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The Conran Effect
4 October 2021
The Design Museum unveils free display celebrating the life and work of its founder, Sir Terence Conran, to mark what would have been the 90th birthday of the acclaimed British designer
One of the most influential design-led entrepreneurs of his generation, Sir Terence Conran, who died last year, was a champion of design education and the creative industries in Britain throughout his life. He founded the Design Museum in 1989
- Press Release_The Conran Effect.pdf
Amy: Beyond the Stage
Opens 26 November 2021
Celebrate the creativity and legacy of one of the great artists of ourtime in this first major retrospective exhibition on the British musician Amy Winehouse at the Design Museum
Step backstage and relive iconic performances, examine her eclectic style and explore her creative process, from concept to stage
Marking the 10-year anniversary of Amy's death, the exhibition delves into her emergence as an artist, the musical influences that she drew on, her key albums Frank and Back to Black, and the story behind her iconic beehive, as well as many of her most memorable fashion moments
Meet the incredible musical artists who influenced Amy's career from Dinah Washington to Frank Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan to The Supremes and find out about the range of genres she drew on, from jazz to 1960s pop
- Release_Amy_Beyond the Stage.pdf
The Design Museum announces 2022 exhibition programme
7 September 2021
In the build up to the 2022 World Cup, the Design Museum presents the first major exhibition on the design of the world's most popular sport, football. This exhibition will reveal how human creativity has pushed the game to its technical and emotional limits
In spring 2022, step into a sensory playground with 'Weird Sensation Feels Good' as the Design Museum explores the internet sensation that is ASMR
Looking ahead to autumn, discover how Surrealism has influenced design for the past 100 years, with Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design
- Press Release_2022 Programme.pdf
Design Museum launches new 8-week accelerator programme for entrepreneurs
24 August 2021
The Design Museum opens call for entries for Entrepreneurs Hub, a first of its kind programme to support and accelerate 15 emerging design-led startups from diverse disciplines and backgrounds
The new 8-week programme will offer participants mentoring, business advice and exposure to industry leaders to help turn their business ideas into viable concepts
Concluding with a fundraising pitch, the scheme is built with accessibility, inclusion and diversity at its core, aimed at creatives who may have felt locked out of design opportunities in the past
- Press Release_Entrepreneurs Hub.pdf
Waste Age: What can design do?
23 October 2021 – 20 February 2022
To coincide with the UN Climate Change Conference (COP26), the Design Museum will host an exhibition showing what design can do to tackle the critical problem of waste and its environmental consequences across the globe
The exhibition will showcase the visionary designers that are reinventing our relationship with waste, including contributions from Formafantasma, Stella McCartney, The Ellen MacArthur Foundation, Fernando Laposse, Bethany Williams, Phoebe English, Natsai Audrey Chieza and more
For the first time, exhibition visitors will be able to see new commissions that confront the waste problem including, a large-scale art installation by Ibrahim Mahama made from e-waste in Ghana
- Press Release_Waste Age.pdf
BOMBAY SAPPHIRE® opens Supermarket at the Design Museum, an art installation to show that creativity is essential
20 April 2021
As public art institutions and galleries remain closed, BOMBAY SAPPHIRE gin has teamed up with the Design Museum and Camille Walala to reopen the iconic museum's shop as an essential store. All items are designed by a collective of emerging artists, making creativity accessible to all
- Press Release_Supermarket.pdf
Designers in Residence: Care
7 April 2021
Designers in Residence is the Design Museum's flagship programme to support emerging designers at an early stage in their careers
Carrying out their residency at home and in virtual environments, the all-female cohort will reveal their final projects in an interactive digital showcase which goes live on 7 April
Responding to the theme of 'Care', this year's residents explore mental health within Black British communities, rethinking the role of empathy between humans and nature, our relationship to microbes inside urban environments and a fashion collection inspired by traditional local crafts in Nigeria
- Press Release_DiR 2020: Care.pdf
Charlotte Perriand: The Modern Life
