Philip Long & Joanna Norman at the Edinburgh International Book Festival

Philip Long is director of the V&A Dundee and co-editor of The Story of Scottish Design. Together with Joanna Norman, curator of the museum’s Scottish Design Galleries, Long presents a broad survey of 500 years of great Scottish design and pioneering designers, from textiles to technology, furniture to video games. Long and Norman discuss the importance of design (and a certain new building) with Anna Day in this event filmed live at the 2019 Edinburgh International Book Festival.

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