William Shaw

Your comprehensive monthly round up of design events in London and beyond, brought to you by the team behind the London Design Festival.

This edition's highlights include the opening of the Designs of the Year 2012 exhibition at the Design Museum on 8 February. Congratulations go to Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec; their V&A installation Textile Field, produced in collaboration with Kvadrat and commissioned by the London Design Festival, is among this year's nominees.


Textile Field, London Design Festival 2011. Photo Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec

Design Festival and Partner events

John Pawson: Perspectives
St Paul's Cathedral / until mid-February
John Pawson's beautifully minimal installation in the Cathedral's Geometric Staircase was commissioned for the London Design Festival 2011, but it's been so well received that it continues to enjoy an extended run. That run will finally be coming to an end in the middle of next month - closing date to be announced. Keep an eye on our website for details; alsowww.stpaulsperspectives.co.uk where you'll also find details of Swarovski's recreation of a hailstone sketched by Sir Christopher Wren in 1667.

John Pawson with Perspectives at St Paul's Cathedral. Photo Susan Smart

Nicholas Le Moigne
Gallery Libby Sellers / 8 February - 8 March
Solo show by the young Swiss lighting, product and furniture designer Nicholas Le Moigne who exhibited furniture pieces made of the fibre cement Eternit at Libby Sellers back in 2008. More

Gaia plate by Nicholas Le Moigne. Photo by Tonaitiuh Ambrosetti. Courtesy NextLevel Galerie, Paris

Cut & Run
Kemistry Gallery / until 28 January
Group show by British illustrators Jack Teagle, Matthew Bromley, Ryan Chapman and Matthew Dent. More
Animen by Jack Teagle

Behind the Scenes of Sarah Greenwood's Sherlock Holmes
Arts Gallery / 26 January - 9 March
Playful exhibition of production designs for 2009's Guy Ritchie Sherlock Holmes movie and its 2011 follow up Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows, by the Bafta winning and three times Oscar nominated designer Sarah Greenwood. More

Reference material for Sherlock Holmes: A Game of Shadows by Sarah Greenwood

Nendo: Static Bubbles
54, rue de la Verriere, Paris / 21 January - 3 March
Carpenters Workshop head to Paris to exhibit Japanese design studio Nendo's new collections of tables, lamps, vases and bowls, including these lamps made from heating and forming agricultural nets. More

Lamps from Farming Net collection by Nendo

Target the Heart
Electrum Gallery and Contemporary Applied Arts / until March 13
In collaboration with the British Heart Foundation's Mending Broken Hearts Appeal, Electrum's jewellery makers show one off pieces inspired by the theme of the heart. The parallel exhibition by makers at Contemporary Applied Arts closes on February 25. More

Also featured in previous e-Bulletins:

Winter Sale Molteni&C until 18 January More
Mark Braun: Fortune Gallery Libby Sellers until 26 January More
Winter Selection Gallery Fumi until 28 January More
Future Map 11 Zabludowicz Collection until 5 February More
OMA/Progress Barbican Centre until 19 February More
Lost in Lace Birmingham Museum until 19 February More
Send to Print / Print to Send Aram Gallery until 25 February More
Ai Wei Wei: Dropping the Urn V&A until 18 March More

• Opportunities

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National Museum of Science and Technology Milan / 17 - 22 April
Tom Dixon launches a new design destination at Salone del Mobile 2012 at the National Museum of Science and Technology, within walking distance of the Zona Tortona. Dixon intends to create a place to "demonstrate the new democratisation and hyperactive innovation of technology in art, food, fashion, manufacturing and communication." Are you a design organisation interested in submitting a project for MOST? Contact Alice Foster for information and an application form.

Spark: Concept Awards
Deadline / 23 January
Online competition seeking concept design proposals of work the idea or proposal stage, including architectural proposals, concept automobiles and design student work. More

eVolo 2012 Skyscraper Competition
Registration deadline / 17 January
Seeking novel technological, social, material and aesthetic responses to skyscraper design. More

Student Design Challenge
Deadline / February 17
Digital film making competition aimed at designers and artists with a talent for narrative. More

DesignSense
Deadline / 27 January
Competition to develop a toy or a sensory aid to assist children with sensory disorders process their environment. More

Innovative Design Awards 2012
Deadline / 30 January
New broad focused design awards in multiple categories run by Thailand's Chang Mai Creative City project. More

BraunPrize 2012
Deadline / 31 March
Major design competition with separate categories for students (including recent graduates) and professionals, seeking concepts that are not yet in production. More

Green Design Competition
Deadline / 10 February
Environmental concept design competition launched at Dutch Design Week looking for products that contribute to sustaining biodiversity. More 

Talks, debates, workshops

Thomas Heatherwick
King's Place / 16 January
Laurence King Publishing host Thomas Heatherwick discussing some of his award winning projects as part of King's Place's Words on Monday strand. More

Urban Design & Public Health
The Gallery, Cowcross Street / 18 January
Urban Design Group discussion evening on how design can affect public health issues such as obesity and depression. More

Digital Design Drop-in: Manu Luksch

V&A / 21 January
The V&A's programme of digital design drop-in sessions continues with the video artist Manu Luksch whose 2007 film Faceless, narrated by Tilda Swinton, was shot entirely with CCTV footage sequestered under the rules of 1998 Data Protection Act. More
Faceless, 2007, by Manu Luksch

