Departure: further explorations in print

14th September to 17th November 2007
Monday to Saturday 11am to 6pm
Part of the London Design Festival 2007

Featuring work by Gunilla Klingberg, Fiona Zobole, Rhian Solomon and Sebastian White

Don’t miss the Meet the Designers Event
Tuesday 18 September 7pm
Find out directly from the designers the concepts behind their work and the technology used to create it. New feature: Big Seb White’s Paint-In. Take part in creating the massive magic colouring wall made especially for the opening night out.

Departure tours to The Hub: National Centre for Craft and Design - 11 April to 8 June 2008

Catch up with the designers from Departure 06 as well as this year’s selection in our big new show.

Gunilla Klingberg Fiona Zobole Rhian Solomon Sebastian White

It’s back! Building on the hugely successful Departure 06 exhibition, London Printworks Trust presents Departure: further explorations in print, an interactive exhibition that forms part of this year’s London Design Festival. The show explores a diverse range of approaches to print practice from Gunilla Klingberg’s kaleidoscopic digital animation featuring logotypes from a shop near you, to Sebastian White’s interactive invisible ink wallpapers. Explore Fiona Zobole’s large-scale sensory text prints, and debate the merits of cosmetic and reconstructive plastic surgery with Rhian Solomon.

Departure is part of London Printworks Trust’s Homespun programme, funded by the Esmee Fairbairn Foundation. Homespun's central aim is to enable emerging artists and designers to make and exhibit new bodies of work by offering the opportunity to experiment with the printed textile process. Also, Departure has been kindly supported by Arts Council England and Lambeth Arts.

The London Design Festival was established in 2003 to ‘celebrate and promote London as the creative capital of the world, and as the gateway to the UK’s world-class creative community’. The London Design Festival is now in its fifth year and has become a fixture on the international creative calendar. With over 200 projects and audiences of 300,000 it has quickly become one of the most important design events in the world.  The Festival is an umbrella brand and works in partnership with a wide network of organisations and individuals. They range from museums and retailers, to educational institutes, creative businesses, trade shows, magazines, designers and international cities. www.londondesignfestival.com

The Hub: National Centre for Craft & Design is the largest space in the UK dedicated to the exhibition, promotion and celebration of contemporary craft and design. The Hub provides two gallery spaces with a continuously changing, and challenging programme, of international and national craft and design. www.thehubcentre.org