Any Londonites with a taste for the work of Dieter Rams may well be interested to learn that an exclusive guided tour of the exhibition is being given by Design Museum director Deyan Sudjic on the 26th February.
Places are limited to just 30 lucky Rams fans at a cost of £45 per ticket which includes the tour, museum entry and the proper, proper nice 800 page catalogue which normally retails at – yes you guessed it – £45. Half of the tickets have already gone so be quick!
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We’re teaming up with the Barbican Art Gallery to let you know about a major new exhibition opening on the 17th February. Ron Arad: Restless explores 3 decades of the acclaimed design maverick’s work from early post-punk to his highly polished sculptural furnishings.
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To celebrate 111 years of outright brilliance GF Smith is going on tour!
The touring exhibition will showcase material which encompasses both European and American promotions, with work from contributors such as Saul Bass, Milton Glaser, Paul Rand, Bill McKay and SEA Design.
Launched at the Edinburgh School of Art in October 2009, the tour will commence in ernest in January at The Glasgow School of Art, and continues to tour the countries leading Universities throughout 2010.
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Alex dropped us an email to tell us about The Frontroom, “a ‘fishbowl’ style gallery space where installations are created to be viewed through The Frontroom’s floor to ceiling sash windows. We invite lovely artists of all areas to come in and create fun splendid things.”
Up next is Sheffield based artist Matthew Walkerdine.
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The Common Thread exhibition, an initiative of Seven25. Design & Typography. and co-curated with Xavier Encinas is a poster exhibition whose primary goal is to explore how identity is influenced by one’s emotional ties with a certain country.
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After last weeks opening the Sample site is now fully live with much of the work from the show to gawp at. Cheers to Dan for the heads up.
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The Democracy site is now live and you can take part by submitting a piece of work or just by commenting on and voting for the work submitted by other. The deadline for entries is the30th September – so get cracking!
The exhibition that will take place in October as part of Design Event 09 – the North East Design Festival – with a book to be launched at the show itself.
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We’ve just had a little reminder from Dan, of Family and Clusta, about Sample – which is happening this Thursday (13th August) at The Vaults in Birmingham. Doors open at 8pm and here is a little treat – a lovely screenprinted poster for the occasion.
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Manifesto is an exhibition collecting the professional beliefs of some of the world’s best designers – Sagmeister, Eatock, Mau, Garland, Spiekermann and Vignelli amongst others – curated by Venice based design partnership Tankboys.
The show runs from the 12th Sept – 31st octat the XYZ exhibition space Treviso, Italy.
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The Synth Eastwood HomeMade Show took place back in May at Dublin’s Temple Bar. All the exhibited work and photos and video clips from the evening are now online for your viewing pleasure.
I’ve picked out a trio of my favorite pieces from the print category.
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