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Category Archives: History

Permanent Loan

Permanent Loan part of the After the Museum: The Home Front 2013 exhibition Museum of Art and Design, New York March 12 – June 9, 2013 Designers of the installation: Project Projects Statement: «Project Projects was invited by guest curator Dan Rubinstein and manager of public programs Jake Yuzna to create an installation at the […]

Metamuseum (tumblr)

Metamuseum http://metamuseum.tumblr.com Statement: «Teaming with a group of 13 American museums and cultural institutions with design, craft and architecture collections, writer and critic Alexandra Lange has woven together the Multi-Museum, Multi-Curator Tumblr project MetaMuseum. Each week, work chosen by curators at each institution will be presented on tumblr and released through other social media outlets. […]

Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things

Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things Design Museum, London January 30, 2013 – January 4, 2014 Statement: «The Design Museum has the UK’s only collection devoted exclusively to contemporary design and architecture. This new permanent collection display reveals intriguing insights in the most exceptional of everyday objects. The opening of the museum’s permanent collection marks an […]

Project Projects: Test Fit

(via manystuff) Project Projects: Test Fit November 17, 2012 – April 28, 2013 Art Institute, Chicago (Gallery 286) Statement: «Project Projects, a New York–based graphic design firm led by Prem Krishnamurthy, Adam Michaels, and Rob Giampietro, has become known for developing publications, exhibitions, and identities for a range of cultural institutions and educational organizations, as […]

Two or Three Things
I Know About Provo

Two or Three Things I Know About Provo first held at w139, Amsterdam later on show at the 25th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno, June 22 – October 28, 2012 Statement: «Invited by the organizers of the 25th International Biennial of Graphic Design in Brno to guest-curate one of the exhibitions, Experimental Jetset […]

Richard Hollis

Richard Hollis traveling exhibition, first held at the Libby Sellars Gallery, London, March 23 – April 28, 2012 (later held at: Centre Pompidou, Paris [February 2013]; ECAL, Lausanne [April 2013]; and Artists Space, New York [September 2013]) Curator: Emily King Statement: «As part of the team that turned John Berger’s epochal BBC TV series Ways […]

Everyday Graphics

Everydaygraphics MOTI Breda at OBA Openbare Bibliotheek Amsterdam, NL September 3 – December 17, 2011 Statement: «The satellite exhibition in the central Amsterdam public library is a cross-section of historic designs from the collection of the museum in relation to new and recently acquired work created in the 21st century. Everydaygraphics shows the diversity of […]

UnCOVERing Women

Uncovering Women Graphic Design Museum Breda, NL September 25, 2010 – May 29, 2011 Curator: Margriet van der Linden Statement: «In the 19th century wealthy women browsed through women’s magazines mainly out of boredom. In the 20th century, women became more aware of their role within the family and at work. Where women’s magazines were […]