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Paul Rand: Defining Design

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Paul Rand: Defining Design Museum of Design, Atlanta October 27, 2013 – January 26, 2014 Curator: Daniel Lewandowski (www.Paul-Rand.com) Statement: «American designer Paul Rand (1914 – 1996) defined design as a unified activity, based on analysis and governed by imagination. Throughout his lengthy career – in which he created some of world’s most successful and […]

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Collecting History, Collecting Design

Monday, September 9, 2013

Collecting History, Collecting Design Pratt GradComD Gallery, New York September 9 – November 25, 2013 Curators: Patricia Belen and Greg D’Onofrio (Display) Statement: «Collections tell stories. From the experimental to the playful to the rational, Collecting History, Collecting Design shows a distinct point-of-view about mid 20th century graphic design and some of its pioneers working […]

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Romek Marber: Graphics

Saturday, August 31, 2013

(image via creativereview.co.uk) Romek Marber: Graphics School of Art’s Minories Galleries, Colchester August 31 – October 26, 2013 Statement: «A retrospective of graphic work designed by Romek Marber for Penguin books, The Economist, New Society, Town and Queen magazines, Nicholson’s London Guides, BBC TV, Columbia Pictures, London Planetarium and others.» Some more information (and images […]

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Couture graphique

Saturday, February 16, 2013

Couture graphique MOTI Museum of the Image, Breda, NL February 16, 2013 – Curator: José Teunissen (Professor in Fashion Theory at ArtEZ in Arnhem, Holland and since 2009 visiting professor to the University of the Arts in London) Statement: «CoutureGraphique is the first exhibition ever about fashion and graphic design; an exhibition in which we […]

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The Magic of Things: Product Posters
Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich

Wednesday, August 29, 2012

The Magic of Things: Product Posters Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH August 29, 2012 – January 6, 2013 Statement: «“The Magic of Things” explores a by-and-large obsolete advertising strategy in the area of the product poster: banal, everyday objects – butter, a sewing machine or shoes – are presented as desirable objects that entice us […]

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Museum für Gestaltung, Zurich

100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design
Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich

Friday, February 10, 2012

100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich, CH February 10 – June 03, 2012 Statement: «Swiss graphic design – one of the country’s leading products – is encountered everywhere. While a single individual style cannot be identified, a certain common approach is evident. This is revealed in the striking awareness of quality […]

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Museum für Gestaltung, Zürich

Supermart

Tuesday, December 13, 2011

Supermart Graphic Design Museum Breda, NL December 13, 2011 – April 1, 2012 Curator: Toon Lauwe; with Hendrik-Jan Grievink and Niels Engel Statement: «MOTI presents ‘SUPERMART’, a narrative exhibition on packaging design. Placing the seemingly everyday on a pedestal, SUPERMART is an exhibition in which packaging plays the lead. By presenting icons such as Coca […]

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Deadly and Brutal: Film Posters from Ghana
Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich

Friday, April 1, 2011

Deadly and Brutal: Film Posters from Ghana Pinakothek der Moderne, Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum, Munich, DE April 1 – June 26, 2011 Statement: «Graphic design from West Africa: This exhibition of the Neue Sammlung shows hand-painted posters advertising action films produced in Africa since the 1980s and Hollywood blockbusters. The large-format […]

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Pinakothek der Moderne, Munich