Antennae Books and Homework; new illustrations from Dominic Owen, Kyle Platts, Andy Smith and Tom Murphy. More

Opportunities

D&AD Awards 2012

Deadline / 8 February

Annual award for commercial excellence, including categories for book design, digital design, graphic design, magazine and newspaper design, product and spatial design. More

Xhibit

Deadline / 30 January

An open-submission exhibition that aims to present the finest works of art and design from across the University of the Arts London. Work in any medium can be submitted by current students from any college. More

Posterheroes

Deadline / 15 February

Design a 50x 70cm poster to explore issues around sustainability and energy. Judges include Anthony Burrill, Giorgio Camuffo and Patrick Thomas. More

Universal Design Award 2012

Registration deadline / 20 December

Award for designs for products usable by all people, whatever their abilities, without the need for adaptation; awards ceremony to be held at the Hannover Messe 2012. More

Talks, courses and conferences

The Story 2012

Conway Hall / 17 February

With communicators increasingly interested in the problem of creating narratives that can function across increasingly diverse formats, storytelling is increasingly a buzzword for marketers and designers. The Story is a one-day conference about stories and story-telling. Speakers include Jeremy Dellar, Fiona Raby, Tom Watson and others. More

The Design of Understanding 2012

St Bride's Library / 27 January

One day conference on information design and design's broader quest to make complex or unfamiliar ideas understandable. More.

More events

A Room for London

Southbank Centre / booking reopens 19 January

The best place to stay in town for 2012, Living Architecture and Artangel's remarkable pop up Room for London by David Kohn Architects and Fiona Banner opens on 1 January. Unsurprisingly, the first six months are already taken, but booking for the latter half of the year commences on 19 January. More


A Room for London by David Kohn Architects and Fiona Banner

Mixed Display

Marsden Woo Gallery / 10 January - 11 February

Applied arts exhibition of ceramics and other pieces by Marsden Woo artists. More

IMM Cologne

Cologne / 16  - 22 January

Germany's annual furniture trade fest returns in January, including the [D3] Design Talent strand. More


Pressed Chair by London designer Harry Thaler, joint winner of the 2011 [D3] Contest

Home

Earls Court 2 / 15 - 17 January

Home is a new addition to the retail trade show calendar. Headed up by Ian Rudge, co-founder of 100% Design, it showcases interior accessories, lighting and occasional furniture. More

Football Players' Knees vases by Harry Thaler

Altitude Design Summit

Salt Lake City / 18 - 21 January

Interiors and lifestyle blogging in the US is the chick lit of the design world. Alt. Design is the scene's annual shindig, a gathering of bloggers, social media queens and online entrepreneurs. More

Also

• Ideal Home, Carol McNicoll and others Marsden Woo until 22 December. More
• The Power of Making V&A until 2 January. More
• Present Collectibles Contemporary Applied Arts until 7 January. More
• ECKO 1922-1970 Southend Central Museum until 8 January. More
• This is Design Design Museum until 22 January. More
• Building The Revolution Royal Academy of Arts until 22 January. More
• 20 Years of Dazed and Confused Somerset House until 29 January. More
• Forgotten Spaces 2011 Somerset House until 29 January. More
• OMA/Progress Barbican until 19 February. More
• The Way We Live Now Design Museum until 4 March More

Our next e-Bulletin is on January 15. Though the London Design Festival takes place over nine days in September, we're working all year round to shine a light on design activities taking place in London.

If you know of an event that you think deserves to be included, let us us know. Meanwhile, a quick mention for long-time Festival friends, the writers' organisaton 26, who are producing a book about the 26 Treasures project that debuted at the 2010 London Design Festival. After its appearance at the V&A, 26 Treasures spread its wings to musems in Scotland, Wales and Northern Ireland. The book is a crowd funded project; if you're interested, take a look and sign up.