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Paisley shawls in literature
A look at how the Paisley pattern was referenced in literature
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Scottish Design Icons: Pop-up stage set
Discover a stage set in the form of a huge pop-up picture book
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Making V&A Dundee: A farewell to Mary Quant
We say goodbye to 'Mary Quant' with this stunning painting by one of our visitors
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A long way from home: the Paisley pattern and India
Taking a closer look at the paisley pattern
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Making-Up the 1960s: Mary Quant Cosmetics
Mary Quant influenced make-up as well as fashion
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Working with Quant
We sat down with Heather Tilbury Phillips for a first-hand account of Quant's incredible story
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Scottish Design Icons: Mackintosh’s Masterpiece
Explore the feelings evoked my Mackintosh's stunning interior
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Mary Quant: An Ongoing Legacy
Learn more about the ongoing legacy Mary Quant created
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Makers and Manufacturers panel discussion
Hear from experts on how Mary collaborated with manufacturers to make her designs a reality
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Enchanting glimpses through paper windows
Intricate paper design has us feeling all festive 🎄
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Quant and Bazaar
Explore how Quant distrupted the fashion retailing landscape
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A uniform approach
How Laura Spring designed elements for our Visitor Assistants' uniform
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Pandemic Objects
Chronicling everyday ‘objects’ to reflect on the coronavirus outbreak
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When Edi met Mary
From the archives, listen to broadcaster Edi Stark interview Mary Quant
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Audio: On Quant: Meredith More meets Heather Tilbury Phillips
Hear our curator chat to former co-director of Mary Quant Limited
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Possessed: Museum comes alive
Illustrator Steven Learmonth brings our museum to life for Halloween 🎃
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Designing Now Accepting Contactless
How do you design an exhibition to be visited in a pandemic?
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Invisible geometries: skateboards and new social dynamics
How skateboarding can transform urban spaces and create a new social dynamic
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Reproducing Quant: Challenges
Making reproduction pieces comes with a set of challenges
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Reproducing Quant: Process
Recreating vintage designs in a contemporary context
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Reproducing Quant: Legacy
How Mary Quant's legacy informed informed and influenced our costume maker's project
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Making V&A Dundee: Open again
Our amazing Visitor Assistants share their experiences of returning to work during the pandemic
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Home and dry: designing a raincoat
Museum, manufacturer and modern maker unite to handcraft a contemporary raincoat
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Quant at home
Your short and sweet memories of Mary Quant
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Open/Close Dundee: Community
How street art in Dundee has fostered a sense of community and ownership
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Audio: Design as an Attitude with Alice Rawsthorn
Hear Alice Rawsthorn explore how design is responding to complex social, political and environmental challenges
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What would Quant do?
Quant's sixties' rebellion brought into the 21st century
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Open/Close Dundee: Process
How does a painted door in the city go from an idea to a realised work of street art?
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Open/Close Dundee: Beginnings
Find out more about Open/Close Dundee and how it started
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Decolonising our galleries: An introduction
How and why we are decolonising our museum
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Webcomics: Cecilia Lee
Documenting our webcomics project through the medium of...well, a webcomic
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Sign of the times
The how and why of being a signwriter
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Audio: What is Sewing Box for the Future?
