The Design Museum Shop's mission: celebrate good design.
Over two decades, the Shop has evolved from a small outlet selling postcards and a handful of products into a destination store for design conscious visitors from all over the world. As you will see from our site, we sell a broad and inspired range of the latest design products.
All profits from the Shop go directly into the Design Museum exhibitions programme, which means that every purchase you make contributes to dynamic shows, education and access to design for everybody.
Our online retail presence was established in 2003, but given the nature of technological change we have now completely overhauled the site to create a fantastic online design retail environment. To do this we were lucky to work with UK design teams designjunction, who have redesigned the shopping environment, and graphic design studio Build, who have created the smart, new identity for the shop. Build have also designed our economic and eco-loving shop bags and are also working on a range of product for us to be released in the near future.
On Design
On Products
The Design Museum Shop carries products designed and created by the world’s most well-known and well regarded designers, but also places particular emphasis on supporting and presenting new, young and emerging talent alongside the more classic pieces on display. You will always find products relating to exhibitions, but also a range of items for your home, office and day-to-day living.
We aim to only sell products that improve quality of life, both practically and aesthetically. At the Design Museum Shop you can explore ideas, discover design and hopefully find some great, useful and fun gifts without subjecting yourself to those unpleasant and uniform high street stores.
On Books
The books selected for the Design Museum Shop celebrate and explore all areas of design. Emphasis is placed on the latest new titles covering advertising, architecture, branding, fashion, graphics, illustration, motion graphics, products, theory and web design. Practical academic design texts are displayed alongside more playful and experimental publications with plenty of great independant publications for children, students and professionals. We regard the books in our range as design objects in their own right and as exemplars of both content and form. We perhaps cherish them a little too much but we are not too reluctant to see them leave, hoping they bring as much pleasure to you as they do us. Please note that the range shown online is a small selection of the huge range of titles we have instore.
On the Environment
The irony of encouraging environmental awareness by selling eco-friendly products while receiving and posting out many boxes of stock around the world everyday is not lost on us. That is why we endeavour to be as conscious and responsive to environmental concerns as possible. All of the shop’s excess packaging and waste is recycled, our own shop bags are made from 100% recycled material and all products we produce ourselves such as T-shirts, posters, pencils and stationary are from sustainable sources. We fully understand that there is always more we can do and are constantly assessing how to improve our services while reducing our own environmental impact. We have an expanding range of eco products available; please take a look and help us save the world.
Contact Us
Design Museum Shop
Design Museum
28 Shad Thames
London SE1 2YD
UNITED KINGDOM
E shop@designmuseum.org
T (0044) (0) 207 940 8753
Head of Retail + Buyer:
Simon Armstrong simon@designmuseum.org
Shop Manager:
Steven Preston steven@designmuseum.org
Online Shop Manager:
Lucy Fisk lucy@designmuseum.org
Opening Times
The Design Museum Shop is open daily 10am – 5.45pm
The Design Museum is open on all bank and national holidays, except 25 + 26 December.
During evening events, the shop often stays open until 9PM. Please contact us to find out when the next late night opening is via shop@designmuseum.org / 0207 940 8753.