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Here are some of ECCA's suggestions for what to see. Remember that we encourage you to seek out your own events from the festival guide!

Eureka 2007
Shortlist of new designs commissioned from British designers by leading British companies including Heal's, Royal Doulton and Wesley-Barrell.
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Breaking the Rules: new national competition for postgraduate creative design students
Inspired by major figures in the European avant garde, could you design work for an area of public display in the British Library? Can you demonstrate how the spirit of the European avant garde has influenced your own work in a creative design field?

The British Library is launching an exciting new national competition for postgraduate creative design students to coincide with its next exhibition, opening in November 2007 in partnership with Create KX and Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London.
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Designers in Residence
A new annual exhibition, in which emerging product and furniture designers are invited to transform areas of the museum with their work, it aims to provide a springboard into the design world.
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Designersblock - Tenth London Anniversary Show
The influential and original design talent show runs again in London's East End - a must-visit part of the London Design Festival 2007, with events including:
'Handled with Care' contemporary ceramic works
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Established & Sons Elevating Design
Established & Sons have become renowned for their impactful, well-executed exhibitions. 'Established & Sons Elevating Design' will be no exception though, for the first time, the company is applying their dynamic method of communication to a theoretical debate. The ambition for 'Established & Sons Elevating Design' is to generate discourse on the area of design currently in the spotlight; the newly termed 'Design Art'. In this truly dynamic and ground breaking exhibition Established & Sons will test the questions and concerns surrounding this area of deign by showing an exhibition of objects that represents the most extreme interpretation of the genre.
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In Search of The Perfect Portfolio…
There is a real art to crafting and compiling a 'book' that truly represents you and your unique talents. So in celebration of this year's London Design Festival, Represent will be hosting a week of activity dedicated to developing the perfect portfolio. They will be joined by ten leading creatives -people who see enough portfolios to know exactly what makes a successful one. And here they are: Dom Bailey of 300million, Patrick Cox of Wolff Olins, Jeremy Coysten of North, Nick Eagleton of The Partners, David Jenkinson of Interbrand, Nick Jones of Browns, Frith Kerr of Kerr/Noble, Ben Parker of MadeThought, Steve (Buzz) Pearce of Poke, and Katja Thielen of Together Design. Represent invite you to come in, spend some time with them, and use their personal guidance to help transform your portfolio into what it should be - the ideal showcase for your talents, and a highly focused tool for realising your career ambitions.
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Indigenous and Ingenious
Fed up with the continual argument about sustainability and seeing products and designers that have jumped on the eco-bandwagon, SCIN have decided to cut to the chase for the festival and only show materials and designers that are produced and work in the UK, it starts with our soil...
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LDF: Edits 2007 Walk on the design side
With over 400 design and creative 'happenings' across the Festival fortnight navigating your way through can be both inspiring and challenging. This year to make life easier for the impatient and inquisitive we are pleased to present the launch of TDLF:Edits; a series of ruthlessly edited, lively daily tours that take in the best of the Festival's design talent and Londons creative buzz. The London Design Festival have teamed up with Urban Gentry -London's only company to specialise in exposing creative London to visitors -to aid both the international and home visitor penetrate the hottest, coolest (and weirdest) design innovations, talent and neighbourhoodsthroughout the city.
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Living Identities
Moving Brands plans to open the door to their studio for a multi-sensorial design experience. The event will start with a creative workshop and panel discussing identities for a moving world from a brand, design and advertising perspective. The basis for this, is to illustrate how Moving Brand's work methodology blurs the traditional distinctions and instead creates living identities. The panel will include Moving Brand's design directors along with experts from the four fields.
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Lomographic World Congress 2007 & LomoWorldWall on Trafalgar Square
Lomography is a growing socio-cultural movement and interactive online and offline approach using experimental and creative analogue snapshot photography as a tool to communicate with, absorb and capture the world. In the event of the decade, the harvest of the last ten years of Lomography is reaped and presented to the world in the form of an ever-growing, open-air LomoWorldWall in Trafalgar Square; a snapshot portrait of the world of no less than 100.000 images taken by Lomographers and artists from all over the world.
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[re]design workshops
A series of drop-in and advance-booking workshops aimed at showing the public how to transform waste into quality design products, some of which may remain in place in Spirit Level of the Roayl Festival Hall, currently being refurbished with public participation.
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Super Design Mart
To be held in the Royal Festival Hall. Details tbc.
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Superactive i2i
Superactive i2i in the Edmond J. Safra Fountain Court at Somerset House is a new networked multi-user interactive artwork by Langlands & Bell where you will be able to explore, interact, meet and share new creative experiences.
Superactive i2i transforms Somerset House into an interactive virtual world accessible over the internet and WiFi accessible by laptop and at the Hub at the Somerset House. Visitors can create an identity, become part of the art, explore the architectural spaces, meet other participants, see performance events, films, music and much more
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The Smalls
The Smalls introduces its second annual showcase of small films for small screens. The showcase celebrates the creative opportunities offered by the internet, the latest generation of MP3 players and mobile phones. Anyone with a big idea for the smallest of small screens is invited to enter. Come and see what can be done when creative talent meets the latest technology. The Smalls is a curator of independent short film, dedicated to the discovery and promotion of new film-making talent through the website www.thesmalls.tv,competitions and events.
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Untold
An opportunity to see the collaborative launch of a selection of the UK's Untold design talent; fashion, art, accessories and entertainment, an evening not to be missed, a truly inspirational and creative showcase, which will evoke fascination and excitement as the story is told.
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Y Design Awards
Following the Digital Creativity Conference, The Y Design Awards will, for the second time, be run as part of the London Design Festival. Staged to celebrate the UK's leading creative talent demonstrated through the use of digital technology, the awards will be presented across a number of categories.
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