A range of great projects at the V&A for this year's London Design Festival

We’ve already sung the praises of the V&A’s flagship London Design Festival project – Barber Osgerby’s extraordinary reflective installation in the Raphael Cartoons Gallery – but there are some other gems on offer at the spiritual home of the festival.

The most interesting is Candela, an immersive light sculpture in the Tapestry Gallery. It’s the work of a multidisciplinary team made up of product and furniture designer Felix de Pass, graphic designer Mike Montgomery and ceramicist Ian McIntyre and it’s a magnificently atmospheric creation. Walking into the quiet, still darkness of the gallery, the sculpture hums with electric green luminosity, and continuously changes as it rotates through its visual cycle. It feels like you’ve stumbled across the museum’s brain, surrounded by the priceless 15th Century tapestries.

Elsewhere it’s a coup for the LDF to have Zaha Hadid create a metallic sculpture for the museum’s courtyard pool. Crest is a delicate balance of design and engineering, assembled flat and then bent into shape in situ, a technique Zaha and her team had never used before.

Michael Anastassiades’ pearl-inspired collaboration with FLOS is pretty spectacular and David David’s Carousel Wall is one of the best uses of the V&A’s subway entrance for a a while.

Barber and Osgerby may be the star-turn but if you’re heading to the V&A for LDF it’s well worth hunting out some of these other projects too.