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London Design Guide goes to print

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We're dead excited to see that Max Fraser's new book, the London Design Guide, has just gone to print. Max is the lovely chap behind Design UK, and the London Design Guide promises to be a rather tasty annual guide to the best of London's design scene:

It includes reviews of design shops, galleries, institutions, and design bookshops, as well as restaurant, bar, cafe, and hotel recommendations. Detailed maps of key areas help you to navigate around the city, accompanied by personal tours by locals. Topical editorial features add more commentary and highlight trends and issues affecting design today. A membership scheme gives readers access to exclusive offers and promotions.

Max asked us, together with David Pearson and Paul Finn, to create the book's cover; while the main body of the guide has been designed by the very talented Richard Ardagh of Elephant's Graveyard.

 

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The book launches next month, just in time for the London Design Festival. Check out the LDG Facebook page for details, or follow the LDG feed on Twitter.

posted: 24 August 2009
categories: Books | Graphics
 
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