International design calendar gets back into full swing

Get some inspiration from the usual September design events: 

Maison&Objet - 10-14 SEPTEMBER 2026

HOUBI BUDDY Planter

ADÈLE GOULET Bulb

C'EST BIEN FAIT

London Design Festival
12–20 September 2026

MADE x Barbican

Stoneline gallery

London Design Festival

Еvery September the London Design Festival celebrates design. This year, Design Week are hosting several events during the festival, including a panel talk on building brand awareness featuring NB Studio creative director, Nick Finney, a discussion at Design Junction called Dyslexic Design, based on an exhibition of the same name, a panel talk about the future of packaging, and a session with Supergraphics founders, Eva Kellenberger and Sebastian White. This year  100% Design has increased its exhibition space by 20 per cent. Have a look at some interesting new designs that can be seen: 

Fluorescent wallpaper by Elli Popp

Jester corkscrew by Marcel Wanders

 OLED Light by LG Display, designed by Ron Arad

Swedish Design Pavilion

Kepi armchair by Saba

The world’s lightest wood table

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Ripple is an experimental prototype for an ultra-lightweight timber table. This elegant minimalist design created by London-based designer Benjamin Hubert with  Canadian manufacturer Corelam is made using 70-80% less material than a standard timber table and can be assembled and manoeuvred by a single person.. Ripple is 2.5 metres long, one metre wide and weighs only 9 kilograms.  It is produced from three ply 0.8mm birch aircraft plywood, using an innovative production process of corrugating plywood which makes it stronger. Even legs are made from it.  It was part of Hubert’s Antecedents show at The Aram Gallery during London Design festival 2013.

Beautiful ceramics at London Design Festival 2013

ceramics by Ikuko Iwamoto

Dandelion lamp by Amy Cooper - Ceramics in the City exhibitor 2013 at the Geffrye Museum 

Аrgentina - Ambos, 100%Design

 ‘Britain in a Bowl’- Billy tableware, exclusive to The New Craftsmen

VW+BS - Silt collection, a tea service made from rare Chinese 'purple clay.'

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Reena Makwana at Imprint

The London Design Festival 2013

Two trends that I notice and that I like very much: graphic design and
African-inspired design:

Darkroom So Sottsass cushions

A graphic cork installation by FAT architecture for cork producer Amorim lines one of the V&A's walkways. Photography: Ed Reeves source

Lights by Atelier de Troupe

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Richard Brendon for Paternity

 Ade cushion, made with vintage West African wax cloth and part of a limited edition run. 

Hand-woven basket from Northern Ghana

,  All of these beautiful designs are part of Graphic Africa, an exhibition of African design at London’s Platform Gallery.

Another trend in interior design that is also noticed during London Design festival 2013 is the renewal of eclectic.

London Design Festival 2013 starts today

One of the most important design events for the season - London Design Festival is now officially open. And its symbol this year obviously will be the Endless Stair, designed by Architecture firm dRMM:


What I like very much is Habitat's Graphic Africa exhibition:


More interesting design:

 Taiwan traditional stool

 Hive Pendent by Dare Studio at designjunction

London Design Festival 2013 - Themes and Trends

Just a few days before the opening of this most important design event in UK we already have some impressions about the themes and trends that are expected to be seen at London Design Festival 2013:

• growing interesrt in modern crafts, but at the same time 'avoiding the pitfall of slipping into rustic pastime pastiche'

Obelix hand-made stoneware by Norwegian Designer Kristine Five Melvær

Galvin Brothers - (Perfectly) Imperfect Stool

• all things geometric + optical illusion:

Ettore, Be+Have

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• metallics - the real ones and also all things bright and shiny

Erica Wakerly’s Block wallpaper

  Cloche Lamp by Lars Beller Fjetland 

This not a new trend - I have published about it several times, especially about the obsession with copper, which is one of my favourite metals.
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Fashion meets product design at London Design Festival 2012

It is clear that fashion is often a source of inspiration for interior design, but now we can see how a furniture designer (again - because we saw Patricia Urquiola's designs earlier) designs shoes:

Tord Boontje for  Tracey Neuls 

Tord Boontje for  Tracey Neuls 

They have teamed up for creating a "collection of limited edition footwear which is inspired  and pays homage to the of wondrously curious squirrel." (source) 

But  Tord Boontje's new work in the field of fashion contains also a collection named  Cherry Pip jewellery, made from Swarovski crystals and cherry pips from Boontje's aunt's garden: