Our team have been back on the streets of Cheltenham and Gloucestershire to ask the question: Who cares about the future of design?

They will be appearing at the Cheltenham Design Festival this weekend – keep an eye out and join the debate…

The Cheltenham Design Festival is for everyone who wants to discover the power of creative thinking. For four days of events ranging from conversations with some of the UK’s top designers to free workshops where young curious minds can learn and explore ideas, the Parabola Arts Centre opens its doors to all. Browse the page turner below or download it by clicking here.

Check out  our great deals on day passes and student concessions.

Please note the event advertised in the print version of this brochure as Event 11 Fly like a bird – biomimicry at Airbus has now moved to Sunday 14 April at 11am. The event previously advertised as Event 34 From Doodle to iPhone app now takes place on Friday 12 April at 10am.

New for 2013! Studio events
If you want to get to the heart of the matter, grab a cup of coffee courtesy of Boston Tea Party and pull up a chair in our exclusive Studio. These intimate events – including conversations with some of the UK’s greatest creatives – give you the opportunity to interact with and hear the thoughts of many of our design heroes including David Hillman, Sir John Sorrell and Brice Duckworth. Limited in capacity and with an intimate atmosphere, the studios offer a unique experience and are not to be missed.

Auditorium events
Hear from those who keep Britain at the heart of the creative world and discover who is setting the agenda for design today in areas ranging from digital technology and engineering to graphic design and architecture.

Sunday Studios
Young minds will discover new ways of looking at the world and learn how to make ideas come alive in these free and fun hands-on workshops for 8-16 year olds.

Around the festival
Between events, immerse yourself in the atmosphere and discover what else is taking place around the festival. Treat yourself in the bookshop or grab a coffee and check out the exhibition of design-inspired sketches by our speakers. Find out how the festival is working with a new generation of young designers in Cheltenham and try your hand at creative thinking in the free interactive events, from simulators to creative workshops.

Armed with balloons, stickers and, of course, our beloved travelling yellow sofa, we decided to find out what people really think about design. Our team will be back on the streets of Cheltenham and Gloucester on 6th and 7th April; look out for them and join the debate…

5pm, Saturday 13th April 2013 at the Parabola Arts Centre

For more information and to book tickets click here

Paola will be joining design critic Alice Rawsthorn on Sunday 14 April to explore the impact of design on our past, present and future, from the macabre symbol invented by 18th-century pirates to terrorise their victims to the race to develop a flawless World Cup ball.

To find out more about the event Hello World – Where Design Meets Life and book tickets click here.

He will be taking part in an event of design and happiness with Sir John Hegarty, Deyan Sudjic, Director of the Design Museum and David Constantine of Motivation on 13 April 2013 at the Parabola Arts Centre. To see the full programme and find out how to get tickets click here.

TICKET DEALS (THURSDAY-SATURDAY)
Day Passes are available for each individual Festival Day and allows entrance to five Auditorium Events across that day.
• Day Pass £40
• Student Day Pass (with a valid NUS card) and under 18s £10
Please note: Studio Events are not included in any Day Pass Deals, but are discounted 50% for
concessions.

CONCESSIONS
Individual event tickets are available with a 50% discount to students (with a valid NUS card), under 18s, the unemployed and senior citizens. Disabled concession: one full price ticket + one complimentary ticket for personal assistant applies to all events.

Please note: There is a £1.50 transaction fee per booking for online and phone bookings.

SUNDAY STUDIOS
Event S1-S4 on Sunday 14 April are free events for 8-16 year olds. These events still require a ticket to be obtained from the Box Office in advance. Tickets are limited so book early to avoid disappointment.

FROM 30 JANUARY 2013

A new permanent collection display at the Design Museum reveals intriguing insights in the most exceptional of everyday objects. The opening of the museum’s permanent collection marks an essential milestone in the journey towards the future of the Design Museum at its new home in Kensington, where the entire top floor will display the museum’s collection of twentieth-century design.

The exhibition Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things presents six key stories through hundreds of items, offering a diverse investigation into the impact of design on our everyday lives. The exhibition will show the surprising origins of famous and lesser known designs, alongside contextual images and documents.

National identity is explored through objects that define a nation such as the phone box, road signage, the post box, the London 2012 logo and the Euro. The story of the development of the London 2012 logo tells how for the first time in the history of the Games, the Olympics and Paralympics embraced the same logo. The logo was created to be a ‘design for everybody’ – the exhibition will reveal the design process and thinking behind this symbol of Britain as a world stage and allow audiences to interact with it.

A section on Modernism provides a snapshot of a remarkable and dynamic period of design in Britain, shown through iconic pieces of furniture, products, textiles and architecture. The section will feature works by Marcel Breuer, Laszlo Moholy-Nagy and Erno Goldfinger, whose name Ian Fleming spitefully immortalised as a Bond villain because of personal antagonism.

Another section will profile a single iconic design – the Anglepoise lamp  – telling how an experiment by a car engineer with an obsession with springs resulted in an invention that was to become one of the most copied, parodied and collected in the history of design.

A display of fashion from the 1970s to the 1990s will throw a spotlight on six occasion outfits from a personal wardrobe of over 400 items belonging to fashion collector Jill Ritblat. The outfits chart the shift of style through a life in society, and champion the exquisite balance of form and function in the pieces themselves.

See designmuseum.org for more.