Designersblock London

2005 September 23 - 26 The Nicholls & Clarke Buildings. Shoreditch High Street. London E1. England

The Nicholls and Clarke building proved a wonderful setting for our 8th London event, situated on the edge of the city of london and the east end. With 46 exhibitors from 14 nations, the intrinsic logic of people sharing experiences from across the world at an occasion like this was underlined. From the arrival of Asobi's 5m 'sofa' (since produced by Keen) during the opening - 30 people gathering to carry it into the building - the performance began. With so many highlights to choose from visitors stayed for hours and returned the next day - New London Glass, Slovenians and Dutch, Koreans and Japanese, Scandinavians, - it was perhaps 2 english boys Staurt Haygarth with his Tide Chandelier and Concrete Blond's concrete wallpaper that produced the most hush and wonder. Notoriously hard to impress editors dubbed it the best show with the best work in town.

Abiogenesis, Anna Hansson, Asobi, Batch, Black & White Product Design, Bodil Soderlund, Charlie Davidson, Chihiro Tanaka (TA-Tile Co, Ltd), Claystation, Concrete Blond, Dejana Kabiljo, Delicious Design Lollie Lab, The Delicious, Formfollows, Futro, Gardenshrink, Garden 23, Georgiosi, Glass Box, Henny Van Nistelrooy, Hettler Tuellmann, Hulger, John Wischhusen, Jon Male, Joohee Lee, Judith Van Den Boom, Kaywon Schools of Arts & Design, Lauren Moriarty, Lund University, Muahahaha Design, New London Glass, Nika Zupanc, Olof Kolte Design, Poke, Primal Refuge, Rnb Design, Rutan GmbH, Sarria Hannam Associates, Sasha Gabbe, Soner Ozenc, SKK, Stuart Haygarth, Timorous Beasties, Toby Sanders Design, Udder, Zinoo Park.


For website links to all the above exhibitors see the DB Database.

Exhibitors

Designersblock would like to thank the following people, organisations and companies for their support in helping to make dbLondon 05 the smoothest and most sucessful London show to date. Jeremy Gardner, Ann Brown and Peter Smythe of the Corporation of London for allowing us to use the Nicholls & Clarke buildings. Edward Morris at London first. Mr Waterfall Poke for producing the website. Stefan Obergrussberger for putting together the website. Dan & Mattias for finishing the website. Duncan Riches for the heart and soul of evenings and wise words. Lee, Chris, Aiden and the dogs for making everybody feel at home during the show. David Dewing without whom we would be without an office. Christina Jansen at the dutch embassy for making the dutch happen. Steve Green for making the slovenians happen. Clifford Leo Harris for the bands and many other things. Sydney Levinson always. Hawaii for the graphics. Lau Beer for the beer. Mechanical Cabaret for an unforgettable performance. DJ Stranger for the dance. Leon for the sound. Carlo Draisci for the photography. Debbie Does for doing the best bloody marys in the world. Baf Graphics for the vinyls. Ripping Image for printing. Jem White for the power, Concrete Blond for the water tables. All DB Crew: Tanya, Our Fi, Clifford, Petra, Sarah, Priscilla, Rafael, Grant, Gunther, Olly, Andrew, Stefan, Georgio, Sebastian, Eric, Tess, Adam, Emily, for working on the set up, take down, front of house. All exhibitors. Love and Thank you