#LONDONDESIGNFESTIVAL KICKS OFF AT THE #V&A

8.45 Friday morning. Time for the yearly press tour of the V&A etc with the team of London Design Festival. At the new entrance your were met by this installation, "Non-Pavilion" where you can view different ways of filling in this space by iPad controlled alternatives.

In the main entrance, "Sea Things" by Sam Jacob Studio exploring how the sea will be half filled up with plastic if we go on like we are now without recycling and rethinking. Beautifully scary!

Bamboo Ring: Weaving into Lightness by Kengo Kuma. In the courtyard on the basin at the V&A. A weaving installation on bamboo and carbon that gives this stainless steel strenght.

Please be Seated! Recycled scaffolding forming a rolling landscape at Broadgate that invites you to take a break or to just walk trough the arched "tunnels". An amazing project by British Land.

Please be Seated!

Flower installation at Kings Cross by the Coal Office.

Disco Carbonara, "This one-off-site-specific installation is a playful temporary addition to the Kings Cross architecture; a false facade of a disco with a fresh take on a traditional cladding from the Italian Alps.

In the Tapestry Room at the V&A contemporary artist Demond Melanoon and Assemble are collaborating with the V&A to bring Melanooons´s huge Mardi Gras Indian suits composed to intricately hand-sewn bead work to the Tapestries Gallery. His work draws a broad variety o stylistic influences, addresses stereotypical representations of black people, and tells powerful stories from his experience of the African diaspora. (From the LDF catalogue).

Iri-Descent by Liz West at Fortnum and Mason. A work that absorbs your own colours and just mixes in perfectly into the Fortnum and Mason atrium at their flagship store in Piccadilly. We just hope it will be there for some to time to come. Today is Sunday and I am taking a day off design and visiting the Queens Park Day celebrations. More from London Design Festival and London Fashion Week tomorrow.