Hear Dr Jen Ballie discuss the urgent problem of fashion waste and what you can do about it
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Decolonising Scotland's design history
Scotland’s design history is underpinned by the exploitation of enslaved and colonised people around the world
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Conserving Mackintosh's Oak Room
Bringing a major lost work by Scotland’s most famous designer back to life
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Audio: RIBA + VitrA Talk: Yasmeen Lari
Hear Yasmeen Lari discuss her humanitarian work building zero-carbon structures
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Splendid isolation: Bernat Klein’s enviable home
Exploring late designer Bernat Klein’s beautiful home
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Webcomics: Holly Fishman Crook
Tower block residents get a shock notice about their homes, but there's a twist
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Audio: Material Narratives with Dean Brown
Hear designer Dean Brown discuss his studio practice
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Cast from the past: Encounters with Carron Ironwork
The surprise and delight of seeing design objects ‘out in the wild’ in their natural habitats
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Webcomics: Riky Christian
Meet the Louse family, living on Pugger the dog
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Audio: Beyond the gift shop: Making Glasgow Womens Library
Hear Dr Adele Patrick discuss how design has powered the development of Glasgow Women's Library
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Making V&A Dundee: Out of Minecraft
Building the museum in Minecraft was almost as challenging as it was in real life
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Audio: In conversation with Atelier E.B
Beca Lipscombe and Lucy McKenzie discuss their Faux Shop installation
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CrossVAD puzzle
Can you complete a crossword based on the museum?
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Scottish Design Icons: Orkney chair
Memories and feelings evoked by a simple chair
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Make Works: Simon Meek
Telling the stories behind our retail collaborations
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Webcomics: Gabriele Zubauskaite
How do you come to terms with your own impostor syndrome?
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Scottish Design Icons: Norah Geddes
Find out about the successful, practical and smart landscape designer
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Make Works: Lynne MacLachlan
Telling the stories behind our retail collaborations
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City of ghosts
A late night walk through Dundee sparks some memories
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Webcomics: Emma Oosterhous
After years of slaying beasts and seducing their way out of trouble, our adventurers face one final test
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Scottish Design Icons: Jessie M. King
What links William Morris, a fish that never swam and Guenevere...?
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Hello, Robot. flash fiction: Gaia
Harmful gender stereotyping in AI explored through conversations between a family and their virtual assistant
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Hello, Robot. flash fiction: Hello
A conveyor belt machine tries to learn to communicate, despite its manufacturers
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Hello, Robot. flash fiction: Fred
Can a supermarket chatbot help a young woman in a not-so-distant dystopian future?
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Hello, Robot. flash fiction: Mr Fuzz
A grandmother and her grandchild bond over a shared interaction with a smart robot
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Nicholas Daley: 7 Minutes
A glimpse into how a 7-minute fashion gets put together
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Designing Hello, Robot.
How do you design an exhibition?
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Just add words
Creatively exploring museum collections through the written word
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Seasonal Staples: Christmas jumpers
A different take on festive favourites
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Seasonal Staples: Wrapping paper
A different take on festive favourites
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Webcomics: Danny Barnfield
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Seasonal Staples: Tree decoration
A different take on festive favourites
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Scottish Design Icons: Kaleidoscope
How the kaleidoscope can offer a new creative perspective
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Hello, Robot. A beginner’s guide
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Webcomics: Amy Galloway
A wander around Dundee, taking in the sights...
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How to stand out in a crowded design market
Hints and tips for getting noticed
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Everlasting bubbles
The inspiration behind our bubble-blowing robot
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Scottish Design Icons: Forth Bridge
This true icon of design and engineering is dizzyingly iconic
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Webcomics: Rayne Zaayman-Gallant
Two young people in love, each dealing with mental illness in different ways
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Making V&A Dundee: Consideration of light
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Scottish Design Icons: Bruce Mclean
Discover an oversized jug filled with drama, movement and extravagance
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Dundee Pride: Creating a creative identity
How to design a visual identity...or at least try
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Webcomics: Vincent Bell-Robertson
Will he escape with the money or does gravity have other plans?
