October e-Bulletin

Your chance to win a Braun Watch from the Classic Range - plus London Design Festival bags filled with prizes for five runners up! We need to hear your opinions on the London Design Festival 2011. Complete the survey below for your chance to win a prize.

Please take 5 minutes to answer a few questions on your Festival experiences - it'll help next year's Festival even better than before. 

With the 2011 Festival behind us, we move on to bringing you news of what's happening in design in London and beyond. Look out for TYPO London which starts later this week; we have three pairs of tickets to it. See below. 

The London Design Festival Survey

Now the dust has settled, we need you to help us by letting us know what you thought of the London Design Festival 2011. We really value your feedback. If you can spare five minutes of your time to complete our survey, we want to offer you the chance to enter a prize draw to win a Braun Watch from the Classic Range - plus London Design Festival bags filled with prizes for five runners up.

Complete the survey

... and what a Festival it was!

We think it was our best yet. The New York Times crowned London "the place to check out the latest in boundary-pushing fashions, furnishings and installations". Around 350,000 people visited our programme of 312 projects and events. Click on the images below to revsit a few of 2011's most special moments. 

Events

John Pawson: Perspectives

St Paul's Cathedral / until 16 January

John Pawson's Perspectives, in collaboration with Swarovski, can still be seen at St Paul's by visitors taking some of the Cathedral's guided tours. Details are on our website. More 


Perspectives by John Pawson, Geometric Staircase, St Paul's Cathedral. Photo: Susan Smart

Ai Weiwei: Dropping the Urn

V&A / until 18 March 2012

A selection of ceramic works and photographs made from 1993 to the present day, this exhibition offers a rare opportunity to see these Chinese contemporary artworks by Ai Weiwei. More

Coca-Cola vase by Ai Weiwei; a Neolithic vase (5000-3000 BC) and paint

Granmateria II

Gallery Libby Sellers / until 7 December

Now in its new permanent home, Gallery Libby Sellers looks at designs that elevate ordinary materials into extraordinary products. Features work by Fabien Cappello, Formafantasma, Simon Hasan, Stuart Haygarth, Nicolas le Moigne and Nina Tolstrup. More

Slip Lamp by Nicolas le Moigne. Photo: Ambrosetti Droz

This is Design
Design Museum / until 22 January

Exhibition celebrating pieces from the Design Museum's own collection. More 


National Traffic Light system

Surface and Substance: Part I & 2
Part I: Electrum Gallery / until 5 November
Part II: Contemporary Applied Arts / until 12 November

An exhibition of international contemporary enamel jewellery curated by Jessica Turrell, showcasing new and innovative ways of working with enamel. More


Stephen Bottomley

metal + CO Collective
Craft Central / 24 - 30 October

Artist-led group of ten designer-makers showing jewellery, silverware and objects for contemplation. More 

Folio
Royal College of Art / 20 - 25 October

An exhibition of prints from the RCA Printmaking programme celebrating the Royal Shakespeare Company’s 50th birthday. Original lithographs made in 1964 to mark Shakespeare’s quarto-centenary including work by Joe Tilson, Allen Jones, Elizabeth Frink, Norman Ackroyd and Sandra Blow plus new prints by students, staff and invited artists such as Bob & Roberta Smith, Adam Dant and Christiana Baumgartner. More

Also

• Masks by Ben Newman Nobrow Gallery until 11 November More

• The Power of Making V&A until 2 January. More
• Postmodernism: Style and Subversion 1970-90 V&A until 8 January More
• REVOLT / REFORM / RESULT: Post-War Dutch Furniture Rocket Gallery until 27 November More
• Inside Playful Minds Arts Gallery until 28 October More
• Behind Bars Gallery One and a Half until 21 October More

Talks, debates and conferences

TYPO London 2011
Logan Hall / 20 - 22 October

Based on Europe's most successful annual design conference TYPO Berlin, brings together some 1,000 creative communication professionals and students with backgrounds in typography, information and graphic design, digital design for screen and device and UX will have the opportunity to follow an eclectic and inspiring mix of talks by the influential creative thinkers – among them Michael Bierut, Neville Brody, Dale Herigstad, Chip Kidd, Lawrence Weiner, Erik Spiekermann, and many more. More

Win one of three pairs of tickets to attend Typo London 2011. Mention this e-Bulletin on Facebook using this link, then send a link to your Facebook page to us by 6pm 18 October. 

Sir Terry Farrell
V&A / 18 October

The acclaimed architect discusses iconic examples of postmodern architecture, including his design for the 1981 TV-AM building. More

Alejandro Aravena: PUMA.Safe Sustainable Design Lecture
Design Museum / 18 October

The executive director of Elemental S.A discusses his approach to sustainability-informed design, demonstrated in work such as the Monterrey Housing project in Mexico. More

Terry Jones & Neville Brody
V&A / 21October

The founder, creative director and editor-in-chief of style magazine i-D talks with designer Neville Brody. More

i-D

Craving, Collecting and Caring: Album Covers
V&A / 22 October

Gain an insight into the creativity, concept and development of album covers and explore iconic works by renowned cover art designers, artists and photographers. More

Aladdin Sane cover designed by Brian Duffy and Celia Philo

44 Club: The trends obsessing David Rowan
The ICA / 25 October

Wired's Editor-in-Chief discussing emerging technological and digital trends. More

Freda Sack: Typography is our Common Language

St Bride Foundation / 1 November

Freda Sack, co-founder of The Foundry, on the unbreakable bond between the arrangement of letterforms on a page and the thought behind the words. More

D&AD President's Lecture: Alexandra Taylor

Manchester Conference Centre / 3 November

Mutliple-award winning art director Alexandra Taylor offers an insight into five ads she thinks were worth it. More

When technology design provokes errors

Manchester Conference Centre / 3 November

Ever forget your credit card in a chip and pin reader? This lunch hour lecture is about how technology design can increase - or decrease - our likelihood of making mistakes. More

Roger Law, Ah Xian, Felicity Aylieff, Takeshi Yasuda & Amanda Gam

V&A / 4 November

Hear sculptor and creator of Spitting Image Roger Law and potters Ah Xian, Felicity Aylieff and Takeshi Yasuda discuss their joint experience of making ceramics in China. More