FRIDAY 1 MARCH, 6.30 – 10pm

Adorn and be adored at this last chance to view jewellery exhibition Unexpected Pleasures by baring your bling and bringing out your body extensions. Interact with contemporary jewellers and jewellery designers with talks and workshops by Dialogue Collective and jewellery handling with Moving On Collective.

On show in the 1.5 gallery will be the new collection of 18 fair trade rugs produced by Node. Hear illustrator and designer Chris Haughton tell the story behind this collection exclusively on sale through the Design Museum Shop.

Join street press comic specialists Off Life who will be running Quick Draw Live, a speed sketching challenge inspired by the iconic designs in collection exhibition Extraordinary Stories.

Quick Draw Live will feature:
Dan Berry
Will Elliott
Warwick Johnson Cadwell
Joe List
Lizz Lunney
Emilia McKenzie
Edie OP
Kyle Platts

Be you a jeweller, maker, illustrator, designer, commissioner, collector or comic enthusiast, this event is for you to come along and make a statement.

6.30pm - 10pm
The festive season-themed late opening returns with a stellar programme of activities, exhibitions and festive shopping.

The best Ball of the London Design Festival Season. With great expectations, we devote this illustrious night to the anti-iconoclasm of an infamous literary heroine. Don a wedding gown to become Miss Havisham and you will be rewarded with free entry to the Ball.

The Place’s Richard Alston Dance Company performed a special event of contemporary dance in various spaces of the museum, wearing a set of dazzling crystal-encrusted costumes created for them by fashion designer Julien MacDonald in 2004. View images

Last chance to see the Christian Louboutin exhibition and the very first chance to experience some indigenous dressing up, dance and song at the Design Museum. French footwear-meets-English-folk is the perfect mix for a summer night. An exciting evening of costume workshops, dancing lessons and seasonal summer fair.

Indulge your shoe enthusiasm in this fairytale footwear focussed gathering to coincide with the Christian Louboutin exhibition. You’ll be filmed cat walking your favourite footwear and streamed onto the side of the museum building. Decorate your feet red and dance through the galleries to contagious tunes.

For one night only, Designers in Residence Jade Folawiyo, Simon Hasan, Hye-Yeon Park and Will Shannon took over Design Overtime at their pub specially created for the night with a pub quiz, music, games and atmosphere required to get everyone talking.

Friday 2 December, 6 – 10pm
Warm up your winter with the glowing glamour of Design Overtime. Enter into the Christmas spirit with a mix of hands-on workshops and making in the decoration station. There will be exotic gift wrap guidance following the inevitable visit to a laden Design Museum Shop and a first look at the World's tallest cardboard Christmas tree by Giles Miller.

THE BALL
Friday 23 September, 6 – 10pm
Music and passion will once again be the fashion at the Design Museum Ball. With a new show to inspire this reception, we cordially invite you to attend the event of the festival season. What better time like the present, whatever the era, to celebrate Kenneth Grange - Making Britain Modern. The Design Museum Ball returns.

View The Ball images

Friday 1 July, 6 - 10pm
Stroll through the allegorical garden of delight at the Design Museum’s Summer Party. Cucumber in crustless white bread, random fabric cut into triangles and gentle games – it must be fate. If all this gets too much, re-stress with the poppermatic challenge to become this year’s Design Museum Frustration champion and win a vintage version of the game. Also plenty to visit, with the last chance to see Wim Crouwel: A graphic odyssey and Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibitions.

View Summer Party images.

DESIGN OVERTIME would like to give the World design. Join us for an evening of bottle branding design workshops and informative informal talks by Ted Ryan manager of the Coca-Cola Archives Collections and Robert Opie director of the Museum of Brands. Learn to sing in perfect harmony with tuition from Briony Greenhill of Fun Fed creating impromptu choirs for live performances in the galleries plus, musician and artist Kamala Katbamna leads a ‘scratch choir’ for a grand finale rendition of the most memorable of ad campaigns.

Design in Perfect Harmony images

Letterforms are no practical joking matter, but they can be FUN! With a first chance to see Wim Crouwel: A graphic odyssey, be inspired to graphically design your way around the museum.Take part in hands on workshops and compile your own A is for alphabet compendium.

Eflyer by Morag Myerscough, find out more about Studio Myerscough
Eflyer from Bruno Maag, find out more about his design studio Dalton Maag
Eflyer from Tony Brook, find out more about his design studio Spin
Eflyer from Delphine Perrot, find out more about Delphine

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year nominees Numen/For Use will be creating a unique installation on the first floor of the museum made entirely from sticky tape. Christoph Katzler, Ante Krizmanic and Nikola Radeljkovic from Numen/For Use will be available to guide you through their work.

