Saturday, November 16, 2013
The proceedings of the conference Graphic Design, Exhibiting, Curating held on June 26, 2012, are now available for purchase from BU Press catalogue.
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, Publishing, Stories, USA
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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, Publishing, Schools, Thesis, USA
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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 […]
Also filed in Advertising, Collection, Collective exhibitions, Curating, Ephemera, Europe, Exhibition, Galleries, History, Italy, Modern Design, Posters, Products, Retrospective, Stories, USA
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Metamuseum http://metamuseum.tumblr.com Statement: «Teaming with a group of 13 American museums and cultural institutions with design, craft and architecture collections, writer and critic Alexandra Lange has woven together the Multi-Museum, Multi-Curator Tumblr project MetaMuseum. Each week, work chosen by curators at each institution will be presented on tumblr and released through other social media outlets. […]
Also filed in Art and Design, Collection, Collective exhibitions, Curating, Digital, Ephemera, History, Museums, Online, Participatory, Resource, Stories, Thematic, USA
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Wide White Space (The Way Beyond Art) was an exhibition held in 2011 at the CCA Wattis Institute in San Francisco – aimed at investigating ‘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’ –, a series of lectures, […]
Also filed in Art and Design, Collective exhibitions, Conference, Contemporary, Context, Curating, Exhibit design, Exhibition, Exhibition Making, Galleries, Publication, Schools, USA
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Some shots and quotes from the conference Graphic Design, Exhibiting, Curating that we organized on June 26. A publication including the talks and extracts from the discussion will follow in Autumn-Winter 2012. «People who disagree with the exhibition of graphic design give the argument, among others, that graphic design is about context, and the exhibition […]
Reading Forms – http://readingforms.com – is a valuable reference to explore for everybody interested in graphic design, exhibiting and curating. Launched in January 2012, almost in the same period when we started our research project, this website is curated by Yotam Hadar, a young Israeli graphic designer and is meant as a «depository of hyperlinks […]
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A paper on the topic of Italian graphic design and exhibition is published in the accompanying catalogue of the 5th edition of the Triennale Design Museum in Milan, devoted to the history of Italian graphic design. The exhibition/museum is curated by Giorgio Camuffo, Mario Piazza and Carlo Vinti. Ref.: Maddalena Dalla Mura, “Mostrare, esporsi, comunicare […]
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 […]
