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Category Archives: Modern Design

Paul Rand: Defining Design

Sunday, October 27, 2013

Paul Rand: Defining Design Museum of Design, Atlanta October 27, 2013 – January 26, 2014 Curator: Daniel Lewandowski (www.Paul-Rand.com) Statement: «American designer Paul Rand (1914 – 1996) defined design as a unified activity, based on analysis and governed by imagination. Throughout his lengthy career – in which he created some of world’s most successful and […]

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Designing Modern Women 1890-1990

Saturday, October 5, 2013

Designing Modern Women 1890-1990 MoMA, New York October 5, 2013 – October 1, 2014 Curators: Juliet Kinchin (Curator) with Luke Baker (Curatorial Assistant), MoMA Department of Architecture and Design Statement: «Modern design of the twentieth century was profoundly shaped and enhanced by the creativity of women – as muses of modernity and shapers of new […]

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Collecting History, Collecting Design

Monday, September 9, 2013

Collecting History, Collecting Design Pratt GradComD Gallery, New York September 9 – November 25, 2013 Curators: Patricia Belen and Greg D’Onofrio (Display) Statement: «Collections tell stories. From the experimental to the playful to the rational, Collecting History, Collecting Design shows a distinct point-of-view about mid 20th century graphic design and some of its pioneers working […]

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Romek Marber: Graphics

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 […]

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Project Projects: Test Fit

Saturday, November 17, 2012

(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 […]

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Graphic Modern, USA, Italy and Switzerland 1934–66

Monday, June 4, 2012

Fordham University at Lincoln Center Center Gallery 113 West 60th Street June 4 – July 26, 2012 Curators: Patricia Belen and Greg D’Onofrio (Kind Company) Statement: «Modernism, an ideology that covers a range of styles, is rooted in the Russian and European avant-garde including Constructivism, Dada, De Stijl, Futurism, and the New Typography – movements […]

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