London With Design in Mind

MYLITTLEBIRD didn’t get to London Design Festival 2015, which took place in late September. But our pals over at Curbed.com did. You can read what correspondent Ali Morris found at the sprawling show here. Design reaches into the home and office, of course, but also into corners of technology and, in the end, corners of our imagination. Take a look.

–Nancy McKeon

Beynon exhibited its new line of modular furniture made of oak.

Kano, the computer kids can build from parts, now has a screen, also available in kit form.

Samsung launched this new lightweight I-beam-shape TV designed by the French Bourellec brothers.

Imagine this: Punkt’s new phone, designed by Jasper Morrison, does nothing but send and receive phone calls and texts.

The London creative studio Patternity showcased its limited-edition digital stationery designs for Paperless Post by setting up foam objects covered with their patterns so exhibit-goers could wander among them and take selfies.

The flat-pack furniture brand Hem set up a space where visitors could try out the pieces and also play with the customization tools.

The Brooklyn-based Jason Miller Studio introduced new glazed-stoneware pieces.

Reiko Kaneko showcased the results of her recent experiments with reactive glazes on fine bone china.

East London shop One Good Deed Today hosted an exhibition of material-driven design projects that included a pair of Adidas sneakers made using waste harvested from the ocean. The exhibit was curated by new research studio Matter. / Photo courtesy Matter.