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Solution Greece? Zak Group

Friday, May 25, 2012

Solution Greece? Zak Group OMMU, Athens, Greece May 25 – June 16, 2012 Statement: «OMMU presents the first exhibition in Greece by the London-based design office Zak Group. For the exhibition, Zak Group presents the Sternberg Press Solution series, edited by Ingo Niermann and designed by Zak Group beginning in 2008. The Solution series invites […]

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RISD MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2012

Friday, May 18, 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 […]

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Zak Kyes Working With…
London

Saturday, April 28, 2012

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

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London

Rick Poynor: We need more galleries

Monday, April 9, 2012

On the rare occasions that an exhibition of graphic design appears, it’s a safe bet that one complaint will always be heard. Graphic design, someone will say, just doesn’t work in a gallery. It isn’t art and it can’t possibly be properly understood out of context. It only has meaning out in the world in […]

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Richard Hollis

Friday, March 23, 2012

Richard Hollis traveling exhibition, first held at the Libby Sellars Gallery, London, March 23 – April 28, 2012 (later held at: Centre Pompidou, Paris [February 2013]; ECAL, Lausanne [April 2013]; and Artists Space, New York [September 2013]) Curator: Emily King Statement: «As part of the team that turned John Berger’s epochal BBC TV series Ways […]

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Exhibition Prosthetics

Thursday, March 22, 2012

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 […]

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Presentation or re-presentation?
Our Polite Society and Na Kim

Monday, March 5, 2012

One of the issue that exhibiting graphic design poses, especially when displaying already existing work, is that of presentation/re-presentation. Collaborating with Our Polite Society for their exhibition held in 2011 at HBKsaar Gallery, Saarbrücken (DE), the Amsterdam-based photographer and artist Paulien Barbas reflected about this very issue. As he writes from his website, they decided […]

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Our Polite Society and Na Kim

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

Thursday, March 1, 2012

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 […]

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“Graphic”, 2009, n. 11

Galerie Anatome: call for support

Tuesday, February 14, 2012

We visited Galerie Anatome in 2010, in the period when we were preparing the exhibition Graphic Design Worlds, and we already wrote some notes about it in the blog A diary of an exhibition. Then we quoted the “Manifesto” launched in September 2009 by the association Galerie Anatome and expressing its commitment in promoting graphic […]

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Behind and beyond. Graphic design in the white cube

Monday, February 13, 2012

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 […]

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