The Design Museum

In a recent trip to London, I finally got to visit the Design Museum in its new location at Kensington High Street, and I loved it! It felt like my degree within one museum, and would love to go again once the current exhibitions change. 

I started with the free, permanent Designer User Maker exhibition. It takes you through the different stages of the design process and showing different design disciplines, with everything from road signs to fashions, protest posters to chairs. It looks at how the designer designs - how they come up with exciting and crazy ideas, and think about their audience as well as how it will be made to make it a reality.

I then wandered around the temporary exhibition, California: Designing Freedom. This also linked into my second year lectures, with the inclusion of Apple and the Whole Earth Catalog; Emory Douglas and the Black Panthers; the hippie movement and psychedelia. It shows how California changed the world, from the countercultures and how they have developed into technologies of today. Not only this, but it also looks at how the freedom of human rights has developed, for example for LGBT+ communities, females, and minority races. The pink iridescent signs throughout the exhibition conclude it in 5 simple phrases: go where you want, see what you want, say what you want, make what you want, and join who you want. Words to live by.