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The Design Museum is a museum in Shad Thames , near Tower Bridge in central London . It covers product, graphic, fashion and architectural design. It was founded in 1989 and claims to have been the first museum of modern design. It attracts 200,000 visitors annually. The museum is housed in a former 1940s warehouse, which was altered beyond recognition in the conversion to resemble a building in the resigned from the board of trustees because he felt the museum was putting too much emphasis on form over function. This was following an exhibition of the 1950s flower arranger Constance Spry , mounted by the museum's director Alice Rawsthorn , who also resigned in 2006. Since 2003 the museum runs the UK's pre-eminent design award, the "Designer of the Year", with a £25,000 prize. The prize "aims to stimulate public debate about design and to raise awareness of its role enhancing the quality of daily life," {Link without Title} and in its first three years was televised on BBC Two . The winner in 2003 was Jonathan Ive , senior vice-president of design at Apple, whose innovations include the iPod and iMac. In 2005 the museum courted controversy by awarding the prize to a Design Council official, Hillary Cottam, rather than to an actual architect or designer. EXTERNAL LINK |
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