designer maker user

Studio Myerscough was commissioned by The Design Museum to design a permanent exhibition in their new building in Kensington. The Design Museum’s new permanent home in Kensington sits within an existing building, the Grade 2* listed former Commonwealth Institute, with the new museum designed by John Pawson.

Milk Structures were initially engaged to work with Studio Myerscough on the a permanent exhibition, to review and confirm compliance with base build loading limitations and ensure that the exhibition could be installed within the constraints of the new museum.

The permanent exhibition, titled Designer Maker User, features almost 1000 items of twentieth and twenty-first century design viewed through the angles of the designer, manufacturer and user, including a crowd-sourced wall. The exhibition covers a broad range of design disciplines, from architecture and engineering, to the digital world, fashion and graphics.

Working in conjunction with Studio Myerscough, Milk Structures designed an extensive array of exhibition structures, including the support for the triple sign at the entrance, the black supporting trusses, the red folding ‘”ribbon” that forms the base of the circular display unit, lighting track, free standing display wall construction, sliced shipping container stability, and the suspension system for a full size replica of a gerberette from the Pompidou Centre.