London Design Festival Plans for Robots, Neville Brody to Launch Anti-Festival

Perhaps trying to outdo last year, with Jaime Hayon‘s giant chess set installed in Trafalgar Square, the London Design Festival has announced that for 2010 they’ve paired with Reed Kram and Clemens Weisshaar, the designers/architects and regular Rem Koolhaas/Prada collaborators, to dream something up for the Square when the fest kicks off in mid-September. What they’ve delivered, of course, is robots. Robots that make pretty things out of light:

The installation titled “Outrace” consists of an immense mechanical octopus assembled from six industrial robotic arms on loan from Audi’s production line.

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