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Category Archives: Installation

Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things

Extraordinary Stories about Ordinary Things Design Museum, London January 30, 2013 – January 4, 2014 Statement: «The Design Museum has the UK’s only collection devoted exclusively to contemporary design and architecture. This new permanent collection display reveals intriguing insights in the most exceptional of everyday objects. The opening of the museum’s permanent collection marks an […]

Frozen Lakes

Frozen Lakes January 20 – March 24, 2013 (then extended through March 31, 2013) Artists Space, New York Statement: «In his essay accompanying the 1977 exhibition Pictures at Artists Space, and in a subsequent text published by October in 1979, the art historian Douglas Crimp introduced the work of a generation of artists, and their […]

Project Projects: Test Fit

(via manystuff) Project Projects: Test Fit November 17, 2012 – April 28, 2013 Art Institute, Chicago (Gallery 286) Statement: «Project Projects, a New York–based graphic design firm led by Prem Krishnamurthy, Adam Michaels, and Rob Giampietro, has become known for developing publications, exhibitions, and identities for a range of cultural institutions and educational organizations, as […]

The Carpetalogue / MM (Paris)

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 […]

Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2011

Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2011 (awarded in January 2012) first held at Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich, July 5-8, 2012 and later traveling to other venues (see schedule) Statement: «The competition ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ on an annual basis. It thereby recognizes excellence in the field of book design and production, as well drawing attention to […]

Two or Three Things
I Know About Provo

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 […]

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.

Richard Hollis

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 […]