All Possible Futures SOMArts, San Francisco January 14 – February 13, 2014 Curator: Jon Sueda Statement: «Speculative practices have existed throughout the history of design, most notably in architecture, but only a few graphic designers have positioned themselves in contexts where they are able to pursue explorations built on speculation and uncertain ground. This could […]
Saturday, November 16, 2013
The Designer as… interview with Steven McCarthy by Maddalena Dalla Mura October 13, 2013, via skype, St. Paul (Minnesota) – Udine (Italy) Your book The Designer as Author, Producer, Activist, Entrepreneur, Curator, and Collaborator: New Models for Communicating was released this year (BIS Publisher). As the title suggests, it deals with different facets of the […]
Also filed in Art and Design, Books, Curating, Dissemination, Exhibition Making, Library, Publication, Publishing, Reference, Stories, USA
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Tuesday, October 15, 2013
Europunk Cité de la musique, Paris October 15, 2013 – January 19, 2014 Statement: «Né sur les cendres froides de Mai 68, dans un contexte de crise économique et de faillite des idéologies, et dans un monde en proie à une menace protéiforme et confuse (nucléaire, totalitaire, terroriste), le punk est un mouvement aussi paradoxal […]
Also filed in Art and Design, Books, Ephemera, Europe, Exhibition, Fashion design, France, History, Magazines, Music, Photography, Posters, Products, Protest, Publishing, Stories, Subculture, Thematic, Video
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Friday, September 20, 2013
The Center for Sensibility (Thesis project) A project by communication design grad student Amanda Thomas February 11-15, 2013 Discussion of the project: published on September 20, 2013, http://blogs.walkerart.org Statement: (excerpt) «The Center for Sensibility, my thesis project, antagonized the practice of design and sought ways to productively work against prescribed notions of design practice. Inspired […]
Also filed in Contemporary, Context, Critical Design, Curating, Digital, Event, Exhibition, Exhibition Making, Installation, Participatory, Publishing, Reference, Schools, Thesis, USA
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Thursday, September 19, 2013
The Seymour & Milton Posters Show Kemistry Gallery, London September 19 – November 2, 2013 Statement: «Kemistry Gallery are extremely proud to host an exhibition of work by Seymour Chwast & Milton Glaser. For the first time in over 40 years, the work of Push pin studio will be on show in London. Graham McCallum, […]
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 […]
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 […]
Also filed in Collection, Collective exhibitions, Contemporary, Context, Critical Design, Curating, Exhibit design, Exhibition, Exhibition Making, History, Installation, Museums, Online, Photography, Resource, Thematic, USA
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Wednesday, October 10, 2012
The Carpetalogue / MM (Paris) Libby Sellers Gallery, London October 10 – December 15, 2012 Statement: «Gallery Libby Sellers presents a series of elaborately detailed and intricately woven carpet designs by the French art and design duo M/M (Paris). Commissioned in celebration of both their twentieth anniversary and the publication of a definitive monograph of […]
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 […]
Also filed in Curating, Czech Republic, Ephemera, Exhibition, Exhibition Making, History, Installation, Netherlands, Printing, Protest, Solo show, Stories, Subculture, Travelling exhibitions
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Kiosk: Modes of Multiplication «Since 2001, Christoph Keller’s famous archive “Kiosk – Modes of Multiplication” has been exhibited 27 times all around the world, in institutions such as the ICA (London), the Witte de With (Rotterdam), Artists’ Space (NY), the Emily Carr Institute (Vancouver), MUDAM (Luxembourg) and some biennials such as Manifesta 4, the 25th […]
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