19 June – 5 September 2021
The Design Museum, London puts a spotlight on the work of one of the giants of 20th century design, a free spirit who championed good design for all
Marking 25 years since the last significant presentation in London, follow Charlotte Perriand's creative process through sketches, photographs, scrapbooks, prototypes and final pieces
Step inside recreations of some of her most famous interiors, such as the apartment designed for the Salon d'Automne in 1929, and sit on furniture she designed, including the iconic Chaise Longue Basculante and the Fauteuil Pivotant
- Press Release_Charlotte Perriand.pdf
Sneakers Unboxed: From Studio to Street
18 May – 24 October 2021
The Design Museum, in London opens a major exhibition exploring one of the most universal design objects, bought and worn by millions of people worldwide every day
From sneakers originally designed for specific athletic activities such as the Converse Chuck Taylor All Star, the Puma Disc, and Nike Alpha fly Next%, to their cultural resonance across the globe, discover how the shoe became the undisputed cultural symbol of our times
- Press Release_Sneakers Unboxed.pdf
See-saw at the border wall between the USA and Mexico named best design of 2020
19 January 2021
The Design Museum names temporary interactive installation the 'Teeter-Totter Wall', designed by architects Ronald Rael and Virginia San Fratello with Colectivo Chopeke, as the Beazley Design of the Year 2020
The project created a place where children from both countries could connect playfully through three bright pink see-saws
Other winners include an illustration of the COVID-19 virus, the vegan Impossible Burger 2.0 designed to replicate a beef burger, and a protest performance denouncing sexual violence towards women and LGBTQ communities in Latin America
- Press Release_BDOTY Winners 2020.pdf
The Design Museum launches new digital collaboration with creative studio Play Nice to platform black creatives from London's music scene
1 December 2020
The Design Museum, in partnership with creative studio Play Nice, are set to launch a new digital film on Tuesday 1 December
Celebrating the contributions of the black diaspora to electronic music, starting with some of London's black owned record labels, music groups and DJs including Errol Anderson, Tash LC, Tommy Gold and Shy One
As well as exploring the heritage of the dance genre curated in the Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers exhibition, the film delves into the artists' experiences through the pandemic, journeys into their craft and hopes for the future of the nightlife scene
The film also marks the launch of Play Nice's 'Field Trip' project that will provide free tickets and experiences in the cultural industry to people from fringe communities, including special access to the Electronic exhibition through the Design Museum's 'Ticket Mate Fund', a pay it forward scheme in partnership with local charities
- Release_The New Rave.pdf
The Design Museum announces Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers – The Virtual Tour and Q&A in collaboration with Facebook
Now closed
Join the Design Museum for the world premiere of the online curated tour of sell-out exhibition Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers, launching on 17 December 2020 with an exclusive live panel talk with guests to be announced soon
The Virtual Tour will give viewers the opportunity to experience a specially curated tour of the Electronic exhibition from home
Curators will guide viewers through key moments in the exhibition, alongside exclusive interviews from Jean-Michel Jarre, Shiva Feshareki, Alan Oldham, A Guy Called Gerald, Smith & Lyall, Judas Companion, Kate Moross, Pier Schneider and François Wunschel of 1024 Architecture, Yuri Suzuki, Weirdcore and more
- Press Release_Electronic_The Virtual Tour.pdf
Design Museum announces Beazley Designs of the Year nominees
21 October 2020 - 28 March 2021
The Design Museum announces 74 nominees for the thirteenth annual exhibition and awards - revealing the most game-changing designs of the last year
Nominees include 15-year-old Jalaiah Harmon, creator of online dance sensation Renegade, a set of plasters suitable for a range of skin tones by Nuditone, virtual musician, social activist and model Lil Miquela, the set design for award-winning film Parasite, The Uncensored Library in Minecraft and a low-cost modular school that can be built and dismantled in a few hours
Health and sanitisation are major themes in this year's awards, as seen in the Water Box Mobile Filtration System supported by Jaden Smith, the Leishenshan Hospital constructed in Wuhan by 10,000 workers in 10 days, the world's first reusable cotton swab and a self-sanitising door handle.
