design

Remember those beautiful looking London landmark bookends we proffered in Santa’s Lap last year? Well, good news, they are still available from the Hidden Art shop. However, come January 17th they may not be, as Hidden Art might be forced to close.

Beautiful (non-official) posters.

Sackler Crossing at Kew Gardens. There’s a slight whiff of incestuousness in the decision to give British minimalist architecture John Pawson a retrospective at the Design Museum: he is the man charged with designing the interior of the museum’s new home, the Commonwealth Institute in …

The annual celebration of all things design returns to London on Saturday, 18th September. For eight days the creative classes will be like pups in heat, and the hubs of Shoreditch and beyond will spin into overdrive as hundreds of events clamour for attention. Unfortunately, …

University of Westminster architecture student James Gardener has designed a series of interlinked islands that join together to form an inhabitable bridge across the River Thames between Woolwich and Silvertown. Called High Tide Street, the designs are purely conceptual and unlikely to be realised any …

UK artists and designers, among them hat designer Philip Treacy and cartoonist Ronald Searle have been invited to create artwork that will feature on 700 deckchairs this summer. You can find them in Kensington Gardens, Hyde Park, Green Park, St James Park and Regents Park …

Clerkenwell is the little spot on the design / creative Venn diagram of London where showrooms, studios, seminars, workshops, designers, architects, magazine and book publishers all overlap. For the next three days, all of this will be celebrated and explored in Clerkenwell Design Week with …

The government’s announcement last week that Heathrow’s third runway would be axed has rather spoiled the competition launched by Greenpeace last year to come up with a design that would thwart the project. Still, the competition winners were announced this week, and the effort by …

Despite the controversial makeover a couple of years ago, which saw chain-restaurants and shops intruding into the complex, Spitalfields Market still contains plenty of independent traders and designers. A Bank holiday stroll around the market remains a real pleasure. We took the opportunity to say …

After ten years of disuse, and following an extensive refit, Stoke Newington Town Hall reopens this week. Ahead of the official launch event, Londonist took a tour around the place. Built in the 1930s by Stoke Newington Metropolitan Borough Council, the town hall is a …