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As part of the Museums At Night Festival the Design Museum will be opening later than it ever has before to let late night wonderers come and look at its exhibitions. The Design Museum’s opening hours will be extended to include 8pm-11pm on the 18th May. Late entry will cost £11 but will be free for members. On the eve of the … read more»

As you may already know the London Design Museum is due to move homes in 2014 to the long run down and abandoned Commonwealth Institute in Kensington and plans revealed at a press conference yesterday revealed that they plan to make it ‘the world’s leading museum of contemporary design and architecture’. Costing £80m the new … read more»

The Design Museum has announced the 2012 Designs Of The Year. Among them are the Olympic Torch, The Royal Wedding Dress and a wind-propelled Landmine Detonator. The longlist for the fifth annual Designs of the Year Awards has been announced. To go with the announcement there will be a showcase exhibition covering , a year in design, … read more»

Hannah Martin Jewellery has been put into the Design Museum Shop. Hannah Martin will be the first fine jewellery designer to have her products stocked in the museum shop after firmly establishing herself as one or London’s leading contemporary jewellery designers. Her pieces are bold works of art with beautiful lines and an unusual … read more»

An M1 roadsign is amongst several British roadsigns that have been added to Design Museum’s collection. The classic British roadsigns we know today were created back in the 1958 by Margaret Calvert and Jock Kinneir who say that ‘style never came into it’ when designing the signs that help us all navigate around the UK. … read more»

If you can wait till next year you’re in for a treat as a big Louboutin exhibition comes to London. A long time favourite of the fashion world Christian Louboutin will become honoured by the design world also as his exhibition comes to the London Design Museum in March next year. The exhibition will simply be, Christian Louboutin. … read more»

London’s very own Design Museum is due to hold the first ever UK Christian Louboutin retrospective in March 2012. The exhibition will look at the history of the iconic brand best known for it’s red soled shoes including the designers rise to the top of fashion heir-achy documenting his career from when he launched in 1991 right … read more»

Kicking off this Wednesday (24 August) the Design Museum will be taking a look at the impact of design on the modern world with a new exhibition entitled, This Is Design. This Is Design will run until 22 January 2012 and will feature some of the best pieces from the Design Museums collection that has been being worked on and built up for the … read more»

From 30 March The Design Museum will be celebrating the life and works of graphic designer, Wim Crouwel. Hailing from Holland, Crouwel is widely regarded as one of the leading designers of the twentieth century for his typographic designs that captured the essence of the emerging computer and space age of the early 1960s. The exhibition, … read more»

‘The Oscars of the design world’ have been showing the most innovative and forward thinking designs of the past year at the Design Museum with the overall winner to be announced on the 15th March. Before this happens we caught up with Alex Newson,  Curator of Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011 to get a bit of an idea as to … read more»