Monthly Archives: June, 2009
Design Museums Statements #6
Victoria and Albert Museum, London
«The purpose of the Victoria and Albert Museum is to enable everyone to enjoy its collections and explore the cultures that created them; and to inspire those who shape contemporary design. All our efforts are focused upon a central purpose - the increased use of our displays, collections and expertise as resources for learning, creativity [...]
Design Museums Statements #5
Designmuseo, Helsinki
«Designmuseo is a specialist museum in Finland that selects and maintains a design collection. The museum is responsible for research and documentation in its field, and for holding exhibitions on design history and contemporary products. The museum also organizes international exhibitions on Finnish art and design.»
Designmuseo, Helsinki
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Design Museums Statements #4
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg
«The Museum’s collections are not set up on a cultural history basis, i.e. to reflect their times. Instead, one of the main criteria for selection of objects has been high aesthetic and technical quality. These days, the Röhsska Museum mainly collects contemporaneous material in the categories of handicraft, commercial handicraft and industrial design.»
Röhsska Museet, Göteborg
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Design Museums Statements #3
Design Museum Gent
«The Design Museum Gent is the only museum in Belgium specialised in 20th-century and contemporary design. Over the last 30 years, the museum has evolved from collectin predominantly 18th-century style furniture into a leading, internationally orientated institution that often features design. It comes as no surprise that there is no single definition of what design [...]
Bibliography of Design
image: “Museums and collections”, from A Bibliography of Design in Britain, 1851-1970, by Anthony J. Coulson, London, Design Council, 1979, p. 51.
Where can bibliographies on design be found?
Besides list of references included in books, monographs, and essays on design, it is really hard to find bibliographies on design issues as a discrete subject — but [...]
Design has entered the Golden Age
Is it 1950 or 2009?
«Design has entered a golden age. Lauded in the popular press, design and designers are becoming household names. Major museum exhibitions explore design’s relevance to daily life while bringing new designs to the general public’s attention. A flurry of schools with innovative approaches to the field are just beginning to make an impact, launching the [...]
No country for design #1
Italy and the History of design
On the April issue of “Design Issues”, 2009, Victor Margolin advances new challenges to scholars of the history of design, both in the frame of a wider reflection on the meaning of history in the contemporary age, and with reference to the specific condition of design and design studies: «If design historians are to present [...]
Design Museums Statements #2
Det Danske Kunstindustrimuseet, Copenhagen
«The Danish Museum of Art & Design is one of Scandinavia’s central exhibition forums for Danish and international industrial design, decorative and applied arts. The museum’s collections, library and archives constitute a central resource centre for the study of design and its history in Denmark. The Danish Museum of Art & Design brings together and [...]
