South Bank Centre

A programme packed with activities, seminars and installations for all ages.
Size + Matter
13 – 30 September
Throughout the festival and open for viewing at all times.
For the second year the Festival has commissioned a leading architect/designer to create a dramatic installation for the Southbank Centre. David Adjaye created a pavilion made of American Tulipwood, where visitors are able to walk inside and experience the material and design first hand.
Free entry, open to the public at all times.
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Giant Japanese Jamboree
Saturday 13 September, 11am
Enjoy a packed programme of activities and demonstrations for everyone, including Japanese games, origami, manga-drawing, storytelling, taiko drumming, kimono, and yose-moji calligraphy workshops.
Free admission.
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BBC Blast
Sunday 14 September, 2pm
Designer Ella Doran hosts a 'Design Your Own Tray' event as part of the BBC Blast programme. A winning participant (aged between 13-19 years old) will have their design produced into a tray, with a limited run being sold at Southbank Centre Shop. There is also an opportunity to talk to Ella, for anyone seeking advice on starting a career in design.
Free admission.
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Business of Design
15 – 19 September, 8am.
In collaboration with the Financial Times. A programme of seminars exploring the synergy between business and creativity; London's top two industry sectors. The sessions, addressed by small panels of leading business and creative figures, look on key issues relating to business and its relationship with creativity. The topics for the sessions are Creative Cities, Intellectual property rights, creative brands, teaching creativity and sustainable design.
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Eureka 2008
11 – 18 September.
Celebrating the collaborations between designers, retailers and manufacturers in bringing to market new products by James Ryan for Ercol, People will always need plates for Royal Doulton, Margo Selby for Habitat, Michelle Mason for the South Bank Centre Shop, Chris Eckersley for Neville Johnson and Miranda Watkins in collaboration with Wentworth Pewter. These 6 designs form the shortlist of the Eureka Design Award 2008 - which designer do you think deserves to win the £2,000 prize?
Eureka is a Design-Nation initiative supported by the London Development Agency.
Free admission.
More on the Eureka website

Digital Design Day
17 September, 9.30am
The First staging of a day, dedicated to all things digital design, with installations and interactive elements to please everyone. Come and get your hands on the latest technology and be inspired by a range of demonstrations and performances from across the digital community. Digital Design Day is scheduled to include a 2-hour session run by Apple on techniques, tips and insights. The day concludes with the Y-Design Awards; a celebration of the best creative talent in the UK's digital community.
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Sebastian Conran Design Against Crime.
The latest thinking from Sebastian Conran as
part of his contribution to the on-going effort to
use design to defeat criminals. Conran, a founder
member of the Design and Technology Alliance,
presents a range of thinking around design's
ability to reduce crime.
16 September 2008. 10am–11.30am
Level 5 Function Room, Royal Festival Hall
Southbank Centre, Belvedere Road. London SE1 8XX
Free entry
 

The Y-Design Awards
The YDA is different to other awards schemes in the digital design industry with most rewarding the senior management of the design agency, or the business itself. The YDA however goes straight to the very heart of winning project by recognising the individual designers and technicians that bring the concept to life on the web. Without their key contribution, their agency campaigns would never exist, let alone win awards.
Last year's Y Design Awards were immensely popular with over 420 submissions from 112 UK's leading agencies. We also had submissions from outside the UK which we couldn't allow but this illustrated the growth in awareness of the event.
The Y Design Awards 2008 invites submissions in all categories up until 15th August 2008, after which time a panel of five expert judges will select the winner for each category. The winners of each category will then be revealed at an exclusive awards party in London on 17 September 2008.
Y-Design Awards website.