THE V&A Museum of Design Dundee is coming to a street near you.

Lovers of design can look forward to a new exhibition that will travel the country in the New Year as part of the museum's national pre-opening programme. By bus.

From next February the Design in Motion exhibition, which will feature the work of seven Scots-born or trained designers, will stop off 78 venues in 17 weeks, before going south to the V&A in London.

Opening in Dundee on February 13, the exhibition will visit schools, community centres and libraries in locations as far afield as Edinburgh Glasgow, Lewis, Harris and Dumfries and Galloway. The exhibition will use the custom-built Travelling Gallery bus for the project.

Sarah Saunders, head of learning & engagement for V&A Dundee, said: "It's an incredibly ambitious project, but one that we feel underlines the scope and scale of the new museum, and really allows us to set out our stall as a new national institution."

The exhibition, which benefits from funding from the People's Postcode Lottery, has been designed by Duncan of Jordanstone graduate Gabrielle Underwood. It will include the work of 3D designers Anarkik3D, fashion designer Holly Fulton, games designer Sophia George, jewellery designer Lynne MacLachlan and artist and designer Geoffrey Mann.

Mann said the exhibition and the V&A's presence in Scotland would be a boon to the country's design community and will hopefully help it grow.