The team have been sneaking all over London over the last few months attending all sorts of creative happenings but Decode took the crown for 2009, with everyone’s creative and inspiration juices in full flow by the time we retired to a local pub to chew over what we’d seen.

For those of you that either haven’t made it down there yet or haven’t even heard about the exhibition, here’s what the V&A’s own website says to describe it:

Decode: Digital Design Sensations showcases the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small, screen-based, graphics to large-scale interactive installations. The exhibition includes works by established international artists and designers such as Daniel Brown, Golan Levin, Daniel Rozin, Troika and Karsten Schmidt. The exhibition features both existing works and new commissions created especially for the exhibition.

From interactive electronic reeds that lit up as you walked past to creating colourscapes by waving your arms in the air, the exhibition has more than enough to keep anyone enthralled for hours. There was of course the usual exhibits that seemed to be broken, but with that much technology crammed into one exhibition we weren’t too disappointed.

The exhibition was well worth the trip, it’s been fascinating to see the rise of digital ‘art’ and how these pieces are fitting into, or not as the case may be, the standard format of the museum. It’s a real reflection of the prominence of digital design that it is now showcased in places like the V&A alongside other works of inspiration and creativity. The V&A is certainly setting a good example with their digital commissions, exhibitions and now their solely digital artist-in-residence Christian Kerrigan. We’re going to be keeping our eyes peeled on what he cooks up now he’s surrounded by arguably the world’s greatest museum dedicated to art and design with over 3000 years of artefacts. Should be interesting.

Above: A videowall where users could record a short clip and see it appear on the wall, there was a queue for this one.

Above: This was the favourite exhibit for a lot of the team. Daniel Rozin’s Weave Mirror, he used 768 motorized c-shaped prints which go from light to dark. The user stands in front of a screen: the shadow they cast behind them is then translated into a ghostly portrait on the Weave Mirror. Sounds complicated but it works beautifully.