- Beazley Designs of the Year 2020 Release.pdf
The Design Museum announces 2021 programme
1 October 2020
A major retrospective on French designer Charlotte Perriand, a giant of 20th century design who helped define modern life, opens March 2021
Know your Air Jordans from your Air Force 1s? 'Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street' exploring sneaker performance, subculture and fashion is finally dropping next spring
The earth is suffocating under the burden of one material: waste. A major new exhibition, 'Waste Age', in autumn 2021 will show what the design industry can do about this, with your help.
- 2021 Programme Release.pdf
The Design Museum mourns the loss of its founder, design visionary, Sir Terence Conran
12 September 2020
Terence Conran, founder of the Design Museum, designer, philanthropist and businessman, has passed away on Saturday 12 September, he was 88 years old
Through a series of parallel careers, Sir Terence Conran had a greater impact than any other designer of his generation, revolutionising everyday life in contemporary Britain
- Press Release - Terence Conran 12.09.20.pdf
Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work
21 October 2020 – 10 January 2021
The Design Museum announces display celebrating the work of graphic design pioneer, Margaret Calvert
The display explores Calvert's co-designed wayfinding systems for transport networks across the UK and her impact on modern information design, alongside insight into her creative process and 'play' projects
In collaboration with Network Rail, the display also celebrates the launch of the new customised typeface designed by Calvert in collaboration with Henrik Kubel, Rail Alphabet 2, which will be introduced through several waves of new Network Rail design manuals and rolled out across selected Network Rail managed stations
- Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work - Press Release.pdf
2020 Designers in Residence announced by the Design Museum
18 August 2020
The Design Museum's flagship scheme discovers and supports new and emerging talent at an early stage in their career
The selected designers are announced for the thirteenth edition of the programme
Responding to the theme of 'Care' this year's all female cohort will explore empathy training, microbial diversity, mental health in Black British communities and a new collection of clothing inspired by the stories of West African women living in the UK
Starting their residency in a post Covid19 environment, each designer will initially capture the early stages of their projects virtually, before creating an onsite installation
- Designers in Residence 2020 - Press Release.pdf
The Design Museum in London to reopen on Friday 31 July with Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers
9 July 2020
The Design Museum will begin the first phase of its post-lockdown reopening plans on Friday 31 July 2020 with the opening of temporary exhibition 'Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers'
New 'Safe and Sound' safety procedures will be in place, including reduced capacity, mandatory face coverings, social distancing, enhanced cleaning and more
Reopening marks the launch of 'Ticket Mate Fund' – a new pay it forward scheme in partnership with local charities that distribute free exhibition tickets in the local community
To support local heroes, NHS workers will have a special exhibition preview day and benefit from concession discount at all other times
- Release_Announcement_Museum_Reopening_FINAL.pdf
Design Museum launches Digital Design Calendar to bring the museum into homes around the globe
31 March 2020
From 1 April 2020, the Design Museum will launch a new calendar of online content to bring design into the homes of over 5 million of its digital followers across the globe
Its new digital calendar includes lesson plans and activities for children at home with the Young Design Museum programme, a series of 'Lunch and Learn' sessions for adults in new Learn with the Design Museum series and a roster of Instagram Lives with leading designers called #DesignDispatches
Partners include BBC Studios, Royal College of Art and Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea; and collaborators include designer Ron Arad, fashion designers Christopher Raeburn, Amanda Wakeley and Bella Freud, designer Morag Myerscough and interior designers 2LG Studio
The programme will deliver the museum's mission to make the impact of design visible by connecting design with people's lives and passions online during the temporary closure of its landmark building.
- Digital Design Calendar Release.pdf
The Design Museum in London to close temporarily due to COVID-19 pandemic from 18 March 2020
18 March 2020
Following official advice released by Government and Public Health England on Monday 16 March 2020, the Design Museum will be temporarily closed to the public from 18 March 2020 until further notice.
Temporary exhibitions Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers and Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street, originally planned to open in April and May, will be postponed.
