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Five copies of London Design Guide by Max Fraser to be won

published in: Travel, Books By Costas Voyatzis, 09 September 2009

 

Five lucky winners are randomly going to be picked by Yatzer to win five London Design Guides the 2010 Edition by Max Fraser, which will be on the bookshelves as of September 24, 2009!
To enter to win the London Design Guide the 2010 Edition please add a comment at the bottom of this page with your name, your country and an answer to the following question:
 
What is your favorite design destination in London?

The winner will be randomly picked and will be announced in Yatzer’s TWITTER account on Thursday 24 , 2009 ( the official publication date). For this reason, all the candidates have to fill out the comments form by specifying your favorite design destination in London by September 23, 2009 and then just simply follow us on TWITTER. The winner will be also announced on Yatzer's newsletter by the end of September (subscribe here)

 

About the Guide // London Design Guide is a new annual publication dedicated to the vibrant and multi-faceted designscape of London.  London’s design scene is widely considered one of the most energetic, diverse, and innovative creative communities in the world. The city is vast and it can be a daunting task discovering its design offerings. London design guide has done the hard work by selecting and reviewing the leading design shops, galleries, and institutions and celebrating the rich mix of design choices in the cosmopolitan capital today.
 
About the Editor // Max Fraser is the author of several design books: the bestselling Design UK series and Designers on Design co-authored with Sir Terence Conran (Conran Octopus); and the Piet Hein Eek monograph (De Boekenmakers). Internationally, he contributes to a broad range of publications, curates exhibitions, produces video content, judges competitions, and lectures extensively. Fraser is also the publisher of London Design Guide - his first solo venture into print publishing.

Book Specifications:
Retail price: £10
Publication date: 24 September 2009
Publisher: spotlight press
Availability: worldwide
ISBN: 978-0-9563098-0-8
Website:  www.londondesignguide.com
Editor:  Max Fraser
Photography:  Ed Reeve
Book design:  Richard Ardagh
Cover design:  Alistair Hall, David Pearson, and Paul Finn

some spreads from the guide are posted below:

Yatzer has the honor to be in the list of the web resources of the LONDON DESIGN GUIDE 2010 Edition
(the text's highlight is done by Yatzer just for the presentation)

so..... What is your favorite design destination in London?

 

The FIVE lucky winners of the FIVE copies
of London Design Guide 2010 edition by Max Fraser are:

Andrew Losowsky // USA
Markus // Hamburg, Germany
Anastasia Gerali // Athens, Greece
Alexey Malina // Moscow, Russia
Fahim Akhter // Islamabad, Pakistan

THANK YOU FOR YOUR SUBMISSIONS
more competitions are coming soon so stay tuned!
THE YATZER TEAM

 

sources:

LONDON DESIGN GUIDE
  • friend
    Philip | 2009-09-09 20:08:08

    The shop at the Design Museum at Shad Thames is always well worth a look!

  • friend
    Philip | 2009-09-09 20:11:17

    ...An other great design destination in London is right in front of any London Underground map. Those things work so well and look so great. Chances are you couldn't tackle London without it!

  • friend
    Pablo Lara H | 2009-09-09 20:17:18

    Picadilly Circus.

  • friend
    franky | 2009-09-09 20:26:39

    The sketch....for food or drings..,I prefer both. sketch.uk.com

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    Tanika (@mewtopia) | 2009-09-09 20:30:20

    Tanika, London UK. Favourite design destination has to be the Barbican Centre with its grim, brutalist, harsh high rises and man made lakes and waterfalls, it's my favourite place to escape to when spending days and days in the soulless City banks. The geometry of the terraces on the buildings, semi-circles, hidden walkways and gardens all make it the most explorable built complex that I know of in London, not to mention what the Barbican Centre houses. Cafes, libraries, art galleries, stages, concert halls - a space dedicated entirely to arts, culture. The recent run of exhibitions on Le Corbusier was fantastic - in a reflexive look at architecture... I am always surprised at how such hard, unforgiving, rain-stained buildings could house such a collection of beauty and inspiration inside.

