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« Monday January 25, 2010 »
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Start: 10:00
End: 17:45

This display features highlights from the Royal College of Art (RCA) fashion MA graduates' final collections and reveals aspects of the design process. For the past 60 years, the RCA has prepared aspiring designers for fashion careers leading to graduates working in fashion houses such as Galliano, Vivienne Westwood, Chloé, Dior and Burberry. Others such as Ossie Clark, Boudicca, Julien Macdonald and, more recently, Erdem Moralioglu and Carolyn Massey have developed their own labels.

 

 

 

Start: 10:00
End: 17:00

This installation, drawn from the Museum’s permanent collection, brings together objects employed in the service and consumption of alcoholic beverages.

 

Start: 10:00
End: 17:00

Main exhibition. How will future designers work, and how does Danish design address global issues such as sustainability, new technology and consumption? The exhibition it’s a small world challenges the Danish design tradition and explores future design practices in a global perspective.

 

Start: 10:00
End: 17:00

Fashion designers use their talent and vision to interpret the current mood and aesthetic, finding inspiration in a variety of sources. The exploration of an artistic movement, a reinterpretation of historic clothing, or the transformation of street styles or utilitarian clothes may be the springboard for innovative statements.Some designers begin with geometry or shape, while others’ imagination is sparked by color, by the design or characteristics of a fabric, or by the possibilities offered by materials or techniques handled by skilled artisans of the industry.

 

Start: 10:00
End: 17:45

Designers In Residence is the museum's ongoing programme supporting emerging talent within the field of design. 

Start: 00:00
End: 00:00

Be it in Moscow, Belgrade, Berlin or Cairo – there is hardly a city or nation wanting to present itself as progressive that has resisted the showy construction of a television tower.

Start: 00:00
End: 00:00

In 2000, the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum founded the National Design Awards program to celebrate contemporary American design and to increase national awareness of design through education and promotion of excellence and innovation. The Awards mark important accomplishments in a variety of categories, including architecture, landscape design, interior design, product design, fashion, communication design, and more.
 

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End: 00:00

 

The temporary installation Objects on Display features highlights from the collection of the Bauhaus Archive.

 

 

 

Marcel Breuer, Stühle in vier Größen, 1924"

Start: 10:00
End: 17:45

With a style that is restrained, quiet and thoughtful, David Chipperfield is of one of Britain’s leading architects. 

 

 

Start: 11:00
End: 18:00

The Swiss Office of Culture (OFC/BAK) and mudac proudly present 17 awardwinning works by the 19 recipients of the Swiss Federal Design Awards for 2009. 239 designers participated in the competition. Chaired by Patrick Reymond, the Federal Design Commission honoured 17 projects/works by 19 creators.

 

Start: 10:00
End: 18:00

Siegfried De Buck will turn sixty on 24 August 2009. To mark this occasion, Design Museum Gent will present an overview of his work.

 

 

Start: 00:00
End: 00:00

Described as the science of everyday life, ergonomics combines the knowledge of human performance with design and engineering to create systems, products and services which are safe, efficient and enjoyable to use.
 

Start: 10:00
End: 18:00

The exhibition "Formless Furniture" is showing for the first time that the maxim "form follows material" has also been, and still is, applied to the design of seating furniture: until today, designers have playfully opposed "good form" and the marketing of conformist lifestyles.

 

 

Start: 10:00
End: 20:00

From November 2009 the Martin-Gropius-Bau presents the definitive retrospective of F.C. Gundlach’s extensive photographic work with the exhibition “F.C. Gundlach – Photographic Work”. F.C Gundlach is one of the most famous fashion photographers worked for the most important magazines and publications from the middle of the 1950’s to 1990. Among other many famous pictures the most comprehensive presentation of F.C. Gundlach’s work shows many fameless facets of F.C. Gundlach’s work to date. After years of research, the curators Klaus Honnef, Hans-Michael Koetzle, Sebastian Lux and Ulrich Rüter present for the first time numerous unknown images as vintage prints alongside F.C. Gundlach’s famous photo icons.

 

 

Start: 10:00
End: 19:00

Taking inspiration from popular culture, Tim Burton (American, b. 1958) has reinvented Hollywood genre filmmaking as an expression of personal vision, garnering for himself an international audience of fans and influencing a generation of young artists working in film, video, and graphics. This exhibition explores the full range of his creative work, tracing the current of his visual imagination from early childhood drawings through his mature work in film.

Start: 10:00
End: 17:00

The visionary and revolutionary Dutch designer Marcel Wanders (born 1963) is creating for the Museum a dreamlike, multimedia installation of objects personally selected by the artist to represent pivotal points in his extraordinary career.

 

 

Start: 10:00
End: 17:00

Cecil Balmond has transformed the role of the engineer in contemporary architecture with his unorthodox and visionary approach that challenges staid definitions of architecture and engineering.

 

Start: 10:00
End: 22:00

With collective efforts from world's leading architects and artists, national and international experts and scholars on urban planning, city ecology and environment, decision makers from government and enterprises, "Three Dimensional City" is poised to envision an ideal living environment and future urban ecology. The project addresses the depletion of land and energy resources. Not only will it be an enlightening project from which our future urban planning programs can draw inspiration, but also hopes to involve an exhilarating social reformation.

 

Start: 10:00
End: 18:00

The British Council and the Korean Cultural Centre UK are pleased to announce Supervisions: UK Korean Artists. The exhibition attempts to capture a sense of the diversity of works produced by Korean artists and designers currently living in the UK. It presents work by nineteen individuals selected through an open call.

 

 

Start: 10:30
End: 17:30

In the 1920s and 1930s, the so-called New Typography movement brought graphics and information design to the forefront of the artistic avant-garde in Central Europe.

 

Start: 10:30
End: 17:30

The new installation of the Architecture and Design Galleries features a selection of visionary objects, graphics, architectural fragments, and textiles from the Museum’s collection that reveal the attempts of successive generations to shape their experience of living in the modern world.

 

Start: 10:00
End: 17:00

Design, Music & Everyday Experience showcases the role that design plays in shaping our experience of music. The devices on which we listen to music, the instruments musicians play, the images of bands and concerts we regularly see and the environments where we buy and listen to music together constitute a material culture of music.

 

Start: 10:00
End: 18:00

 

Start: 10:00
End: 19:00

Association of professional graphic designers Grafia and Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo award annually six distinguished designers. Finnish Designer Awards have been now selected for the year 2010.
The Finnish Designer Awards concept has been revamped: from this year the awards will be given in mid January. The aim of this change is to enhance the exhibition’s international tour. The Finnish Designer Awards ‘10 publication will be published in January 2010 together with the exhibition in Design Forum Finland..