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Top 10 Interactive Events at the London Design Festival 2007
This year's festival proves that design—more than ever—is an interactive experience. Throughout the next 10 days there are plenty of workshops, talks and one-day events across the city where everyone gets a chance to be a designer. Below are our top 10 recommendations (again, in alphabetical order) for getting involved. 1.) Blueprints Design Talks The series of seminars hosted by the magazine provides a...

Top 10 Things to See at the London Design Festival 2007
It’s the official launch of the London Design Festival tomorrow, which will precipitate thousands of people to leave their own little corner of the city or the world and start zig-zagging across town in order to take in the latest and greatest innovations in design. As the Festival gets larger and longer every year, the variety of talent on show grows as well and...

Resfest London: Design Saturday
Celebrating their 10th anniversary, Resfest's hitting London this week and the Design Saturday program, happening tomorrow, 18 November 2006, has a line-up featuring the calibre of artists and designers we've come to expect from Res. In yet another Iron chef-style design battle Designer's Republic will go head to head designing a video in competion with D.A.D.D.Y., who will also appear on a panel with...

Cockpit Arts at Canary Wharf
As much as the London Design Festival promotes creativity in the UK, it’s also (obviously) a chance for new designers to raise their profile and attract investors. Marrying creative talent with retail, Cockpit Arts, London's mega-nonprofit offering designers affordable workspace and business support, has commissioned installations from two designers for the Canary Wharf Window Galleries, a busy shopping center located in London's burgeoning Docklands...

The London Design Challenge
A participatory highlight of London's Design Festival, the London Design Challenge tasks members of the design community and general public with imagining ways to make London a better place to live and visit. With transport, entertainment, street-life, environment and housing themes, ideas so far include Poke's painting London white (an homage to This Boy's Life?), as well as Tom Dixon's electric bus and Barbara...

V for Vendetta Artwork Exhibition
Regardless of whether or not the Wachowski's forthcoming movie take on graphic novel V For Vendetta is any good, the promotional artwork is undoubtedly fantastic. Concept Arts has stayed true to British artist David Lloyd's original comic book creations, many of which are going on show in London at The Guardian's newsroom from next Tuesday, 7 March 2006. As part of the ten-day exhibition,...