Two category winners:
Age 12 – 16 winner: Coco Cripps, Stockwell 15 years old
Age 5 – 11 winner: Katherine Yoon, Barbican 10 years old

The winning travel card designs were revealed on Saturday 19 May and now on sale in the Design Museum Shop.

The museum received nearly 300 entries. See the lists of runners-up here.

Deyan Sudjic Director of the Design Museum said of the winning entry ‘Nothing is harder to get right than designing for the Olympics. The lightness and simplicity of Barber Osgerby’s London 2012 Olympic Torch does just that. The torch not only captures the spirit of London as Olympic host city but also demonstrates how design can celebrate traditional ideas in a modern way’.

Seven Category awards were also presented at the ceremony:
Architecture Award: London 2012 Velodrome by Hopkins Architects
Fashion Award: 132 5. collection by Issey Miyake
Digital Award: Microsoft Kinect for Xbox 360
Graphic Award: Nokia Pure typeface by Dalton Maag
Furniture Category: 1.3 Chair by Kihyun Kim
Product: London 2012 Olympic Torch by Barber Osgerby
Transport Award: Redesign of the Emergency Ambulance

Read the full press release (PDF)

See images of the Designs of the Year awards ceremony at designsoftheyear.com

Category award winners and the overall winner of the Designs of the Year will be announced at an awards event on 24 April 2012.

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Admission into Designs of the Year 2012:
£8 Adults (£7.20 without donation)
£7 Concession £7 (£6.30 without donation)
£5.50 Student (£5 without donation)

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For opening times see the Visit us page.

With its unique bicycle handlebar base and top and Beachwood column, the Handlebar Table demonstrates Morrison’s simple, innovative approach to design. This piece defined the beginning of Morrison’s career and represents his moderate approach to the design excesses of the 1980s and an early fascination with the ‘found’ object.

Jasper comments, "This was one of my first designs, certainly the first 'commercial' project. I made it as an edition of 10, whilst a student at Kingston Polytechnic. I had read somewhere that Marcel Breuer had the idea for a chair in bended tubular steel after seeing some racing handlebars and in the spirit of the ready-made it seemed appropriate to use the handlebars themselves. The components cost me £20 each and I sold the tables for £100, which seemed like a good business at the time. Looking back at it now I would say the most relevant and important success of the design for my future development was the successful combination of the three materials (wood aluminium and glass) in their natural states. The somewhat eccentric shape of the table itself was fitting to mood of the time and my own frame of mind, a kind of poetic, anti-establishment, business like attitude!"

The Design Museum is developing its Collection ahead of its relocation to new premises at the former Commonwealth Institute, west London in 2014.

Read the full press release PDF

Find out more about the 2012 jury on the exhibition blog designsoftheyear.com

Find out more about Product fitness 80.

The museum has two important planning applications submitted to support its move to the former Commonwealth Institute. These applications will soon be considered by the Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea planning committee, so if you have not had a chance already, it is now your opportunity to share your comments and help ensure the applications are approved.

The first application Reference PP/11/03333 is in support of extending the museum's opening hours, so that the museum can stay open from time to time beyond 10pm. This will allow the museum to hold evening events for the public, which are a critical part of its programme for visitors, but also help generate much needed income to support the museum's charitable activities.

The second application Reference LB/11/03340 shows the museum's scheme for reconfiguring the interior of the building. The plans online give a good outline of how the internal layout will be reconfigured to accommodate the museum's and its visitors’ needs. Specifically, this application is aiming to determine the size and location of the openings in the first and second floor that will form a new central atrium, create a second opening in the second floor, create two new mezzanine, one in the basement and one between ground floor and first floor levels which will echo the original dais. These changes will preserve stunning internal views of the distinctive ‘swept’ roof and will improve the quality of access in the public spaces.

There’s only one more week for opinions to be registered, the deadline is Friday 16 March.You can see an example letter that you can use here.

You can register your comments by:
Email planning@rbkc.gov.uk quoting the reference numbers in the subject line. Reference PP/11/03333 for the opening hours application, reference LB/11/03340, for the interior of the building.