See how the installation was made below.

Be inspired to create your own folio of fashion illustrations and capture the essence of fabulous frocks by emerging designers. Join a master class by Howard Tangye and live illustrating with illustrators ready to inspire your own creative endeavour. Create a fashion illustration with Ana Stankovic- Fitzgerald, and illustrator Echo Morgan. Special guest artist and fashion illustrator Sonya Todd will be displaying artwork she created for major advertising campaigns in the 60's.

A night of live fashion events, drawing and interactive VJing projection. Sketchbook Magazine curated a series of talks and workshops inspired by Hywel Davies' new book Fashion Designers Sketch Books' with key figures from contemporary fashion: Richard Nicoll, Fred Butler, Bora Asku and Amy Moleyaux PPQ.

The most festive of design receptions, the auspiciously daring and ostentatiously dazzling Design Museum Ball. Learn to waltz by dance teacher, choreographer and performer Alison Brewerton and enjoy the Faust Ensemble orchestra conducted by Mark Austin, with a musical programme including Strauss waltzes, Victorian salon music and the genius of solo Bach. View Images from the night in the John Pawson exhibition

Boldly design where no one has designed before. Explore Sustainable Futures, David Adjaye's Urban Africa and Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibitions, and gaze into the portal of your imagination and predict the future. The perfect night for actual or potential innovators to flourish with workshops, discussions and music to hand.

The night featured test-rides of the electric bike Gocycle, sustainability workshops and musical performances by Matthew Benyayer and Ashley Valentine. Filmed by Alice Masters.

Indoor urbanisation galore, the museum sustainably turns metropolis for the night. We CAN build it. Design your dwelling and move in. Enjoy your city life with music, pageant and entertainment to delight, and city sights and markets to explore. Be inspired by Brit Insurance Designs of the Year, David Adjaye's Urban Africa and Sustainable Futures and be transported far away and/or to a better way.

Design Overtime - What is this Place?, filmed on the night by Alice Masters.

It’s a stick up! The Designers in Residence have taken over the museum for one night only. Design Overtime returns with a programme packed with talks, tasks and trails devised with the requited enthusiasm of the five emerging designers that have been residing at the museum over the winter. Be intrigued by their innovative work, informed by their ingenious interpretation and interact with their itinerary of activities.

The winter warmer wonderland returns with glittering glamour at the start of the festive period. Be ahead of the game and make your hand made Christmas cards, buy your presents from the Design Museum Shop and wrap them with a twist. But the wonder continues with animation screenings, talks and hands on workshops curated by animator and director Ranko Andjelic.

Design Overtime - Sparkle the Dark Up night filmed by Alice Masters.

A last chance to see Super Contemporary at a spectacular late opening, not only is it the London Design Festival but it’s our 20th Birthday too! See the exhibitions and take part in debates and workshops set to a blend of music and entertainment.

Enter the Birthday Cake Bakeoff and make us a cake inspired by iconic design. The best cakes will be put on display for one night only to help us celebrate our twentieth birthday. Brace yourselves for our Silent Disco to provide you with a personal soundtrack by which to boogie whilst you draw in the Super Contemporary exhibition.

Yesterday, today and tomorrow, travel through the avenues and alley ways of time to learn from yesteryear and see a vision of the future. Come dressed as London Past or London Future, but nothing in between, and step into our four dimensional world of talks, workshops and entertainment. Contemplate how to change the course of design if you could travel back in time, or sip our super contemporary cocktail whilst deciding what the future should bring.

Installation artists Luis Carvajal and Annie Davey who will be presenting their piece, Puss and Mew.

Design and Tell: Grab your chance to make your mark and have your say – but you only have 9.6 minutes do it. Show your design endeavours and reveal your creative journey to a captive audience in the Design Museum’s Blue Room through 24 images, one every 24 seconds.

Anyone for Tea: Visit the Twisted Tea Party in the company of London's finest Music Hall entertainers, Underbling & Vow.

Why and What Next in London Fashion: These are two big questions being posed at thisdiscussion. Join this informal seminar led by m u s h r o o m s in partnership with Let Them Eat Cake magazine and hear more about what directions London fashion might be headed for in the future.

Speed Debating: So, what is Super Contemporary all about? Thrash it out, find your perfect debating partner and have your say in the fast-moving-quick-talking-debating game.

