Romance is in the air so come to the Design Museum to find a bit of one-to-one design action. Speed date debate and find the perfect partner to accompany you around the museum, and possibly your life! Sounds for swinging sweethearts will be supplied by DJ Hawaii Dayton in the Riverside Hall. Listen, drink, meet, talk, bond, view, tango, and end the evening with a cup of tea and a cake from the Piece of my Heart bakery.

When was the last time you had the red carpet treatment? Be glamorous, be chic, be cosy, but above all be seen at this last- chance-to-see Matthew Williamson – 10 Years in Fashion. A night of glamour and contrast. Dress code: party frock or cardy. Not happy with your outfit or your look? Why not make a new frock in the low-tech couture workshop or be made-up, ready for your catwalk appearance at the end of the night.

A Christmas extravaganza, Sparkle the Dark Up sees the much anticipated return of glittering dance group The Actionettes and an enchanting musical performance by London-based duo Gamine in Riverside Hall.

Get all your Christmas shopping done early in the Design Museum Shop, and then take part in a designer-wrapping workshop. Create fabulous festive cards and decorations in a variety of workshops, and decorate gingerbread people, while drinking warming mulled wine in the riverside bar.

An after-hours opportunity to see Design Museum exhibitions, including the hit show Zaha Hadid - Architecture and Design. The Design Museum will become a hive of activity, with talks, debates and design workshops based around the theme of London architecture.

Contemplate the future of your city in an informal discussion, make a model of your ideal London building to be added to the “London of the Future Cityscape”, and listen to poetry readings by acclaimed London-based poets including Charles Bainbridge of The Guardian. A soundtrack for the evening will be supplied by the Shellac Sisters, the glamorous retro-chics who, dressed in all things vintage, will be playing 78rpm records on 1920s wind-up gramophones and Underbling & Vow the Cockney Knees Up Singers.

Design Overtime, the Design Museum’s bi-monthly late night event, returns on 24 August to let you HAVE YOUR SAY!

To distract you from all this active thought and conflict, the Design Museum proudly present Gamine to provide sophisticated and sensitive song throughout the museum that might just evoke the spirit of La Rive Gauche.

Also, as an additional activity, the Lomographic Society International will be offering the opportunity to learn about Lomography and use its basic tools and ideas to take part in a global creation process. Valid i-d will be required to exchange for the loan of a camera and particpate in this workshop.

11 dancing spacewomen invade the Design Museum on 8 June. 'Mr and Mrs Design Museum visitor, there is no cause for alarm.'

The Actionettes have been invited to bring their spectacle and expertise to our next late opening event. With their synchronised routines choreographed to songs by 60s girl groups the Actionettes will be paying homage to the futuristic work of the maverick designer Luigi Colani.

Luigi Colani Translating Nature and Ettore Sottsass Work In Progress will be closing soon so Design Overtime returns to offer an entertaining and unexpected last chance to see these extraordinary and diverse exhibitions.

Professor Luigi Colani himself will be at the museum on the night. There will be a free drink for anyone who follows his example and comes dressed totally in white.

With Ettore Sottsass – Work in Progress currently showing and Great Brits – Ingenious Therapies about to head off to the 2007 Milan Furniture Fair it’s only fitting that April’s Design Overtime is talking Italian.

Sip an espresso and join in a number of debates, raise your glass to salute an opera recital, listen to a gallery talk accompanied by a roaming accordion player, and record your views in the back-to-basics chat room at the Olivetti typing pool.

Repeat after me:
Disegnare nel tempo libero, perche’ no?
(Design Overtime, why not?)

A hands-on opportunity to make your own design book inspired by our exhibitions of graphic designers Alan Fletcher and Robert Brownjohn.

A chance to see exhibitions outside our usual hours and in a social setting. Design Overtime includes the popular Script debate, talks, music and bar. Script debates will be on a first come, first served basis, so do arrive early to guarantee a place. This will also be a last chance to see the Alan Fletcher: fifty years of graphic work (and play).