Post your feedback quoting the reference numbers to:
Robert Lancaster, Department of Planning and Development
Royal Borough of Kensington and Chelsea
Town Hall, Hornton Street,
London W8 7NX

Everyone, whether they in the borough or not, is able to respond to the proposed plans and we hope that you will support the ambitious vision for the building and the future life of the museum.

Visit the project website

Now in its tenth year, the collaboration between Kingston University and the Design Museum has grown into one of the world’s foremost MA programmes for design curators.

Find out more about the MA Curating Contemporary Design course and how to apply.

At a time when the Design Museum is developing its activities and learning programme threefold as part of our proposed relocation and expansion from Shad Thames to the former Commonwealth Institute in late 2014, we warmly welcome the government’s response and look forward to developing the museum’s role in relation to the Review.

We strive to enrich and extend school design education by providing inspiration and insight into design embedded in its real world context, in order to better equip young people with the skills, knowledge and passion needed to help make a positive impact on today’s complex world, both as the designers of the future and as critical and thoughtful consumers.

Find out more and download the full Henley Report on the DCMS website.

‘Slick Shooter’ takes its inspiration from the traditional ‘tiddlywinks’, creating a cleverly designed, marketable and portable product, which can be assembled from a piece of plastic the size of an Oyster card. The pupils’ aim was to design a game that encourages young teenagers to play as a group.

The winning team will receive a £1,000 bursary and a five-day programme of workshops and guidance from professional designers to develop the game, which will be sold exclusively in the Design Museum Shop from summer 2012.

The winning Virtual Ventura design was also awarded to Simon Langton Boys Grammar School with their self-assembly plywood finger piano, Plyano.

The top Design Ventura entries are currently on display at the Design Museum in the Learning Centre on the second floor until Saturday 25 February.

See images from the celebration event on the Design Ventura blog.

BOOKING
Tickets for the exhibition can be purchased in advance from Ticketweb within timed sessions each day. Last admission 30 minutes before the end of the session. (booking fee applies)
Morning session: 10am - 1.45pm
Afternoon session: 2pm - 5.45pm
Saturday evening session: 6pm - 9.45pm

See all the nominations at a glance or visit the exhibition blog

The move will allow the new Design Museum to become a word class centre for design, nurturing British talent and its international influence on design of all kinds. It will bring the museum into Kensington’s cultural quarter, where it will join the V&A, Science Museum, Natural History Museum, Royal College of Art and Serpentine Gallery, creating a platform for the promotion and support of the next generation of creative talent.

The new building will open to the public in 2014, giving the Design Museum three times more space to showcase its unique collection. The museum aims to double its visitor numbers to 500,000 a year, and will greatly expand its education and public events programme with state of the art facilities.

Download the full press release (PDF)

Watch the new Design Museum film

See the full list of new acquisitions in current exhibition This is Design until 22 January 2012.

Find out more

Visit the exhibition

Admision into This is Design and Designers in Residence:
£8 Adults (£7.20 without donation)
£7 Concession £7 (£6.30 without donation)
£5.50 Student (£5 without donation)

Visit us

Booking essential
Free with museum entry, but places are limited.
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The Design Museum welcomes executive director of Elemental S.A., Alejandro Aravena. The architect and designer discusses his approach to sustainability-informed design, demonstrated in work such as the Monterrey Housing project in Mexico, which gained Elemental S.A. a Designs of the Year nomination in 2010 for its innovative solution to low-cost, self-build social housing.

Booking
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In this informal interview, author and journalist Barbara Chandler will be asking Kenneth Grange to describe
his motivations, inspiration and the key achievements that have led him to become one of Britain’s leading product designers. With a prolific career that spans over 50 years, Grange is responsible for designing some of the most iconic and familiar products and appliances that continue to shape our daily lives. What does he think are his greatest achievements and what should we expect from designers in the future?

BOOKING
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KENWOOD KITCHEN WEEKEND - DOMESTIC MASTERY
Saturday 24 September, 2 – 4.30pm
Free with museum entry
It's drawing galore as the pop-up kitchen is trasformed into an artists studio for the afternoon. With sumptuous still life compositions to inspire, and Kenwood products as seen in Kenneth Grange - Making Britain Modern to act as your muse, draw and collage a contemporary masterpiece. Or closely examine and sketch current and vintage KENWOOD Chefs guided by members of their product design team.

