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8 September 2011 Join us on Less than ten days to go; across London there's a real sense of activity as people put the final touches to their exhibitions. Tickets are on sale and some exhibitions are already up and running. Below are some of the events we'd recommend you keen an eye on. Recommend Tweet London Design Festival projects AL_A: Timber Wave V&A / 17 - 25 September While much of the preparation for this year's Festival goes on behind closed doors, Amanda Levete's Timber Wave, a Festival Landmark Project, was being built this week in full public view. It's a remarkable construction created from American red oak. As Levete told last weekend's Observer, "Here we have an opportunity to really explore and experiment." More Google Design Lectures V&A / 17, 23 and 24 September Can design make us happier? What is design's role in a new DIY hacker economy? How far can a designer go to make people behave differently? What is the future for digital design? The Google Design Lectures are an exciting new way of presenting design thinking as a dynamic dialogue with the audience. Featuring J. Paul Neeley, The Future Laboratory, Charlotte Jarvis, onedotzero, Chris Sanderson, Daljit Singh, Technology Will Save Us, Simon Waterfall, Professor Richard Wiseman and others. More Breakfast Talks: Marcel Wanders V&A / 23 September The Observer describes him as, "one of the most inspiring powerhouses of multi-disciplinary design active today”. Start your Festival day with Moooi founder Marcel Wanders in conversation. More Marcel Wanders More events Gallery Libby Sellers Opening Exhibition Gallery Libby Sellers / 17 September - 15 October After four years of temporary pop-ups. it's great to see Gallery Libby Sellers finding a permanent home in Berners Street, opening for the Festival with an exhibition by ceramicists Formafantasma. More From Moulding Tradition by Formafantasma Noma Bar: Cut It Out Outline Editions / 17 - 30 September Already generating a buzz, Bar's hands on exhibition for Outline Editions allows you to create your own cut-out artworks. In the first of a series of films for the London Design Festival, Crane.tv tells the personal story behind his fascination with negative space. More Cut It Out by Noma Bar Faye Toogood: Delicate Interference Phillips de Pury & Company / 16 September - 4 October Designer Faye Toogood's third furniture collection plays with ideas of iridescence - the delicate interference - creating furniture which is a clever interplay between material, form and finish. More Visualisation for Spade Chair from Assemblage 3 by Faye Toogood Designersblock London 2011 Farmiloe Building / 22- 25 September Europe House / 14- 30 September Free registration is now open for this year's Designersblock London - one of this year's stand-out Design Destinations featuring over 100 British and international designers. This year Designersblock also present Confluence, a one day conferene exploring key issues facing Europe's creative economies on September 13 – plus a design exhibition at Europe House curated by Designersblock. More Multiplex at The Dock Portobello Dock / 19 - 25 September Hosted by Tom Dixon, the waterside complex The Dock continues to develop as a favourite Design Destination for Festival-goers. Alongside the Tom Dixon Shop's own launches, Multiplex features guests like Fine Cell Work, Print Club London featuring Anthony Burrill, James Joyce and Pure Evil, a second restaurant, a trail of Aston Martin's lastest designs, Marcel Wanders' Moooi Mermaids at Moooi's White Building – even a flatpack boat. More The Dock Oxo Tower Wharf Bargehouse Street / 9 September - 2 October Buzzier than ever, Oxo Tower Wharf swings into action this week with the African and African-Caribbean Design Diaspora multi-disciplinary exhibition ?Choices!, Wagumi's Creative Connections, plus 26 designers studios and a programme of events, including Miranda Watkins Design's Spin and Little + Collins Textile Floorstyle. More Oxo Tower Wharf Limited Edition Showcase Southbank Centre Shop, Festival Terrace / 1 - 25 September An exhibit of new thrones from This is a Limited Edition in editions of only 33, featuring bold, graphic artwork from artists including Silvia Ji and Dan Baldwin. More Whimsical World Throne by Caramelaw This Is Not a Pop-up Southbank Centre Shop, Hayward Gallery / 1 - 22 September Tina Tsang of Undergrowth exhibits her quirky, surreal tableware. More Tableware By Tina Tsang From Undergrowth Design Thomas Feichtner Hands-On Design Austrian Cultural Forum Gallery / 13 September - 26 October The first solo exhibition by Vienna-based designer Thomas Feichtner lays bare some of the experimental approaches behind his work. More Fruit Bowl by Thomas Feichtner UK China Art and Design Festival Great Western Studios / 9 - 23 September The exhibition Cheers2011, featuring work from William Chen at Foster + Partners, award-winning textile designer Elaine Ng; photographer Trunk Xu, fashion designer Vega Wang and other creatives, runs alongside a series of forums and workshops. More From Chairs for the Dysfunctional by Alice Wang The Passion of Simplicity: Nedda El-Asmar The Mosaic Rooms, A.M. Qattan Foundation / 9 - 28 September Debut solo UK exhibition by the award-winning Belgian-Palestinian designer and silversmith Nedda El-Asmar featuring over 100 high end products. More Bartabas Saddle for Hermes by Nedda El-Asmar A Pylon For The Future V&A / 14 September The RIBA, DECC and National Grid Pylon Design Competition set a challenge to rethink a crucial but controversial feature of modern Britain: the electricity pylon. Hear from Energy and Climate Change Secretary Chris Huhne, design leaders and the competition shortlist, as they explore the challenge of how to meet the energy demands of future generations whilst preserving the beauty of our countryside. More In Tandem: Silver-Where? Venue / Date In Tandem is a platform highlighting the work of recent graduates from the Royal College of Art Goldsmithing, Silversmithing, Metalwork & Jewellery department. They have created an installation of remade adn reinterpreted domestic objects. More The Jameel Prize V & A / until 25 September Shortlisted artists and designers for the bi-annual international prize for work inspired by Islamic traditions of art, craft and design span a geographical region stretching from North America, to France, Algeria, Egypt, Pakistan, Iraq and Iran. More ditto tv: Campfire with Shane Walter The Lighthouse / 15 September Shane Walter of onedotzero arrives at ditto tv's monthly Campfire evening to discuss the state of digital culture; plus an exhibition of work by digital creative studio SDNA. More Shane Walter Pre Campfire from ditto campfire on Vimeo. Our next e-Bulletin is on 15 September. Look out for news about the preview of Textile Field by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Sebastian Bergne's Lego Greenhouse and more. For a complete listing of events at this year's London Design Festival, go to our Events page. If you're tweeting, remember that the hashtag for this year's Festival is #ldf11. 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