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This book will be the official catalogue for the exhibition. It will be the first publication to explore the relationship between Tim Burton’s cinematic creations and the world of design. The reader will be invited into an examination of what is now broadly referred to as the ‘Burtonesque’, intersecting his iconic films with the impact of these unique design aesthetics on broader visual culture. The catalogue will unpack Tim Burton’s distinctive visual language, exploring the intersection of gothic, carnivalesque and fantastical elements that define his cinematic masterpieces. Insightful essays by design experts and film critics will offer a deeper understanding of the director’s creative process, making this catalogue a homage to role that design practice plays in the hauntingly beautiful worlds he creates.

Charlotte Perriand was one of great designers of the twentieth century. A pioneer of modernism, her work was often overshadowed by her more famous male collaborators, who included Le Corbusier, Pierre Jeanneret and Jean Prouvé. However, in recent years her reputation as a furniture designer and architect has matched the stature of her peers – her furniture in particular has become highly prized by collectors. From the 1920s onwards, Perriand was instrumental in bringing the modernist aesthetic to interiors. But she also believed in the synthesis of the arts, and was friends with visual artists such as Pablo Picasso and Fernand Léger.This book will explore Perriand’s journey from the machine aesthetic to her adoption of natural forms, and from modular furniture systems to major architectural projects such as Les Arcs ski resort. Featuring some of her most famous interiors, as well as her original furniture, her photography and her personal notebooks, this book sheds new light on Perriand’s creative process and her place in design history. It will accompany the forthcoming Design Museum exhibition of the same title, which will coincide with the twenty-fifth anniversary of Perriand’s last significant presentation in London, held at the Design Museum in 1996.

This book brings together a new generation of designers, architects and artists exploring how to reorient their practices for the flourishing of other species. Design is deeply associated with creating a better way of life – for humans. Yet we exist alongside billions of animals, plants and other living beings. Always putting human needs first has had devastating consequences on landscapes, other species and the climate. What if we fundamentally shifted our perspective? More-than-human design begins by acknowledging our entanglement with the ecosystems that give us life. It challenges us to imagine a world in which human desires no longer take precedence over the rights and needs of living systems. This book brings together a new generation of designers, architects and artists exploring how to reorient their practices for the flourishing of other species. With contributions by renowned writers and thinkers, including Anna Tsing, Tim Ingold and Daisy Hildyard, it examines what it means to design with and for the living world.

'Sometimes the movie knows you better than you know yourself, and you reveal your point of view about the world without ever even intending to.’ – Wes Anderson An archive is always a time-machine, but the archives of Wes Anderson take us on a journey not just through time, but through layers of stories and the experiences of storytelling – on paper and on film. This book is dedicated to these stories and celebrates Anderson’s over 30 years in cinema. From the start of his career, Anderson has maintained a rich library of notebooks, drawings, paintings, polaroids, props, puppets, sets, and costumes from his films. The objects shown here are enhanced and illuminated by Anderson’s long-time collaborators: Owen Wilson, Jason Schwartzman, Scarlett Johansson, Tilda Swinton; composer Alexandre Desplat; musician Seu Jorge; and music supervisor Randall Poster. Also included: an extensive interview with Anderson himself, reflecting on his films and working process. Wes Anderson: The Archives accompanies the first retrospective exhibition of Anderson’s work, curated by la Cinémathèque française in Paris and the Design Museum in London in partnership with Wes Anderson Edited by Johanna Agerman Ross, Matthieu Orléan and Lucia Savi.

The first book to dive exclusively into Ai Weiwei’s approach to design and collecting, shedding light on the value we ascribe to everyday objects. Artist, film-maker, architect, activist, collector – whatever mode Ai Weiwei is in, he is trying to tell us something about the state of the world. This book presents Ai’s work as a commentary on design and what it reveals about our changing values. Confronted by the rapid pace of change in his country, Ai became fascinated by Chinese antiquities. His vast collections of historical artefacts, from Stone Age tools to broken teapot spouts, attest to the way the language of objects speaks across the ages. Is this a classic tale of technical progress, or have we lost crucial qualities with the march of time? Ai invites us to make sense of these objects as he explores the tensions between past and present, hand and machine, precious and worthless, construction and destruction.

