The Designs of the Year awards, from the Design Museum, ‘The Oscars of the design world' showcase the most innovative and imaginative designs from around the world, over the past year, spanning seven categories: Architecture, Digital, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Transport and Product. Category winners and the overall winner will be decided by a jury and announced to the public on 17 April 2013.

BOOKING

Buy exhibition tickets in advance from Ticketweb (booking fee applies) (see link below)

From April 15th the second floor of the museum will be closed for the new exhibition install. You will be able to get discounted entry tickets during this time.

PRODUCT DESIGN NOMINATIONS

Bang & Olufsen 'Beolit 12'
Designed by Cecilie Manz

Child Vision Glasses
Designed by The Centre for Vision in the Developing World and Goodwin Hartshorn

Colalife
Designed by Simon...

The Plastics Design and Moulding Exhibition (PDM) has announced it will return to Telford in 2013, after two years at London’s Excel exhibition centre where it successfully attracted a new audience from the design community.

Next year’s event, to be held on 18 and 19 June at the newly refurbished Telford International
Centre, will feature a bigger exhibition space and a raft of quality paid-for and free seminars,
workshops and training opportunities.

The highly specialist content for these programmes is currently being developed with PDM’s recently signed partners which include the British Plastics Federation (BPF), the Gauge & Toolmakers Association (GTMA), Polymer Training and Innovation Centre, the Polymer Machinery Manufacturers and Distributors Association (PMMDA) and Smithers Rapra.

Supported by all the major associations, pdm is the only exhibition and conference specifically aimed at the design and...

Taking place over two weeks, with eight distinct design zones and two prestigious Awards Evenings, New Designers is the UK's most important graduate design exhibition, full of innovation and fresh thinking. The show sees over 3,000 of the most talented, newly graduated designers from the UK's leading universities come together to showcase the future of design and creativity.

New Designers will bring you face to face with the next generation of design leaders.

Every year it helps thousands of graduates to launch their career at the spectacular Business Design Centre in London, the world’s capital of design.

With its longstanding reputation for bringing young design talent and business together, New Designers works with prestigious, forward thinking, innovative companies and organisations.

Commission, recruit and buy directly from the future of British design before it hits the high street. Visit Part 1 for textiles, jewellery,...

The TCT Show + Personalize. The UK’s definitive and leading Additive Manufacturing, 3D printing and product development technology show for every level of interest from hackerspace to aerospace.

The eighteenth edition of this exciting event will take place in Birmingham, UK in September 2013. The exhibition floor features the entire spectrum of 3D printing and additive manufacturing equipment as well as all the supporting technologies and software for scanning, digitising and inspection and for design and manufacturing.

The media explosion around 3D printing has heralded new and unprecedented interest in the industrial technologies that have been central to TCT for nearly twenty years. Creative sectors such as art and design, fashion, architecture and the maker movement are now waking up to the exciting possibilities afforded by additive manufacturing and 3D printing at all levels.

Alongside almost 200 exhibitors TCT Show + Personalize...