This is Origin ’s second year of being part of the London Design Festival rather than a stand-alone event, and its second year at Old Spitalfields Market . It still has a slightly different feel to many of the events on offer, appealing to a slightly older crowd, and focusing exclusively on contemporary craft. It attracts some wonderfully quirky exhibitors – these Azurer pots (above) were so organic they almost seemed to be growing! And I’ve never seen anything quite like Clare Knox-Bentham ’s creations, which are hand “drawn” using plastic extrusion techniques. There was also a lot of very beautiful, quite understated ceramics, like Noa Ceramics ’ work (above), which is hand-crafted using antique Indian printing blocks and the pieces below from Derek Wilson , Kerry Hastings and Linda Bloomfield

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LDF 2011: Origin Contemporary Craft Fair