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"X" Marks The Spot! #4
By Le Vin Chin
There’s always so much going on in the world of effects and often too little time to check it all out. Here’s our monthly look at all the items you’re too busy to investigate yourself - but which are themselves too interesting to miss!
This month we look at a few of the great design exhibitions going on over this summer …
IDEO, the innovative design agency, is guest curator at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York, offering a selection of items from the permanent collection on “design thinking” until January 2008. The museum is also showing has “Multiple Choice: From Sample to Product”, an exhibition on the rich history of the sample book and how such books have been used to communicate color, texture and design through the ages – a topic very dear to our hearts here at Ciba! – until April 2008.
One of the world’s most famous architects and designers has an exhibition dedicated to her work at the Design Museum in London until November 25. Zaha Hadid’s work, surely now best described as “much-loved” and no longer as “controversial,” is displayed over two floors of the museum – one of its largest such events ever.
The Deutsche Werkbund celebrates its centenary this year. Formed in 1907 in Munich, it gathered together designers and architects dedicated to bringing artistic refinement and modern design principles to the crafts and to industrial production, following the example of the English Arts and Crafts movement. The Pinakothek der Modern in Munich’s Architecture Museum is showing a retrospective of the Deutsche Werkbund until August 26.
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... Calella de Palafrugell
Staying in Germany, the city of Münster is hosting its decennial Münster Sculpture Project this year until September 30. Thirty-four installations created specifically for the event by major names such as Bruce Naumann dot the city in an exploration of the idea of art in a public space.
Not just wallpaper … Continuing our trawl through the world of European design magazines, this month’s featured magazines are: Frame, a smooth, glossy magazine from the Netherlands which covers every aspect of current design; and, for those of you Finnish speakers, Uusi Muoto (which means “new design”), which has glorious pictures even if you don’t understand a word …
This month’s featured design website is www.designboom.com, which comprehensively covers the design world with in-depth reports while highlighting current issues. The look is bright and brash, but the content is deep and varied, and very, very useful!