I haven’t been to the thames river since I was 13 years old – it just never occured to me that I needed to go there when I was in london. but tonight I was invited at the design museum, which is on the south bank of the thames, for the opening of the designers in residence show. it’s an annual exhibition that forms part of the london design festival. talented new product and furniture designers who graduated within the last five years are invited to transform an area of the museum. so I found myself in the entrance hall of the museum where a lot fancy, designish lookalikes were hanging around and were enjoying the free drinks. I had some nice moments and these are some I am gonna share with you.. and I really liked to see the thames at night. again.

design museum

london bridge

the designer attitude

freddie yauner, designer and rose ethrington, dezeen editor

freddie yauner – continuous bench which flows in and around the design museum tank, the white bench is made of paper

matthew falla + lea jagendorf – interactive wall, which combines access to information about key pieces from the museum’s pernament collection

cicada brooch, 2006

sleeping soundly in the jaws of a wolf, 2006

the first time I saw the work of kelly mccallum a couple of weeks ago, just by browsing through the internet. currently she is exhibiting at the selfridges wonderwall and when I got there on sunday it was the first time that i was glad to be in the department store. kelly creates sculptures and jewellery and is interested in the stories of how things age, how they decay or are preserved, are forgotten, covered in shrouds of grime, only to be found again and given new meanings by our own sentimentality. in simple words: she is adding value to minor things.

Curating and producing international shows is designersblock‘s specialty. their current project are the selfridges window displays in london. 7 artists and designers were invited to create 7 unique window designs. I show you 5 of the 7.

postlerferguson

kithkin

[we]make

matthew plummer fernandez

toby summerskill
jim rokos

sorry for mirroring. lalala

on monday I started my internship at dezeen, online design and architecture magazine. marcus fairs, former editor of icon magazine, runs the buisness with his wife rupinder boghal and his right-hand woman rose etherington. the office is homely and inviting and this is the place where I spend my weekdays. It’s my desk.

the eames plastic armchair looks after my jacket

an unpacked front table

twenty-first century design,
a book by marcus fairs – an encyclopaedia of design