The twentieth century offered up countless visions of domestic life, from the aspirational to the radical. Whether it was the dream of the fully mechanised home or the notion that technology might free us from home altogether, the domestic realm was a site of endless invention and speculation. But what happened to those visions? Are the smart homes of today the future that architects and designers once predicted, or has ‘home’ proved resistant to radical change? Home Futures: Living in Yesterday’s Tomorrow –accompanying a major Design Museum exhibition of the same title–explores a number of different attitudes toward domestic life, tracing the social and technological developments that have driven change in the home. It proposes that we are already living in yesterday’s tomorrow, just not in the way anyone predicted. This book begins with a lavishly illustrated catalogue portraying the ‘home futures’ of the twentieth century and beyond, from the work of Ettore Sottsass and Joe Colombo to Google’s recent forays into the smart home. The catalogue is followed by a reader consisting of newly commissioned essays by writers such as Dan Hill and Justin McGuirk, which explore the changes in the domestic realm in relation to space, technology, society, economy and psychology.

Idealistic visions of the Soviet capital that were never realised.Published at the centenary of the Russian Revolution, Imagine Moscow: Architecture, Propaganda, Revolution portrays Moscow as it was envisioned by a bold generation of architects in the 1920s and early 1930s. Through evocative imagery and a wealth of rarely seen material, this book provides a window into an idealistic fantasy of the Soviet capital that was never realised and has since been largely forgotten.Focusing on six unbuilt architectural landmarks, Imagine Moscow explores how these projects reflected changes in everyday life and society following the revolution, during one of the most fascinating periods of the twentieth century. Large-scale architectural plans, models and drawings are placed alongside propaganda posters, textiles and porcelain, contextualising the transformation of a city reborn as the new capital of the USSR and the international centre of socialism.

The Designs of the Year awards and exhibition, now in its tenth year, is an annual review of the most innovative and thought-provoking projects in contemporary design. Introduced by Deyan Sudjic and Glenn Adamson, this catalogue brings together all the shortlisted projects. It is a snapshot of the most exciting things happening in design right now.

Now in its eleventh year, the Design Museum’s Beazley Designs of the Year award and exhibition showcase the most innovative, relevant and thought-provoking projects in contemporary design. From the first iPhone to Zaha Hadid’s final building, the nominations for the award have spanned the fields of architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. Introduced by Deyan Sudjic and guest curator Aric Chen of M+ in Hong Kong, this illustrated book brings together all the nominated designs for 2018, along with the reasons for their selection by an international group of design experts, practitioners and critics, including Iwan Baan and Hans Ulrich Obrist. It is a snapshot of the most exciting things happening in design today. At the beginning of the second decade of its life, the essence of the concept remains the same. A wide and international group of expert nominators have been invited to put forward up to three projects each that for them reflect significant new directions in six fields, from architecture to transport. The results are put together by a guest curator to form an exhibition at the Design Museum. A jury selects winners in each category, as well as one overall design of the year. The Design Museum has published an accompanying catalogue for the award and exhibition over the past ten years, which was marked by the publication of the ten-year anniversary book Designs of our Time: 10 Years of Designs of the Year.

Arrive. Survive. Thrive.Getting humans to Mars has become one of the great challenges of our time. Mars holds the potential of human settlement, and the promise of life after Earth. Some of the world’s greatest entrepreneurs, architects and engineers are dedicated to conquering this next frontier.Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet is one of the first books to focus on the crucial role that design will play in this collective endeavour. From the capsules that will need to keep passengers in harmony during their nine-month journey, to the habitats that they will live in, to the terraforming of the landscape to make it life-sustaining, every detail needs to be designed. This task is falling to the traditional space agencies such as NASA, and to private entrepreneurs such as Elon Musk and Richard Branson, and to architects such as Norman Foster. As well as technical and practical solutions, this book will examine how design and design thinkers are approaching our move to Mars in unexpected ways. With striking, rarely-seen imagery and a unique design-led focus, this book will appeal to ‘space junkies’ and design enthusiasts alike.