KENWOOD KITCHEN WEEKEND - MAKE AND CAKE FAMILY WORKSHOP - FULLY BOOKED
Sunday 25 September, 2 – 4.30pm
Free with museum entry
Start with a kit of design materials, add a sprinkle of imagination and join our KENWOOD Kitchen-themed family workshop. Using a humble cardboard box, create a model of a fantastical labour saving gadget for your home inspired by the iconic and familiar products in the Kenneth Grange - Making Britain Modern exhibtions. Add a finishing touch by donning your own paper chef hat and decorating a delicious cupcake to take home.
Children must be accompanied by an adult.

Get a FREE lamp from Anglepoise
To celebrate the 2011 London Design Festival, the Design Museum and Anglepoise are giving away 50 Anglepoise lamps on Sunday 25 September. The first 50 people to buy a ticket to the Design Museum’s current exhibitions: Kenneth Grange – Making Britain Modern, This is Design and Designers in Residence, on Sunday 25 September will get a free Anglepoise Lamp Type 1228 special edition.

The Anglepoise Lamp Type 1228 was designed by Kenneth Grange in 2004 and a special edition was issued in 2011 in Daffodil Yellow to celebrate his exhibition. Entry to the Design Museum’s three current exhibitions is £10 plus a £1 voluntary donation.

The Anglepoises formed a display in the Design Museum Tank to celebrate the museum’s Kenneth Grange exhibition and are being given away as ex-display. There is one lamp per person, terms and conditions will be supplied with the lamp.

See further information about the placements on the vacancies page.

Booking
Workshops are £4.50 per child and £11 for accompanying adults. Includes entry to all current exhibitions.
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Sir Terence Conran, who celebrates his 80th birthday in October this year, met the Prime Minister and Secretary of State for Culture, Jeremy Hunt, at 10 Downing Street today in recognition of his continued support for the Design Museum and this exciting new project.

Sir Terence Conran’s donation consists of a cash gift of £7.5m and the value of the sale of the lease of the current Design Museum building at Shad Thames valued in the region of £10m. This gift will bring the Conran Foundation’s support for the museum, and its predecessor, the Boilerhouse over the last 30 years to £50m.

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£11 on the door / £7 students / Members free

Also take advantage of the special dinner offer at Zizzi on Shad Thames. Simply show your Summer Party ticket on entry to Zizzi's and get a main course and drink from the set menu for £8.95. Groups of eight or more should book in advance. 020 7367 6100. Open until 11pm.

Enter here.

See all the winners, nominations and comment on the designsoftheyear.com blog.

The seven Brit Insurance category winners are:
Brit Insurance Architecture Award 2010: Monterrey Housing, Mexico
Brit Insurance Fashion Award 2010: Alexander McQueen Spring / Summer ’10 and Spring / Summer Catwalk presentation Plato’s Atlantis. UK
Brit Insurance Furniture Award 2010: Grassworks, Netherlands.
Brit Insurance Graphic Award 2010: The Newspaper Club
Brit Insurance Interactive Award 2010: The EyeWriter
Brit Insurance Product Award 2010: Folding Plug
Brit Insurance Transport Award 2010: E430 Electric Aircraft

These designs will now compete for the overall Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2010, to be announced at the Awards Ceremony at the Design Museum on 16 March.

See images of all the winners and full nomination list on the DesignsoftheYear Blog

Tord Boontje Print
Margaret Calvert print
David Chipperfield print
Konstantin Grcic print

All proceeds from print sales go directly towards the Design Museum exhibitions and education programme.
Buy online from the Design Museum Shop

Booking
Tickets £20.15, members £18.65, concession £13.65
BFI box office - 0207 928 3232
Book online at the BFI website

Created live by Javier Mariscal
Two performances: 7pm and 9pm
Witness the inner workings of the imagination of renowned Spanish designer and artist Javier Mariscal. By creating and controlling animation film footage in real time, Mariscal has devised his ‘Conference’ which is the spontaneous and instantaneous application of his creative thinking onto the silver screen. In this energetic live performance Mariscal manifests the images, voices, narrative and content that transport his characters, the Garriris, from the universe of his imagination onto the screen

Visit the Designers in Residence Blog

See the Designers in Residence exhibition until 10pm and meet some of the residents at our late night event Design Overtime Festival on 25 September. Debates, workshops and a Birthday Bake-off set to a blend of music and entertainment to celebrate our 20TH Birthday.

