Posts tagged exhibition

Heatherwick Studio’s Designing the Extraordinary, curated by V&A’s Abraham Thomas, is one model of superb display and documentation of design in its thinking, tinkering, and building, down to the details, like this single full-length rod from the Seed Cathedral at Shanghai Expo 2010. 

Heatherwick Studio’s Designing the Extraordinary, curated by V&A’s Abraham Thomas, is one model of superb display and documentation of design in its thinking, tinkering, and building, down to the details, like this single full-length rod from the Seed Cathedral at Shanghai Expo 2010. 

Slightly agonized for having only 15 min before the airport ride to look through (and cannot take photos of!) what i thought was the most well-designed show of everyday things made by people of Tohoku – from rice crackers to rubber boots - at 21 21 Design Sight. “Tema Hima: The Art of Living in Tohoku” is a perfect example of looking at the world – lives intertwined with the material world – and powerfully revealing its stories through design – everything from graphic visualisation and product packaging to spatial organization and lighting. 

Slightly agonized for having only 15 min before the airport ride to look through (and cannot take photos of!) what i thought was the most well-designed show of everyday things made by people of Tohoku – from rice crackers to rubber boots - at 21 21 Design Sight. “Tema Hima: The Art of Living in Tohoku” is a perfect example of looking at the world – lives intertwined with the material world – and powerfully revealing its stories through design – everything from graphic visualisation and product packaging to spatial organization and lighting. 

[CCA shows from top: “Imperfect Health: The Medicalization of Architecture” (2012); “The Good Cause: Architecture of Peace” (2011); web version of “Actions: What You Can Do With the City” (2009)]

‘To investigate the gray zone of our society, trying to make architects more conscious of the complexity of the problem that they’re part of, instead of pretending, every time, to be the solution, while reducing complex social and political problems to simplicities’ - Mirko Zardini

Respect to Zardini and the CCA for exhibiting architecture that takes us beyond the aestheticization of the built – game-changing indeed.

1960s Made-in-Hong Kong toy furniture set just got to retain the Ming rosewood and marble alongside the TV and fridge.

1960s Made-in-Hong Kong toy furniture set just got to retain the Ming rosewood and marble alongside the TV and fridge.

The players behind Japan’s 1960s Metabolism comically illustrated by Morinaga Yoh for the exhibition Metabolism:The City of the Future at Mori Art Museum – a reminder of the importance of multidisciplinary and networked collaboration between architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and historical criticism in bringing about any influential movement.

The players behind Japan’s 1960s Metabolism comically illustrated by Morinaga Yoh for the exhibition Metabolism:The City of the Future at Mori Art Museum – a reminder of the importance of multidisciplinary and networked collaboration between architecture, graphic design, industrial design, and historical criticism in bringing about any influential movement.