The phrase "design a show" is correct and usable in written English.
You could use it in a variety of contexts to describe the action of creating a show. For example, "The producer has been spending the past few weeks designing a show for the upcoming season."
He said: "When I start to design a show, I do a written breakdown of what a play needs.
A Habitat member, having seen her perform in North Carolina, asked her to design a show about housing.
He returned two months later to design a show in Hartford and in May 2007, a somewhat dubious Ms. Silverman agreed to meet him for dinner in Brooklyn.
Several Transformables will be on view in "Skin: Surface, Substance and Design," a show opening on Tuesday at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum.
It's also a chance for these companies to design a show just for themselves, rather than carrying out some client's vision.
Dinner-party observation number one: It is the first time the Tate has employed an architect (Richard MacCormac) to design a show but is nicely incongruous that Jocasta Innes, queen of stencilling, has done all the paint colours.
He designed a show called "Contrepied" that was all eighties decadence: sable, shoulder pads, big hair, gold lamé.
Professionally, Mr. Saillard lives in fashion flux: He recently staged a Yohji Yamamoto retrospective and before that designed a show on the history of handbags.
Herb guru Jekka McVicar is well known for her exquisite floral exhibits at Chelsea but this is her first foray into designing a show garden.
Yet "Radiolab" -- which just won a 2010 Peabody Award -- has responded to all this by designing a show for sustained and undivided attention.
When she designed a show on Japanese textiles at the Museum of Modern Art in 1998, she suspended sheer panels of fabric on nylon filament and lighted the pieces with fiber optics.
