The Auction Room

Thursday, July 28th, 2011
The Auction Room

The Auction Room

The exhibition is the auction room. The auction room is the exhibition. All its elements, from the chairs to the hammer, made by exciting designers are up for auction. Come visit the exhibition and place a bid* on your favourite piece. On Sunday, the bartering will take place.

The Auction Room is an exhibition curated by Mariana Pestana and Designersblock, for The London Design Festival.

The exhibition will display bespoke objects especially commissioned to reflect upon the theme of ‘fake’ and arranged as to form an immersive experience that evokes the scenario of an auction.

The exhibition encourages the viewer to ‘decode’ the display narrative: playing on reality and fiction, The Auction Room questions the format of exhibitions and the role that they play in the contemporary context of design.

It will culminate in an exciting night where the auction will happen and the audience will be able to take home amazing design pieces without spending a penny*.

Designers include

Alex Hellum
Monika Piatkowski
Hendzel and Hunt
Postler Ferguson
Studio 801
Graphic Relief
Paul Bishop
Hugo Passos
Yehrin Tong
Jorun Hognesen
Thomas Ives
Katrin Baumgarten
Rosemary Anrude
Max Cairn
Harry Trimble
Felix How

* offers might be a collection of vintage vinyl, design services, other design pieces, a weeks holiday in Greece…anything except money.

The Auction Room will take place at

Farmiloe Building
St John St
London
EC1M 4AY

The Exhibition opens on the 21st of September and continues until the 25th when the Auction will take place.

Logos

Logos

Designersblock London 2011 Farmiloe building Clerkenwell

Friday, July 22nd, 2011
Outer Space

Outer Space

Designersblock’s 14th annual London show will take place between the 22nd and 25th of September 2011. We welcome applications from individual designers regardless of discipline, design collectives, universities , manufacturers, creative agencies, artists and others who understand and appreciate our approach and values. Read More…

Work Shop a retail project from Kingston University

Thursday, July 14th, 2011
Kingston Market House

Kingston Market House

Today sees the launch of ‘Work Shop’ a retail project from Kingston University.

The launch takes place between 4.30 and 8 PM.

The Work Shop is part of the activity in around the town centre supported by Kingston First and Includes products from Nuu, All Lovely Stuff,, Rosemary Anrude, James Shaw, Kenyon Yeh, as well as products from alumni and staff of the university. Read More…

New Designers 2011 Patrick Stevenson-Keating and his Quantum Parallelograph

Monday, July 11th, 2011
Quantam Parallelograph

Quantam Parallelograph

We were delighted to award a New Designers associate prize to Patrick Stevenson-Keating from the Univerity of Dundee for his Quantum Parallelograph project. The device explores the possibility of alternate lives and encourages people of all ages to become involved in physics. Read More…

Designersblock London 2011

Friday, July 8th, 2011
DB London 2011

DB London 2011

Designersblock’s 14th annual London show will take place between the 22nd and 25th of September 2011. We welcome applications from individual designers regardless of discipline, design collectives, universities , manufacturers, creative agencies, artists and others who understand and appreciate our approach and values. Space within the show is available at 100 per sq metre, minimum stand size 10sq metres.

Farmiloe Building
34 St John Street
London
EC1M 4AY

10.00 – 19.00

Register here for free entry

Upcoming projects include working with Kingston University to develop their creative industries course, this will include research initiatives, conference content development and mentoring of MA students. Also being planned is an exhibition and conference at Europe House in Smith Square for the European Union, looking at the history and future of the creative industries since the term was coined in 1998.