The Design Festival and much more.......2011

17 August 2011 Join us on Exactly one month to go! The countdown begins to the world's most creative design festival. With so much going on we like to highlight some of the events you might want to go and see. That's why in the run up to the London Design Festival this e-Bulletin devotes itself to showcasing some of the key events we have coming up during the Festival. Over the next few weeks you'll be receiving news about our own Landmark Projects – specially commissioned by the London Design Festival. And with even more Partners taking place this Festival, you'll be getting regular updates about their work too. Recommend Tweet London Design Festival Landmark Projects Ronan & Erwan Bouroullec: Textile Field The V&A / 17-25 September Given the run of almost the entire Victoria and Albert Museum to work in, French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec have chosen to tranform The Raphael Gallery, collaborating with the Danish textile manufacturer Kvadrat to give the public a very different perspective on the 16th century masterpieces. More Visualisation for Textile Field by Ronan & Erwan Bourroullec Murray Moss: Industrial Revolution 2.0 V&A / 17 - 25 September Will 3D printing revolutionise production? New York design gallerist Murray Moss ponders the fast-developing phenomenon of 3D printing by curating an exhibition throughout the V&A's galleries of extraordinary works that could not have been made without the technology. More Bloom table lamp by Patrick Jouin John Pawson: Perspectives St Paul's Cathedral / 17 - 25 September If it's the Festival's ambition to show the best of design in London's public spaces, there are few such places as iconic as St Paul's. With Perspectives, a grand master of minimalism gives us a entirely new way of seeing one of architecture's classics. More John Pawson in the Geometric Tower at St Paul's. Photo Philip Sinden London Design Film Deadline / 9 September Do you make films? And love design? Win one of three top-of-the-range Wacom Intuos4 Wireless pen tablets in our London Design Film competition. The best short films will be featured on wallpaper.com/video where you can vote for the winner - plus we'll be showing the shortlisted entries at the Digital Hub at the V&A. Rough and ready or slick and professional, we're looking for movies that express the creativity and excitment of design in London. More Wacom Intuos4 Partner events designjunction Victoria House Basement / 22 - 25 September Hitch Mylius, Cappellini, Benchmark, Another Country, Beau McClellan, Anglepoise, Jake Dyson, Globe Zero, Bocci and more line up to be part of designjunction's debut at the London Design Festival 2011. More Victoria House Basement 12:grn:hrs - design a green car in a day Design Council / 23 September Design a green car in a day? That's the provocative eco-challenge set by Green Car Design. Working intensely with professional car designers and environmental experts, could you conceive a low carbon vehicle in 12 hours? More Green Car Design The Power of Making The V&A Porter Gallery / 6 September - 2 January 2012 The V&A and the Crafts Council celebrate the role of making in our lives with an exuberantly eclectic selection of over 100 made objects, by amateurs and professionals. More Crochetdermy bear by Shauna Richardson Thierry Dreyfus: Wall Rupture for Flos Atrium / 19 - 23 September A dramatic beam of golden light produced by twisting LED light threads erupts the wall's surface to create this dramatic lighting installation by Drefus at Atrium's newly redesigned Centrepoint showroom. More Wall Rupture by Theirry Drefus Republic of Fritz Hansen Repubic of Fritz Hansen / 17 - 25 September The Danish Design brand Republic of Fritz Hansen, founded by the legendary Arne Jacobson collaborator Fritz Hansen, lands in London, launching its new store as part of the London Design Festival. More Republic of Fritz Hansen Graphic Design Walk East London / 23 September Join a hosted graphic design walk through the studios of 15 of London's women graphic designers, ending the day with an evening of celebration. More Enlightened Waste Marion Friedman Gallery / 17 - 25 September French-Mexican designer Thierry Jeannot and Austrian artist Gisela Stiegler use waste packaging material to create enchanting light objects, inluding a chandelier made out of 1500 PET bottles, made with the help of poor Mexico City inhabitants. More Chandelier by Thierry Jeannot B&B Italia B&B Italia, Brompton Rd / 17 - 25 September Celebrating the 10th anniversary of their London store, B&B Italia present their latest collection featuring designs by Antonio Citterio, Patricia Urquiola, Gabriele and Oscar Buratti - as well as the latest edition of Jeffrey Bernett's Landscape chaise longue. More Landscape by Jeffrey Bernett Martha Freud Design: Mixed Messages Camley Street Natural Park / 17 - 25 September Martha Freud heads to a Wildlife Trust natural park for an exhibition to introduce a new collection of objects and lights inspired by our urge to label and compartmentalise. More Talking Tealights by Martha Freud Vitsœ: Made by Britain Vitsœ / 26 August - 14 October With its production HQ in Camden exporting to over 50 countries, Vitsœ underscore their role as an exemplar of design-led British manufacture with an exhibition in their showroom demonstrating their local supply chain, plus a series of talks on the year's hottest design topic; how can we best champion homegrown production? More Vitsœ's 606 Shelving System designed by Dieter Rams Mind Over Matter: Alan Fletcher’s The Art of Looking Sideways Kemistry Gallery / 25 August - 1 October Marking the tenth anniversary of the publication of The Art of Looking Sideways by the late graphic design icon Alan Fletcher, Kemistry Gallery present an exhibition of original material and notes documenting thirty years of Fletcher's work. More Alan Fletcher London International Creative Competition Awards Ceremony Richmix / 19 September Book tickets for the awards ceremony for this juried competition for innovative visual arts.More