Tickets are only £5 in advance and includes entry all current exhibitions and activities.

Book now
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£8.50 on the door

For dates and details see the Exhibitions page

Contact our Events Team now to organise your perfect wedding
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For further details see the weddings page.

See details of our late night opening on Friday 25 September Design Overtime Festival

Tours are Free with entry to the museum
Children Under 12 FREE
£8.50 adults / £5 students / £6.50 concessions
Booking is not necessary but places are limited

For details of our Sunday workshops for kids see Families page.

Jan Kaplický - architect of the future
1 July - 1 November 2009
Jan Kaplický, who died earlier this year, was the Czech architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever seen. This exhibition curated by Deyan Sudjic will celebrate Kaplický’s career, his influences and unique futuristic vision for building design.

Late night opening Design Overtime Festival until 10pm on 25 September.

Marvellous Mariscal Workshop and Get Into Illustration! - See Mariscal for families

Jan Kaplický - architect of the future
1 July - 1 November 2009
Jan Kaplický, who died earlier this year, was the Czech architect responsible for some of the most remarkable buildings that Britain has ever seen. This exhibition curated by Deyan Sudjic will celebrate Kaplický’s career, his influences and unique futuristic vision for building design.

Late night opening Design Overtime Festival until 10pm on 25 September.

Shepard Fairey said on receiving his award, “I’d like to thank the jury and the Brit Insurance Design Awards for presenting me with this award. The Obama Hope poster was created as a grass roots tool for the Obama campaign and I’m very honoured to be recognised for its creativity and contribution to graphic design, especially amongst all the other incredible nominations across the various disciplines that made thought provoking, conscious design.”

The Blog Vote winner was revealed as the Magno Wooden Radio by Singgih S. Kartono.
With over 7000 people voting it was the dominant winner in the vote and the peoples' favourite design.

See the exhibition blog for more news and images.

The winning entries represent a snapshot of contemporary design and demonstrate the role that design plays at a global level. Ranging from Shepard Fairey’s iconic Obama poster, to the economically sustainable Magno Wooden Radio and the multi-functional landmark of the New Oslo Opera House, the international winners are spread across Indonesia, Colombia, USA, Norway and Italy.

The seven winning designs will now contend for the prestigious accolade of Brit Insurance Design of the Year 2009, to be revealed at an awards dinner hosted by Channel 4 design presenter Naomi Cleaver, at the Design Museum on 18 March.

Its not to late to vote for your favourite design in The Blog Vote at designsoftheyear.com/polls/. The winner of the Blog Votewill be announced on 18 March.

The Design Museum’s current exhibition Design Cities argues that seven cities have each enjoyed a 'moment' when their particular economic, cultural and geo-political stars have aligned to have a transformative effect on the history of design. In this debate the British Council and the Design Museum have come together to examine the notion of ‘Design City’, and look to where this title might be applied in the future. In a panel discussion led by Design Museum Director and curator of Design Cities Deyan Sudjic, candidates from four major world cities will have the opportunity to state their case.

Ruy Ohtake is an acclaimed architect and will argue for Brazil’s largest city, Sao Paulo, with its vibrant design scene and host of landmark buildings and structures.

Professor M P Ranjan is a designer and a member of the Faculty at the National Institute of Design, Ahmedabad, he will argue in favour of Bangalore, the fastest growing metropolis in India and known as the Silicon Valley of India.

Ou Ning editor and graphic designer, will put forward the case for Beijing, the centre of politics and culture in China. Beijing expresses strong traditions and values as well as globalisation, and islbuilding upon the 2008 Olympics in terms of the advancement of design and technology.

Denis Cherdantsev is a designer, journalist and teacher who will make the case for the largest city in Europe - Moscow. Cherdantsev works for Designet, Russia’s leading web site for the promotion of Russian design which focusses on supporting the national design community. A melting pot of politics, economics and religion, Moscow is also home to the largest number of billionaires in the world.

At the end of the event the audience will be able to cast their vote in response to the arguments and campaigning of the night.

