We’d like to say a big thank you to everyone who came down to visit us and our 10 exhibiting designers at Designersblock during the London Design Festival. The event was a great success! Just in case you missed it, we’ve created this short film which pieces together all the highlights from the week.

Ruth Blackford

Kingston University’s MA graduates staged an exciting showcase of their work at Tent, London during the London Design Festival in September. The work on show was diverse and innovative covering numerous disciplines including Architecture, Fashion, Illustration and Animation, Design Product & Space, Curating Contemporary Design, and Production Design for Film and Television. ARTS THREAD selects a few highlights.

Public Resonance, Samuel Weller

For London Design Festival Yamaha Design Studio teamed up with Design Products students from the RCA to produce Resonance. This exhibition showcases their joint developments in enabling ‘greater intimacy’ between the performer and their audience.

Kinetic Frenetic, Lola Lely

A new Fendi store opening on Sloane Street celebrated London Design Festival by inviting RCA Design Products students to create a series of window and in-store displays, which pay tribute to British design.

Sophie Woodrow

Ceramic highlights at Origin this year ranged from uncanny realism to shameless fantasy.

Farvash Razavi, 'Scale of Existence''

This annual travelling exhibition of emerging Swedish talent is now in it’s eighth year. The 2011 showcase at Designers Block continues the initiative set up in 1998 by Svenk, Form and the Form/Design Center. Chosen by a jury each year, this year’s project manager is Karin Wiberg; the show celebrates innovative youthful creativity.

Origin, the bustling selling fair run by the Crafts Council, is a must-see on the London Design Festival calendar, offering the wares of 200 diverse designer makers. This year, it is arguably the jewellers stealing the show, with a diverse mix including established and emerging designers, traditional and cutting edge techniques, classic and playful styles…and everything in between.

Daeil Seo and Suhyeon Kim 'Happylight Saucer'

The Cross Cultural Design Project at Designersblock pretty much does what it says on the tin. A group of Korean design students were challenged to respond to a brief set by Pi Studio at Goldsmiths University to highlight the scope of design that spans more than one culture, whilst also asking how design can unite different cultures.

Design brand Beyond the Valley took over the Clore Study Room in the V&A to present an ‘Interactive Print Journey’ , a show inspired by an interest in the way new technologies can be used in interiors and fashion design.

Ontwerpduo/ Kranen & Gille

As interest increases in the field of lighting design, the Crafts Council and Nokia Design present Lux Craft at Origin, a collaborative exhibition that explores the potential applications of light in design. Ten designers were chosen out of 280 applications for their originality, innovation, quality and craftsmanship, defined by Nokia Design as the ‘mastery of the design process’.