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The Danish Museum of Art & Design is a museum for Danish and international design and crafts.
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Poul Henningsen
1931
There are four works in this image. In the foreground are smashed remains from his Beijing studio, then an amazing jumble of Lego under reconstructed timbers from a Qing dynasty temple, then a lego take on Monet's waterlilies.
We went to the Design Museum to see the Ai Weiwei exhibition there. Fascinating. I took my new Sony camera. Most cameras cannot go this wide angle. The snake is actually made from life jackets.
"In 1962, the Commonwealth Institute moved to a distinctive copper-roofed building on Kensington High Street, immediately south of Holland Park. The building, designed by Robert Matthew Johnson-Marshall & Partners (RMJM), was opened on Tuesday, 6 November 1962, by Queen Elizabeth II. It was open to the public and contained a permanent exhibition about the nations of the Commonwealth, which was designed to inform the public 'how the rest of the Commonwealth lives'."
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"In June 2011, Sir Terence Conran donated £17.5 million to enable the [Design] Museum to move in 2016 from the warehouse to a larger site which formerly housed the Commonwealth Institute in west London. This landmark from the 1960s, a Grade II* listed building that had stood vacant for over a decade, was developed by a design team led by John Pawson who made the building fit for a 21st-century museum, whilst at the same time retaining its spatial qualities."
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Design Museum opens a major Wes Anderson retrospective from 21st November until 26th July 2026. There is a lot to see, with over two dozen beautifully made items from the films on show. If you love his films, you will certainly love this exhibition.
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Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work
(May - August 2021)
With a career spanning six decades, graphic designer Margaret Calvert has produced timeless work that we see everywhere — often without realising it. Whether it is the design of the UK’s road signing system, with Jock Kinneir, wayfinding at railway stations and airports, or the typeface used on the gov.uk website, with Henrik Kubel, her work shapes much of our national visual identity.
This display marks the launch of Network Rail’s new customised typeface, Rail Alphabet 2, designed by her in close collaboration with Henrik Kubel in response to a new wayfinding system at Network Rail stations designed by Spaceagency. It will eventually be used in combination with a suite of bespoke pictograms to sign Network Rail’s stations, and as a text face for all their key built environment design publications.
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Rail Alphabet and the Design Research Unit's corporate identity remained in use by British Rail until the re-privatisation of the railways in the early 1990s. The new companies promoted their own individual commercial identities. Today, Britain's railway infrastructure is owned and operated by publicly owned Network Rail. It has embarked on a system-wide reassessment of its graphic identify, with the aim of creating a coherent approach throughout the stations that it controls.
Calvert and Kubel were commissioned in 2019/20 to design for this purpose a customised typeface that related to the original Rail Alphabet. The result was Rail Alphabet 2. Unlike any of Calvert's previous work, this letterform was designed specifically for both use on signing systems and as a digital text face. The typeface has a special weight for signs, and three weights with italics for Network Rail publications.
Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work
(May - August 2021)
With a career spanning six decades, graphic designer Margaret Calvert has produced timeless work that we see everywhere — often without realising it. Whether it is the design of the UK’s road signing system, with Jock Kinneir, wayfinding at railway stations and airports, or the typeface used on the gov.uk website, with Henrik Kubel, her work shapes much of our national visual identity.
This display marks the launch of Network Rail’s new customised typeface, Rail Alphabet 2, designed by her in close collaboration with Henrik Kubel in response to a new wayfinding system at Network Rail stations designed by Spaceagency. It will eventually be used in combination with a suite of bespoke pictograms to sign Network Rail’s stations, and as a text face for all their key built environment design publications.
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One of the few things I miss about the construction industry is the often beautiful hand-sketches that architects and engineers use to explain complicated stuff.
Next Generation Footbridges
Network Rail are developing a catalogue of next generation of footbridges planned to be launches across the UK rail network over a 5 year program. The new range of designs will, for the first time, provide projects with a choice of architectural, optimally engineered structures that allow for more local choice, while significantly improving passenger experience.
All designs use the lift enclosure as part of the vertical structure to support the footbridges. This greatly economises on structure, helping to clear the clutter normally found on platforms.
Each footbridge has been reviewed by the BEAP (Built Environment Accessibility Panel) and the NRDAP (NR Design Advice Panel) for accessibility and visual impact.
Rail Alphabet 2
Rail Alphabet and the Design Research Unit's corporate identity remained in use by British Rail until the re-privatisation of the railways in the early 1990s. The new companies promoted their own individual commercial identities. Today, Britain's railway infrastructure is owned and operated by publicly owned Network Rail. It has embarked on a system-wide reassessment of its graphic identify, with the aim of creating a coherent approach throughout the stations that it controls.
Calvert and Kubel were commissioned in 2019/20 to design for this purpose a customised typeface that related to the original Rail Alphabet. The result was Rail Alphabet 2. Unlike any of Calvert's previous work, this letterform was designed specifically for both use on signing systems and as a digital text face. The typeface has a special weight for signs, and three weights with italics for Network Rail publications.
Margaret Calvert: Woman at Work
(May - August 2021)
With a career spanning six decades, graphic designer Margaret Calvert has produced timeless work that we see everywhere — often without realising it. Whether it is the design of the UK’s road signing system, with Jock Kinneir, wayfinding at railway stations and airports, or the typeface used on the gov.uk website, with Henrik Kubel, her work shapes much of our national visual identity.
This display marks the launch of Network Rail’s new customised typeface, Rail Alphabet 2, designed by her in close collaboration with Henrik Kubel in response to a new wayfinding system at Network Rail stations designed by Spaceagency. It will eventually be used in combination with a suite of bespoke pictograms to sign Network Rail’s stations, and as a text face for all their key built environment design publications.
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The Danish Museum of Art & Design is a museum for Danish and international design and crafts.
1960s and 1970s objects.
London, UK, 28th April 2026, Fashion Industry maverick NIGO has his first retrospective exhibition at the Design Museum in London. The visionary designer and creative director is credited as one of the first designers to bridge the worlds of streetwear and luxury fashion. One of the founding fathers of ‘hype culture’, NIGO has applied his creative mind to some of the world’s most recognisable brands and cultural icons, as well as pioneering his own streetwear and luxury fashion labels. Exhibition opens 1st May to 4 October 2026.
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New premises in what used to be the Commonwealth Center. I wrote about it here: medium.com/@fjordaan/londons-new-design-museum-b9f9d1b5c17d