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Monday 15 September, 7.15PM
SAM HECHT IN CONVERSATION

£15/£6 Members
One of the founding members of London based design office Industrial Facility, and responsible for the selection of objects in the current show ‘Under a Fiver’, Sam Hecht will be discussing his achievements, recent projects and attitudes towards design.

05 September – 04 January 2009

Calling all enthusiastic young animators, set designers, scriptwriters and directors!

This year’s Animation Summer School is inspired by the magical, enchanted world of fashion photographer Tim Walker, whose acclaimed photography exhibition Tim Walker – Pictures will continue to be on show at the Design Museum over the summer. Working with Brighton based animator Tom Hillenbrand, you will explore a broad range of animation production techniques including plot development, story boarding, set and character design, 3D modelling and stop frame animation.

This fast paced, fun packed five day course will culminate in a celebratory screening of your animated film for invited parents and friends. All materials are included in the course fee.

Booking is essential, please contact the education team for further information
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Using a range of recycled materials and specialist model making skills you can help design and make a large 3D architectural model of a fantasy, future London cityscape which will be added to each week.
The Future London Cityscape Model will be exhibited in the Design Museum Space on each Sunday throughout July. At the end of each workshop session the model will be photographed and images will be emailed to each budding architect.

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year National Student Competition is run jointly by the Design Museum and the Specialist Schools and Academies Trust.

This new competition links to the Design Museum’s ground-breaking industry award Brit Insurance Designs of the Year and accompanying exhibition celebrating the most innovative and memorable new work in design internationally and across seven design categories.

The competition will be judged by a high level panel including leading designers whose work has been nominated as design of the year.

See our Design Challanges page for further details and a full competition brief.

The closing date for entries is Friday 18 July 2008.
Entries should be emailed in jpeg or pdf format (maximum 1MB) to:

Chris Smith
National Network Co-ordinator Technology
Specialist Schools & Academies Trust
E chris.smith@ssatrust.org.uk

Alternatively hard copy entries can be sent by post to:
Design Museum
Designs of the Future Competition 2008
28 Shad Thames
London SE1 2YD

Beijing National Stadium by Herzog & De Meuron and Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition have been declared two of the most innovative and progressive international designs from the last 12 months – as announced by the Design Museum today across seven major design categories.

Other winners include Meyra-Ortopedia’s Mex-x wheelchair for kids, which trumps the Transport category, and One Laptop per child by Yves Béhar of Fuseproject, a groundbreaking programme taking the Product category. Hussein Chalayan walks away with the Fashion category for Airborne Autumn/Winter 07 with Martino Gamper’s 100 Chairs in 100 Days triumphant in the Furniture category.

All designs are part of the100-strong shortlist at the first ever Brit Insurance Designs of the Year exhibition at the Design Museum until April 27, with the seven winners now vying for the overall win at the prestigious inaugural Brit Insurance Design Awards, hosted by Wayne Hemingway next week on Tuesday 18 March.

The expert panel of judges includes Rolf Fehlbaum, Lars Müller and Antonio Citterio who spent hours deliberating the final seven.

Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum said: “The judges certainly had a difficult job in narrowing down such a comprehensive shortlist to just one winner per category. Their final selection however, is a definitive celebration of some of the most internationally innovative designs from the past year.”

The first in an annual exploration of the most innovative, interesting and forward looking new work in design of all kinds. Selected from around the world, Brit Insurance Designs of the Year presents 100 projects nominated by a group of internationally respected design experts, curators, critics, practitioners and enthusiasts. These projects fall within seven categories: architecture, fashion, furniture, graphics, interactive, product and transport. The exhibition gives an overview of the most significant achievements in design and architecture in the last 12 months, whether they are projects by a practice, a team or an individual.

An international jury, each with expertise in their respective fields, will select a winner for the Brit Insurance Design Awards, recognising the best of contemporary design from around the world in each category as well as an overall winner. These winners will be announced and presented in March 2008.

The joint exhibition is Jean Prouve - The Poetics of the Technical Object at the Design Museum and La Maison Tropicale outside Tate Modern. Joint ticket for the house and exhibition is £8.50 for adults, £6.50 for concessions and £5 for students.