Creativity in the Middle East
Vibe Bar / 25 January
In D&AD's Sharp'ner series, a multidisciplinary panel discus creativity in a region that's undergoing seismic social and political change. More

Dead Wood: The Future of Magazines
V&A / 31 January
V&A Connects debate about the future of periodical print. More

Developing Apps for iPhone and iPad
V&A / 31 January - 27 March
Digital Studio workshop suitable for beginner and intermediate level programmers. More

Oliver Messel
V&A / 4 February
Explore the work of the the great mid-century English stage and interior designer. More

Sound Design
Design Museum / 6 February
Design and neuroscience come together in a discussion about how sound influences the overall sensory product experience. More

Pattern Cutting and Dress Design
V&A / 8 - 10 February
Practical workshop designing and cutting vintage dress patterns. More

A Century of Olympic Posters
V&A / 8 February
Free talk illustrated by posters from the V&A's collection. More

After Utopia
Barbican Centre / 9 February
Architecture writer Owen Hatherley and architectural historian David Heathcote discuss the OMA exhibition at the Barbican Art Gallery. More

Longlunch with Lava
Design Museum / 13 February
The Dutch team, named European Design Agency of the Year 2010, discussing, among other things, how to run a design agency without account managers. More

Getting Noticed: Marketing for you and your business
V&A / 14 February
A V&A Connects event offering creative freelancers a chance to learn that art of selling themselves with input from experienced professionals. More

More events

Designs of the Year 2012

Design Museum / 8 February - 15 July
The Design Museum's Designs of the Year Awards and exhibition always provide a great overview of recent stand-out work across the disciplines; previous winners include the Plumen light bulb and Min-Kyu Choi's Folding Plug. This year's 88 nominees range from the 2012 Olympic Velodrome by Hopkins Architects and three nominations for designs by BarberOsgerby, to the Duchess of Cambridge's Wedding Dress by Sarah Burton. Alongside the 2011 London Design Festival's Textile Field by Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec, another Festival hit, Noma Bar's hands on Cut It Out paper cutting machine, is also picked in the Graphics category. More

Noma Bar's Cut It Out paper cutting machine at Outline Editions, London Design Festival 2011

Interiors UK 2012
NEC Birmingham / 22- 25 January
Large-scale interiors trade fair featuring trends forecasts and New Design Britain Awards.More

Peaucellier Lamp by Roland Bevan, finalist New Design Britain Award, Interiors UK 2012

Hark

Old Shoreditch Station / 26 January - 26 March
Jaguar Shoes present an exhibition by set designer Andy Macgregor and graphic designer Audrey Roger, collectively paper artists Hark, who are filling the venue with their totemic paper sculptures. More

Beavers by Hark

Lloyd Johnson: The Modern Outfitter
Chelsea Space / 24 January - 3 March
Curated by Paul Gorman, this exhibition celebrates the career of the King's Road and Kensington Market outfitter, beloved by the rock generation of the 70s and 80s. More

Lloyd Johnson's King's Road shop

Electroboutique Pop-up
Science Museum / until 14 November
Russian artists Alexei Shulgin and Aristarkh Chernyshev, Electroboutique, create interactive artworks which subtly communicate strong critical attitudes about progress, technology and design. More

Knode by by Aristarkh Chernyshev. 2009

The Incredible Lightness of Being: Jiří Pelcl - Czech Design
University of Brighton Art Gallery / until 20 February
Exhibition of the work of Czech designer Jiří Pelcl. More

Luxury Sofa by Jiří Pelcl

Maison&Object Paris
Paris Nort Villepinte / 22- 24 January
January means it's time for Paris's sprawling biannual interiors and furniture trade fair. More
Matt Pugh's Owls, British European Design Group in Hall 8

IDS12
Metro Toronto Convention Centre / 26 - 29 January
Canada's contemporary design trade show returns for its 14th year. More

Dharma Lounge chair by Calgary-based design practice Palette Industries

Stockholm Design Week
Various Locations, Stockholm / 7 - 11 February
Featuring Stockholm Furniture Fair and Northern Light Fair. More

Woodstock Chair by Woodstockholm, Stand A16:50

Power Games
Dreamspace Gallery / 6 - 23 February
Matthew Fagg's documentary photos of 1980s game playing machines reveal a cultural and aesthetic thread running through 1980s design. Meanwhile Paula Gortazar's photographic record of the 80s interiors of the European parliament buildings provides interesting resonances. More
Atari by Matthew Fagg

Design>Icons
De Overkant, Amsterdam / 11 - 12 February
A 20th century furniture design fair showing vintage classics in a disused shipyard. More

Alvar Aalto model 44 Chair, on sale from Firefly House

Secure by Design
Bank of England Museum / until 23 March
Exhibition about the design and production of the new Boulton & Watt £50 note. More

Indigo
Bourse de Commerce, Paris / 19 - 20 January
The roaming textile design show Indigo makes its Paris debut. Look out for UK graduate design organisation ARTS THREAD there. More

Also featured in previous e-Bulletins:

HOME Earls Court 2 15 - 17 January More
IMM Cologne 16 - 22 January More
This is Design Design Museum until 22 January More
20 Years of Dazed & Confused Somerset House until 29 January More
Forgotten Spaces Somerset House until 29 January More
Mixed Display Marsden Woo until 11 February More
Terence Conran The Way We Live Now Design Museum until 4 March More