THIS IS DESIGN

24 August – 22 January 2012

This is Design is a celebration of the Design Museum’s Collection, examining the impact of design on the modern world, whilst also exploring the consequences of design and how it shapes our lives and contemporary culture.

After over five years of being catalogued, conserved and documented, highlights from the Collection will once again be on display in the museum. The Collection contains pieces ranging from early items of mass manufacture through to cutting edge contemporary design, furniture, fashion and ceramics.

Using themes such as identity, manufacturing innovations, the digital revolution and lifecycle, the exhibition will look at how design provides a visual language to help use the objects around us.

Prototypes, drawings, couture samples, models, first editions and finished industrial objects will be on display, including highlights such as the original Mini and the Moulton bicycle, large scale architectural models like Sir Norman Foster’s HSBC Bank headquarters in Hong Kong, UK road signs and an Anglepoise lamp.