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Category Archives: USA

All Possible Futures

All Possible Futures SOMArts, San Francisco January 14 – February 13, 2014 Curator: Jon Sueda Statement: «Speculative practices have existed throughout the history of design, most notably in architecture, but only a few graphic designers have positioned themselves in contexts where they are able to pursue explorations built on speculation and uncertain ground. This could […]

The Designer as…
Interview with Steven McCarthy

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 […]

Paul Rand: Defining Design

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 […]

Designing Modern Women 1890-1990

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 […]

The Center for Sensibility
Thesis project

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 […]

Collecting History, Collecting Design

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 […]

RISD MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2013

Rhode Island School of Design MFA Graphic Design exhibition 2013 RI Convention Center, Providence May 17 – June 1, 2013 Statement: «Graphic Design as product and process occupies territories of the studio, the gallery, and the marketplace. Our exhibition demonstrates design’s hybrid character, functionally linked to commerce while producing expressions of cultural and aesthetic value. […]

RISD Grad Show 2013

RISD 2013 Grad Thesis Exhibition Setup Timelapse from RISD Media on Vimeo. Rhode Island School of Design Graduate Thesis Exhibition 2013 RI Convention Center, Providence May 16 – June 1, 2013 Statement: «Open to the public, RISD’s annual Graduate Thesis Exhibition features work in a wide range of media created by the 194 master’s degree […]

Pencil to Pixel

Pencil to Pixel first held at Metropolitan Wharf, London, November 16-23, 2012 later on show at Tribeca Skyline Studio, New York, May 3-9, 2013 Statement: «Monotype started to produce typefaces for its type-casting machines back in the late 19th century. The production process at the time started with a set of technical drawings to establish […]

Permanent Loan

Permanent Loan part of the After the Museum: The Home Front 2013 exhibition Museum of Art and Design, New York March 12 – June 9, 2013 Designers of the installation: Project Projects Statement: «Project Projects was invited by guest curator Dan Rubinstein and manager of public programs Jake Yuzna to create an installation at the […]