GET INTO...FASHION FOOTWEAR
THREE-DAY HALF TERM COURSE FOR AGES 12 - 16
Monday 13 - Wednesday 15 February 2012
10.30am – 3.30pm daily
£125
Design your own fashionable footwear. As the museum gets ready to open forthcoming exhibition Christian Louboutin, explore the London landscape and its iconic design identity before creating your very own footwear interpretations through a photographic walkabout, sketching and model making.
Participants will work alongside Royal College of Arts student Caterina Belluardo, to understand the technical aspect of shoe making by working directly with traditional shoe lasts to create prototypes and footwear design concepts. The course will culminate in a mini exhibition of the final work for family and friends to attend at the museum.

To book a place send a completed booking form to the Learning Team:
T 020 7940 8782
E learning@designmuseum.org

TRAVELCARD COMPETITION - BIG DANCE 2012
5 - 16 YEAR OLDS
Can you capture the rhythm, energy and movement of dance in a design?

To celebrate Big Dance 2012, you are invited to design the cover of a Travelcard Wallet. The design for the wallet should capture the energy of dance as part of the programme’s promotion to the public.Your design should reflect your ideas on the theme of Dancing in the Streets.

Two finalists will be selected from all the entries, years 5 – 11 years and 12 – 16 years. The winning design will printed on to travelcard wallets and displayed in the Design Museum Shop.

Download the competition brief and travelcard template for details of how to enter.

The competition closes on Thursday 1 March 2012.

Big Dance festival will take place from 7 - 15 July 2012.
Big Dance is a biennial celebration of dance and dancing with nine days of dance events in unusual places throughout the UK – shopping centres, parks, lidos, galleries and stations.

DESIGN UPON A TIME 2010
Design Upon a Time is part of the Stories of the World, presenting exciting museum exhibitions across the UK, created by Young People. The project is led by the Museums, Libraries and Archives Council (MLA) in partnership with the London Organising Committee of the Olympic and Paralympic Games (LOCOG). The Design Museum worked with young people in Southwark, industry professionals and designers to develop design skills and to explore their hopes and aspirations for future London by creating their own designs to represent the theme of home.

The project culminated in a small exhibition from 27 August - 5 September 2010 held in the Learning Centre on the second floor of the museum. For further details email: komal@designmuseum.org