By linking up with culturelabel.com, Hidden Art have been able to give 15 UK designer-makers and designers the chance to show their unique work at the world’s biggest Expo, Shanghai World Expo 2010.This includes a special preview of a selection of products from Hidden Art Select 2010, which will not formally launch until September.

Products from New Hidden Art Select 2010 Designers

• Rentaro Nishimura – ‘Queen of Hearts’ is a ring steeped in British royal iconography pops out of a single piece of plastic.
• Renata Manau – ‘Balloon’ is a playful birdhouse, which makes it appear as though the birds fly into a balloon stuck in a tree.
• People Will Always Need Plates – ‘Your Placemat or Mine’ range of placemats and coasters which communicate British street life through the ages.

Other Hidden Art members gaining exposure in Shanghai include:

• Susan Bradley Design (Hidden Art Select 2009) – London Landmark Bookends
• Dan Usiskin (Hidden Art Select 2009) – Dot to Date Calendar
• Ayda Anlagan  (Hidden Art Select 2009) – Every Drop Counts Soup Bowls
• Aarevalo  (Hidden Art Select 2009) – Random World Lampshade
• Jake Phipps (Hidden Art Select 2007) – Jeeves and Wooster
• Soner Ozenc – Stamp Mirror
• Giles Miller – Queens Head Mirror
• Snowden Flood – A range from Snowden’s collection
• Black + Blum – Loop
• Yu Jordy Fu – Cloud Lamps
• Reiko Kaneko – Egg Soldier Cup
• Takae Mizutani and Sons – My egg & soldiers

Film making and acting, fashion and textiles, fine art and photography, costume and theatre design, graphic and product design, jewellery and ceramics, architecture and environment.

11 January to 26 March
10am – 7pm Monday – Friday, 10am – 4pm Saturdays

Lethaby Gallery
Central Saint Martins
Southampton Row
London WC1B 4AP

Admission is free

We show the extraordinary talent to have come out of Central Saint Martins in the last two decades. Much of the work belongs to the Central Saint Martins Museum and Study Collection, which has been proactively collecting work by staff, students and alumni throughout this period of expansion and change. We are also grateful to the many artists and designers who generously loaned items for display.’ CSM website

Please click here for the press release.

This unique convention in the Middle East was received with great importance locally, regionally, and internationally. It highlighted the inventions, innovations and creativity of youths. The convention also promoted Kuwait’s modernity and its role in encouraging and supporting the inventors and participants in this public service.

‘40 Stations centers on the debate surrounding immigration and borders in Europe by looking at the role of migration and the phenomenon of individuals crossing borders and contributing to the mixing and enriching of cultures. A unique photographic project by Turkish artist Muammer Yanmaz the project follows on from previous 40 Stations exhibitions in Paris and New York developing the themes of identity, migration and assimilation. Through a series of 40 black and white portraits of Turkish individuals taken at stations of their choice in London Muammer provides a revealing insight into the creativity that stems from the migration and movement of people from Turkish origins who are contributing to the busy, metropolitan landscape of London.

Projects in the series have been shown at Mavi Jeans Art Gallery/İstanbul, Marmara Manhattan Art Gallery/New York, French Cultural Center/İstanbul, Bureau de la Culture et de l’Information de Turquie/Paris and the London project will shortly travel to Istanbul.

To complement the London exhibition the British Council has commissioned British photographer Annabel Elston to create a series of portraits in response to Yanmaz’s London settings. Annabel’s photographs present 40 members of the British community in Turkey.’ Space Gallery website

Read the British Council article here.

I appreciate the minimal amounts of wasted material and space in the manufacture and packaging of these shades and enjoy the idea of changing the color of the shade to suit my mood.

Find it right here, and see more intriguing designs on soner’s website.’ Roadside Scholar

Selected by Rory Dodd, founder of Designersblock

“This electro-luminescent prayer mat contains a compass so its design glows more brightly as it points towards Mecca,” says Dodd. “Simultaneously modern and deeply historical, it mixes technology and tradition to enhance everyday usefulness.” Turkish-born, British-based designer Ozenc, 27, creates products that combine tradition with contemporary materials and technology. Though not a Muslim, he became interested in rugs and prayer mats while studying at Central St Martins. (“Sajjadah” is a Persian-Turkish word meaning prayer rug; 1426 stands for 2005 in the Islamic calendar.)’ Independent

Here is the online link for the same article.