Images: Design Ventura winners Walworth Academy and Virtual Ventura winners Langton Boys Grammar School. Photography by Richard Heald
Design Ventura and Virtual Ventura 2011 - 12
Design Ventura is the museum's flagship design and enterprise project for students in years 9, 10 and 11, generously supported by Deutsche Bank. Design Ventura enables pupils to experience the design process and learn enterprise skills by working to a real-world brief, problem solving and pitching ideas professionally. It also supports qualifications including GCSE Design and Technology, Business Studies and Enterprise education.
The Design Ventura and Virtual Ventura competitions challenge students to create a product to be manufactured and sold in the Design Museum Shop.
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Design Ventura - a live programme with workshops for London state schools. DV Registration form.
Virtual Ventura - a teacher led project with online resources and museum visits for any school from the UK, Channel Islands and Isle of Man, and British International Schools (including independent schools and London state schools). VV Registration Form
Design Ventura 2011-12
On the 21 February, the top schools from the 2011-12 competition attended the Celebration Event hosted by Sebastian Conran at the museum where the winners were announced:
DESIGN VENTURA WINNERS
Walworth Academy - Slick Shooter
An Oyster card sized portable game, designed to encourage young teenagers to play as a group.
Runners up:
Norbury Manor Business and Enterprise College for Girls - London Idols
Stoke Newington School - DIGI-Card
VIRTUAL VENTURA WINNERS
Simon Langton Boys Grammar School - Plyano
A self-assembly plywood finger piano.
Runners up:
Brighton College - Urban Jelly
Tudor Grange Academy - Seat and Meet
See the full awards list and images from the Celebration Event on the Design Ventura blog.
The top entries will be on display at the Design Museum until Saturday 25 February in the Education Centre on the second floor.
For email updates or to take part in Design Ventura please contact
T 020 7940 8768
E ventura@designmuseum.org
Design Ventura 2010
On 27 January 2011 Haberdashers' Aske's Hatcham College in Lewisham were announced as Design Ventura competition winners with their elegant design 'Dove Bunting'. After winning the competition the team was mentored through the process of refining their design for retail by London-based graphic design consultancy Build. Dove Bunting is now available exclusively from the Design Museum Shop.
Deutsche Bank
Deutsche Bank has been proud to partner with the Design Museum since 2006. Deutsche’s support, both monetary and providing business mentors for schools, has encouraged a generation of young people to think about business and enterprise within a creative and exciting setting.
Design Ventura is one of the flagship programmes within the Bank’s extensive Corporate Social Responsibility programme. In 2011, over 68,000 young people in the UK benefitted from an education programme supported by Deutsche Bank.