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Videogames are a girl thing
A short extract from the interviews that feature within our Videogames show
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Pride and Protest: Doing it yourself
A series exploring the role played by design in protest materials
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Scottish Design Icons: Washing up
Kitchen gadgets aren't just for the back of your cupboard
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Make Works: Laura Spring
Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations
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Webcomics: Tony Holdsworth
A webcomic set on a space station...with a twist
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Scottish Design Icons: Draff
Innovative and sustainable design for the home as well as the museum
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Making V&A Dundee: In ink and charcoal
A light and fluid interpretation of our hulking building
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Webcomics: Andrew Sztehlo
A webcomic inspired by Spanish artist Francisco Goya and his Black Paintings
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Webcomics: Emma Canziani
A webcomic inspired by Ocean Liners, our first ever exhibition
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Make Works: Kate Colin
Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations
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Making V&A Dundee: A draw to artists
Our museum can be a challenge for sketchers and drawers trying to capture the architecture
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Scottish Design Icons: Patrick Geddes
Unlikely personal parallels found in an architectural plan from 1913
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Making V&A Dundee: A creative inspiration
Revisit the Star Wars-inspired video that went viral before we opened
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Videogames Modding: Castle Smurfenstein to Jurassicraft
A look at how and why players alter the videogames they play
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Making V&A Dundee: An artist’s museum
How our museum's arrival is reflected in an artist's own journey
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Making V&A Dundee: A photographic study
See the museum through a different lens
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Making V&A Dundee: Sing with dignity
Read the poem written by the choir who performed so beautifully during our opening weekend
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Scottish Design Icons: GB Ollivant Ltd
The impact even an unassuming object in the museum can have
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Make Works: Ark Colour Design
Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations
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Creative block: Changing attitudes to play
The origin of the educational toys that would revolutionise the industry
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Make Works: Tom Pigeon
Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations
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Plaything’s Progress: Part Two
How dynamic sound design is bringing Plaything to life
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From the Citizens Theatre to a galaxy far, far away…
How Star Wars and the cutting room of the Citizens Theatre are connected by two costume designers
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Scottish Design Icons: GameMaker Studio
How game development software removes some of the barriers to making videogames
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Make Works: Mackays
Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations
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Pack it up: building exhibitions and taking them apart
Discover the process behind bringing amazing exhibitions to life at the museum
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Plaything’s Progress: Part One
The first in our series of articles unpacking the game development process
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Scottish Design Icons: Christopher Kane
The sibling harmony behind the empowering fashion brand
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Made in Scotland: designing the Queen Mary
Find out more about the role Scotland played in the construction and design of the nation's favourite ship
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Scottish Design Relay: legacy in the making
How do you distil a six month national project into a focused exhibition?
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Make Works: Donna Wilson
Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations
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Beyond the glamour: propaganda and ocean liners
From poverty to colonialism, explore a darker side of ocean travel
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Scottish Design Icons: Dounreay
The Dounreay Nuclear Reactor was the world’s first fast nuclear reactor to supply energy to a national grid
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Make Works: DC Thomson
Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations
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VADvent 2018: creating a Christmas mural
An insight into the design of our beautiful, festive Instagram illustration
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Scottish Design Icons: Basil Spence
Work that makes you a household name isn't always safe from criticism
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Make Works: Edward Smith
Telling the stories behind our exclusive retail collaborations
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Q&A with Maeve Redmond
Designer Maeve Redmond explores how her compelling graphic design piece came together
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Scottish Design Icons: Pringle knitwear
The pioneering technological innovation of Pringle
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Lusitania and the First World War
To commemorate the centenary of the First World War, we explore how the ocean liner Lusitania was both created and destroyed by war
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ST.MARTiiNS: matching music with cover art
How creative collaboration inspires Dundee duo ST.MARTiiNS
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Scottish Design Icons: Lemmings
One of the the most successful video games in the world was born in Dundee
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Star Wars: Attack of the Clothes
How costumes in a cinematic universe were inspired by vintage Paisley
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Speedo: breaking records and taboos
The Racerback swimsuit made quite a splash in the 1920s
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Hand wash only: caring for Ayrshire needlework
Embroiderers stitched unique designs on a microscopic scale
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Scottish Design Galleries: a beginner's guide
Our Scottish Design Galleries explore Scotland’s unique design landscape, both historically and today
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