Design Museum
Design Museum
28 Shad Thames
London
Greater London
SE1 2YD
England
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The Design Museum is one of the world’s leading museums of modern and contemporary design. Since its foundation in 1989, the museum has become the cultural champion of UK design and won international acclaim for exhibitions of modern design history and contemporary design innovation. This stylish museum has a regularly changing exhibition programme covering a wide range of themes from product and graphic design, fashion, furniture, architecture and engineering. In addition to fascinating exhibitions the museum also has a riverside café serving sandwiches, salads and cakes by Konditor and Cook and offers spectacular views of the Thames and Tower Bridge. The Design Museum Shop stocks a comprehensive range of design-led products and books from design classics to the latest innovations.
Venue Type:
Museum
Collection details
Science and Technology, Photography, Design, Decorative and Applied Art, Architecture
Designs of the Year 2013
The Designs of the Year awards, ‘The Oscars of the design world' showcase the most innovative and imaginative designs from around the world, over the past year, spanning seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Transport and Product. Category winners and the overall winner will be decided by a jury and announced on 16 April 2013.
Category winners:
Architecture: TOUR BOIS-LE-PRÊTRE, PARIS
Designed by Frédéric Druot, Anne Lacaton and Jean-Philippe Vassal
Digital: GOV.UK WEBSITE
Designed by Government Digital
Service
Fashion: DIANA VREELAND: THE EYE HAS TO TRAVEL
Directed by Lisa Immordino Vreeland
Furniture: MEDICI CHAIR
Designed by Konstantin Grcic for
Mattiazzi
Graphics: VENICE ARCHITECTURE BIENNALE IDENTITY
Designed by John Morgan Studio
Products: KIT YAMOYO
Designed by ColaLife and PI Global
Transport: MORPH FOLDING WHEEL
Designed by Vitamins for
Maddak Inc.
Suitable for
Admission
£8.80 adult
£7.70 concession
£5.50 student
United Micro Kingdoms: A Design Fiction
UmK presents perspectives on a fictional future for the United Kingdom, as imagined by designers and educators Dunne & Raby. The exhibition sees England devolved into four self-contained counties, each free to experiment with governance, economy and lifestyle. These 'live laboratories' interrogate the cultural and ethical impact of existing and new technologies and how they alter the way we live.
Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby use elements of industrial design, architecture, politics, science and sociology to provoke debate around the power and potential of design. UmK challenges assumptions about how products and services are made and used, through reinterpretations of the car and other transport systems.
The Culture Show
See an interview with Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby on The Culture Show filmed at their studio in January 2013.
Design Fiction Late Night Opening
Friday 17 May, 7-10.30pm
Come along to a Design Overtime at the Design Museum. Celebrating Museums at Night, this event looks at past and present visions of the future. Form your own propositions for a bravely designed new world with creative writing and making workshops based on illustrated prediction scenarios. Guest curators Anthony Dunne and Fiona Raby will be in residence to discuss the thinking behind the exhibition United Micro Kingdoms.
#DesignFiction
With thanks to Camira Fabrics and Abet Limited
Suitable for
Admission
Free
Designers in Residence
Celebrating new and emerging design talent, the Design Museum’s annual Designers in Residence programme supports designers at an early stage in their career. The selected designers are given a bursary to create new work in response to the brief. Final designs will be on display in the Designers in Residence exhibition at the museum from 11 September 2013.
Suitable for
Admission
Free
Extraordinary Stories About Ordinary Things
Intriguing insights into the most exceptional of everyday objects which have helped to shape the modern world.
Suitable for
Admission
£10
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