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Landmarker Project

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To mark its fifth year in Kensington, the museum partnered with Snapchat to create Adapt, an augmented reality experience that reimagines how our iconic building could adapt to extreme weather con...

Arts and Crafts Movement

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Aimed to promote a return to hand-craftsmanship and to assert the creative independence of individual craftspeople.

Ettore Sottsass

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An eclectic architect and industrial designer who became one of the most celebrated figures of the late 20th century Italian design scene.

Q&A with Ji Won Choi

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The Design Museum speaks to Ji Won Choi about her collection for adidas originals, which is nominated in this year's Beazley Designs of the Year. Choi's garments draw on elements from traditional Kore...

Ward Bennett

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The Design Museum has partnered with Phaidon to launch a new book club, exploring a range of design topics, themes and practices. The first title in the series explores Ward Bennett, the leading Ameri...

5 Unmissable Highlights from #MakingSense

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From Ai Weiwei’s largest ever Lego work to a Marble Takeout Box – here’s five unmissable highlights from #MakingSense.

Estimated reading time: 2 minutes

Luigi Colani

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A design maverick pursuing an interest in imagining a world that does not yet exist — one of utopian architecture, high performance cars and huge supersonic aircraft flying many times the speed of sou...

Penguin Books

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A pioneer of high quality paperbacks, Penguin adopted an equally progressive approach to book design.

What is "Good" Design? A quick look at Dieter Rams' Ten Principles.

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What does "good" design look like and are there any instructions on how to create it? Dieter Rams, legendary industrial designer, who's "less but better" approach inspired a generation of products, is...

Museum Shop Sunday

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Come along on Museum Shop Sunday and enjoy a day of thoughtful shopping with a purpose.

On Sunday 30 November, we’re offering 10% off all purchases (exclusions apply) both in-store and onlin...

Moving to Mars

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European Museum of the Year winner 2018, the Design Museum in London reaches new audiences and brings Mars down to Earth.

Terms and Conditions: Young Creatives

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Dear Young person/ Parent/ Legal Guardian,

You or your young person has expressed an interest in joining the Young Creatives Programme. Before we can officially welcome a young person to the programm...

Q&A with G-Star RAW

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The Design Museum speaks to Adriana Galijasevic, sustainability and denim expert at G-Star RAW about their "most sustainable jeans ever" - featured in the Beazley Designs of the Year 2018 exhibition.

Independent Research Organisation (IRO) Status

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In Spring 2024, the Design Museum was granted Independent Research Organisation (IRO) status, becoming the first independent museum to be awarded the recognition. This acknowledges the museum’s ab...

Jock Kinneir and Margaret Calvert

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Designers of the modern British road signage system that has become a role model around the world.

Shami Chakrabarti

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Director of Liberty

Q&A with Rain Wu

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Coinciding with International Women's Day, Wednesday 8 March 2017, the Design Museum speaks to the current designer in residence, Rain Wu about her latest project 'The Tea Set', her career so far and ...

Dieter Rams

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Defining an elegant, legible, yet rigorous visual language in industrial design

Charles Rennie Mackintosh

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A Scottish architect and designer with extraordinary creativity and originality

Peter Saville

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An acerbic graphic designer best known for his much-copied album cover artwork for Factory Records.

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