Start: 09:30
End: 17:15
 In the 1960s Yves Saint Laurent made an indelible mark on fashion with clothing emblematic of the new modernity. Yves Saint Laurent, organized by FAMSF and The Montreal Museum of Fine Arts in collaboration with the Fondation Pierre Bergé-Yves Saint Laurent, explores the designs that made Saint Laurent famous, and his inspirations drawn from art, theatre, history, literature, and nature. This exhibition contains nearly 130 accessorized garments and sketches illustrating the lines, colors, and fundamentals of Saint Laurent’s work.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
 With all the excitement surrounding today's digital manufacturing technologies, it is interesting to look at an earlier historical moment of workshop mass-production, as practiced by the great French architect and designer Jean Prouvé (1901–1984).
This exhibition examines Prouvé's collaborations within his Ateliers Jean Prouvé from idea to finished product.
Start: 11:00
End: 18:00
 Elegant Armor: The Art of Jewelry presents innovative pieces of contemporary art jewelry from our permanent collection, dating from the 1940s to the present. The works on display range from the subtle to the flamboyant, from the purely geometric to the organic, and from narrative to sculptural works that extend the limits of the human body. The exhibition presents the major themes, materials and techniques that make contemporary jewelry visually exciting and intellectually stimulating.
Start: 11:00
End: 18:00
 Second Lives: Remixing the Ordinary is the inaugural exhibition at the Museum of Arts and Design in the new building at 2 Columbus Circle, which opened in September 2008. The exhibition features work by 50 international established and emerging artists from all five continents who create objects and installations comprised of ordinary and everyday manufactured articles, most originally made for another functional purpose.
Start: 10:30
End: 17:30
 Design is not always pretty. Sometimes it is blunt and aggressive, especially when it is meant to deliver a clear message or depart from tradition and express new ideas.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
 The world of Japanese car design set against the backdrop of Japan’s unique culture is explored in a sophisticated new exhibition at the Science Museum, from 29 November 2008. Japan Car, an exploration of the car as a "mobile cell", has been conceived by two world class names from outside the world of automobile: Kenya Hara, the man responsible for much of the success of Muji, and Shigeru Ban, the distinguished Japanese architect currently designing a new satellite gallery in Metz for Paris’ Pompidou Centre.
Start: 11:00
End: 18:00
 The large-scale thematic exhibition deals with the fascinating interaction between art and design – interior painting and interior design. It ranges from the visionary pictures of the Romantic era and the modernist designs of the Bauhaus period to the living design of the future.
Start: 09:00
End: 19:00
 Images by more than forty of the most innovative photographers working in the fashion industry today will be on view in Weird Beauty: Fashion Photography Now, at the International Center of Photography from January 16 through May 3, 2009. To highlight the original context of these photographs, this exhibition will feature hundreds of tear sheets, along with approximately twenty original photographic prints, and online media. The inclusion of such a variety of presentational formats will serve to illustrate the diversity that is characteristic of current fashion imagery.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
 Contemporary Light Design explores over 20 different innovative lamp designs by 18 designers and architects. On show is a fresh selection of lamp designs and light fittings created within the last five years.
The show is both an expression of curiosity and a wish to present side by side some of the world's best light design solutions from the two well-known Scandinavian design nations Finland and Denmark.
Start: 07:00
End: 18:00
 From poster and advertisement to annual report and packaging – communication design is as diverse as it is unique. red dot presents the best of the award-winning design works of the red dot award: communication design 2008 from 23 January to 8 March 2009 in the exhibition “red dot presents: communication design at its best” in collaboration with the Austrian association of designers, design Austria, in Vienna’s Museum Quarter. Similarly fascinating and diverse will be the work of the “red dot: design agency of the year”, which will be staged in a part of the exhibition entitled “Strichpunkt presents: High Voltage Design”
Start: 10:00
End: 21:00
 This exhibition at the Design Museum London is the first comprehensive presentation of Hussein Chalayan’s work in the UK. Spanning fifteen years of experimental projects, the exhibition explores Hussein Chalayan's creative approach, his inspirations and the many themes which influence his work such as cultural identity, displacement and migration.
