Blink and you might miss our contributions to this year's LDF but our presence is there in amongst the 200 plus exhibitions and installations. We have designed a new modular shelving product (or a set of side tables, up to you really), 2C3C4C, for Decode to be shown on their stand, D10, at 100% Design and also at Tye + Co’s Shop at the Dock over in Portobello. 

Squint, the couture upholsterers in Shoreditch have taken a bit of a liberty with our Ribbon Coat racks and covered them in a patchwork of fabric, also on display by Tye + Co. We love them. 

We have also been working with Walter Knoll, the prestigious German upholstery company founded in 1865, to design their new 150 square metre London showroom in Charterhouse Square, just next door to Poirot's apartment building and opposite the remnants of the old monastery.  The client wanted a very simple, clean space to act as a backdrop for the display of their furniture, with designs by Kengo Kuma, Pearson Lloyd and Ben van Berkel. 

The grey resin floor and white walls are punctuated by the cast iron columns remaining from the original factory. The official opening will not be until November but the showroom is now open for visitors and even on Saturday during this design festival.

A friend of ours, Jane Audas, has curated a little exhibition currently showing over at 2 Willow Road of the toy shop designed in the 1930s by Erno Goldfinger in Wimpole Road.  We used this as an excuse to go on an expedition to explore some architecture in north London from the Highpoint flats where Goldfinger first lived in London, to Kenwood House on the Heath, to Fenton House, walked past Michael Hopkins' home on Downshire Hill, then down for the tour at 2 Willow Road and finally to the Isokon Flats. 

Of course, we carried with us our copy of "A Guide to The Architecture of London" by Edward Jones and Christopher Woodward, the bible to London's buildings for the last 25 years, soon to be replaced by a brand new edition, apparently now with colour photographs. Can't wait.

Bravo Charlie Mike Hotel have been busy designing the graphics (between interviews with Monocle magazine) for a show for one of the V&A museum's contributions to the design festival. It's a show about lighting efficiency as we phase out the incandescent bulb.  Curated by Jane Withers, it runs until the 29th September.

Our friends at Creative [SIN]ergy are presenting A6 /future/,  a collaboration between 22 illustrators from both Singapore and the UK.  The completed cards will be at the Idea Generation Gallery during this year's London Design Festival.

 The  postcards will be auctioned to raise funds for Envision, a UK charity. Come join us for the Charity Auction Party on Saturday 26th September 2009. Please RSVP info@creativesinergy.com for an invitation.

Another new opening to mention is the new Vitsoe  shop (not designed by us, sadly) over in New York, near Washington Square, to sell their Dieter Rams designed 606 Universal shelving system.  Of course, you could just sit at home and buy the shelving online through their cool website.