Countdown to Christmas – design round-up

Gary Card’s giant mechanical Electric Christmas Tree

Designer Gary Card has created a giant mechanical Electric Christmas Tree, which stands in London’s King’s Cross Filling Station. Card, the man responsible for the incredible designs at Dalston concept store LN-CC , crafted the tree using car parts from Vauxhall Amperas, creating a stunning finale to the Vauxhall Ampera Season at the space.

You can visit the Electric Christmas Tree from 12pm – 10pm until 6 January 2013 at King’s Cross Filling Station, Goods Way, King’s Cross, N1C

Twelve days of Jelly Christmas

Illustration and motion graphics agency Jelly London has created a cheeky Christmas countdown in the form of its Twelve Days of Jelly Christmas, a digital advent calendar. You can check into the Vimeo site every day to see a new ‘present’: a lady snowman metling as an admirer winks at her, perhaps – or a fairy landing atop her Christmas tree in a less than comforastble manner…

https://player.vimeo.com/video/54765779

The Fedrigoni Christmas Advent-ture

Designer and ‘paper magician’ Owen Gildersleeve has created a giant advent calendar for paper manufacturer Fedrigoni, which was unveiled at its London paper showroom yesterday. The calendar uses the traditional Christmas colours of he felt-marked Nettuno paper range. Visitors to the shop have the chance to win a gift every day until 24 December, so head over to 5^th Floor Diamond House, 36 – 38 Hatton Garden, London EC1N for a chance to bag a present.

12 Desks of Christmas

Here at Design Week, our desks are currently housing an inflatable dachshund, an otter and a large box of bamboo biscuits, as well as various broadsheets and Halloween ephemera. As such, we’d be wise to not follow in the footsteps of design-led publishers Laurence King. Yesterday it began its Christmas countdown in the form of 12 Desks of Christmas – an interactive guessing game in which visitors to the site have to match staff members to pictures of their desks to try and win books.

Click here to have a go, or use the hashtag #12desks for the Laurence King Twitter.