The third volume in the Beazley Designs of the Year catalogue series, offering a snapshot of the most exciting things happening in design today.Now in its thirteenth year, the Design Museum’s Beazley Designs of the Year award and exhibition showcase the most innovative, relevant and thought-provoking projects in contemporary design. From the first iPhone to Zaha Hadid’s final building, the nominations for the award have spanned the fields of architecture, digital, fashion, graphics, product and transport. Introduced by Tim Marlow and Emily King, this illustrated book brings together all the nominated designs for 2020, along with the reasons for their selection by an international group of design experts, practitioners and critics. It is the definitive record of the year in design.Past nominees and winners include: Zaha Hadid, Gucci, SpaceX, Nike, Foster + Partners, Shepard Fairey, Comme des Garçons, Apple, OMA, Barber & Osgerby, Jasper Morrison, Thomas Heatherwick, Kanye West and David Adjaye.

This is the first book to gather leading designers, creators and industry insiders to reflect on sneaker design and its ground-breaking impact on popular culture. Contributors provide insights into the evolution of sneakers from sport-wear to style icons, the processes and people involved in sneaker design and its global future. Through conversations with the people directly involved in the creation of sneakers, it speaks to the next generation of sneaker designers and wearers by asking: who are the people involved in the design of a sneaker? How do their roles and approaches differ? How does their individual work contribute to the collective effort of making a sneaker? What will the future of sneaker design be? Richly illustrated, it includes iconic sneakers, drawings and sketches, prototypes as well as glimpses in the manufacturing process. Across three chapters – Style and Culture, People and Processes, The Future – the approaches and experience of industry leaders unfold the past, present, and future of sneakers as style icons and cultural facilitators. Contributors turn to the next generation of designers with an open challenge to move the industry towards a more positive direction for both the people and the planet.

Surrealism was one of the most influential cultural movements of the twentieth century. Subverting the dogmas of modernism and rationalism in art and literature, it also had a profound impact on the world of design. From Dalí’s Mae West Lips sofa to Schiaparelli’s ‘shocking pink’ haute couture, Surrealism championed the power of the unconscious, of dreams and hidden desires – and liberated design from convention and functionalism.Published to accompany the exhibition Objects of Desire: Surrealism and Design 1924 – Today, this book celebrates Surrealism’s enduring legacy. It features groundbreaking fashion by Mary Katrantzou and Dior, as well as British artists and designers, including Tim Walker, Jonathan Trayte and Vince Fraser. Alongside essays by leading experts, such as Ghislaine Wood and Alyce Mahon, are interviews with practitioners who are carrying the torch of Surrealism today, including Viviane Sassen, Dunne & Raby and the Campana Brothers. The book concludes with a glimpse into some of the recent forms of art and resistance the movement has inspired, such as Afro-Surrealism, as well as the surprising connections between Surrealist thinking and one of the most contentious technological developments of our time: artificial intelligence.Contributors: Glenn Adamson, Yasmina Atta, Blaise Aguera y Arcas, Susanna Brown, Campana Brothers, Dunne & Raby, Alyce Mahon, Justin McGuirk, Priya Khanchandani, Viviane Sassen, Ayoola Solarin, Ghislaine Wood, Najla El Zein

The Offbeat Sari will explore how the sari has become a site for design innovation, an expression of identity, a form of resistance, and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings. In recent years, the sari has been reinvented. The urban youth who previously associated the sari with dressing up can now be found wearing saris and sneakers on their commutes to work. Designers are experimenting with hybrid forms such as sari gowns and dresses, pre-draped saris and innovative materials such as steel. Wearers are embodying the sari as a vessel for dynamism rather than pageantry. Individuals are wearing the sari as an expression of resistance to social norms and activists are embodying it as an object of protest. Today, the sari manifests as a site for design innovation, an expression of identity and a crafted object carrying layers of cultural meanings. Since the exhibition will focus on the sari in urban India, the book will follow suit in terms of this remit. It will comprise a series of commissioned essays by notable Indian writers expanding on some of the themes that are central to the definition of the sari in contemporary India and pegged to objects displayed in the exhibition.