Come and cross boundaries with us. Your Design Museum needs you to innovate, debate and celebrate. Technology, tradition, skill and disciplines are in the hybrid mix to cook up a night of cross disciplinary fusion. Blur those edges to sharpen those ideas at a variety of workshops, talks and performances that might just rewrite those rules.

Meet new designers, see their work not just on display but in action. There will be talks on intellectual property and how this is becoming increasingly relevant for today's fashion designer, as well as presentations on new trends from fashion design through to retail. You can also learn techniques in accessory design that will put you at the cutting edge.

Composer/Pianist Lola Perrin will also be performing her new Hussein Chalayan inspired composition Suite VII, “Collection” for Piano & Correspondent with narration from the BBC broadcaster Mihir Bose.

Some of the innovations you can enjoy on the night:
Knitwear: Cooperative Designs, Derek Lawlor, & Sandra Backlund
Tailoring: Timothy Lee, Nicola Morgan
Fabric Treatment: Kinga Malisz & Iris Van Herpen
Menswear: Katie Eary & James Long
Print and Colour: Gemma Slack & Rohan Kale
Footwear: Rosemary Wallin
Accessories: Piers Atkinson, Maria Francesca Pepe, & Fred Butler

The night is curated by m u s h r o o m s in partnership with Let Them Eat Cake magazine.

For the perfect winter interlude, celebrate your love of ceramics at the Design Museum’s homage to all that is clay.

See Patricia Urquiola – Purely Porcelain and then learn how slip casting is done with demonstrations by Kathleen Hills. Be dazzled by the chromatic intensity of Portmeirion pots in Pottery Goes Pop, and have a go at surface design to create a concept for your own service. Play with porcelain and tamper with tiles.

For those who wish to keep clean, slip into our screening of short pottery programmes, or meddle with mugs in our name that cup handling session. All to a back drop of music debate and chat. Enough to fire up anyone.

Book separately for the Ceramics Debate. As another Stoke institution bites the dust join Jerwood award winner Richard Slee, Carol McNickol and Clare Twomey who will be discussing the current state of this multi faceted industry

A festive night of shopping, wrapping, card making, music, comedy and dance. Buy all your Christmas shopping early and then sit back within the Design Museum’s very own cosy Christmas entertainment special. With a drink by your side, let jeweller Katie New help you to wrap those gifts, make those cards and design those tags – using superb materials courtesy of GF Smith and their new ‘Inspire Me’ collection. A back drop of seasonal melody and dance provided by the spectacular Actionettes. A free glass of Rioja, courtesy of Wines from Rioja, for all our guests to launch the festive cheer.

As night draws its curtain,
Stars, those bright sequins appear,
Design Overtime makes it certain
That the Butterfly Ball, most wonderful, is here.

Dress code: Flamboyant finaries and masked at the very least. Be decorated upon arrival at the Butterfly Salon or come ready attired. Take advantage of our exclusive offer of a 20% discount at Prangsta Costumiers who will be able to transform you for the night. to book a fitting go to prangsta.co.uk or ring 020 8694 9869. A prize will be awarded for the most creatively attired.

Butterfly Ball book readings, nature slide shows, gallery talks, music and dance is the perfect way to view Alan Aldridge, the Man with Kaleidoscope Eyes.

Hey, let your hair down and relax, Design Overtime is in international festival mood. London, Vienna, Dessau, Paris, LA, Milan, Tokyo – everyone is talking DESIGN OVERTIME. See Design Cities and see the world. It will be a festive combination of bunting and banter. Join the This happened discussion to hear stories behind multi-media and interaction design, review your favourite new product for the Design Overtime rag, or take part in the interactive fashion extravaganza the Forgotten Peacock created by takis, and transform yourself into a fashion icon for a night of catwalk creativity.

Are you walking our way to celebrate the London Festival of Architecture this year? Learn about London past, present, future and futuristic in a series of short drop-in talks. Be inspired by the Richard Rogers + Partners – From the House to the City exhibition and make your contribution to a model utopian London cityscape. Purge yourself of your London secrets in the Design Overtime confessional, re-enact the creation of the universe with urban designer Kumiko Shimizu, or just enjoy a drink, listen to some music and gaze at the view.

Come to Design Overtime and be enthralled by the creativity of Hong Kong design. ‘China chic’ creator and fashion extraordinaire Vivienne Tam, Ford Motors’ Chief Designer Chelsia Lau, Shrek III co-director Raman Hui, are amongst the 100 designers featured in Creative Hong Kong – previewed tonight and showing for one week only. Plus, discover unique products forged from a collaboration between ten Hong Kong designers and ten major international brands. Come and take a guided exhibition tour or simply be delighted by our Hong Kong DJ and Dim Sum.

