Welcome to Design Exhibition Scotland
Celebrating exceptional objects & ideas for the everyday through an on-going programme of projects, commissions, conversations & an online journal, DES.
Join us online for Making Local, a conversation with Future Practical & Make Works Scotland on Thursday 26 May at 6.30pm, free book via Eventbrite.
Design for Our Times, our celebration of materials & experimentation is at V&A Dundee, until 19 June.
Design for Our Times
EXHIBITION
Celebrating material exploration & experimentation, our exhibition Design for Our Times is on at V&A Dundee until 19 June. Showcasing work by seven designers, artists & inventors from across Scotland, it rethinks materials & making.
Sitting Pretty
DES COMMISSION
Last December Design Exhibition Scotland launched an OPEN CALL inviting designers, artists & architects from across Scotland to celebrate the park bench. Four months on, the selected designers – Rekha Maker, C. A. Walac, Chris Dobson & Dress for the Weather x Stefanie Cheong – are developing their designs. The prototype benches will be shown at Mount Stuart on the Isle of Bute this summer.
Dixon goes to Europe!
DESIGN INNOVATION
DES has collaborated with Mirrl of Glasgow on an eye-catchingly good looking drinking fountain for the contemporary age. So here’s Dixon, a strikingly fresh fountain installed outside Vitra Design Museum in Germany as part of Plastic: Remaking Our World. Mirrl’s Simon Harlow & Lewis Harley here talk about the inspiration behind the designing of Dixon.
Catch up with DES Events
DES EVENTS
Catch up with our Studio Visits via Zoom & lively online conversations. Hear from Harry Morgan, Mirrl, Tania Kovats, Frances Priest & from Rachel Adams & the launch of her lighting range, Urpflanze (pictured). Listen to lively conversations between designers, architects & academics who are all exploring fresh ideas, new materials & a brighter future.
