Features

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  Engineers in focus

  Hanif Kara Having started out in 1996 in a single discipline engineering practice, Hanif Kara quickly…
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  The story of Mary Quant make-up

  humble material – including its smell – Quant announced that her packaging was to be honest, 'hundred karat…

Collections

• Collection

  Illustration

  include work by Aubrey Beardsley, Beatrix Potter, Arthur Rackham, Quentin Blake, Posy Simmonds and Kara…

What's On

• Past Event

  Global Design Forum: Opening Up Design

  Lakowski: industrial designer and creator of ALL IN, the world’s first, entirely 3D-printed task light Kara…

From the Blog

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  Identity, belonging and resilience: six Latinx artists in London you need to know

  Right: ‘Dron’ photograph by Israel Canto / Camera Assistant: Karla Estrella Hailing from Mexico city…
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  Fashion: Kimono

  its woven metallic thread; and 1950s abstract designs in meisen, so beautifully represented in the Karan…
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  Friday Late: Extended Play x Mahalia

  empty museum, Mahalia reimagines four tracks from her discography – Simmer, I Wish I Missed My Ex, Karma…
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  Pattern and Progress

  Mawuena Kattah working in the V&A ceramics studio from the film Ceramics, Textiles and Works on Paper…
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  The Twelve Days of Christmas at Clothworkers’: Saint Laurent Dress with Gold-Coloured Rings

  DKNY, Donna Karan New York’s diffusion line established in 1989, provides a more recent example.…