The Plateforme 10 Foundation, which brings together three Vaud cantonal museums in the new Quartier des Arts in Lausanne, has announced that Italian museum director Beatrice Leanza will become the […]
What can design do? Can design contribute to a better future? What ideas, questions and strategies do designers have to offer when it comes to developing visions for a better […]
Virgil Abloh, the fashion designer of the Instagram generation who died in 2021, not only made the transition from streetwear to couture seemingly effortlessly. He also understood, like few others, […]
After two years of renovation, the Design Museum Denmark has reopened with a series of events and eight new exhibitions. The façade of the 1700s building in Copenhagen’s historic Frederiksstaden […]
Women have long been excluded from careers as artists. Access to other creative professions was also made more difficult for them. This has also been reflected in the museum collections: […]
The Musée de design et d’arts appliqués contemporains in Lausanne, or mudac for short, is the only institution in western Switzerland devoted entirely to design. The museum’s outstanding international reputation […]
Whether design emerges from art if it is only applied correctly or, on the contrary, purpose-free individual pieces and usable serial objects are to be considered separate from each other […]
Buildings of all kinds, proposals for competitions, but especially designs by the stars of the architectural scene circulate in the media today in the form of renderings and drawings long […]
This year, the Museum Folkwang, founded by Karl Ernst Osthaus in Hagen in 1902, celebrates its 100th anniversary at its Essen location. After Osthaus’s death in 1921, his collection had […]
It’s hard to talk about Finland and Helsinki without mentioning design and architecture. This is one of the reasons why a new museum of architecture and design is to be […]
They are easy to shape, versatile and cheap to produce: For decades, plastics have inspired the imagination of designers, given rise to companies and electrified consumers. Plastics are everywhere – […]
Museum exhibitions about prominent fashion designers and their creations are anything but rare. However, the spotlight is mostly on fashion for women – from haute couture to prêt-à-porter collections. But […]
Maria Nicanor, executive director of the Rice Design Alliance (RDA) at Rice University’s School of Architecture in Houston, Texas, since 2017, has been appointed director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian […]
There was a time when the term digitisation simply referred to the conversion of analogue information into digital data. Now, everyone is aware that digitisation and artificial intelligence are fundamentally […]
It is astonishing to realise that it is not that long ago that mobile phones and smartphones changed the way we communicate by means of a small portable device – […]
Out at last! The more densely populated we become and the longer we have to spend indoors, the greater the desire to escape outside. With the exhibition “Heading Outdoors”, the […]
Design and democracy – a topic that is as complex as it is contentious, especially in times like these (and so soon after the federal elections). Both democracy and design, […]
Through its 20 different sections, the Design & Bahn exhibition presents the development of rail design in Germany. Beginning in circa 1900 when rail design first became significant, it stretches […]
Jan Tschichold is one of the most significant book and type designers of the 20th century. He worked adjacently to the Bauhaus and had a major influence on typography after […]
John Gerrard’s “Western Flag” denotes the start and end of the modern petroleum era. The digitally generated black flag made of atomised raw oil asks pressing questions about a global […]