London Design Festival (September 13-23)

The London Design Festival runs September 13-23 this year and is what one might call expansive. It will wow visitors with cutting-edge ideas in every design field, from graphics to designer furniture and architecture via art and product design. There are droll little items for the home, such as Hoody salt and pepper shakers by Vitamin - inspired by Britain's notorious youths - as well as adroit debates with the likes of Ken Livingstone on the creativity of London and how business can work with design. For most of us it will be about meandering through product exhibitions, maybe buying a print and trailing around the various hubs (which are in the usual culture locations - the South Bank, Brick Lane, Exhibition Road). For design geeks it will be an earthly paradise from which to reap inspiration and find knick-knacks with which to transform their homes into embodiments of the Zeitgeist.