Top: Design Against The Clock, and Established and Sons event where designers work in public. Pictured are printing panels used by Richard Woods in his temporary workshop. Bottom: Future participants who will also Design against the Clock for Established & Sons.
There is a lot of sharing this year at LDF, it feels as though the 'mystery' of design, (and whether the mystery should exist) is being investigated and interrogated: personal agendas and manifestos are laid open for public debate, (Anti-Design Festival), special processes and techniques are shared with any passer-by (Design Against the Clock), and new collections are taken off their gallery pedestals to very public, very everyday environments (The Established and Sons Public House).
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