Design Ventura

Supporting young designers through bespoke masterclasses at the Design Museum

 

Photos above ©Miles Willis/Design Museum

'Design Ventura' is a National competition run by the Design Museum for UK state secondary schools. Teams compete to design a product, finalists pitch their projects to an expert panel, and the winning idea is manufactured and sold in the Museum shop. The year-long project culminates in a special ‘celebration day’ for 10 selected teams of students from across the country.

Beep Studio has been part of Design Ventura since 2017, since when we have run six masterclasses on 'Design Through Drawing'.
The masterclasses highlight the thinking processes used by designers, with drawings used to communicate complex ideas with clarity and punch. Working in teams, students tell the story of how their projects will emerge into the wider world. As the collaborative drawings develop, chunks of information converge and connect to make massive unified diagrams, filling the wall with information and delight.
 

At every masterclass, brilliant communication skills, a willingness to work to a plan, and an ability to build on one another's ideas has meant that teams work together with fluidity and ease. We have been hugely impressed with the maturity and imagination shown by the teams, as displayed in the exuberant creativity of the finished drawings. Feedback from students and teachers has been extremely positive, and several teachers have gone on to use the techniques of the workshop back in the classroom.

Special mention goes to:

  • The team that showed their product being broadcast on live TV

  • The team who invented a consumer "In London on business from Tanzania and buying a present for their 4 year old"

  • The caricatures of Greg Wallace and Gordon Ramsay

  • Everyone who helped on the day - teachers, parents, volunteers, and Design Museum staff.

Find out more Design Ventura - including details on how your school can participate - here: 

 

Beep Studio returned to the Design Museum for the Design Ventura Summit - a one-day event bringing Design Ventura project stakeholders together to look at the problems and solutions within design education in schools. At the Studio's break-out session, where attendees used drawing techniques to identify the overlaps between their highly diverse areas of expertise. A lineup of top speakers examined the current and future state of design education, and as we listened we drew. Visual minutes are a fun way of capturing information, and we enjoyed drawing them.