London Design Festival Party. Image credit: Susan Smart Photography.

The eighth London Design Festival ran from 18 – 26 September and embraced the entire city, the trade fairs – 100% Design, Tent, Origin, Designers Block and the major design schools and colleges. It encouraged design enthusiasts to travel the length and breadth of the city to seek out new talent and concentrations of activity.

Trafalgar Square has become the London Design Festival’s centrepiece. This year Audi sponsored an installation called Outrace, which used eight huge robots to ‘write in light’. More…

At the Southbank Centre, Paul Cocksedge produced the ‘Drop’ installation for the Size + Matter initiative; a huge metal coin as if dropped from the heavens by a giant. More…

Artist and designer Stuart Haygarth worked with John Jones to create a dramatic installation on the grand marble staircase leading to the Architecture Galleries of the V&A. More…

Oskar Zieta arranged his elegant ‘Blow and Roll’ ellipses over the water in the Madejski Garden of the V&A. More…

Thomas Heatherwick, winner of the prestigious London Design Medal, created a feature for the public to use and experience with over 30 of his new Spun Seats. More…

The V&A hosted a very special installation by Paul Cocksedge, ‘A Gust of Wind’ which represent a stack of paper which has been blown into the air by a gust of wind. More…

Max Lamb exhibited his new work, a bench in carved plaster in the magnificent surroundings of the Cast Court, at the V&A. More…

Michael Anastassiades has designed a pendulum light for the Norfolk House Music Room at the V&A. More…

Johnny Hawkes’s Sphelix was the centerpiece of the Covent Garden Design District. Sphelix, a major outdoor sculpture representing the joining of a sphere and a helix. More…

LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL 2010. SOURCE: Camron. PHOTOES: Susan Smart Photography. No part of this web site may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic, mechanical, photocopying, recording or otherwise, without prior permission of Morfae and the copyright owner.