Icon magazine, Klein Dythem Architects, Max Fraser, and The Club at the ICA have come together to launch a new type of showcasing and networking event called Pecha Kucha for London’s creative sector. The event is called Pecha Kucha – an informal networking and showcasing event founded by Klein Dytham Architects (KDA) in Tokyo in 2003 where sixteen participants get to show 20 slides for 20 seconds each, meaning the audience experiences an exhilarating range of speakers and images over the course of the evening. There's also music, drinking and the inevitable exchange of ideas that occurs when you get so many architects, designers, artists and so on together in the same room. Once a month, KDA stage a Pecha Kucha evening where designers, artists, architects, retailers, manufacturers, students, entrepreneurs etc are invited to present their designs, thoughts, and ideas. The first one was on the 17th August and next one is on the 31st August, but it appears already sold-out, so best to keep an eye on the site for news of the next gathering. Props to dominijk for the tipoff.