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Take a SPIN with the Design Museum
This year, the Design Museum is launching its much-anticipated exhibition on bicycles. The exhibition sets out to celebrate the diversity of contemporary cycling in Britain at every level, from every day commuting to Olympic level competition, presented through the lens of design and innovation. To coincide with the announcement of the exhibition, the Design Museum will be programming events at SPIN London to highlight the show.
Booking information
Design Museum visitors gain free entry to SPIN London. Please book using the link below.
Cycling is a passion. For some it’s a lifestyle choice, for others it’s a fiercely competitive sport. The exhibition will demonstrate how new technologies, lifestyle aspirations, and environmental concerns have transformed the culture of cycling on a scale not witnessed since the Second World War. The explosion of interest in bicycles is changing the way in which we use our towns and cities. For many people, bicycles are replacing cars as their chosen means of transportation. It is also driving a surge of craftsman bicycle makers to tailor machines to the precise specifications of their users.
The surge of interests in Bikes has not gone unnoticed by the Design Museum. Highly innovative bike designs regularly grace the Museum’s annual Designs of the Year and has been documented in exhibitions like Designed to Win and the 2012 Bike V Design extravaganza. With SPIN just a few short months away from the show opening, the Design Museum will preview the show with a look at the legendary Brompton bicycles and an informal sit down with Design Museum bike of year nominees Sam Pearce, Ben Wilson and Patrick Laing.
From Blind Faith to Bike of the Year (Talk 14:00)
Bikes of all varieties have graced the Design Museum’s Designs of the Year. This talk brings together nominees past and present to talk about unstable beginnings, keeping the faith, blogging and begging right through to becoming a design of the year. It’ll also have a take a sneak peak at where these designers are heading next. Designers include Sam Pearce, Patrick Laing and Ben Wilson.
Sam Pearce
Sam Pearce
Patrick Laing
Patrick Laing
Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson
more about the speakers
Sam Pearce
Industrial designer Sam Pearce set up his own product design company Jelly Products in 2006. In 2013, after several years of development and testing, he launched Loopwheels, innovative shock-absorbing wheels for bicycles using carbon composite leaf springs. Loopwheels was nominated for the 2015 year’s Designs of the Year.
Patrick Laing
After years of uphill development, Plume’s designers Dan McMahon and Patrick Laing brought a prototype to the crowd-funding platform Kickstarter, where thousands of cyclists from around the world showed their support and funded the first production run. Plume was nominated by the Design Museum for the Designs of the Year Award, 2014.
Ben Wilson
Ben Wilson is a 3D Industrial designer working with mass produced products, one-off hand-made commissions and interiors projects. Ben works from his Design studio in East London on projects for many major global brands and is always interested in working on new and interesting projects large or small. His Donky Bike was nominated for 2012 Designs of the Year.
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