For Zaha Hadid. Drawings by Antonio de Campos at the DAM
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 […]
Museum Folkwang turns 100 and celebrates the history of the poster
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 […]
Temporary corporate identity for Finland’s new museum of architecture and design
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 […]
Exhibition at the Vitra Design Museum. Plastic: Remaking our world
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 – […]
Fashioning Masculinities. The Art of Menswear at V&A
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 becomes new director of the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum
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 […]
Planet Digital. In Zurich, the University and Museum of Design are dedicated to the digital transformation
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 […]
Collection online. Mobile Phone Museum opens
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 – […]
Exhibition „Heading Outdoors“ at the Neue Sammlung in Munich. Design for life outside.
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 discussion at MAKK
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, […]
“Design & Bahn”: an exhibition at Nuremberg’s DB Museum
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 […]
Symposium for the digitisation of Jan Tschichold’s estate
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 […]
Oil. Beauty and Horror in the Petrol Age at Kunstmuseum Wolfsburg
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 […]
London’s V&A Museum is holding an exhibition called Bags: Inside Out
Handbags, shopping bags, rucksacks: there is no other accessory that is as practical and has such a fashionable, indispensable and expressive place in everyday life. Bags, whatever their type or […]