Tag: exhibitions

Bauhaus: art as life by Carmody Groarke
and A Practice For Everyday Life

Bauhaus art as life by Carmody Groarke and A Practice For Everyday Life

Architects Carmody Groarke and graphic designers A Practice For Everyday Life used Bauhaus-style colours and typography for the design of an exhibition about the celebrated art school at the Barbican gallery in London. More »

Designed in Hackney: Designs of the Year
exhibition by Michael Marriott

Designs of the Year exhibition by Michael Marriott

Designed in Hackney: Hoxton-based designer Michael Marriott created a landscape of cardboard tubes to display items on show at this year’s Designs of the Year exhibition at London’s Design Museum. The winning entries for each category will be revealed at an awards ceremony tomorrow evening. More »

Public House by Lee Broom
at Ventura Lambrate

Public House by Lee Broom

Milan 2012: British designer Lee Broom is showcasing furniture and lighting at an exhibition styled like a British public house at Ventura Lambrate in Milan this week. More »

Textasiða by Snæfríð Thorsteins
and Hildigunnur Gunnarsdottir

Textasiða, a typography exhibition by graphic designers Snæfríð Thorsteins and Hildigunnur Gunnarsdottir, was on show last month at Crymogea as part of DesignMarch 2012 in Rekjavic, Iceland. More »

Decode: Digital Design Sensations
at the Design Museum Holon

Decode-Digital-Design-Sensations-at-the-Design-Museum

Dezeen in Israel: devices that spy, measure, dance and eavesdrop have been added to an exhibition of digital and interactive design that has travelled to the Design Museum Holon. More »

Too Fat To Fail at The Proposal by Jeremie
Maret, Lenny Staples and Christian Weber

Too Fat To Fail at The Proposal by Jeremie Maret, Lenny Staples and Christian Weber

An inflatable naked man bulges against the walls of this gallery where visitors can stay the night, either on the floor of one gallery or in a van outside. More »

Inside award winner: V&A Ceramics
Study Galleries by OPERA Amsterdam

V&A Ceramics Study Galleries

Inside 2011: the Ceramics Study Galleries at the Victoria & Albert museum in London by OPERA Amsterdam have just been announced as the winner of the display category at the inaugural Inside awards in Barcelona. More »

Critics’ reactions to Building the Revolution:
Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935


Dezeen Wire:
 art and architecture critics have been offering their opinions on Building the Revolution: Soviet Art and Architecture, 1915-1935, an exhibition presenting the revolutionary imagery of communist Russia at the Royal Academy in London. More »

Eduardo Souto de Moura Concursos 1979-2010
by André Campos and Pedro Guedes Oliveira

Eduardo Souto de Moura Concursos 1979-2010 by Andre Campos and Pedro Guedes Oliveira

Sketches by this year’s Pritzker Prize Laureate Eduardo Souto de Moura covered several curving walls at the Portuguese architect’s former school in Porto last month (photos by José Campos). More »

Critics review OMA/Progress
at the Barbican


Dezeen Wire:
last week Dezeen reported on the opening of a new exhibition examining the creative processes of architecture practice OMA at the Barbican. Here’s what the critics have been saying about the show. More »

Silent Heroes: Objects, as told by Zhou Xun

Silent Heroes: Objects, as told by Zhou Xun

Beijing Design Week 2011: here are some pictures of an exhibition curated by Beijing Design Week‘s creative director Aric Chen, where the childhood possessions of a Chinese actress were arranged beside illustrations of piecharts and explosions. More »