- Release_Announcement_Museum_Closure.pdf
Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers
1 April – 26 July 2020
The Design Museum in London launches new exhibition exploring the hypnotic world of electronic music, from its origins to its futuristic dreams
Discover how design, technology and innovation powered the genre in the work of visionaries including Kraftwerk, The Chemical Brothers, Jeff Mills, Daphne Oram, Jean-Michel Jarre and Aphex Twin
Experience the museum premiere of electronic pioneers The Chemical Brothers' sensory spectacle by creative studio Smith & Lyall featuring mesmerising visuals for the Grammy Award-winning track 'Got to Keep On'
This exhibition makes connections between electronic music and contemporary design, fashion and art. Including works from Charles Jeffrey of Loverboy, Andreas Gursky, Peter Saville, Boiler Room, the Designers Republic, Christian Marclay, Jeremy Deller and more
- Electronic From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers Release.pdf
The Design Museum announces 2020 exhibitions
13 November 2019
Following record-breaking visitor numbers in 2019, the Design Museum, London announces its forthcoming exhibition programme
The first major museum exhibition of one of the world's most influential fashion houses, 'Prada. Front and Back', to open in September 2020
Experience the story of electronic music and journey through dancefloors around the globe in a multi-sensory exhibition delving into the technology behind electronic music and legends of the era, opening in April 2020
Know your Air Jordans from your Air Force 1s? Stay tuned for 'Sneakers Unboxed: Studio to Street' – an exploration into sneaker performance, subculture and fashion, dropping May 2020
- Design Museum 2020 Exhibitions Press Release.pdf
Designing Duggee launches at the Design Museum
25 October 2019
Designing Duggee exhibition opens at the Design Museum, London for half term weekend and Christmas dates
BBC Studios and the Design Museum announce new Hey Duggee activity workshops to launch in December
Hey Duggee pop up shop to showcase exclusive Designing Duggee prints and gifts
- Designing Duggee_Press Release.pdf
Tim Marlow appointed as the new Chief Executive and Director of the Design Museum
7 October 2019
The Design Museum announced today that Tim Marlow has been appointed as the new Chief Executive and Director of the Design Museum. He replaces Deyan Sudjic and Alice Black who stepped down as Co-Directors. Tim Marlow is currently Artistic Director of the Royal Academy of Arts
- Media release - NEW Director announcement - 7 October 2019.pdf
Beazley Designs of the Year 2019
11 September 2019 - 9 February 2020
The Design Museum announces the 76 nominees for the twelfth Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition and awards – revealing the most innovative designs of the last 12 months
Nominees include a meme inspired dress collection by Viktor & Rolf, a data generated proxy address system created to reduce homelessness, the world's first hands free breast pump, Adidas's collaboration with designer Ji Won Choi, as worn by Beyoncé, food sharing app OLIO and The Shed's extendable building in New York
Accessible designs represent a major theme in this year's awards, as seen in IKEA's ThisAbles collection, Tommy Hilfiger's Adaptive clothing range and Chromat's AW19 fashion collection
- Beazley Designs of the Year 2019 Release.pdf
Moving to Mars
18 October 2019 – 23 February 2020
The Design Museum launches a new exhibition that explores how sending humans to Mars is not just a new frontier for science but also for design
Over 150 exhibits including original objects and material from NASA, the European Space Agency (ESA), SpaceX, Raymond Loewy, Chesley Bonestell plus new commissions from responsible design company RÆBURN, Anna Talvi and Konstantin Grcic tell the complete story of designing for Mars
Two major installations enable visitors to get closer to life on Mars: 'On Mars Today', a multisensory experience of the Red Planet and a full-scale prototype habitat by international design firm Hassell
The exhibition also questions whether we should be designing for Mars at all. In an installation modelling an alternative scenario running over a million years, Dr. Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg uses a gaming engine to simulate Mars colonised only by plants, not humans
- Moving to Mars_releaseFV.pdf
The Design Museum celebrates 30th birthday with 30p tickets
4 July 2019
The Design Museum celebrates 30 years since first opening to the public on 4 July 1989
50 tickets priced at 30p will be available on Thursday 4 July for each of the current exhibitions, Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition and David Adjaye: Making Memory
The museum will host a late evening of music and activities on 5 July 2019, with a special Friday Night Sketch and a live music performance from the Unit 137 sound system