FASHION GENERATION is an exhibition that showcases many of the best young designers to have emerged in London over the last thirty years, like Christopher Kane, Charles Jeffrey and Gareth Pugh. Since the founding of the British Fashion Council’s NEWGEN Programme in 1993, successive generations of creative minds have exploded onto the fashion scene, establishing new brands, challenging existing systems and introducing innovative approaches that have influenced fashion globally. NEWGEN offers designers mentoring and business training, financial support, and opportunities to show their work, and recipients are encouraged to take risks, to experiment and above all, to find their voice. Co-curated by Sarah Mower, who has reported on developments in fashion for this period, the exhibition also focuses on the education, inspiration and business opportunities that can be found in London, as a city that exemplifies the economic, social and political shifts of the past three decades. The FASHION GENERATION publication presents the key themes and messages of the exhibition, not as discrete chapters, but as an echo of the exhibition, which provides layers of information and interpretation around themes and objects. The flamboyant DIY, constant experimentation and unique innovations on show in the exhibition will also inform the design of the book. In the publication, the voices of the curators and the designers that appear in the exhibition will be extended, with a longer introductory essay by co-curator Sarah Mower and extended quotes from designers. In addition, writers, academics, educators and activists will be commissioned to produce new texts. As the first exhibition in the UK to provide a survey of British fashion from this period, the FASHION GENERATION publication offers readers the opportunity to access a full record of all 300+ designers to have received NEWGEN support since 1993, insights into the processes and locations where designers have researched, fabricated and shown their early collections in London, and extended essays.

If ever there was a moment to imagine new ways of building the future, it is now. Future Observatory Journal: New Narratives for Design, Ecology and the Future brings together essays and visual propositions from leading thinkers, practitioners, and researchers to examine how design can help shape the green transition.If ever there was a time to consider alternative ways of building a future, it is now. What we do this decade will shape the rest of the century. But what if, rather than fetishising innovation, what we really need is new ways of thinking, new frameworks, new narratives?Future Observatory Journal: New Narratives for Design, Ecology and a Future brings together the first three online issues of Future Observatory Journal into a single, unified volume. Conceived by Future Observatory, a research platform based at London’s Design Museum, this edition weaves the journal’s founding themes – Bioregioning, More Than Human, and In Abundance – into a cohesive and richly layered publication. The book features writing and visual propositions by leading thinkers, practitioners and researchers, drawing these strands into an investigation of design’s role in shaping the green transition. Meticulously designed and crafted by Studio Airport, the publication transforms the journal’s early explorations into a tactile experience that reflects the forward-looking spirit of Future Observatory.

The Nue Black Aesthetic celebrates contemporary Black designers who are redefining the landscape of global design. Spanning furniture, architecture, fashion and installation, this richly illustrated catalogue explores practices shaped by identity, culture and community - revealing how the Black experience today is central to the way design is conceived, produced and understood.Featuring work by Mac Collins, Samuel Ross, Bianca Saunders and Giles Tettey Nartey, among others, the book challenges assumptions about what Black design looks like and who shapes design culture.Drawing on the legacy of the Black Aesthetic movement of the 1960s and the New Black Aesthetic of the 1980s, The Nue Black Aesthetic reflects a contemporary moment defined by nuance. Guest-curated by Charlene Prempeh-founder of A Vibe Called Tech and author of Now You See Me: An Introduction to 100 Years of Black Design - this essential volume offers a vital, timely rethinking of design’s present and future.