Start: 10:30
End: 17:00
 First Solo Show for Designer Who Has Taken the Traditional Craft of Knitting Into Whole New Areas of Design
The Lighthouse, Scotland's National Architecture and Design Centre, continues its commitment to showcasing Scottish talent with the first solo show by rising designer, Donna Wilson. Escape to the Woods, a specially created installation of her recent work, will be on show in the 4th floor Gallery from 23 January - 1 March 2009.
Start: 10:00
End: 18:00
 The exhibition includes images of structures by the world's most famous architects as well as little known views of London that force the viewer to reassess what they thought they knew about the city. The exhibition repeatedly sets new against old and the historic architecture of Somerset House will add another layer of context to this collection.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
 In the design gallery Kunsthal Rotterdam presents the installation Icon Dressed by the Danish-Dutch artist Annette Meyer, a poetic recreation of fourteen silhouettes based on female fashion from the past two centuries.
Start: 11:00
End: 17:00
 The Museum of Design Atlanta (MODA) will open its newest exhibition, “In the Bag,” on February 5. The exhibition will run through May 2, 2009, and will explore the origin, evolution and design of the handbag.
Curated by Atlantans Clint Zeagler and Kevin Knaus, the exhibition takes the visitor from “design to delivery” of the handbag, showcasing top bags from the Friends and Sex and the City sets and from both local and leading designers, including Hermes and Oscar de la Renta among others.
Start: 11:00
End: 17:45
 Among the leading architectural studios in Europe, Berlin-based J. Mayer H. stands out for its commitment to a high level of formal and conceptual research. Central to its experimental approach is a deep engagement with a ubiquitous yet often ignored image type: data protection patterns, such as those you might find lining the inside of bank envelopes. These patterns, which serve to conceal other information, form a fertile terrain of investigation for J. Mayer H. as the studio translates them across various media and scales. With this exhibition, SFMOMA explores a new way of presenting architecture in a gallery setting by joining images of built projects with an experiential installation that combines supergraphics, sound, and video.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
 While numerous studies and exhibitions have explored the buildings of the master architect Louis Kahn, little attention has been given to his interior design and the furnishings he envisioned for them.
Yet his drawings in the Architectural Archives of the University of Pennsylvania show his extensive consideration of the tenor and use of his interior spaces through a variety of concepts, schematics, studies, and presentation drawings for objects and the furnishings of particular buildings.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:30
 Assembled by Design Forum Finland, an organization promoting Finnish design, Cool Dozen+ is an exhibition presenting the evolution of Finnish chair and textile design - its recent history, icons and the new ideas of young rising stars in the field. Cool Dozen+ displays the works of a total of 22 designers/designer teams. The fourteen pairs of chairs and fabrics include both classics and works by the most interesting names among contemporary designers.
Start: 10:00
End: 17:15
 The world’s most interesting and forward looking designs have been nominated for Brit Insurance Design Award by industry experts spanning seven categories: Architecture, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Interactive, Product and Transport.
Start: 09:00
End: 17:00
Next February the world is again descending on Frankfurt for 5 whole days. More than 4,600 exhibitors from around 90 different countries will be presenting fresh ideas, high-quality products, successful trends and pure creativity at Ambiente, the largest consumer goods fair in the world.
Start: 11:00
End: 18:00
 Finnish Association of Interior Architects SIO is celebrating it’s 60 years birthday this year. The opening exhibition ‘Behind the Scenes’ is introducing rarely seen prototypes of Finnish furniture design from the past 60 years. There are lamps, tables, divans and cabinets as well as various smaller items on display but the main focus is on chairs.
Start: 11:00
End: 18:00
 Head First is an exhibition exploring design and culture related to the human head. It will present a wide range of objects designed for the head ranging from hats, helmets, jewellery and glasses to implant technology and virtual reality
Start: 10:00
End: 17:00
 A stylish exhibition on tour from London's Victoria and Albert Museum, exploring the relationship between contemporary fashion and global sportswear brands over the last 20 years. Around 50 outfits and 120 objects are on display, including contemporary sportswear, streetwear, accessories and shoes.
Start: 15:00
End: 19:00
 The exhibition “Surface”, curated by Heimatdesign, is on show at the Westfalenforum Dortmund until March 1. Heimatdesign, the platform for young design from the region, organized the exhibition in the context of “Transversale” Dortmund, a ten-week event program with exhibitions, seminars and lectures on the theme of “Art and Design. Interface”.
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