New Work: London Design Medal 2011
At a star-studded dinner last night in the Crypt of St Paul’s Cathedral, the London Design Medal was awarded to Ron Arad. The medal, which was designed five years ago by Domenic Lippa and his team, was presented by Ben Evans, Festival director. Previous recipients of the award have been Thomas Heatherwick, Zaha Hadid, Paul Smith and Marc Newson. At the presentation dinner, Arad said, “I can’t imagine doing whatever it is I do anywhere else in the world.”
Earlier in the evening, Thomas Heatherwick presented a Pentagram-designed special Lifetime Achievement Award to Vidal Sassoon.
New Work: London Design Festival 2011
The 2011 London Design Festival launched last night with an evening reception at the V&A previewing Textile Field by Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec. The Festival is billed to be the largest and most significant yet and runs from 17 to 25 September.
For the fifth year running Domenic Lippa and his team have designed the Festival’s identity which this year takes as its inspiration the phrase ‘Design from all angles’. The range of items designed will ensure that this year’s Festival is more visible than ever.
New Work: London Design Festival 2011
For the fifth year running Domenic Lippa and his team have worked to create the visual identity for the London Design Festival which runs from 17 to 25 September and is billed to be the largest and most significant yet.
New Work: Max Lamb booklet
Domenic Lippa and his team were commissioned by the London Design Festival and HSBC Private Bank to create a publication to celebrate the completion of a special piece by designer Max Lamb for the bank’s St James’s office.
The publication charts the journey of the piece, a plaster bench called the Vermiculated Ashlar, from concept to completion. The Vermiculated Ashlar is to be installed at 78 St James’s Street.
New Work: London Design Festival 2010
The London Design Festival ends on 26 September. This week over 200 events and installations are taking place across the capital reflecting the widest possible range of design interests. For the fourth year running Domenic Lippa and his team have worked to create a new visual identity ensuring that the Festival brand has visibility across all of its disparate elements.
Designers Celebrate London in Posters at the V&A
As part of this year’s London Design Festival, Domenic Lippa worked with the Festival’s Chairman, Sir John Sorrell, in curating the London Poster Project, a poster exhibition by 20 of the leading UK graphic designers and typographers including Tom Hingston, Frith Kerr, Alan Kitching, Fuel, Jonathan Ellery and Pentagram’s own Angus Hyland. Lippa commissioned the designers to produce a poster in red and black only that celebrates London as the creative capital of the world. Each silkscreened A1 poster was produced in limited edition of 100, 50 of which are available through the website Blanka. All 20 posters can be seen in the exhibition, which opened Saturday, 19 September and remains on view through 27th September at the Sackler Centre at the Victoria & Albert Museum.
Several posters after the jump.
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New Work: London Design Festival 2009
The London Design Festival opened this past weekend, kicking off a week of over 163 exhibitions and 42 one-day events showcasing the city’s best in architecture, art, craft and product, graphic and digital design. For the third year running Domenic Lippa and his team have worked with the LDF to produce everything from t-shirts, bags, invitations, posters and postcards, through to the guide, signage and displays. This year’s theme of “Be Bold, Make a Statement” reflects the Festival’s stance that good design, even in difficult times, will always stand out. This year’s identity uses quotes from famous designers, including Pentagram co-founder Alan Fletcher.
This year the festival has worked closely with the V&A, which has become the hub venue and home to numerous installations, exhibitions and talks. These include a poster exhibition curated by Lippa that features work by 20 London designers, including our own Angus Hyland, and a talk by talk by New York partner Abbott Miller on the 24th.
As part of this growing annual event the team also worked on support material for the London Design Medal, as well as creating a new logo for the London Design Embassy. A look at some of the materials from this year’s program after the jump.
‘26 Exchanges’ Exhibition to Feature at London Design Festival
Pentagram has collaborated with International PEN, 26 and UNESCO to produce 26 Exchanges: Journeys Between and Behind the Lines of Language, a typographic installation that explores what happens when one language adventures boldly into another. The exhibition will be on view as part of the London Design Festival.
For the exhibition, members of 26 were twinned with PEN members from around the world to translate a text and tell the story of its journey in translation. Using their own resources, the participants searched for ways to understand stories in Basque, Khasi, Ndebele and Aymara, among others, to find meaning and connections across cultures. Harry Pearce and Simon Sankarayya of AllofUs then reinterpreted the stories and accompanying issues of translation as typographic animations. The digital installation also features readings from and conversations between the participants. The project is also featured in Design Week.
The exhibition will be on view from September 21 - 25 at The Royal Academy of Engineering. It will then move to Paris in October for the UNESCO international conference on translation. More information here.
New Work: London Design Festival 2009
New York Design Week has just ended, but we’re already looking forward to this September, when London will be awash in the distinctive red and white of the London Design Festival. For the third year running Domenic Lippa has reprised his role as the art director of the Festival, which is the umbrella organisation for London’s annual celebration of design. The Festival was announced by Festival Chairman Sir John Sorrell and Director Ben Evans at a launch last week at the V&A.
The theme of this year’s Festival is “Be Bold” and serves as a challenge by the Festival organisers that the events should be provocative, inspiring and unique. With designer Jeremy Kunze, Lippa has created the look and feel for the Festival. A feature of this year’s identity is the use of quotes from famous designers, including Pentagram co-founder Alan Fletcher (see the tote above).
Quick Links
- A Short History of Pentagram's Role in the London Design Festival
- Harry Pearce's 5x15 Talk Now Online
- Eddie Opara to Speak at Design Indaba
- Paula Scher to Speak at PennDesign
- Meet Emily Oberman, Pentagram's Newest Partner
- Bill Moggridge on Paula Scher's Maps
- Abbott Miller to Speak at the Type Directors Club