Exhibitions

Experimental and new works by various designers, including Ron Arad, Gitta Gschwendtner and Gad Charny are featured during Darkness, an exhibition about light that runs from 17 February until 14 March.

Venue: Aram Gallery, 110 Drury Lane, London WC2.

Building the Bid – London 2012, until 22 February, includes new images of venue plans for the proposed Olympic Park in east London.

Venue: Royal Institute of British Architects Gallery, 66 Portland Place, London W1.

From 18 February until 5 May, 100 Years – 100 Chairs offers an overview of the different periods of industrial design in the 20th century and is accompanied by drawings, sketches and documents.

Venue: Cube, 113-115 Portland Street, Manchester M1.