Bodil Soderlund will be creating a ceramic and sound installation in the dramatic tunnel to the Farmiloe building entrance. Read More…
Bodil Soderlund at Designersblock 2011
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011Patrick Stevenson-Keating at Designersblock 2011
Wednesday, September 14th, 2011
Quantam Parallelograph
We are delighted to have Patrick Stevenson-Keating exhibiting his Quantum Parallelograph. Read More…
801 Designers – Niloufar Afnan
Monday, September 5th, 2011
Niloufar Afnan – Royal Stool
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801 Designers – Kim Norton at Designersblock
Wednesday, August 24th, 2011
Newmakers at Designersblock 2011
Wednesday, August 10th, 2011
Farmiloe Building
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Designersblock 2011 is going to be held in the Farmiloe Building in Clerkenwell. You might remember being there during Clerkenwell Design Week, or Designersblock in 2004. We’re back this year – it’s our favourite site for our show.
Confluence: The future for Europe’s creative economies.
Friday, August 5th, 2011
Designersblock together with the European Commission in the UK present a one day conference exploring key issues and opportunities facing Europe’s creative economies. Creativity will be the driver of future European economies but is it understood? In what ways will its impact be felt by traditional industries and infrastructures? The digital economy is already changing the marketplace for ideas. How will we be affected, as consumers and service providers? Where will we work and how can creativity revitalise our cities? What can Government and higher education learn if it is to effectively support entrepreneurialism and the growth of the creative economy? What does a new generation of creatives think? The day promises lively debate and original thought, involving 16 speakers from industry, education, government and across the creative sector.
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Ung8 at Designersblock London 2011
Monday, August 1st, 2011Ung are exhbiting with DB London 2011.
Ung is a recurrent, juried, travelling exhibition open to young Swedish designers. The project was initiated by Svensk Form and Form/Design Center in 1998. Previous exhibitions created quite a stir both in Sweden and internationally, and many of the past exhibitors are well established within their respective fields today.
The Auction Room
Thursday, July 28th, 2011
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.
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Designersblock London 2010 Internet round up
Tuesday, October 12th, 2010
Always nice to have a quick trawl around the internet and see what people have been saying about the show. Lovely response this year from among others Design Week, Core 77, Dezeen, Designboom, Inhabitat, The Crafts Council, Architonic, Coolhunting, Conran, as well as some well informed bloggers.
The BBC and Vice have both done exceptionally nice things recently about people we had in the show namely Katrin Baumgarten and Vanessa Harden.
Here are a few links with some thumbnail pictures of the relevant work. Read More…
