A Pentagram Guide to the London Design Festival
This London Design Festival, Pentagram is joining in the action by hosting and taking part in a number of events. Here's a quick guide on where to find us and when.
From 17 September, London Design Festival will be taking over London. The week long festival features hundreds of events and is an annual celebration of London as a design capital of the world. Pentagram has continued its decade-long relationship with the festival, by designing its identity and hosting a number of events throughout the week, which are all open to the public.
On Sunday 18 September at 3.30pm, Marina Willer will be giving a talk at the Victoria & Albert Museum in South Kensington. In the talk, ‘Well Done Sweetie’, Marina will be sharing the stories behind some of her best-known projects and the comedies and tragedies of being a lead female designer. Tickets are available here.
On Wednesday 21 September at 6.30pm, Domenic Lippa is hosting Words by Voices, a typographic installation that explores words of social justice. Designed by Domenic and displaying quips, quotes and speeches from Eleanor Roosevelt, Nelson Mandela and Muhammad Ali amongst others, the installation of large format posters will be presented throughout Pentagram's London office. Although this event is free, RSVP is essential to kinghan@pentagram.com.
Following the success of her Pentagram Paper by the same name, Marina Willer is unveiling a whole new set of posters in the Overlooked exhibition at Protein Galleries in Shoreditch.
The exhibition, which runs from Friday 22 September to 25 September is a celebration of London’s street covers. Combining the traditional practice of brass rubbing with neon palettes, Overlooked is a colourful and meditative exploration of the intricacies, nuances and decorative flourishes of these often missed masterpieces of industrial design.
Limited edition prints and the original Overlooked Pentagram Paper will be available to purchase at the event.
Domenic Lippa has designed a set of everyday objects for London Souvenir, a set of products that have created exclusively for the festival by leading London-based designers. Inspired by the linguistic playfulness of cockney rhyming slang and the capital’s idiosyncratic postcode system, Domenic has designed mugs, beermats and a clock that are all on sale at the V&A.
