The capital is revving up for this year’s festival, launching this Saturday. There are the usual suspects, from 100%design to TENT, but this year there seems to be a discernible wobble. With the future of the Design Council under threat and Neville Brody’s Anti-Design Festival creating a rumble, it will be interesting to see how it unfolds. Watch this space for daily updates…

In the mean time, check out this clever re-use of a derelict petrol station on Clerkenwell Road: the Cineroleum. Tweaked and altered by a bunch of twenty something architects, designers and artists, all with a common goal. They’ve created a pop up cinema- an homage to the golden age of film, with decadent interiors, flip down seat, neon lights and proper tickets. One of apparently 4000 redundant petrol station forecourts currently in the UK, its a wonderful and curious experiment.