Ama Modular Shelving for the group exhibition, Design Exhibition Scotland, Lyon and Turnbull, Edinburgh

The second edition of DES showcased the work of 33 designers and artists from across Scotland. DES explored materials and processes; creating, designing and making functional objects.

Exhibiting artists: Alice Jacobs, Laura Aldridge & James Rigler, Kate Morgan, Derek Welsh, James McLardy, Adam Nathaniel Furman & Mirrl, Claire Barclay & Laura Spring, Andreu Carulla, Namon Gaston, Lee Ivett, c.a.walac., Kevin Pollock, Andrew Miller, Goodd Ltd /, Uncontrollable Urge, Tania Kovats, Arrange Whatever Pieces Come Your Way, Frances Priest, Bernie Reid, Harry Morgan, Steff Norwood, Aymeric Renoud, Mirrl, Peter Holmes, Lynne MacLachlan Included Design, Daniel Brophy, Nick Ross, Becky Šik.

Design Exhibition Scotland showcases exceptional objects & ideas for the everyday. Launched in 2018 by Susanna Beaumont, DES is an ambitious champion of the resolutely contemporary. We celebrate & support experimentation, excellence and exploration, making visible through debate, exhibitions, conversation and commissions, the energetic brilliance of the many designers, makers and artists working across Scotland today.

Earlier this year, DES made its debut at London Design Festival | Brompton Design District with Design for Our Times, a showcase of material innovation. In December Design for Our Times opened at V&A Dundee.

Design Exhibition Scotland is funded by the National Lottery through Creative Scotland‘s Open Project Fund; DES Supporters; The Inches Carr Trust; Craft Scotland; The University of Edinburgh | Edinburgh College of Art; the Embassy of the Netherlands, London and Timorous Beasties.