Deep-Seated. The Secret Art of Upholstery at the Grassimuseum in Leipzig
Sitting on a hard bench can quickly become an ordeal. And many a chair becomes a painful imposition without a support. Only one thing can help here: upholstery. It seems […]
Designing protest. The Museum Ulm shows posters from Otl Aicher
If you want to make an impact, you have to think about how best to design your action – even when it comes to political protest or forms of civil […]
People in design. Beatrice Leanza succeeds Chantal Prod’Hom as director of mudac
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 […]
Ask Me If I Believe in the Future. Exhibition at the Museum für Kunst und Gewerbe Hamburg
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 […]
„Figures of Speech“. Virgil Abloh at New York’s Brooklyn Museum
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, […]
Renovated. The Design Museum Denmark was reopened
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 […]
Exhibition at the Bröhan Museum. “Regard! Art and Design by Women 1880-1940”
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 mudac reopens in the new art district of Lausanne
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 […]
Double Up! Art and Design in the Neues Museum Nuremberg
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 […]
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 […]