Welcome to Design Exhibition Scotland
Celebrating exceptional objects & ideas for the everyday through exhibitions, conversations & our online journal, DES.
Sitting Pretty – a series of new benches commissioned by Design Exhibition Scotland at Mount Stuart until 15 October. Join us on 3 September, 3pm for our Conversation with Designers at Mount Stuart, free.
Design for Our Times
EXHIBITION
Celebrating material exploration & experimentation, our exhibition Design for Our Times was held at V&A Dundee until 19 June. Showcasing work by seven designers, artists & inventors from across Scotland, it rethinks materials & making.
Sitting Pretty – the background story
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.
