- Workshop
- Saturday to Sunday 1-4pm
- www.typetasting.com/
- Free Event
Have you ever wondered what a font might smell or taste like? Or what your choice of font says about your personality? Join innovative type expert Sarah Hyndman to explore a series of multi-sensory games with type.
- Installation
- Brompton Design District
- Mon-Sun 10am-5.45pm
Designers Laetitia de Allegri and Matteo Fogale have collaborated with Johnson Tiles to create Mise-en-abyme, a colourful and immersive installation for the bridge over the Medieval and Renaissance galleries in the V&A.
Barnaby Barford: The Tower of Babel
- Installation
- Brompton Design District
- Mon-Sun 10am-5.45pm
A major sculptural installation created for the V&A by artist Barnaby Barford, The Tower of Babel, tells an array of stories about our capital city, our society and economy and ourselves as consumers.
- Installation
- Brompton Design District
- Mon-Sun 10am-5.45pm
Inspired by the Art Nouveau movement, renowned Austrian design duo mischer’traxler have collaborated with boutique champagne house Perrier-Jouët to bring a sensual, interactive installation to the V&A’s Norfolk House Music Room.
- Pop-Up Shop
- Brompton Design District
- Mon-Sun 10am-5.45pm
For the first time, the London Design Festival is playing shopkeeper with the introduction of a pop up design shop. Created in partnership with the V&A, the stand-alone shop will sell a curated selection of design-related products alongside Festival merchandise.
The Finnish Institute in London
- Kings Cross
- 19 - 20 September and 26 - 27 September
- 10am to 5pm.
- The event is for children and adults of all ages and it is free of charge.
- Wonder(fin)land, The Finnish Institute in London, Unit 1, 3 York Way, London N1C 4AE
The celebrated Wonder(fin)land workshops travel from Helsinki Design Week to give children and their parents a chance to create their own table settings with products by Finnish design houses Iittala and Marimekko. The Alice in Wonderland inspired workshops are the brainchild of two Finnish designers: colour and material designer and trend specialist Eeva Raitio and interior and production designer Tiina Paavilainen.
- Craft Central
- Exhibition
- Clerkenwell Design Quarter
- Mon, Wed-Fri 12pm-7pm, Tue 12pm-9pm, Sat-Sun 11am-6pm
- Free Event
Wood, metal, cloth, ceramics, glass and cork: a diverse collection of art, objects and accessories. This group exhibition explores materials, techniques and the environment, providing an intriguing insight into the many making and thought processes involved. Starts 15th September.
- Pop-Up Shop
- Sat & Sun 11.00am - 5pm (ONLY 26 & 27)
- www.craftyfoxmarket.co.uk
Crafty Fox Markets connect savvy shoppers with talented designer / makers. Meet the artists, browse the stalls and enjoy a drink from the bar. Shopping with soul.
- Workshop
- Mon-Sun 10am-10pm (NOT THIS WEEKEND)
- blackhorseworkshop.co.uk
The Makers Playground takes over Blackhorse Workshop, providing the antidote to all things too serious. A crowd of makers propose objects, participative workshops, after dark events, outdoor installations, off-grid cinema, a fantastic machine for serving drinks and new designs on the dance floor.
- Exhibition
- Shoreditch Design Triangle
- Mon-Sat 11am-7pm (NOT SUNDAY)
- designed-crafted.com
From sand-etched glass and wood, embellished textiles and porcelain, to bird skulls and preserved fish skins, this is where cutting edge craft meets dreamland. Contemporary craft at its best in this delightfully intimate gallery from a select group of members of the Society of Designer Craftsmen.