The <a href="http://www.antidesignfestival.com/">Anti-Design Festival</a> kicked off in London this past weekend. What IS the Anti-Design Festival you ask? Their manifesto states:
<blockquote>As a response to 25 years of cultural deep freeze in the UK, the Anti Design Festival will attempt to unlock creative fires and ideas, exploring spaces hitherto deemed out-of-bounds by a purely commercial criteria.

Created initially as a direct response to the pretty commerciality of the London Design Festival, the festival will shift the focus from bums-on-seats to brain food, and from taste and style to experiment and risk. The festival will provide a rare space for unhindered exploration and creative opportunity, where ideas may fail as equally as succeed.</blockquote>

...and as expected, food was an inspiration in some of the works. I was especially attracted to this somewhat cute yet surreal mash up of a young ballerina girl meets ice cream cone meets milk explosion and sweets.

<p style="text-align:center;"><img class="aligncenter" style="border:0 none;" src="http://www.remain-silent.com/cm/kewlstuff/icecreamballerina.jpg" alt="Ice cream ballerina surrealist mashup" width="400" height="443" /></p>

I'm not sure who the artist is for this one, but if you know, send <a href="mailto:thecravenmaven@gmail.com?subject=icecreamgirl">me an email!
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The festival ends on September 26th, go to the <a href="http://www.antidesignfestival.com/">ADF site</a> for more information about exhibitors and locations.

<em>image via the anti-design festival</em>