The Design Museum, in partnership with Tate Modern, brings a house designed by architectural visionary Jean Prouvé to Britain for the first time thanks to New York hotelier André Balazs. The prototype house, designed by the French architect Jean Prouvé (1901-1984), for 1950s colonial West Africa, will be erected outside Tate Modern.

Maison Tropicale for Design Museum at Tate Modern is an extension of the Design Museum’s current exhibition Jean Prouvé – The Poetics of the Technical Object, and demonstrates the full scale and vision of Prouvé’s economy of design.

Supported by André Balazs, Lord and Lady Foster, Foster + Partners.

To celebrate the Design Museum’s new exhibition Matthew Williamson - 10 Years in Fashion, budding fashionistas can put their design skills and flair to the test and create their own ‘Fashion Fabulous’ accessories inspired by Williamson’s exuberant use of pattern, print and colour.

For details of how to enter and competition rules, go to BBC Blast. All entries must be submitted by Friday 4 January 2008.

View the current competition entries.

Open Friday 7 December + Friday 18 January until 10pm

Please note that due to installation work being carried out in the museum Matthew Williamson - 10 Years in Fashion is CLOSED 3, 4 + 5 December. We apologise for any inconvenience caused.

INTRODUCTION TO FASHION & TEXTILES DESIGN
Three day course for 12 - 16 year olds
Mon 22, Tue 23 and Wed 24 October 2007
10.30am – 3.30pm each day
Course fee £95

Calling fashion and textiles designers if the future! Be inspired by the Matthew Williamson – 10 Years in Fashion which charts the rise of the golden boy of British fashion. For further information or to book a place please call the Education Department 020 7940 8782 or email education@designmuseum.org

BOOKING
Booking is essential and places are limited and will be allocated on a first come first served basis. For further information or to book a place please call the Education Department 020 7940 8782 or email education@designmuseum.org

Jonathan Barnbrook has emerged in the past two decades as one of the UK’s most consistently innovative graphic designers. Pioneering graphic design with a social conscience, Barnbrook makes powerful statements about corporate culture, consumerism, war and international politics. Through his work in both commercial and non-commercial spheres he combines wit, political savvy and bitter irony in equal measures.

Friendly Fire traces Barnbrook's career from early experiments in pure typography and pioneering motion graphics in the early 1990s, to recent work, including his latest projects with collaborators such as the anti-corporate collective Adbusters. Drawn from the designer’s own archive, the work represented will span the wide range of disciplines in which the Barnbrook studio work, including one of their most pioneering areas – typeface design.

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, four glamorous retro-chics who, dressed in all things vintage, will be playing 78rpm records on 1920s wind-up gramophones in the riverside bar.

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Hermès, in partnership with the Design Museum, is pleased to announce the launch of the Prix Émile Hermès. This competition is open to young European designers (professionals and students in their final year of studies).

The prize rewards 'the creation of innovative objects that are inspired by the theme “La légèreté au quotidien” (everyday lightness) applied to objects for travel and home'. Entry is open to designers aged under 40 and there is a combined prize fund of 90,000 euros.

Submit your registration here before 30 November 2007.

Saturday 15 and Sunday16 September, 2-5pm
Ahoy There!
To celebrate the Thames Festival, kids can design and make their own flotilla of catamarans, boats and barges inspired by the Design Museum’s riverfront location.

Michael Harvey, Dylan Jones, Alexi Sayle, Stephen Bayley.

What influences car design? Does form win over function, or vice versa? How do you define a sensitively designed vehicle? What does your car say about you? Under the direction of BBC Top Gear Magazine Editor, Michael Harvey, this eclectic panel of contributors will informally debate these, and many more questions during the course of the evening. Joining Michael, will be the Editor of GQ, Dylan Jones; author, journalist and one of the best known commentators on modern culture, Stephen Bayley; and comedian and Independent columnist, Alexi Sayle.

In association with Citroën.

Sundays 5, 12, 19, 26 August, 2 – 5pm
Beach Life
Calling all surf dudes and beach bums! Come and celebrate summertime by designing and
making your own beach kit, including t-shirts, bags and sun-visors.

Buy your ticket for Beach Life online

Wednesdays 1, 8,15, 22, 29 August, 2 – 5pm
Carnival Crazy
It’s carnival season and your chance to test out your funky fashion skills. Design and make your
own fantasy carnival costume, including headdresses, sashes and masks.

