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London and the Anti Design Festival
London’s reputation for being a design-friendly city is cemented in a PR blitzkrieg brought on by the annual London Design Festival (LDF). A wide-ranging, provocative mix of events, talks, installations, exhibitions, trade shows, seminars and publications, it’s become something of a must-see event that all design and lifestyle magazines love to cover as the “event ...
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SHOWHOW Walks the Talk
The Danish Design Centre presented Denmark’s up and coming talents in the field of sustainable design at this year’s Tent London exhibition, part of the London Design Festival. The SHOWHOW exhibition was remarkable enough for the work it featured, but what caught my attention even more was the design of the exhibition structure itself: Image ...
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The Light: Kaaru’s Chandelier for Pratham
The craft-loving design firm Kaaru dazzled London last week with The Light: a 26 meter long hand-cut paper chandelier, auctioned to raise funds for the NGO Pratham UK, which works for children’s education in India. The Light is made of 15,000 panels of paper. Each white sheet was painstakingly cut by Saanjhi craftsmen from ...
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Mythology Inspired Stamps
The four of us here at Little Design Book are all into some form of Indian mythology or the other and we tend to email each other rather obsessively every time we get excited about a new book, film, comic or product that we find. So we’ve decided to indulge our interests every now and ...
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Puffin Designer Classics
To celebrate Puffin Books’ 70th anniversary, the publishing house commissioned 6 art, design and style icons to re-design the covers of their favourite books. The most popular of these limited editions has been the Roald Dahl’s James and The Giant Peach designed by renowned British sculptor Antony Gormley which is now sold out. The design ...
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Image of the Week: Venice Biennale
A woman takes a picture of a model house at the Venice Architecture Biennale. Photo: David Levene for the Guardian This year’s Venice Architecture Biennale has been hailed as an event that puts the human experience back at the heart of architecture. If, like me, you’re jaded by the “cool” but rather meaningless plans and ...
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The Week in Desi Design II
I always argue that Indian design should be defined culturally rather than geographically, so some news from South Africa this week has given me food for thought. Mohit Jayal and V. Sunil, from the advertising agency W&K Delhi, were invited to edit and design the new issue of the Design Indaba magazine. Design Indaba, Africa’s largest ...
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Google’s Priority Inbox Tutorial
The basis of most good design is that it makes something bad better and something difficult easier. This couldn’t be more true for information design. New technologies depend largely on how well they can be understood by early adopters and with their new “Priority Inbox”, Google has gone a step ahead by creating a tutorial ...
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Peter Alwin's Cooking Snail
Indian design students are on an international winning spree this year, but this one is really a crowning glory. Peter Alwin, an alumnus of NID Ahmedabad, has been chosen as one of the eight finalists in the Electrolux Design Lab, which is probably one of the most prestigious competitions there exists for industrial design students ...