V&A Dundee

A large red shawl with intricate paisley pattern on it draped over a mannequin.

Paisley shawls in literature

A look at how the Paisley pattern was referenced in literature

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Photo of the galleries in V&A Dundee with a large pop-up book that acts as a stage set for a play.

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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Painting of two mannequins dressed in Mary Quant pieces. A Visitor Assistant sits on a chair nearby with a mask on.

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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A photograph of 'Mary Quant Crayons', with the coloured crayons on the left, and the tin lid on the right.

Making-Up the 1960s: Mary Quant Cosmetics

Mary Quant influenced make-up as well as fashion

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A woman in a fuchsia blazer standing in front of some mannequins wearing Mary Quant clothes.

Working with Quant

We sat down with Heather Tilbury Phillips for a first-hand account of Quant's incredible story

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Mackintosh's Oak Room, all dark wood and purple glass.

Scottish Design Icons: Mackintosh’s Masterpiece

Explore the feelings evoked my Mackintosh's stunning interior

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An image of two models posing in satin pyjamas designed by Mary Quant.

Mary Quant: An Ongoing Legacy

Learn more about the ongoing legacy Mary Quant created

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Mary inspecting textiles in a fabric store.

Makers and Manufacturers panel discussion

Hear from experts on how Mary collaborated with manufacturers to make her designs a reality

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A collage of many similar photos of fingers holding up tiny paper creations depicting festive windows. Inside, people are doing festive things.

Enchanting glimpses through paper windows

Intricate paper design has us feeling all festive 🎄

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A black and white image of Mary Quant and her husband, Alexander Plunkett-Greene, standing at the door of a car with the text 'bazaar' on the side of it.

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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A range of interesting and varied face coverings on display against a blue background.

Pandemic Objects

Chronicling everyday ‘objects’ to reflect on the coronavirus outbreak

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Mary Quant pulling fabric from a wall of samples.

When Edi met Mary

From the archives, listen to broadcaster Edi Stark interview Mary Quant

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Photo of a lady stood in our Mary Quant exhibition.

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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Photo of V&A Dundee with big eyes and a hungry mouth illustrated over the building as if it's come alive and is about to eat the person running away from it.

Possessed: Museum comes alive

Illustrator Steven Learmonth brings our museum to life for Halloween 🎃

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Mock-up plans of the Now Accepting Contactless exhibition at V&A Dundee.

Designing Now Accepting Contactless

How do you design an exhibition to be visited in a pandemic?

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A skater doing a massive leap trick over the furniture next to the benches around V&A Dundee.

Invisible geometries: skateboards and new social dynamics

How skateboarding can transform urban spaces and create a new social dynamic

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PVC fabric clipped with clothes pegs as it's being worked on.

Reproducing Quant: Challenges

Making reproduction pieces comes with a set of challenges

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Close-up of a sewing machine working a piece of mustard fabric.

Reproducing Quant: Process

Recreating vintage designs in a contemporary context

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Mary Quant photographed surrounded by models wearing her bright and fun creations.

Reproducing Quant: Legacy

How Mary Quant's legacy informed informed and influenced our costume maker's project

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Woman in V&A Dundee holding her hands apart welcoming you to the space and wearing a mask.

Making V&A Dundee: Open again

Our amazing Visitor Assistants share their experiences of returning to work during the pandemic

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Man in a red raincoat posing in front of V&A Dundee.

Home and dry: designing a raincoat

Museum, manufacturer and modern maker unite to handcraft a contemporary raincoat

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Bright illustrations of women working on dresses and clothes they're making at home.

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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Five models in Quant-inspired garments running through the arch at V&A Dundee.

What would Quant do?

Quant's sixties' rebellion brought into the 21st century

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Close-up of a painted street mural in vibrant colours and bold brush strokes or spray lines.

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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collage of different students, either photos of them or their own cartoon versions of themselves.

Webcomics: Cecilia Lee

Documenting our webcomics project through the medium of...well, a webcomic

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Photo of a studio set-up with a white paper sign on an easel on which has been painted the words "V&A Dundee" in bright lettering.

Sign of the times

The how and why of being a signwriter

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Different coloured thread bobbins all lined up in a row.

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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Bernat Klein's long and flat home nestled amongst trees.

Splendid isolation: Bernat Klein’s enviable home

Exploring late designer Bernat Klein’s beautiful home

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Watercolour comic sketch of a woman standing on a balcony in a highrise looking through her bag.

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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A piece of decorative cast ironwork against a plain background. The balcony piece features heart-shaped outlines and ornamentation resembling palm leaves.

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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Beige paper texture image with skethy lice drawn amongst hairs.

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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Photo of a mocked-up shopfront with clothes in the windows.

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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Close up of the woven back of an Orkney Chair.

Scottish Design Icons: Orkney chair

Memories and feelings evoked by a simple chair

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A grey table top with small doll-house furniture on it and a pinned butterfly.

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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A colourful fantasy style illustration featuring three characters; a rabbit, a cat and a turtle, with magical elements floating above their heads.

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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Graphic illustration of a white man sat in a chair with a beer bottle in his hand looking grumpy. His eyes are focussed on GAIA a virtual assistant, represented by a black circular box with a halo of light floating above it. His young daughter walks next to him looking shocked.

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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