The history of design is littered with urban myths: the stories that designers tell and stories that are told about design. Their heroes are not people but things, spaces and places. This series of events celebrated these stories. Visitors were met by a storyteller who took them on a narrative journey up or down the Royal Mile to one of the great interiors of Edinburgh, from the ancient Signet Library to the contemporary Scottish Parliament. The heroes and heroines of the tales they told were the icons of Scottish design, whose stories might be as ancient as that of plaid cloth, as tragic as the demise of the Hillman Imp or as cutting edge as the advertising campaign for Irn Bru. Expect the unexpected in a series of events in which form follows fiction.

These events were accompanied by an exhibition at the Scottish Storytelling Centre, to which the public were invited to contribute their own stories about the objects; and the events will be presented in a book of short stories to be published in autumn 2007.