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Category Archives: Curating

Graphic design stopped looking like graphic design…

“A Report from the Place Formerly Known as Graphic Design” is the title of an article by graphic design critic Rick Poynor featured in September 2011 issue of Print magazine. Worth reading. Invited to participate in the final grad show at the Sandberg Institute’s MFA design course, directed by Annelys de Vet, and spurred by […]

Archizines

Archizines traveling exhibition, first held at the Architectural Association, London, November 5 – December 14 2011 (see schedule online) Curator: Elias Redstone Statement: «ARCHIZINES celebrates the resurgence of alternative and independent architectural publishing around the world. The touring exhibition, curated by Elias Redstone and initiated in collaboration with the Architectural Association, features architecture magazines, fanzines […]

RISD Graphic Design MFA Thesis Show
Providence

RISD Graphic Design MFA Thesis Show Rhode Island Convention Center, Providence, RI May 20 – June 4, 2011 Statement: «This is the collective effort of 15 designers, the result of five months of research, conception, and production. The Graphic Design Thesis Show is a group exhibition presented as part of the Rhode Island School of […]

RISD MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2011

Rhode Island School of Design MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2011 RI Convention Center, Providence May 10 – June 4, 2011 Statement: «The 2011 RISD Graphic Design MFA Thesis Show is a group exhibition of selected thesis work from the RISD Graphic Design MFA Class of 2011. The show is published in a catalogue which will […]

Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter

Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter Philip Feldman Gallery + Project Space at Pacific Northwest College of Art, Portland, Oregon April 7 – June 17, 2011 Statement: «Printed Matter is pleased to announce the opening of Learn to Read Art: A History of Printed Matter, an off-site exhibition at the Pacific Northwest […]

Kunstkammer
12mail, Paris

Kunstkammer: The Representation of an Amateur Room 12mail [a Red Bull Space], Paris, FR January 28 – March 25, 2011 Curator: Charlotte Cheetham (Manystuff) Statement: «Representations of amateur wonder-rooms of the 17th century present numerous private canvas collections: in a private interior, walls are covered in an accumulation of juxtaposed canvases with no hierarchy, frame […]

The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space
CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco

The Way Beyond Art: Wide White Space CCA Wattis Institute for Contemporary Arts, San Francisco, CA January 20 – February 5, 2011 Curator: Jon Sueda Statement: «Wide White Space investigates graphic design’s evolving relationship with the practice of exhibition making as it intersects with the visual arts and the work of both artists and curators. […]

Graphic Design Worlds

Graphic Design Worlds Triennale Design Museum, Milan, IT January 6 – March 27, 2011 Curator: Giorgio Camuffo Assistant curator: Maddalena Dalla Mura Statement: «The Triennale Design Museum presents Graphic Design Worlds, the first major exhibition totally devoted to graphic design, that will be curated by Giorgio Camuffo. The Triennale Design Museum carries out this way […]

Some Things Better Change
HBKsaar HfBKunst, Saarbrücken

Some Things Better Change HBKsaar Hochschule für Bilende Kunst, Saarbrücken, DE November 6 – December 12, 2010 Statement (by Paulien Barbas, exhibition design): «Some Things Better Change was a solo exhibition by graphic design studio Our Polite Society at HBKsaar Gallery in Saarbrücken, Germany. In collaboration we made a work emphasizing the problem of presenting […]

Shaping Time, by Lev Manovich

Shaping Time Graphic Design Museum Breda, NL May 11 [?] – June 2010 Curator: Lev Manovich Statement: «Lev Manovich is one of the most influential thinkers in the field of new media and digital culture. He is professor of visual arts at the University of California, San Diego and director of the Lab for Cultural […]