PLATFORM is an annual display dedicated to showcasing contemporary design practice. The first display in a series will present the fascinating work of Bethan Laura Wood. PLATFORM is an annual display and publication series dedicated to showcasing contemporary design practice by the Design Museum. The first volume in a series will present the fascinating work of Bethan Laura Wood. The world of designer Bethan Laura Wood is a sumptuous explosion of colour, pattern and texture. Her vibrant and varied work nods to different cultures and time periods, celebrating individuality and maximalism. Wood is passionate about collaboration and learning from artisans and specialist craftspeople, and her pieces prove that design can be decorative and fun yet functional. Wood's interest of artistic movements, materials and other designers work steep her creations in meaning. Themes recur in her projects, blurring the boundaries between one collection and another. Whether subverting ideas about femininity and ornamentation, questioning our perception of reality in an increasingly digital world, or seeking to understand the connections we make with everyday objects, Woods work invites us to look beyond the surface.

The second title in the PLATFORM series dedicated to showcasing contemporary design practice will present the fascinating work of Simone Brewster The work of designer Simone Brewster bridges art, design and architecture through a striking language of form and material. Rooted in both cultural identity and personal narrative, her practice spans furniture, jewellery, and objects that explore scale, beauty and belonging. Drawing on traditions of craft and modernist principles alike, Brewster’s pieces evoke a sense of strength and intimacy — sculptural yet deeply human. Her use of wood, metal and pigment transforms familiar materials into expressions of power and self-definition, questioning how design shapes our understanding of heritage and the body. This publication, the second volume of the new PLATFORM series at the Design Museum, delves into Brewster’s multidisciplinary practice through essays, images, and an extended interview with the designer. PLATFORM is dedicated to foregrounding contemporary design discourse and the transformative potential of design.

This is the first comprehensive book on the creative universe of NIGO (Tomoaki Nagao) – charting his journey from Toyko in the 1980s to global tastemaker, via a career as influential fashion designer, DJ and record producer.With contributions from NIGO, Pharrell, Yoon Ahn, Tiffany Godoy, Esme Hawes, Rachel HajekNIGO’s pioneering streetwear brand A Bathing Ape (BAPE) drew on his love of American hip-hop and pop culture; nearly 30 years later he became artistic director at luxury fashion house KENZO. He is also a collaborator on brands such as Billionaire Boys Club with Pharrell Williams, and is a member of hip-hop supergroup Teriyaki Boyz.Created in close collaboration with NIGO and his team, this richly illustrated book features texts by leading voices in fashion, design and culture, together with personal insights from three current collaborators (Pharrell Williams, TET Nishiyama and Fraser Cooke).Specially commissioned new photography focuses on objects from NIGO’s archive, published here for the first time. These include items from his youth, alongside collectible merchandise, vintage garments, music and film ephemera, and printed matter – all of which have informed his later creative work. The book also explores NIGO’s more recent discovery of pottery making, studying with ceramic artists and learning the rituals of the Japanese tea ceremony.Immersing the reader in NIGO's world, this volume explores how creative elements such as street culture, Americana and Japanese traditions have impacted this multifaceted practitioner, who has been shaping contemporary culture for over three decades.

At more than 120 bpm, electronic music sets the tempo on dancefloors around the globe. Accompanying the exhibition Electronic: From Kraftwerk to The Chemical Brothers, this book offers an insight into the visual culture of electronic music, and how technology, design, art and fashion have contributed to its power. With its roots in Detroit and Chicago in the early 1980s, electronic dance music was popularised across Europe through underground rave parties. Its impact on contemporary culture is still unfolding today. Containing interviews with early pioneers such as techno legend Jeff Mills, The Designers Republic’s Ian Anderson, and those pushing the political dimension of electronic music, such as ballroom dancer and DJ Kiddy Smile, Electronic bears witness to the shifting nature of the genre. Illustrated with over 300 images, some published here for the first time, Electronic features Jean-Michel Jarre’s virtual studio; work by pioneer Daphne Oram of the BBC Radiophonic Workshop; audiovisual performances by musicians like Bicep and the Chemical Brothers; fashion collections by Raf Simons and Charles Jeffrey of Loverboy; iconic photography by Jacob Khrist and Tina Paul; artwork by Christian Marclay; club graphics from Peter Saville and Mark Farrow; and iconic venues such as the Haçienda, Gatecrasher, Fabric, Berghain and the Warehouse Project. Reflecting the shifts in society over the past thirty years, electronic music has generated distinct visual languages as well as its own political and cultural ideals.