Movie: burlesque dancer Dita Von Teese morphs into a stiletto shoe every fifteen minutes in a holographic performance that was created by London company Musion for the Design Museum‘s exhibition on iconic shoe designer Christian Louboutin. More »
Dezeen Wire: the London 2012 Olympic Torch by east London designers BarberOsgerby has been awarded as Design of the Year in a ceremony at the Design Museum in London tonight. More »
Designed in Hackney: Hoxton-based designer Michael Marriott created a landscape of cardboard tubes to display items on show at this year’s Designs of the Year exhibition at London’s Design Museum. The winning entries for each category will be revealed at an awards ceremony tomorrow evening. More »
The Design Museum Collection App for iPad is now available to download, featuring interviews filmed by Dezeen with Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic about 59 objects from their collection. Download it free from the app store here.
In this film we’ve compiled extracts focussing on how design has shaped the way we listen to music over the last century, including iconic devices like the Ecko AD-65 radio from the early 1930s, SK5 Phonosuper from Braun in the 1950s and Sony’s experiments from Walkman to Discman to MiniDisc towards the end of the twentieth century. More »
The Design Museum in London launches its Design Museum Collection iPad app today that features 59 objects from their collection, including interviews with museum director Deyan Sudjic filmed by Dezeen. Download it free from the app store here. More »
Dezeen promotion: the next series of London Pecha Kucha talks kicks off at the Design Museum on Tuesday 28 February, with speakers including illustrator and artist Noma Bar, design historian Patrick O’Shea and architectural photographer Jim Stephenson. More »
London’s Design Museum have unveiled designs by British architect John Pawson for their new home in the former Commonwealth Institute building in west London. More »
Dezeen Wire: a new exhibition documenting the career of Terence Conran has provoked a flurry of media interest in the man who founded retail brand Habitat and London’s Design Museum. More »
Dezeen Wire: the director of London’s Design Museum Deyan Sudjic claims the museum’s new home at the former Commonwealth Institute will offer a platform for future designers and that Britain can regain its reputation as creative power, “provided we go on investing in design” – The Guardian
Sudjic describes the Design Museum’s original incarnation at the Victoria & Albert museum as “a little like an upmarket squatter in the V&A basement,” but suggests that “contemporary design is now firmly on the cultural agenda.” He claims that Britain must support design education in order to stay ahead of emerging economies, adding that “design is a way to create or safeguard jobs.”
James Dyson also recently wrote an article on the importance of design to the British economy and we previously reported on the Design Museum’s current building being up for sale.
Dezeen Wire: in his latest article for The Guardian, architecture and design critic Rowan Moore interviews Terence Conran ahead of an exhibition dedicated to his career at the Design Museum, which opens on 16 November.
In the article Moore suggest that Conran’s greatest successes have been the businesses he’s founded rather than the products or interiors he’s designed, which Moore adds are “a little too managed, manipulated, packaged and don’t quite communicate the fun he has got out of life, as if constrained by some invisible boundary.”
Dezeen Wire: the Design Museum has announced that the building at Butler’s Wharf in London, which has been its home since 1989, is up for sale. More »
Dezeen Wire: co-founder of London’s Design Museum Terence Conran has donated a cash gift of £7.5 million towards developing the museum’s new home in south London. More »
Dezeen interviewed Dutch graphic designer Wim Crouwel last week on the eve of the opening of the exhibition Wim Crouwel – A Graphic Design Odyssey at the Design Museum in London. More »
Here are some pictures of 6a Architects‘ exhibition design for Wim Crouwel – A Graphic Odyssey, on show at the Design Museum in London. More »
Dezeen filmed this interview with the team behind the Plumen 001 light bulb, winner of this year’s Brit Insurance Design of the Year Award, during the ceremony at the Design Museum in London on Tuesday. More »