Kaffe Fassett craze has officially begun!

London’s Fashion and Textile Museum has announced that they will be presenting a major exhibition of the contemporary textile artist's work.Kaffe Fassett – A Life in Colour will look at over five decades of Fassett’s work, including his famous colourful patchworks, quilts and needlework and never-seen-before pieces created especially for the show.

As a pioneer of modern textiles, Fassett has worked closely with everyone from Missoni, Rowan Yarns, the Royal Shakespeare Company and the BBC to fashion designer Bill Gibb, who is credited for jump starting his career.Introducing Fassett to the wool mills of Scotland and the beautiful coloured yarns they produced, Gibb inspired a love of textiles in Fassett.

The story goes that on the way back to London Fassett, armed with 20 colours of Shetland wool and some knitting needles, was taught how to knit by a fellow passenger and the rest, as they say, is history. Ever since, Fassett has been featuring in Vogue Knitting and designing private commissions for the likes of Barbara Streisand and Lauren Bacall while exhibiting around the world and lecturing internationally. Oh, and he has also written over 30 books and hosted a series of TV and radio shows dedicated to his craft. If that doesn’t dazzle you then the dizzy brights and vitality of his work will.

Kaffe Fassett – A Life in Colour is at the Fashion and Textile Museum from the 22 March to 29 June. ftmlondon.org

Based on one of the most successful pieces of packaging design in history, Tank Books has released a new black and gold tin for its award-winning cigarette books. Underneath the tough exterior of the flip-top cigarette packs sealed in cellophane, each miniature book is a classic novel and a tale to take your breath away – all perfectly wrapped in silver foil. First introduced in 2005, the books have soared in popularity since the smoking ban and are an easy gift to please design enthusiasts and those who enjoy a ripping yarn... A cigarette tin includes 6 books and in total 11 novels: the Man who would be King, the Phantom ’Rickshaw and Black Jack by Rudyard Kipling; the Death of Ivan Ilych and Father Sergius by Leo Tolstoy; the Heart of Darkness by Joseph Conrad; the Metamorphis and In the Penal Colony by Franz Kafka; Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde by Robert Louis Stevenson; the Undefeated and the Snows of Kilimanjaro by Ernest Hemingway.

A tin is £43 and each individual book is £8 available at tankmagazine.com

3D printing for the home? Life-logging camera? Flat-pack house you can design and build yourself? These are not some in-development projects being researched in a remote high-tech lab at a far corner of the world; they are all part of the “New Industrial Revolution,” lead by Wired. Opening up a Pop-Up store in London for the first time, Wired are bringing the pages of their December issue to life by bringing visionary creative products, exhibits and demonstrations to your doorstep. Exhibiting and offering the opportunity to order products such as the MakerBot 3D printer, ArcBotics Hexapod customisable robot, WikiHouse flat-pack home, and BERG studio’s tiny networked printer that offers you bespoke newspapers every morning, this pop-up is a unique shopping experience that offers a glimpse of the world in 2013. Moreover, Wired have partnered with Samsung who will be unveiling their largest ever 75 inch LED SMART TV screen, which will be linked to a number of interactive showcases such as MakieLab iconic 3D-printed dolls, which could be customised on the screen, young jeans brand Hiut Denim’s History Tag, which links traces the life of each pair, and S[edition]’s Digital Art Gallery, exhibiting works by Damien Hirst, Tracey Emin and Shepard Fairey, which would be available for purchase on smartphones, tablets and SMART TVs. It’s a new industrial era, and there’s never been a better time to catch-up than the present moment: check the website for the full calendar of events, screenings and talks and dive into a vision of the future that is much closer than it seems.

The Wired Pop-Up store will be open from Friday 30 November through to Wednesday 5 December at the Quadrant Arcade, Regent Street, Greater London W1B 5HF. #SamsungWIRED

Text by Maria Dimitrova