To mark the anniversary, over 30 leading and emerging designers have contributed a graphic icon inspired by the number 30, including Quentin Blake, Peter Saville, Margaret Calvert and Sir Antony Gormley
- madein1989_press release.pdf
Designers in Residence announced by Design Museum
10 June 2019
The Design Museum's flagship scheme discovers and supports new and emerging talent
The selected designers are announced and congratulated by The Rt Hon Elizabeth Truss MP for the twelfth edition of the programme
Nanotechnology, food waste, material surfaces and child birth are areas that the residents will explore in response to the theme Cosmic
- Designers in Residence 2019 - launch press release,pdf
The Design Museum opens nominations for Beazley Designs of the Year to the public
21 March 2019
To celebrate the museum's 30th anniversary, the Design Museum, London invites the public to nominate designs from the last twelve months to be considered for this year's Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition
The museum welcomes Beatrice Galilee, Associate Curator of Architecture and Design at The Metropolitan Museum of Art as curator of this year's exhibition
- Beazley Designs of the Year Nominations - Public Call Release.pdf
Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition
26 April - 15 September 2019
The Design Museum, London celebrates the work of one of the greatest filmmakers of the 20th century
Marking the 20th anniversary of Stanley Kubrick's death, the exhibition explores his unique command of the whole creative design process of film making, from story teller to director to editor
Relive iconic scenes and discover unseen material from his genre-defining films, including The Shining, Barry Lyndon, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket and A Clockwork Orange
The exhibition includes important works by designers Hardy Amies, Saul Bass, Milena Canonero and Ken Adam, art and photography from Diane Arbus, Allen Jones and Don McCullin, designs from Saul Bass, Elliot Noyes and Pascall Morgue alongside contributions from renowned directors.
- Press Release - Stanley Kubrick: The Exhibition.pdf
David Adjaye: Making Memory
02 February – 05 May 2019
The Design Museum presents a new exhibition that explores the role of monuments and memorials in the 21st century, through seven projects by celebrated British–Ghanaian architect, Sir David Adjaye OBE.
The exhibition features projects such as the Smithsonian National Museum of African American History and Culture in Washington D.C, the new National Cathedral of Ghana in Accra and the UK Holocaust Memorial and Learning Centre in London.
Highlights include a full-scale section of the Sclera Pavilion for London Design Festival 2008, a replica library area from the Gwangju River Reading Room in South Korea, as well as inspiration materials including a sculpture by the early 20th-century Yoruba artist Olowe of Ise.
- David Adjaye - Making Memory Press Release.pdf
Percentage of women in design workforce has remained virtually unchanged in over a decade
05 December 2018
As it marks the 100th anniversary of women's suffrage, London's Design Museum today reveals shocking gender imbalance in the design industry
New analysis by the Design Museum reveals that women are underrepresented in the UK design workforce. ONS figures show that as of March 2018 only 22% of those working in occupations associated with design were women. This represents an increase of only 4% since 2004, when only 18% of those employed in the design industry were women.
- Women Design Release - Design Museum FV.pdf
The Design Museum launches new Design in Britain campaign
27 November 2018
'Design in Britain – powering a new industrial age' is the Design Museum's campaign to show that design matters politically, economically and publicly. The campaign aims to connect new technologies with world-leading products and services.
- Design in Britain - Press Release.pdf
Beazley Designs of the Year 2018 winners announced
16 November 2018
Counter Investigations: Forensic Architecture exhibition at the Institute of Contemporary Arts, London is crowned the Beazley Design of the Year 2018
Forensic Architecture uncover miscarriages of justice and international war crimes through the architectural analysis of imagery – from official news to satellite footage
Further category winners included: Erdem in the Fashion Category for Royal Ballet costumes for Christopher Wheeldon's production of Corybantic Games and Thomas Heatherwick's' Zeitz Museum of Contemporary Art Africa for the Architecture Category
- Beazley Designs of the Year winners announced release.pdf
Home Futures
07 November 2018 – 24 March 2019
Twentieth-century prototypes are compared with the latest innovations in domestic living to question whether yesterday's fantasies have become today's reality
Organised in partnership with the IKEA Museum, the exhibition explores the radical domestic visions of the 20th century and asks: what happened to the future?
