Event Calendar
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
A protean artist, actor, and furniture maker dedicated to the primacy of individual expression, Charles Rohlfs (1853–1936) called his unprecedented designs “artistic furniture.” This exhibition—the first major survey of his work—will present over 40 pieces of his furniture and related objects in the context of groundbreaking new research.
Objects are not still. And yet design is often considered in terms of static aesthetic and functional qualities, without much consideration of trajectory in time or relationships with people.
Portable Treasuries: Silver Jewelry from the Nadler Collection, on view from February 16 to August 8, 2010, showcases selections from the Nadler Collection.
Bold, experimental and inventive, Ron Arad defies categorisation. 
Featuring ephemera and over 100 pairs of shoes and boots, this first-time retrospective explores the unbridled energy and creativity behind one of the greatest designers. Bellevue Arts Museum is pleased to be the premier US venue for this exhibition.
From Great Diamond Island, Maine, to Boston's Beacon Street, and from cottages on Cape Cod to mansions in Newport, the houses featured in this exhibition remind us that the architecture of New England is a touchstone of American architecture.
Called Artist in Jewellery, a Retrospective View (1972-2010), the exhibition will showcase 68 pieces of jewellery by Watkins, ranging from miniature to large-scale wearable pieces.
The exhibition shows a selection of the 20th century's Danish and international design icons.
In the past few decades, individuals have experienced dramatic changes in some of the most established dimensions of human life: time, space, matter, and individuality. Working across several time zones, traveling with relative ease between satellite maps and nanoscale images, gleefully drowning in information, acting fast in order to preserve some slow downtime, people cope daily with dozens of changes in scale. Minds adapt and acquire enough elasticity to be able to synthesize such abundance.
Based on the design tradition of Iceland coupled with modern technology and experimental innovation, the exhibition highlights examples of functional solutions to the challenges facing design in e.g. mobility, flexibility and individuality.
R 20th Century announced the opening of Contemporary Korean Design, an exhibition featuring works by Byung-Hoon Choi, Hun-Chung Lee, Dae-Sup Kwon, Zong-Sun Bahk and Jin Jang. The inaugural United States collaboration between R 20th Century and the renowned Gallery Seomi in Seoul, Korea, marks the New York debut for many of these artists and will showcase never-before-seen pieces.
Artists have utilized metal in their creative endeavors for centuries. The material has an extraordinary ability to simultaneously convey fluidity and solidity, as well as stasis and motion. In recent decades, contemporary artists have investigated new ways to manipulate metal into expressive compositions, resulting in elegant and dynamic objects.
The exhibition “There is No Such Thing As a Good Painting About Nothing“ focuses a comparable artistic habitus finding its provenance in graffiti and street culture. It is interesting to observe, that approximately 70 years later, in the early 21st century, three artists located in different countries developed their work independently from each other as a new form of abstract expressionism. They build upon the paradigms of graffiti writing and street art but distance themselves radically from established clichés.
Rising Currents: Projects for New York's Waterfront, a major initiative organized by The Museum of Modern Art and P.S.1 Contemporary Art Center to propose solutions for the effects of climate change on New York's waterfronts, culminates in an exhibition at The Museum of Modern Art from March 24 through October 11, 2010.
The essence of creativity, print advertising reflects best the key concept and the great communication between the minds that created it. AdPrint Festival acknowledges all print communication, regardless of its medium. All executions, print ads, posters, billboards are awarding advertising ideas.
Berlin designers El Ultimo Grito will exhibit a collection of blown-glass installation pieces called Imaginary Architectures at the Aram Gallery in London as part of their exhibition "El Ultimo Grito - Dialogues"
From 8 April to 2 May 2010 the red dot design museum in Essen, Germany, will present the finalists and winners of the Dutch Design Awards 2009 in a special exhibition.
The young talented students of the Royal Academy of Art The Hague will give a presentation of their work during the Salone Internazionale del Mobile, from Tuesday the 13th till Sunday the 18th of April. The research process and the dialogue between the physical and virtual world are central to this presentation. This is the third time The Royal Academy of Art The Hague will give a presentation at the international fair.
FROM THIS DAY FORWARD, curated by Italian critic Diana Marrone, is the first solo show outside England by London based designers JAMESPLUMB. The overlooked, discarded and time-worn have a new found confidence and identity under their hand, with their 
Fired by the success of 2009's record edition, despite the extremely challenging global economic climate, the Saloni will be back in April as always, hand in hand with their customary optimism.
Miniature collapsing chairs, robots hiding in transparent jewellery boxes, a story telling time-piece, tea cups full of mechanical storms and a machine that goes off with a bang are just some of the incredible exhibits produced through Laikingland’s Creative Collaborations.
Please let us know about any events in your region, or that you're especially interested in!