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We are asking you to text your thoughts on architecture for projection on the Design Museum between 10pm and midnight. Let Zaha know what you think!

We are very grateful to Adrian Haffegee from the University of Reading Centre for Advanced Computing and Emerging Technologies(ACET) who is developing projected 3D sms text and sculptor Kate Allen who brought Adrian together with the museum.

The number to text is 07624806248.

On 29 June 2007 the first major UK exhibition of Zaha Hadid’s architecture and design opens at the Design Museum in London. Spanning two floors this is the largest project the museum has undertaken and will present her most significant past, present and future projects.

To facilitate a forum for debate, and to maximise the impact of the exhibition, the museum has launched this exhibition blog.

Edited by Marcus Fairs, from the design blog dezeen, the exhibition blog hopes to reveal something of the complex processes behind exhibition development, will report on the exhibition launch and then, when the show opens to the public, visitors will be encouraged to submit their exhibition reviews to the moderator for publication.

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

The Actionettes have been invited 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.

See the shows, enjoy the spectacle, build a Colani influenced rocket ship out of smoothie bottles, taste our special Colani cocktail or decorate a Colani cake. Design Overtime Colani Night will be out of this world experience.

BOOKING
Tickets are £5 and include all activities and exhibitions. Tickets available on the door or in advance from tickets@designmuseum.org or ticketweb.co.uk. (booking fee applies).

Doors open at 6.45pm. Talk 7.15pm - 8.30pm. Tickets are £10 and include wine and exhibition viewing until 9pm.

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Design Overtime returns to the Design Museum on 13 April, offering another opportunity to explore, discover, participate, relax, and be surprised, outside normal museum opening hours.

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 will be talking Italian.

Sip an espresso and join in a 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.

Disegnare nel tempo libero, perche’ no?
Design Overtime, why not?

Ettore Sottsass - Work in Progress open 29 March until 10 June and 25/25 - Celebrating 25 Years of Design open 28 March until 22 June.

First seen in the Design Museum as part of Design Mart 2006, an exhibition of the best emerging designers, these ingenious shelves are lightweight, adaptable and available from the Design Museum Shop.

Those asked to select their favourite or most iconic design of the last 25 years for 25/25 - Celebrating 25 Years of Design (exhibition opens 29 March) include Maarten Baas, Mario Bellini, Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec, Terence Conran, matali crasset, Ilse Crawford, James Dyson, Stefano Giovannoni, Konstantin Grcic, Gitta Gschwendtner, Martì Guixé, Jaime Hayon, Sam Hecht, John Hegarty, Gill Hicks, Matthew Hilton, James Irvine, John Maeda, David Mellor, Jasper Morrison, Dieter Rams, Richard and Ab Rogers, Richard Seymour and Dick Powell, Paul Smith and Deyan Sudjic.

Book tickets for 25/25 - Celebrating 25 Years of the Design Museum.

The shortlist:
London College of Fashion Graduate Show 2006 by Moving Brands
Speak to Me by Mode and 6A Architects for Dalton Maag
Tate Modern Interactive Zones by Ab Rogers Design
Puma International Charity Tram by GBH
Flos Architectural Frankfurt and Flos Architectural Milan by GBH
Dan Flavin:Dedications by Ico Design Consultancy for the Hayward Gallery

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Luigi Colani: Translating Nature will be the first exhibition of Colani’s work in Britain.

Audacious though Brownjohn’s work could be - from his title sequences for the Bond films Goldfinger and From Russia With Love, to print for the fashionable Robert Fraser Gallery - it was refined by the quality of his ideas and inspired juxtapositions of type and image. Robert Brownjohn’s subtle understanding of modern design was matched only by his raging appetite for modern life.

This exhibition, designed last year by Alan Fletcher, displays Brownjohn's simple execution of brilliant graphic ideas and offers visitors a great deal to admire in the work of these two designers.

We plan to have more late night openings which will include our Script debates so watch this space for regular updates on future events!

One of the most influential figures in British graphic design, Alan Fletcher co-founded Fletcher/Forbes/Gill in the 1960s and Pentagram in the 1970s. He created iconic brand identities for clients such as Pirelli and the V&A and transformed book design in his role as consultant art editor to Phaidon Press with his spirited, witty and very personal style. To mark the donation of the Fletcher archive to its collection, the Design Museum presents his first retrospective including his commercial work for Penguin, Reuters and Shell, alongside more personal projects in lettering, collage and illustration.

