Bethan Gray covers Ella furniture for Workhouse in brightly coloured upholstery
London Design Festival 2014: British designer Bethan Gray has created a colourful collection of upholstered seating for furniture brand Workhouse (+ slideshow). More
-
Daniel Emma launches first furniture and lighting range
London Design Festival 2014: Adelaide-based design studio Daniel Emma has moved into larger scale furniture and lighting for the first time with a collection launched at the London Design Festival. More
"Education through eBay" is the best business training for designers, says Heal's chairman
News: Will Hobhouse of high-street furniture retailer Heal's has berated design schools for failing to teach business principles, claiming there's "no better background than an education through eBay" for designers who want to learn how to make a living. More
The Aram Gallery showcases seven new designers in Future Stars? exhibition
London Design Festival 2014: experimental footwear, furniture and jewellery pieces by a selection of emerging designers feature in the Future Stars? exhibition at London's The Aram Gallery (+ slideshow). More
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers showcased "provocative ideas" for future travel
Dezeen and MINI Frontiers: Dezeen editor-in-chief Marcus Fairs introduces this round-up of our Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition on the future of mobility, which took place last month during London Design Festival. More
Amma Studio's stools and tables combine cement with BB pellets and coffee grounds
London Design Festival 2014: New York-based Amma Studio has created a range of coffee tables and stools made by moulding cement with a range of unexpected materials. More
Chair 3/4 by Sandro Lominashvili looks like an optical illusion
London Design Festival 2014: this angular steel chair by Georgian designer Sandro Lominashvili has a seat with four corners, but only three are attached to the frame. More
Jomi Evers Solheim creates ceramics using water-filled balloons
London Design Festival 2014: Swedish designer Jomi Evers Solheim has created a collection of porcelain vases, using moulds formed around balloons that were filled with water. More
Torsten Neeland creates wooden framework for new Yohji Yamamoto collection
London Design Festival 2014: Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto presented his Spring/Summer 2014 collection on chunky wooden garment rails by product designer Torsten Neeland during the London Design Festival (+ slideshow). More
Sebastian Cox and Lorna Singleton use ancient crafting technique to weave wooden furniture
London Design Festival 2014: UK designer Sebastian Cox collaborated with Lorna Singleton – one of only four remaining experts in the UK in a wood working technique known as swilling – to form a collection of products from strips of softened green timber. More
James Patmore Studio launches debut homeware collection
London Design Festival 2014: designer James Patmore presented his first homeware collection, showing handmade wooden pieces and a table lamp made from a circular screen as part of an installation in an east London cafe (+ slideshow). More
Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert exhibits blown-glass "clouds" at Gallery Fumi
London Design Festival 2014: a series of glass objects by artist Jeremy Maxwell Wintrebert, including lights designed to look like clouds, are on display at Gallery Fumi in east London (+ slideshow). More
JamesPlumb repurposes antique Burnished Indigo fabric for lampshades and sofa upholstery
London Design Festival 2014: JamesPlumb has used textiles coloured with a Medieval dying technique to cover the duo's latest pieces of furniture and lighting (+ slideshow). More
Custhom launches Hayward textile as tribute to Brutalist classic
London Design Festival 2014: Custhom has created a new upholstery textile based on the variety of forms found in the architecture of the Hayward Gallery on London's Southbank (+ movie). More
Darkroom patterns furniture and accessories with Superstudio's "anti-design" grids
London Design Festival 2014: design boutique Darkroom looked to grid patterns used in the 1960s and 70s by radical Italian architecture firm Superstudio to inform its latest collection of products and in-store installations (+ slideshow). More
Sebastian Cox uses coppiced wood to create Underwood furniture collection
London Design Festival 2014: designer Sebastian Cox has unveiled his latest collection of furniture made from hazel wood he collects in the British countryside (+ slideshow). More
David Adjaye creates Stool 7 for new online design platform Standseven
London Design Festival 2014: design website Standseven has launched its first limited-edition product this week with a stool shaped like the number seven by London architect David Adjaye (+ interview). More
ScanLAB and Pernilla Ohrstedt create a physical "point cloud" at designjunction
London Design Festival 2014: as part of the Dezeen and MINI Frontiers exhibition, designer Pernilla Ohrstedt has partnered with 3D-scanning specialists ScanLAB to create Glitch Space, a physical representation of the environmental data that will one day be captured by driverless cars (+ movie). More
Lucy McRae envisions a human vacuum chamber for the future of space travel
London Design Festival 2014: a vacuum chamber that wraps performers in silver foil material forms the centrepiece for an installation by Lucy McRae that imagines a future where space travel is common but requires physical preparation (+ slideshow). More
Robin and Lucienne Day's daughter "wasn't prepared to allow their works to be misused"
London Design Festival 2014: the daughter of British designers Robin and Lucienne Day talks to Dezeen about preserving her parents' legacy and the launch of a new version of her father's much replicated 675 Chair (+ interview + slideshow). More