May is Museums and Gallery Month, and Design Overtime is doing its bit by going along with this year’s theme of ‘ideas and innovation.’ We’ve created the perfect night for actual or budding innovators with workshops, discussions, DJ, music, bar, and the return of ‘speed debating’. Realise your creative potential in our laboratory of ideas and make an invention. EUREKA !

Romance is in the air so come to the Design Museum to find a bit of one-to-one design action. Speed date debate and find the perfect partner to accompany you around the museum, and possibly your life! Sounds for swinging sweethearts will be supplied by DJ Hawaii Dayton in the Riverside Hall. Listen, drink, meet, talk, bond, view, tango, and end the evening with a cup of tea and a cake from the Piece of my Heart bakery.

When was the last time you had the red carpet treatment? Be glamorous, be chic, be cosy, but above all be seen at this last- chance-to-see Matthew Williamson – 10 Years in Fashion. A night of glamour and contrast. Dress code: party frock or cardy. Not happy with your outfit or your look? Why not make a new frock in the low-tech couture workshop or be made-up, ready for your catwalk appearance at the end of the night.

A Christmas extravaganza, Sparkle the Dark Up sees the much anticipated return of glittering dance group The Actionettes and an enchanting musical performance by London-based duo Gamine in Riverside Hall.

Get all your Christmas shopping done early in the Design Museum Shop, and then take part in a designer-wrapping workshop. Create fabulous festive cards and decorations in a variety of workshops, and decorate gingerbread people, while drinking warming mulled wine in the riverside bar.

An after-hours opportunity to see Design Museum exhibitions, including the hit show Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design. The Design Museum will become a hive of activity, with talks, debates and design workshops based around the theme of London architecture.

Contemplate the future of your city in an informal discussion, make a model of your ideal London building to be added to the “London of the Future Cityscape”, and listen to poetry readings by acclaimed London-based poets including Charles Bainbridge of The Guardian. A soundtrack for the evening will be supplied by the Shellac Sisters, the glamorous retro-chics who, dressed in all things vintage, will be playing 78rpm records on 1920s wind-up gramophones and Underbling & Vow the Cockney Knees Up Singers.

Design Overtime, the Design Museum’s bi-monthly late night event, returns on 24 August to let you HAVE YOUR SAY!

To distract you from all this active thought and conflict, the Design Museum proudly present Gamine to provide sophisticated and sensitive song throughout the museum that might just evoke the spirit of La Rive Gauche.

Also, as an additional activity, the Lomographic Society International will be offering the opportunity to learn about Lomography and use its basic tools and ideas to take part in a global creation process. Valid i-d will be required to exchange for the loan of a camera and particpate in this workshop.

11 dancing spacewomen invade the Design Museum on 8 June. 'Mr and Mrs Design Museum visitor, there is no cause for alarm.'

The Actionettes have been invited to bring their spectacle and expertise to our next late opening event. With their synchronised routines choreographed to songs by 60s girl groups the Actionettes will be paying homage to the futuristic work of the maverick designer Luigi Colani.

Luigi Colani Translating Nature and Ettore Sottsass Work In Progress will be closing soon so Design Overtime returns to offer an entertaining and unexpected last chance to see these extraordinary and diverse exhibitions.

Professor Luigi Colani himself will be at the museum on the night. There will be a free drink for anyone who follows his example and comes dressed totally in white.

With Ettore Sottsass – Work in Progress currently showing and Great Brits – Ingenious Therapies about to head off to the 2007 Milan Furniture Fair it’s only fitting that April’s Design Overtime is talking Italian.

Sip an espresso and join in a number of debates, raise your glass to salute an opera recital, listen to a gallery talk accompanied by a roaming accordion player, and record your views in the back-to-basics chat room at the Olivetti typing pool.

Repeat after me:
Disegnare nel tempo libero, perche’ no?
(Design Overtime, why not?)

A hands-on opportunity to make your own design book inspired by our exhibitions of graphic designers Alan Fletcher and Robert Brownjohn.

A chance to see exhibitions outside our usual hours and in a social setting. Design Overtime includes the popular Script debate, talks, music and bar. Script debates will be on a first come, first served basis, so do arrive early to guarantee a place. This will also be a last chance to see the Alan Fletcher: fifty years of graphic work (and play).