The exhibition includes important works by Ettore Sottsass, Joe Colombo, Superstudio, Archigram, Alison and Peter Smithson, Hans Hollein, Jan Kaplicky, OMA and Dunne & Raby
- Press release_design museum_HOME.pdf
Design Museum announces Beazley Designs of the Year nominees
12 September 2018 - 06 January 2019
The Design Museum announces the 87 nominees for the eleventh Beazley Designs of the Year exhibition and awards – revealing the most innovate designs of the last year
Nominees include a water bottle by Will and Jaden Smith, Nike's crest for the Dutch women's football team by Wieden+Kennedy and the LEGO House by Bjarke Ingels Group
Concern over the environment is a major theme, as seen in Formafantasma's recycled furniture, LADbible's Trash Isles campaign and an animation illustrating the dangers of mounting space debris
- Beazley Designs of the Year Release 2018.pdf
Letter from the museum's Directors about Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18
The museum has entered into a dialogue with exhibitors to keep the exhibition intact for the public to continue to see its broad message.
- Read the letter
Mind-powered airship to fly in the Design Museum's atrium for London Design Festival
The Design Museum has announced a major new London Design Festival installation, Mind-Pilot, an airship that can be controlled by visitors. For eight days during the festival, the spatial laboratory Loop.pH will animate the Design Museum's atrium with an interactive, site-specific installation called Mind Pilot.
- LDF_press release_final.pdf
Designers in Residence 2018
The Design Museum in London announces the four designers selected for the 2018 edition of Designers in Residence. Chosen by a distinguished panel, the designers will now take up residency in the museum's in-house studio for the next seven months. Responding to the theme of 'Dwelling', they will explore and develop new work that presents thought-provoking ideas and challenges conventional boundaries in design.
- Press release_introducing the 2018 designers in residence.pdf
Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier
10 May 2018 – 07 October 2018
Conceived and co-curated with Monsieur Alaïa prior to his death in November 2017.
The exhibition examines the work of one of the most respected fashion designers in history
- Press release_Azzedine Alaïa: The Couturier
Hope to Nope: Graphics and Politics 2008-18
28 March 2018 – 12 August 2018
The exhibition examines the political graphic design of a turbulent decade.
Alongside traditional posters and banners, it charts the rise of digital media and social networking, which have given graphic iconography an extraordinary new reach
- Press release_design museum_Hope to Nope.pdf
Leadership news from the design museum
The Design Museum, which opened in its new home in Kensington on 24 November, has announced two new appointments. Lord Mandelson is appointed as the new Chairman of the Board of Trustees. He will replace current Chairman, Luqman Arnold in March 2017. Alice Black, Deputy Director of the museum, will become Co-Director with Deyan Sudjic.
- press release_design museum_new leadership.pdf
Fear and Love – reactions to a complex world
Eleven new installations by a selection of the world's leading designers unveiled in the opening exhibition of new Design Museum in Kensington. Exhibition includes works by OMA, Hussein Chalayan, Kenya Hara and Neri Oxman
- design museum fear and love.pdf
The Design Museum goes 'On Loan' for London Design Festival
The Design Museum loans out objects, curators and even its Director this London Design Festival 2016. Pop-up displays to be located throughout London whilst new home in Kensington is under construction.
- design museum London Design Festival.pdf
Nominees for Beazley Designs of the Year announced
The Design Museum's annual exhibition and awards celebrating the world's best designs returns for its ninth instalment. Nominees include the last David Bowie album cover, a robot surgeon and a drinkable book. The exhibition will form part of the opening programme at the Design Museum's spectacular new home in Kensington.
