Alex Newson (Author) Alex Newson has been a curator at the Design Museum in London since 2009. He has worked on award-winning exhibitions, covering topics such as the impact of design on sport and how digital technology has influenced design and manufacturing. The Design Museum (Author) The Design Museum's mission is to celebrate, entertain and inform. It is the world's leading museum devoted to contemporary design in every form from furniture to fashion, and architecture to graphics. It is working to place design at the centre of contemporary culture and demonstrates both the richness of the creativity to be found in all forms of design, and its importance.