Using a stock pile of discarded and donated chairs, in Confronting the Chair, Gamper creates his new chairs from elements of existing ones. By deconstructing the chair he gains a new insight into its construction and use of materials which informs the creation of the new design. The process is immediate, spontaneous like sketching in three dimensions. These chairs are displayed in the Design Museum alongside some selected by Gamper from the Design Museum collection.

The display in the café focuses on the competition and the work of Swiss-born designer, Laurent Benner, who, for the last three years, has been commissioned to design the catalogue to celebrate the winning titles. Working closely with Jon Hares, the pair has designed a publication which skilfully uses the printers and papers found in the winning books, enabling the reader to experience Swiss book design at first hand, giving a genuine insight into the breadth and quality of the designers, printers, bookbinders, photographers, illustrators and paper suppliers currently working across Switzerland today.

This exhibition was made possible through the generous support of the Swiss Federal Office of Culture.

Adding to the festive atmosphere, the Design Museum Café will be serving Konditor & Cook mince pies and fragrant mulled wine, while musical entertainment will be provided by a magical marionette performance. Design Museum members receive a 10% discount at the Design Museum Shop and Café.

Visitors on both evenings will be offered the chance to view the current Design Museum exhibitions – Alan Fletcher: fifty years of graphic work (and play), Design Mart and Designing Modern Britain – at a reduced entry fee of £4 on admission between 6pm and 9pm. This will also be an opportunity to view the new exhibition Confronting the Chair – Martino Gamper.

As Creative Director of Phaidon since 1994, Fletcher set high design standards for the company’s books, with such bestselling titles as The Art Book, and The Silver Spoon. He has also told his personal design philosophy in his own publications including, in 2001, The Art of Looking Sideways. Phaidon published Alan Fletcher: Picturing and Poeting in November 2006.

Highlights for the year include: Zaha Hadid – Architecture and Design, the first full scale show of Hadid’s work in the UK and the largest project undertaken by the Design Museum; Luigi Colani – Translating Nature, which will bring together Colani’s extraordinary large scale prototypes including aircraft, trucks and cars, as well as his streamlined furniture and product design; a celebration of ten years of Matthew Williamson in fashion, a unique success story of the British fashion industry, focusing on the key designs that have shaped Williamson’s career; and The Art of War, which will explore the ways in which innovation and design have worked through history in the extremis of war. The exhibition programme also includes monograph exhibitions on innovative British graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook and Ettore Sottsass, doyen of Italian design, as well as the Design Museum’s annual exhibition of new talent, Design Mart, which will relaunch in September 2007.

“We are working on a programme that looks at the whole range of what design can be – monograph shows on major figures like Sottsass and Hadid, as well as exhibitions that offer a spring board for young talent”, says Deyan Sudjic, “We want to bring together fashion, graphics, product design, and architecture, and show that they have a place at the heart of contemporary culture.”

Among the designers who will participate in Design Mart 2006 are Viable, a London-based collective of lighting and product designers, the design partnership &made whose Climatised Objects address issues of world climate change and natural disaster, and Max Lamb whose design process draws on the physical landscape of his native Cornwall. Product designer Nadine Jarvis will exhibit her poetic cremation urns and bird feeders and Peter Marigold will install his temporary shelving solutions – Make/Shift and Prop. Philip Worthington, working with sophisticated light projection and computer technology, will offer visitors interactive and surreal “living” Shadow Monsters, while Tim Simpson will unveil his Natural Deselection project that plays on notions of Darwinian selection in the plant world.

The Design Museum’s exciting new animation summer school offers budding animators aged 12 to 16 years the chance to try their hands at a range of techniques and to develop new skills to create short animated films, inspired by the Design Museum’s dynamic exhibitions. Courses will be led by a practicing animator and design workshop specialist teachers.

Booking is essential and places are limited. Bookings are to be made for one three day course or the other (the later dates are not a follow on course, it is a repeat).

Please call the Education team on 020 7940 8782 for booking forms and further information.

Places will be allocated on a first come first served basis.

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