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As the Creative Directors for 100% Design, we have for the second year opened the doors to inspiring features and installations that will populate the central boulevard. Here is something to whet the appetite, a few features we look forward to seeing next month.
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London Design Festival, September 24th 2010, Victoria and Albert Museum, London

A blank piece of paper is the starting point for so many ideas, so much creativity. For Paul Cocksedge, one of the UK’s most electrifying designers, this ‘canvas’ itself becomes the work of art for a one-day installation at the prestigious Victoria and Albert Museum. Hand-formed from 300 curvaceous pieces of Corian®, the multi-talented material that has inspired original thinkers worldwide, ‘Gust of Wind’ imagines that a stack of paper has been caught on a zephyr and lifted skywards to float on the air.
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At 100% Design this September, Philip Watts Design will be unveiling the long awaited Glink. As the sister product to our fabulous Gloo urinal, it is the perfect addition to your commercial or domestic bathroom.

Made from exactly the same durable polyethylene and available in the same range of rainbow colours, you can even have a glowing one, see we’ve thought of everything!

Launching at 100% Design This September – you can see them at Stand J51

Website:www.philipwattsdesign.com/

JAMIE ANLEY FROM JAM INTERVIEWS GIOVANNA FORTE AND HAS A LUCKY DIP INTO THE CONTEMPORARY FURNITURE LOTS FROM THE SHOREDITCH BALL AUCTION WITH SOTHEBY’S, 15TH OCTOBER 2010 AT SHOREDITCH TOWN HALL

The Shoreditch Ball launched last year – how was it for you?

It was extraordinary. We seemed to attract everyone who was anyone together with everybody else. We had a true cross section of people from Shoreditch and beyond (yes, a few people came from Out West …). They all piled in and had an incredibly good time. The Blockheads blew our sound system at one point, but Phil Jupitus just kept going and no-one seemed to mind. The Sex Drugs and Rock & Roll took on a life of its own. This year we’ve gone a bit retro with jazz and swing, camped up with Jonny Woo and Pam Hogg. It’s all fairly “of the moment” as a two-fingers to austerity.

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The Cosentino Group are participating in 100% design 2010 with a stand designed by world-renowned Brazilian designers and brothers Humberto and Fernando Campana.
“Campanas for eCosentino” space focuses on the artistic interpretation of ECO by Cosentino®, a collection of surfaces designed for architectural and decorative solutions, composed of 75% recycled materials.

Cosentino Group, a worldwide leader in the production and distribution of quartz surfaces, natural stone and recycled surfaces will be present at 1005 design with the project “Campanas for eCosentino”. The project is
born from the exclusive concept of Estúdio Campana, which is owned by famous Brazilian designers and brothers Humberto and Fernando Campana, who are respected worldwide for their ability to develop new art forms through the use of simple but innovative materials.
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To mark the launch of the 3rd edition of the Restaurant & Bar Design Awards (call for entries 1st November 2010) we have invited four of the 09/10 winners (Design LSM, Outline, Macaulay Sinclair and Julian Taylor Design Associates) to take part in a ‘live installation’ exclusively designed for 100% Design.
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Martin Creed Work No. 998, 2009. © Martin Creed. Courtesy the artist and Hauser & Wirth. Photo: Barbora Gerny.

A major exhibition of new and recent work by Martin Creed, one of Britain’s most highly-regarded and popular artists. Creed’s work captures the public imagination, while also attracting critical acclaim for its generous, accessible approach. His work most often takes the form of interventions into a given space, re-ordering readily available materials which are a familiar part of everyday life. In 2001 he won the Turner Prize with Work No. 227: The Lights Going On and Off, and in 2008 responded to the prestigious Duveen Commission at Tate Britain with the phenomenally popular Work No. 850, in which runners sprinted through the space at 30-second intervals.
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The Urban Picnic 28th August – Secret Location, East London, 29th August – Elys Yard, Truman
Brewery 11am-7pm on both days
Furniture designer Gareth Neal reclaims neglected spaces of the East-End to create pop-up urban picnic sites for Londoners. One of the UK’s largest arts bursary schemes, The Vauxhall Collective, kicks off another year of outstanding art events and exhibitions around this year’s theme; The Great British Weekend. The design commission sees award winning designer Gareth Neal devise a stunning range of playful objects for London’s first urban picnics.
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