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    marinhu | 2009-09-09 21:43:08

    Timothy Taylor Gallery

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    Ajay Khanna | 2009-09-09 22:17:33

    Dear Editor My favourite design destination in London will have to be the Tate Modern. The turbine hall is spatially and empirically unique. The lovely bookstores on two levels sell the most amazing journals in design, art and architecture. And who can beat the views of the Thames, St. Paul's and the Millenium bridge from the seventh floor cafe. A day out at the Tate Modern ticks all the boxes in my London design diary.

  • friend
    valentina | 2009-09-09 23:30:41

    dover street market brick lane take care

  • friend
    spyros | 2009-09-09 23:32:58

    the design museum.. especially for the 'desig cities' exhibition..

  • friend
    Alessandro | 2009-09-09 23:48:03

    Alessandro, London, UK. Agreed with Franky who mention Sketch. Everytime friends come over to visit me in London I bring them there and they all go "wow!".

  • friend
    Tom Hobbs | 2009-09-10 04:42:57

    Tate Modern. Cant beat H&dM!

  • friend
    Jo Yana | 2009-09-10 08:48:34

    Jo Yana, FRANCE I love the show 100% design in LONDON.

  • friend
    Aurelien S. | 2009-09-10 09:48:37

    Aurelien, France, likes the Kemistry Gallery.

  • friend
    Bambu Pistolas | 2009-09-10 10:08:08

    i΄ll have to agree, Sketch is awesome.

  • friend
    Wojtek Traczyk | 2009-09-10 11:15:57

    I love London Design Festival a lot, especially Tent event!

  • friend
    Edgar Pollitos | 2009-09-10 11:23:51

    Without any dubts the best Design Location in London is MY GRANNY' HOUSE.... ya i know nobody knows, but you have to visit that place. It's a particular mix between italian '50 rational design and a immigrant english pottery taste. YOU CAN'T MISS... i'll send you the address in prv, she'll give you some piece of apple pie, sure.. you can't refuse. this is definitely the best design location in London... for me. Design is not only lines and cold material, it's even emotions.

  • friend
    lsd | 2009-09-10 11:46:40

    Jeoffrey from France. I definitely felt in love with Sketch.

  • friend
    Tuti Maioli Neto | 2009-09-10 12:37:34

    Sure I'll visit Design Museum and Serpentine Gallery Pavillion. Kisses Tuti

  • friend
    vangelis | 2009-09-10 15:06:27

    I like very much tate modern

  • friend
    Kat | 2009-09-10 17:13:31

    Definitely the underground Wapping Project. A multispace restaurant & design space, with different ongoing venues, talks & exhibitions. Housed at The Wapping Hydraulic Power Station, an space transformed into this amazing design cult place. www.thewappingproject.com

  • friend
    Edgar P | 2009-09-10 19:19:47

    The One Aldwych hotel

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    7yler | 2009-09-10 21:25:04

    Alfie's Antique Market in Marylebone's Church Street is incredible, it's the place I go to find that one singular piece I've been looking for not knowing exactly what it was I was looking for. As for more inspirational spaces I don't see how you could beat the British Museum, it reeks of arrogance and conquest, it's filled with the natural and human history of the world to an extent unmatched by any other natural museum. One one hand it's a testament to British Imperialism on the other it is a sincere attempt to catalog all that has existed in human history albeit necessarily abridged. Walking through the galleries I come to realize that context is everything and design is life.

  • friend
    urchin | 2009-09-10 21:28:13

    never been to london, but I always thought their fish and chips were well designed (i'm a cockney i'm a cockney i'm a cockney)

  • friend
    Ioanna | 2009-09-11 01:10:00

    tate gallery...perfect sumpple of architecture!!

  • friend
    Nicolas Lefeuvre | 2009-09-11 05:41:57

    Nicolas/France " London itself is a design destination, from the name of this city (quite graphic) to the mood..."

  • friend
    Daniel Kaiser | 2009-09-11 08:31:09

    Daniel from Brazil I really like the Museums in London's Center, and as well some buildings from Brighton.

  • friend
    FahimAkhter | 2009-09-11 10:41:38

    Fahim Akhter from Pakistan. Definitely Tate Modern

  • friend
    Ilia Potemin | 2009-09-11 12:16:06

    Ilia From Italy it's definetelly www.thecoolhunter.co.uk !

  • friend
    Bence Torok | 2009-09-11 14:54:58

    tate modern

  • friend
    Yudelca | 2009-09-11 19:21:41

    Yudelca from the United States. Tate Modern.

