Dinah Casson CBE RDI FRCA FRIBA
Dinah Casson is a designer.
In 1984, Dinah founded Casson Mann, a design consultancy that mainly designs museums and exhibitions.
Casson Mann has designed permanent galleries for the V&A (including the British Galleries), Imperial War Museum (including the Churchill Museum, Holocaust and the First World War galleries), Natural History Museum, Science Museum, and National Maritime Museum, among others.
The consultancy has also worked in Russia, the US and extensively in France, including La Cite du Vin in Bordeaux and Le Centre International de l’Art Parietal at Lascaux. Its work has won numerous awards.
Dinah has been involved in design education all her working life as a visiting tutor, lecturer, and external examiner and was course leader of Architecture and Interior Design at the RCA 1993 – 1995).
She is currently a trustee of the Supreme Court Arts Trust, was a trustee of Towner Eastbourne from 2014 – 2024 and was a trustee of the Charleston Trust for 10 years until 2014. She was also a member of the Stamp Advisory Committee for Royal Mail until 2023.
With her partner Roger Mann, she was elected to the Faculty of Royal Designers for Industry in 2006, of which she was Master from 2011-2013.
In 2018, she was awarded the CBE for services to design and was included in the Design Week inaugural Hall of Fame in 2015.
She retired from Casson Mann in 2017 and wrote ‘Closed on Mondays – Behind the Scenes at the Museum’ published by Lund Humphries in 2020.
