Highlights for the year include: Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design, (pictured her Tomigaya Building, Tokyo) the first full scale show of Hadid's work in the UK and the largest project undertaken by the Design Museum
Luigi Colani - Translating Nature, which will bring together Colani's extraordinary large scale prototypes including aircraft, trucks and cars, as well as his streamlined furniture and product design.
A celebration of ten years of Matthew Williamson in fashion, a unique success story of the British fashion industry, focusing on the key designs that have shaped Williamson's career and The Art of War, which will explore the ways in which innovation and design have worked through history in the extremis of war.
The exhibition programme also includes monograph exhibitions on innovative British graphic designer Jonathan Barnbrook and Ettore Sottsass, doyen of Italian design, as well as the Design Museum's annual exhibition of new talent, Design Mart, which will relaunch in September 2007.
"We are working on a programme that looks at the whole range of what design can be - monograph shows on major figures like Sottsass and Hadid, as well as exhibitions that offer a spring board for young talent", says Deyan Sudjic, "We want to bring together fashion, graphics, product design, and architecture, and show that they have a place at the heart of contemporary culture."
Founded in 1989, the Design Museum is the UK's cultural champion of design and wins international acclaim for exhibitions of modern design history and contemporary design.
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