  • friend
    lina | 2009-09-12 14:14:12

    The best design destination for me is each one of the East London markets. For their vintage goods, their vivid colours and inspiring vibe. Lina from Athens.

  • friend
    Alexey Malina | 2009-09-12 19:19:02

    Alexey from Moscow, Russia. I like Tate Modern.

  • friend
    Aideen McCole | 2009-09-12 20:24:49

    My favourite design destination in London is the ICA - well-designed gallery spaces, restaurant and bar, and tasty design books and magazines in the shop. Always a must when I'm in town!

  • friend
    liam hopkins | 2009-09-12 21:15:18

    mint shop

  • friend
    Vasileios Toutziaris | 2009-09-13 00:40:43

    Vasilis from Thessaloniki, Greece. All the way from the London Eye to the Design Museum (I love this museum!!!)

  • friend
    Tolis, Greece | 2009-09-13 13:54:11

    Tate Gallery

  • friend
    carmen, Spain | 2009-09-14 13:08:17

    Tate modern

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    Anastasia Gerali | 2009-09-14 13:37:26

    Absolut Vintage in Spitalfields. Not only a great place to find something to wear, but also an excellent source of visual information. All the fabrics, clothes, shoes...bliss!

  • friend
    Tasos | 2009-09-14 14:11:38

    Tate Modern

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    Hara Triposkoufi | 2009-09-14 14:34:14

    I ALWAYS LIKE GOING TO THE LIBERTY, IT HAS SUCH A NICE ATMOSPHERE AND MANY OBJECTS ANTIQUE+MODERN PERFECTLY MATCHED : )

  • friend
    rafa | 2009-09-14 16:33:48

    hyde park

  • friend
    Markus | 2009-09-14 23:50:52

    My most favorite design destination in London is: "The School of Life" - http://www.theschooloflife.com/ Best Regards, Markus - Hamburg, Germany

  • friend
    alessandro galperti italy | 2009-09-15 12:41:00

    My most favorite design destination in London is Tate modern by H&deM

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    M2JL :: STUDIO | 2009-09-15 17:00:35

    I have yet to visit London my a very good contender would have to be the Design Museum. Marie/Canada

  • friend
    Jelena, Bosnia and Heryegovina | 2009-09-15 19:15:59

    ...tate modern...

  • friend
    Gord | 2009-09-16 01:11:41

    Battersea power station because it is simply awesome.

  • friend
    Loukas | 2009-09-16 03:13:14

    Loukas London my favourite destination is bricklane and especially when tent London is on.

  • friend
    Lise | 2009-09-16 05:17:06

    Oh what a gorgeous book I'll have to get it anyways if I'm not a winner, but I've always loved the parks of London, ok they're not man made design but designed by someone amazing, the trees, the gardens (well they are designed by mere mortals). Either way I adore London, always will, like a second home!

  • friend
    Joanne Hogan | 2009-09-16 17:15:05

    v+a

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    Andrew Losowsky, USA | 2009-09-16 17:31:28

    The Flora Print Club on Endell Street - Japanese kitsch photo stickers, t-shirts and strangeness. Whenever I want to escape into weird design overload, I just have to stop in.

  • friend
    jpn | 2009-09-17 16:02:27

    :::::battersea power station + tate modern + somerset house. ♥ london

  • friend
    eva | 2009-09-18 00:14:51

    Katholou prwtotypa Tate Modern alla kai Portobello flea market is full of street flea design

  • friend
    Alexia | 2009-09-18 10:23:52

    shunt vaults @ london bridge!

  • friend
    mARA | 2009-09-20 20:06:16

    The National Theatre for its concrete brutalism and Barbican.... and of course the streets of London are full of inspiration! (mara, athina, ouuuf)

  • friend
    athina | 2009-09-21 14:02:21

    Tate Modern

  • friend
    Oleg | 2009-09-21 16:30:40

    Battersea Power Station

  • friend
    Samah | 2009-09-23 09:58:50

    My favorite this summer was The Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. I love London and design!

  • friend
    georgia | 2009-09-23 18:56:58

    Tate Modern!!!!

  • friend
    Michal, Poland | 2009-10-20 13:38:39

    Royal College of Arts

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