Hasta La Ideas

pemCorrespondent Shai Akram will be sending us live updates of the a href=”http://www.londondesignfestival.com/”London Design Festival 2010/a, which kicked off this past weekend. She describes the lay of the land in her introductory post below. Keep up with all London Design Festival posts a href=”http://www.core77.com/blog/london_design_festival_10/”here/a or check in at our growing a href=”http://core77.com/gallery/london-design-festival-2010/”photo gallery/a./em/p

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pemPrepping for a day of exploring the London Design Festival./em/p

pLondon is a city of many parts, any resident will tell you that independent, grimy East is a world away from its polished West-side sister. The festival embraces these differences and amplifies them further with the creation of distinct districts within each area./p

pAlongside the long standing amalgamated shows like a href=”http://www.tentlondon.co.uk/”Tent/a, the East is further broken down into stand-alone segmentsmdash;the Shoreditch Triangle sees shows from emerging designers who have set up their studios and workshops in the surrounding areas, while just around the corner, Redchurch Street hosts the very first anarchist a href=”http://www.antidesignfestival.com/”Anti-Design Festival/a (more on this later). br /
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