The World of Tim Burton - Design Museum
WEBPre-order the official catalogue for 'The World of Tim Burton' exhibition. The publication explores the relationship between Burtons' artistic creations and the world of design, featuring insightful essays by design experts and film critics. Delivery from 31 October. Click and collect available from 25 October. Pre-order the book.
Home - Design Museum
WEBDesign Museum Shop. Our high street shop is located at at Kensington High Street 224–238. Inside the museum, our main shop is located in the atrium, Ground floor. There's also an exhibition shop inside Gallery 1, Ground floor. For further information, please visit the shop website, where you can also find a carefully curated range of gifts ...
Barbie®: The Exhibition - Design Museum
WEB5 July 2024 — 23 February 2025. A major exhibition exploring the design evolution of one of the world’s most famous dolls: Barbie®. Journey into the Barbie universe and discover over 250 remarkable objects, with rare, unique and innovative dolls dating from 1959 to the present day. Please note, Barbie: The Exhibition is very popular.
Exhibitions - Design Museum
WEBExhibitions. Design is a continually evolving subject. The Design Museum offers opportunities to explore the present and future of design through a programme of temporary exhibitions and displays. Until 23 February 2025.
Dieter Rams - Design Museum
WEBAs head of design at Braun, the German consumer electronics manufacturer, Dieter Rams (1932-) emerged as one of the most influential industrial designers of the late 20th century by defining an elegant, legible, yet rigorous visual language for its products. **Formative Years** Dieter Rams was born in Wiesbaden, Germany, in 1932. As a teenager he loved to watch his grandfather who worked as a ...
Charles Rennie Mackintosh - Design Museum
WEBFeb 16, 2016 — Combining a progressive modernity with the spirit of romanticism, the Scottish architect and designer Charles Rennie Mackintosh (1868-1928) created many of the best loved and most influential buildings, furniture and decorative schemes of the early 20th century. Few designers can claim to have created a …
Peter Saville - Design Museum
WEBPeter Saville. Ever since his first work for the fledgeling Factory Records in the late 1970s, Peter Saville has been a pivotal figure in graphic design and style culture. In fashion and art projects as well as in music, his work combines an unerring elegance with a remarkable ability to identify images that epitomise the moment.
What is "Good" Design? A quick look at Dieter Rams' Ten Principles.
WEBHowever Rams attempted to express what he believed to be the most important principles for design. Here is a brief overview: Good design is innovative. Good design makes a product useful. Good design is aesthetic. Good design makes a product understandable. Good design is unobtrusive. Good design is honest. Good design is long-lasting.
Arts and Crafts Movement - Design Museum
WEBProfile. The Arts and Crafts Movement (ACM) aimed to promote a return to hand-craftsmanship and to assert the creative independence of individual craftspeople. It was a reaction against the industrialised society that had boomed in Britain in the Victorian period, and aimed for social as well as artistic reform.
Design: - Design Museum
WEBRead the stories behind the designers. For the Design Museum, design is a continually evolving subject which it explores through its exhibitions programme, permanent collection, learning and research activities. Explore the museum's annual Designs of the Year awards, a great snapshot of creative innovation from across the world.