- Beazley Designs of the Year nominees announced.pdf
The Design Museum unveils Adopt an Object campaign
On the day that the Design Museum formally left Shad Thames in London, they announced the launch of their fundraising campaign, Adopt an Object. The campaign will attempt to raise over £200,000 towards the £1 million needed to cover the construction costs of their new premises in Kensington High Street.
- Design museum unveils adopt an object campaign.pdf
Older Generation are 'Power Users' of Health Tech
Older generations are leading the way in the adoption of new technologies to improve their own health and wellbeing that could generate more value from the NHS, according to the conclusions heard at a recent Parliamentary reception.
- AXA PPP Health Tech Parliamentary Reception.pdf
Health Tech & You Returns For Second Year
AXA PPP Health Tech & You - a joint initiative led by AXA PPP healthcare with think tank 2020health and the Design Museum - launches its second year as entries opened for the 2016 Health Tech & You Awards and the results of a new 'State of the Nation' survey on attitudes to health tech were announced at an event at Campus London, a Google space.
- HTY Launch DM.pdf
50 Years of British Road Signs
The Design Museum celebrates the 50th anniversary of the Calvert and Kinneir British road signage system with a free installation of new and original signs, and archive material curated by MADE NORTH
- 50 YEARS OF BRITISH ROAD SIGNS.pdf
Cycle Revolution: 18 November 2015 – 30 June 2016 at the Design Museum
As Britain enjoys an explosion of interest in two-wheeled travel, the Design Museum looks at the people and machines that make contemporary cycling what it is, and asks how it might develop in the future.
- CYCLE REVOLUTION F.pdf
Designers in Residence: Migration - 9 September 2015 – 31 March 2016 at the Design Museum
Now in its eighth year, Designers in Residence invites four emerging talents from the world of design to take over a gallery in the Design Museum, using it as a site from which to provoke conversations, actions and thoughts around different conceptions of migration.
- DESIGNERS IN RESIDENCE MIGRATION.pdf
London Design Festival at the Design Museum
The Design Museum's programme for the London Design Festival features exhibitions, events and installations – taking over the museum to celebrate rising talent, new ideas and rich legacies in the capital's home of design.
- LONDON DESIGN FESTIVAL AT THE DESIGN MUSEUM.pdf
Talks, Things to do and Family Fun: June - August 2015
Full information on Design Museum events for summer 2015. Highlights include an series of talks for the London Festival of Architecture, walking tours to coincide with Life of Foot: Camper at the Design Museum, and Create and Make sessions on DIY gamer animation and electro-dough with Technology Will Save Us.
- DESIGN MUSEUM TALKS, THINGS TO DO AND FAMILY FUN JUNE - AUGUST 2015.pdf
designmuseum.org wins Webby People's Voice Award
The Design Museum has won a prestigious Webby Award. The 2015 Webby People's Voice Award for Best Navigation / Structure was voted for by the public and saw the Design Museum's recently re-launched website triumph over Google's Customer Barometer, NASA's GeneLab, ESPN's Anatomy of a Pitch and WE THE ECONOMY.
- DESIGN MUSEUM WINS WEBBY.pdf
Life on Foot marks the 40 year anniversary of the creative Spanish footwear brand Camper, with an exhibition that gives an unprecedented picture of how a shoe collection is researched, created and presented - from the carving of the last to the graphics on the box.
- LIFE ON FOOT - CAMPER AT THE DESIGN MUSEUM pdf
Design Museum Shop: Fresh ideas for Spring
The Design Museum presents a selection of fresh ideas for Spring, from Technology Will Save Us's Thirsty Plant Kit to Scholten & Baijings' Paper Porcelain espresso cup set. All products available at the museum in Shad Thames or via the online shop.
- Spring at the Design Museum Shop.pdf
Design Museum Exhibitions 2015
Information on all Design Museum exhibitions for the remainder of 2015, including the first ever museum exhibition on the Spanish shoe brand Camper, a celebration of bicycle design, and the annual Designers in Residence show. Please note changes to the autumn programme from previously issued information.
