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Basking in a rare glimpse of British summer, the V&A is laying on a two-day mini festival this weekend, complete with a 'communal camp fire' tent in its John Madejski Garden. Furniture and lighting designers like Markus Bergstrom, Peter Marigold and Fabien Cappello will be dispensing their knowledge to visitors in a series of workshops in tents dotted around the London…

As I stood in Eminönü Square, Istanbul, experiencing what might only be described as an experiment in sound, art and architecture, I was approached by a rather trepidacious Turkish teenager. "What's going on?" he enquired. "It's a sound installation," I replied. "I don't know what that is," he answered, obviously puzzled. "But it's not love is it?" And certainly for…

This is a critical car. Ever since the early 1960s, Jaguar has become synonymous with the modern sporting saloon car, practically inventing the genre and carrying the flame for three decades until finally the combined talents of certain German firms encroached upon its territory. Despite a long run of uncertainty regarding ownership and finance, Jaguar stuck to its guns, producing…

A show that celebrates pared-down, functional and practical design might not sound full of thrills but, as the stalwarts of simplicity, Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa, have proved time and again, less can be certainly more. See more designs on show at New Simplicity 'New Simplicity', in London's Brompton Design District, brings together a stellar selection of work…

A show that celebrates pared-down, functional and practical design might not sound full of thrills but, as the stalwarts of simplicity, Jasper Morrison and Naoto Fukasawa, have proved time and again, less can be certainly more. See more designs on show at New Simplicity 'New Simplicity', in London's Brompton Design District, brings together a stellar selection of work…

Mention Singapore and mental images are apt to flash immediately to skyscrapers and gigantic retail emporia. Less heralded are the sea-fronting properties along the east coast and on nearby Sentosa island. Yes, the beaches here are decidedly puny and much of it is artificial, having been carved out of reclaimed land; but from the right vantage point, the views of the South…

You'd be forgiven for expecting graduates of a course in 'luxury' to go heavy on bling. But this year's crop of students from ECAL's Master of Advanced Studies in Luxury & Design adeptly chose craftsmanship and functionality over flash materials, and presented their work in an enticing collection of portfolios, which we take a leaf through here. See the graduates' products…

For a department store known for selling the newest in fashion, design and gadgets, Selfridges' latest window display is something of a surprise. Suspended from giant weighing scales in the 'Wonder room' is a dismantled Honda Fireblade motorcycle, complete with dangling wires. See more Kyle Bean's Selfridges installations Created by young designer, Kyle Bean, of multidisciplinary…

From a giant orb made from disembodied crows' wings to a suspended human ribcage with a flaming red bird resembling its heart, Polly Morgan's macabre sculptures take on a strange, fantastical beauty in the dim light of the Haunch of Venison's Mezzanine Gallery. See more of Polly Morgan's work The taxidermist's latest body of work - on show until 25th September - marks…

Increasingly ambitious in both scale and scope, this year's PhotoEspaña's main theme was 'Time', and many of the official shows took this as their starting point. See more from PhotoEspaña 2010 The Harold Edgerton retrospective at BBVA proved that no one has yet bettered the good doctor's work from the 1930s - 1970s, capturing motion and freezing time. The…