What’s that you say…you have a shoe fetish? And you love Kevin McCloud? AND you enjoy strolling around London looking at awesome design whilst wearing a monocle? Well don’t I just have a treat for you… Clerkenwell Design Week It’s the big one! The design community invades Clerkenwell for the 3 day ‘week’ with the [...]

The fourth and final installment of our festival calendar guiding you through a huge selection of summer festivals right here in the UK, brings us into August and September. For the final months it’s hard to ignore the line up at Reading and Leeds (click here to see full line up) in a Glastonbury free [...]

July is the third installment for our festival calendar and the selection process has given us a headache (in a good way). Scotland’s much loved festival ‘T in the Park’ is once again the number 1 destination for mainstream music fans, Global Gathering is number 1 big dance fest for the month and Secret Garden [...]

June sees the festival heavyweights Rockness, Isle of Wight and Download go head to head, but will any of them take the crown from Glastonbury in it's absense? The second installment of our festival calendar doesn’t include any of the above… Field Day Where: Victoria Park, London E3 When: 2ND June Tickets £45 London’s heartland, [...]

Put down your iPad and get your cultured cap on for April. It’s hotting up this Easter in the art and design world, some perfect viewing for a free bank holiday…or two. British Design 1948-2012 – V&A The best of British at the V&A this April and beyond. Focusing on the period from when London [...]

Part one of our 2012 Festival Calendar for April and May, the countdown officially begins… OneFest Where: Tumuli Field, Rockley Manor, Marlborough, Wiltshire When: 14th April Tickets £39.00 Born out of the Barge Inn located in the village of Honystreet, OneFest is the first outdoor music festival of the year taking place in the heart [...]

Burning Ink London Burning Ink has previously been held in Paris, New York & Berlin and works on the concept that no-one will be taking any physical art home with them at the end of the show, and instead all the drawings will be burnt, the only way for them to survive is if someone [...]

March is an exciting time for design. The sun is shining and Spring’s on the horizon. So get yourself to London, I’ll do the research, you do the leg work. Here’s 4 things to do in March… London Design Week 2012 – Design Centre WHEN – 11-16 March, 10am-6pm WHERE – Design Centre, Chelsea Harbour, [...]

I don't know if it's just me, but other than Pancake day, February has been a pretty miserable month, and I can't wait to see the back of it. Here are a couple of Urban Nerds events to kick off our what's on guide for March... Rompa's Reggae Shack 3rd March @ The Victory FOLLOW [...]

February is a month that divides the nation, you either love or loathe it, the official month of the year to celebrate L.O.V.E. Valentine’s day is fast approaching and that means overpriced pretentious restaurants, a musical and dinner package or half a glass of champagne whilst wasting an hour of your life on the London eye... [...]