- DESIGN MUSEUM EXHIBITIONS 2015 pdf
Health Tech Revolution Showcased at Design Museum
From 10 March - 26 April visitors to the Design Museum can experience the latest innovations in personal health technology. As part of the first ever AXA PPP Health Tech & You Awards, the showcase offers the chance to see and interact with 24 shortlisted Awards entries, putting the health technology revolution into a wider context for the benefit of everyone who wants to improve and maintain their health.
- AXA PPP Health Tech Exhibition Release pdf
Arts Council Awards Design Museum £3M
The Design Museum is very pleased to announce that it has been successful in its application to the Arts Council for a £3m grant towards the £80m capital project to build the new Design Museum at the former Commonwealth Institute in Kensington.
- ARTS COUNCIL AWARDS DESIGN MUSEUM £3M pdf
Designs of the Year 2015: Nominees Announced
2015's Designs of the Year nominees represent the global breadth of design talent, featuring some of the industry's biggest names alongside rising stars and little-known practices. Google's self-driving car, Frank Gehry's Fondation Louis Vuitton and Asif Kahn's Sochi Olympic Megafaces are just some of the high-profile projects to be represented in the exhibition of nominees which opens at the Design Museum on 25 March.
- DESIGN MUSEUM ANNOUNCES NOMINEES FOR DESIGNS OF THE YEAR 2015 pdf
Design Museum announces 2015 Design Ventura Prize
A panel of judges led by Sebastian Conran for the Design Museum's annual Design Ventura celebrated the achievements of this year's ten shortlisted schools at an exhibition and VIP reception at the Museum in London on Wednesday 11 February when the winning team for 2015 was announced. The project, with the theme of 'Connect' this year, challenges students aged 13 to 16 to meet a real-life design brief, with mentoring from professional designers and employees at Deutsche Bank, which has supported Design Ventura for five years as part of Born to Be, its youth engagement programme.
- DESIGN MUSEUM ANNOUNCES 2015 DESIGN VENTURA PRIZE pdf
Design Museum Talks, Things to do and Family Fun: January - March 2015
Full information on Design Museum events for early 2015. Highlights include an evening with AnOther magazine celebrating women and creativity, a masterclass in costume design with Suffragette's Jane Petrie, and the chance for young visitors to customise some design classics in a drop-in illustration workshop. Author Dana Thomas will also be visiting the museum to discuss her new book - Gods and Kings, The Rise and Fall of Alexander McQueen and John Galliano.
- DESIGN MUSEUM TALKS, THINGS TO DO AND FAMILY FUN: JANUARY - MARCH 2015 pdf
Design Museum Shortlists ten schools to pitch for Design Ventura Prize
Ten schools from across the UK have been shortlisted from 241 schools to pitch their ideas for this year's Design Ventura, run annually by the Design Museum. The project challenges students to meet a real-life design brief, with mentoring from professional designers and staff at Deutsche Bank, which has supported Design Ventura for five years. The winning team will see its product sold in the Design Museum shop, having been involved in all aspects of production, packaging, pricing and promotion.
- DESIGN MUSEUM SHORTLISTS TEN SCHOOLS TO PITCH FOR DESIGN VENTURA PRIZE pdf
Designers in Residence 2015: Migration - Call for entries open
The Design Museum has opened the call for entries for Designers in Residence 2015. Now in its eighth year, this prestigious programme celebrates new and emerging design talent through an annual residency which culminates in an exhibition at the Design Museum. This year's theme is 'migration'.
- DESIGNERS IN RESIDENCE 2015: MIGRATION - CALL FOR ENTRIES OPEN pdf
Women Fashion Power
29 October 2014 – 26 April 2015
From Elizabeth I to Margaret Thatcher, Coco Chanel to Lady Gaga, the clothes women wear have always been a powerful form of self-expression and part of a sophisticated visual language. Opening at the Design Museum this autumn, Women Fashion Power looks at how influential women have used fashion to define and enhance their position in the world.
- WOMEN FASHION POWER pdf
Graphic Design Museum Phone Interview
Source: https://designmuseum.org/press-office