Past Exhibitions

Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet Catalogue

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Edited by Justin McGuirk, Andrew Nahum and Eleanor Watson  Designed by Studio Julia  Getting humans to Mars has become one of the great challenges of our time. It will be an extraordinary technological feat, but also a feat of design. This is the first book dedicated to designing for the Red Planet. From life on a spacecraft to survival on Mars’ inhospitable surface, new forms of clothing, farming and architecture will be needed. This volume looks at the real work designers and architects are generating now – as well as more speculative proposals of what this future might look like. Some ask whether we should go to Mars at all, while others argue that the rigours of such a mission would force us to design a waste-free way of life.  Illustrated with more than 300 images and featuring original essays by leading thinkers in their field, Moving to Mars: Design for the Red Planet includes projects by NASA, SpaceX and the European Space Agency, as well as new work by designers and architects including HASSELL, Konstantin Grcic, Alexandra Daisy Ginsberg and RÆBURN. It also includes an interview with the science fiction writer Kim Stanley Robinson, who addresses why speculative design is the ideal discipline for imagining the ‘material grammar' of a life on Mars

Acorn Vase

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Innovative and beautifully designed the Acorn Vase allows you to witness a simple acorn you have picked grow into a magnificent oak tree Perfect for urban dwellers, tree lovers, inquisitive children and design enthusiasts to bring the magic of nature into their home and hopefully oak trees for future generations The vase includes a 20-page handbook, which guides the user with detailed steps for germinating the seed and growing an acorn in the Acorn Vase, a handbook with helpful instructions, an oak tree field guide, as well as artistic and literary inspirations to inspire others to plant an oak tree for future generations Also available in the larger Avocado Vase

Newtonian Reflector Telescope Explorer 130

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The award-winning Sky-Watcher EXPLORER-130 is a fantastic choice for the serious beginner and also receives high marks from more seasoned astronomers With an extremely useful 130mm of light gathering aperture, this telescope is a highly capable all-rounder for the observation of the Moon, bright planets, nebulae, galaxies and star clusters. Supplied with the EQ2 equatorial mount, which when polar aligned, will allow you to easily track objects as they move across the night sky via its slow motion control cables Please note: due to the weight and size of this product, we are only offering click & collect from the Design Museum

Promised Eternity Print

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An unearthly collage of a planet, presumably earth, with a star rising into view, creating a rainbow ring halo, while comets rain down from the cosmos...a promise of eternity? Designed by Frank Moth

Collier's Print

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From March 22, 1952, to April 30, 1954, Collier’s magazine published a series of articles that predicted some aspects of the future with uncanny accuracy. The articles came out in eight installments, written by members of a panel of experts (Wernher von Braun, Fred L. Whipple, Joseph Kaplan, Heinz Haber and Willy Ley) brought together to discuss space realistically and to offer a blueprint for space exploration. Von Braun’s articles provided factual, detailed descriptions of spaceships and launch vehicles, based on work he had already done and was currently doing at the Redstone Arsenal in Huntsville. Images were provided by Chesley Bonestell, Fred Freeman and Rolf Klep. This print is the cover of the April 30, 1954 issue - Can We Get to Mars? / Is There Life on Mars?

Micro Library Book - Survive & Expand

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Exhibition exclusive One of a series of three miniature books that have been designed and handmade by Hastings-based artist Lee Shearman through his micro publishing platform est. 2012 which specialises in the design and production of pocket-sized, limited edition books Survive & Expand features poetry by Pip Rowson and puts forward a blueprint of ideas for terraforming, overcoming initial survival challenges and a plan in case of failure 

3,2,1 Lift Off! Pencil

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Add a galactic shimmer to your stationery with the 3,2,1 Lift Off! Pencil The silver sheath has a metallic quality which changes the colour of the pencil depending on how it catches the light

Moon paperweight

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Produced from solid concrete, the Moon paperweight has a raw texture and a varied, unique finish to mimic the surface of earth's favourite satellite Individually hand-cast and finished by master craftsmen Created through material experimentation and exploration, mixing various colours and materials to create a mesmerising effect Flat bottomed for stability Please note: no two items are the same and the one received may differ in appearance to that shown