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Monthly Archives: January 2013

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 […]

Frozen Lakes

Frozen Lakes January 20 – March 24, 2013 (then extended through March 31, 2013) Artists Space, New York Statement: «In his essay accompanying the 1977 exhibition Pictures at Artists Space, and in a subsequent text published by October in 1979, the art historian Douglas Crimp introduced the work of a generation of artists, and their […]

Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud

Metahaven: Islands in the Cloud MoMA PS1, New York January 20 – April 1, 2013 Statement: «Founded by Vinca Kruk and Daniel van der Velden in 2007 as a design and research studio, Metahaven has come to define a new methodology in graphic design. The studio’s speculative practice privileges the vocabulary of graphic design as […]

Graphic Advocacy:
International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012

Graphic Advocacy: International Posters for the Digital Age 2001–2012 first held on January 15 – March 2, 2013 Stephen D. Paine Gallery, Massachusetts College of Art & Design, Boston, Massachusetts (now traveling: see the schedule) Statement: «As a medium for social change, posters record our struggles for peace, social justice, environmental defense, and liberation from […]