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, Authorship, Books, Curating, Dissemination, Exhibition Making, Library, Publication, Reference, Stories, USA
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Thursday, October 17, 2013
(spreads of the GEC proceedings printed by B-R-U-N-O) The proceedings of the conference Graphic Design, Exhibiting, Curating we organized in June 2012 are now in print. Bringing together a number of graphic designers, curators and critics engaged in exhibition-making and curating, the conference aimed at discussing the increasing engagement of graphic designers with exhibition and […]
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, Authorship, Books, Ephemera, Europe, Exhibition, Fashion design, France, History, Magazines, Music, Photography, Posters, Products, Protest, 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 Authorship, Contemporary, Context, Critical Design, Curating, Digital, Event, Exhibition, Exhibition Making, Installation, Participatory, Reference, Schools, Thesis, USA
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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 […]
Most Beautiful Swiss Books 2012 (awarded in January 2013) first held at Helmhaus Zürich, Zurich, June 28-30, 2013 and later traveling to other venues (see schedule) Statement: «The Swiss Federal Office of Culture organizes the competition ‘The Most Beautiful Swiss Books’ on an annual basis. It thereby recognizes excellence in the field of book design […]
Memory Palace Victoria and Albert Museum, London June 18 – October 20 2013 Curators: Laurie Britton Newell & Ligaya Salazar (read their notes on the project here) Statement: «Sky Arts Ignition: Memory Palace brings together a new work of fiction by the author Hari Kunzru with 20 original commissions from leading graphic designers, illustrators and […]
Also filed in Collective exhibitions, Curating, Dissemination, Exhibit design, Exhibition, Exhibition Making, Installation, Museums, Publication, Stories, Thematic, UK
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(via manystuff) Learn to Read Art: A Surviving History of Printed Matter, Inc. Art Basel, Basel, June 13-16, 2013 Statement: «At this year’s Art Basel, Printed Matter will present Learn to Read Art: A Surviving History of Printed Matter, Inc., an exhibition engaging the documented history of the organization as it intersects with the broader […]
Also filed in Art and Design, Bookshop, Curating, Exhibit design, Exhibition, Exhibition Making, Installation, Magazines, Photography, Posters, Thematic
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Thick as a Brick Giò Marconi, Milan April 9-14, 2013 Curator: Maria Cristina Didero Design: Kuehn Malvezzi, Mousse Publishing and Petersen Statement: «Thick As A Brick presents a selection of more than 100 catalogues, books, art editions and zines published by Mousse and shown within three brick structures conceived by Kuehn Malvezzi and produced by […]
Also filed in Architecture, Art and Design, Books, Collection, Contemporary, Curating, Exhibition, Exhibition Making, Galleries, Installation, Italy, Magazines
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Wednesday, December 26, 2012
MVP – MOST VALUABLE PUBLISHERS December 6-8, 2012 / Rookie Festival, Municipal Gallery Arsenal, Poznań PL December 29, 2012 – January 13, 2013 / Arsenał City Gallery, Poznań PL Curator: Honza Zamojski Artists: «The sports analogy of the ROOKIE FESTIVAL is extended through to the MVP exhibition, applying the title to the Most Valuable Publishers […]
