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Architecture
1:1 - Architects Build Small Spaces
15 June to 30 August 2010
This summer, the V&A has commissioned seven architects at the forefront of experimental design to create their first built structures in the UK. The structures will be installed in a number of locations across the Museum and are designed as immersive spaces - places both of encounter and reflection - where visitors can escape the chaos of everyday life and directly experience the architecture first hand. The seven architects include Rintala Eggertsson (Norway, Helen & Hard Architects (Norway), Terunobu Fujimori (Japan), Sou Fujimoto (Japan), Rural Studio (USA), Studio Mumbai (India) and Vazio S/A (Brazil).
Organiser V&A
Venue V&A, London
www.vam.ac.uk
Design for kids
Sit Down: Seating for Kids
Until 5 September 2010
When is a seat not just for sitting on? When it's a plaything, for eating, for transport or for a quick snooze.'Sit Down: Seating for Kids', the V&A Museum of Childhood's new big exhibition on design for kids, explores the vast array of seating used by children in their everyday lives. Taking the children's classic tale 'Goldilocks and the Three Bears' as a starting point, the exhibition invites the visitor, as Goldilocks did, to consider what makes a successful seat. Is it comfort? Is it style? Is it ease of use?
Organiser V&A with the exhibition designed by architects Wells Mackereth
Venue V&A Museum of Childhood, London
www.museumofchildhood.org.uk
Fashion
The Enchanted Palace
26 March 2010 to June 2012
Kensington Palace has been transformed into The Enchanted Palace in a unique multisensory exhibition combining fashion, performance, and dazzling spectacle to reveal Kensington's magnificent State Apartments in a magical new light. Leading fashion designers Vivienne Westwood, William Tempest, Stephen Jones, Boudicca, Aminaka Wilmont and illustrator/set designer Echo Morgan will each create spectacular installations in collaboration with UK theatre company WILDWORKS, taking inspiration from Kensington Palace and the princesses who once lived there.
Organiser Historic Royal Palaces and Wildworks
Venue Kensington Palace, London
www.hrp.org.uk/kensingtonpalace
Grace Kelly: Style Icon
17 April to 26 September 2010
The spectacular wardrobe of Grace Kelly, one of the most popular actresses of the 1950s, will go on display at the V&A. Featuring dresses from her films 'High Society' and 'Rear Window', as well as the gown she wore to accept her Oscar in 1955, the display will examine Grace Kelly's glamorous Hollywood image and enduring appeal. Film clips, original posters, magazines and photographs of public and private functions will provide period context. The exhibition has been sponsored by Van Cleef & Arpels.
Organiser V&A
Venue V&A, London
www.vam.ac.uk
General
Brit Insurance Designs of the Year
Until 6 June 2010
Now in their third year, the Brit Insurance Designs Awards, "the Oscars of the design world," showcase the most innovative and forward thinking designs from around the world. Last year's winner, the unofficial Barack Obama poster campaign by Shepard Fairey, demonstrated the power that design can have at a grass-root level. Which design will triumph in 2010? TSee all the nominations, images and comment on the blog. designsoftheyear.com
Organiser Design Museum
Venue Design Museum, London
www.designmuseum.org
Plastics
PDM10
18 to 20 May 2010
The Plastics Design and Moulding Exhibition and Conference (PDM10) will address all the hottest topics facing the UK plastics industry today from product design and manufacturing innovation to wider business issues. Sir Richard Needham, international and commercial director at Dyson, is to be keynote speaker at the 'Moulding Business Debate'.
Organiser Crain Communications
Venue Telford International Centre
www.pdmevent.com
competitions
The Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors's Ergonomics Design Award
The Institute of Ergonomics & Human Factors's Ergonomics Design Award, which is sponsored by CCD Design & Ergonomics, is open to designers of any product, which demonstrates the application of ergonomics to the highest standard. Deadline : 30 November 2010.
More details about the Ergonomics Design Award can be found at here
The James Dyson Award
The James Dyson Award is an international design award open to product design, industrial design and engineering university level students (or graduates within 4 years of graduation). The brief, put simply, is to design soemthing that solves a problem.
Deadline: 1 July 2010
Prizes: International winner £10,000 for themselves and £10,00 for university + opportunity to viist Dyson in other UK or Malaysia.
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