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a community-generated website and news pamphlet created by and for the design community which offers opinion, reviews, news and recommendations by tapping into what everyone is talking about.

During the London Design Festival (19 - 27 Sep 2009) The Incidental offers an open platform for everyone to discuss UK contemporary design. Join the conversation by submitting your tweets, photos, comments, stories and by reading The Incidental each day.

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FLICKR

• Fruit Frame
  

  

  Fruit Frame is an oh-so-simple and clever rack made from interlocking bamboo parts that assemble with no glue and keep you fruit in place until you’re ready to cue up!

  By Amsterdam based designer Jair Straschnow

  A limited number have been handmade exclusively for spunique

• Jerry
  

  

  The Jerry cheese board was designed by Sebastian Bergne after watching too many cartoons! A handsome chunk of beech with a sense of humor.

  By Sebastian Bergne

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BLOG

• It’s all over now.
  

  It’s been a great ten days of london design festival. For us it has been full of ideas and discussions, opinions and debates. Now it’s time to pack up and go home. until next time.

• The Everyday Life Collector
  

  My  favourite exhibition from this year’s festival is The Everyday Life Collector, organised by Apartamento and Max Lamb. It’s a collection of pottery by Richard Lamb, Max’s father.
  At first sight I didn’t really appreciated the collection as a whole but got into it once I had the chance to discuss a bit more with Max, [...]

• The Ten Collective at 100% Design
  Author: Brit Leissler
  

  100% Design has opened yesterday and I had a good look around (still counting the blisters on my feet). A very nice little show within this big one is, as every year, the work of the TEN collective. This year they present TEN XYZ – an exploration of their varied perspectives on the complex issues [...]

• London Design Festival 09: Vorboten at the Dock
  Author: Brit Leissler
  

  The young design studio Studio Hausen curated the group show Vorboten: 7 Studios from Berlin for The Dock venue of the London Design Festival and invited some of the most interesting design studios from the emerging German metropole.
  The bent tubular steel has been heralded as the symbol of modernity in furniture design ever since… (more)

• Elements by Dick van Hoff at Gallery Libby Sellers
  Author: Jaime, MoCo Loco
  

  As a pop-up showroom, Gallery Libby Sellers has organized the exhibition Elements highlighting the work of industrial tailor Dick van Hoff. Set-up in a renovated parking garage in the Brompton Design District, the show includes a stunning series of glasswork… (more)

• The Dock: Curated by Tom Dixon
  Author: Jean Aw, NOTCOT
  

  Freshly back from the party at The DOCK, described as ‘An emporium of creative talent instigated by Tom Dixon and sponsored by Derwent London.’ And before I even show you what’s inside, coming back to the hotel and browsing the pics, the way the space photographs as the sun set was just so fun… (view photos)

• London Design Festival 2009: the hit list
  Author: Barbara Chandler
  

  London is crammed with design events – some 200 in all – during the London Design Festival which runs from 19 to 27 September. Browse Barbara Chandler’s hit list.
  V&A – The festival’s central ‘hub’ this year, with shows/happenings all over the museum; dramatic “chair arch” (in the garden) made from Ercol chairs by designer Martino [...]

• Pedigree designers see the beauty of mongrel furniture
  Author: Dominic Lutyens
  

  Table lamps made from parquet. Cabinets wrapped in carpets. An anglepoise lamp attached to a skateboard. Hybrid furniture is the hottest trend right now and the capital’s hip hotels are getting in on the act.
  In Rough Luxe, the achingly cool King’s Cross hotel owned by London-based interior designer and gallery owner Rabih Hage, you’ll find [...]

• The Incidental – issue 2 hits the streets
  

  Our second edition has now been printed and is ready for you collect at any of the main festival locations: 5 Cromwell Place, V&A, RCA, Richard Lamb, London Design Guide Living Room, The Dock, Trafalgar Square, Aram Gallery, Design Museum, FUMI Gallery, Idea Generation Gallery, Rocket Gallery, 20 Hoxton Square, Okay at Mother, TentLondon, SCP, [...]

• British Design Process?
  Author: Tim Parsons
  

  Thoughts in response to the post:
  Is there a British Design Process?
   
  As it involves intuition as well as cold logic, the design process is open to being shaped by the environment in which it takes place. (What we see day to day can make a random connection in our minds that sparks an idea). It will [...]

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