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Category Archives: Art and Design

Zak Kyes Working With…
Chicago

Zak Kyes Working With… from Graham Foundation on Vimeo. Zak Kyes Working With… Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, June 14 – September 23, 2012 See the older post about Zak Kyes Working With… in Leipzig and in London.

RISD MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2012

Rhode Island School of Design MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2012 RI Convention Center, Providence May 19 – June 1, 2012 Statement: «GRAPHIC DESIGN MFA 2012 is an exhibition of books, printed matter, websites, interactive works, and videos from this year’s graduating class of MFA graphic design students at RISD. In order to stay in line […]

Zak Kyes Working With…
London

Zak Kyes Working With… Architectural Association, London, April 28 – May 26, 2012 See the older post about Zak Kyes Working With… in Leipzig.

Exhibition Prosthetics

In analyzing the points of view of some graphic designers and curators about design exhibition, as they appeared in “Graphic” magazine (n. 11, 2009), we noticed their tendency to regard curatorship and exhibition making, on the one hand, and editorial design and editing, on the other, as practices that can be alternative and complementary, as […]

Ideas of Design Exhibition
“Graphic”, 2009, n. 11

In 2009 “Graphic” – a quarterly magazine based in Korea which covers, through monographic issues, topics that are topical for the practice and critique of graphic design – has devoted an issue to “Ideas of Design Exhibition.” This issue offers an interesting reference for our research, since it has caught a rising phenomenon, that of […]

Behind and beyond. Graphic design in the white cube

Certainly graphic works entered the white cube well before 2006. However, the exhibition curated by graphic designer Peter Bil’ak that year at the Moravian Gallery on occasion of the 22nd International Biennale of Graphic Design in Brno (CZ), Graphic design in the white cube marked a significant moment for the relationship of graphic design with […]

“That does not make design art”, Daniel van der Velden (Metahaven)

«… I still believe in a very romantic idea of art, and I also believe that design is not meant to be art: it has a different role. But art is recently providing sometimes a more interesting [space …]: “communication as a research question,” and not as an answer that is formulated by marketing people […]

The Popup Generation: Design between Dimensions

The Pop Up Generation: Design Between Dimensions Graphic Design Museum Breda, NL December 13, 2011 – April 12, 2012 Curator: Lidewij Edelkoort Statement: «In 2010, the Japanese fashion designer Issey Miyake first presented a ground-breaking collection called 132 5. Working closely with a computer scientist, mathematical algorithms were designed into 3D shapes that are then […]

Zak Kyes Working With…
Leipzig

Zak Kyes Working With… Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst Leipzig Museum for Contemporary Art, Leipzig, December 10, 2011 – March 18, 2012 Architectural Association, London, April 28 – May 26, 2012 Graham Foundation for Advanced Studies in the Fine Arts, Chicago, June 14 – September 23, 2012 Statement: «Zak Kyes is the recipient of the 2010 […]

Zak Kyes Working With
GFZK, Leipzig

Zak Kyes Working With Galerie für Zeitgenössische Kunst, Lepzig, DE [INFORM Award for Conceptual Design] December 10, 2011 – March 30, 2012 Curator: Barbara Steiner Statement: «Zak Kyes is the recipient of the 2010 INFORM Award, the annual accolade presented to graphic designers who develop a practice within the context of applied and contemporary art. […]