Category Archives: Design History
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Archiving Design Organisations: A Design Archives seminar
6 June 2011, University of Brighton
Curators, scholars and students meet on June 6, 2011, to discuss the issues of “Archiving Design Organisations”. Funded by the Design History Society, the seminar is held at the University of Brighton, whose Design Archives hold the archives design organisations such as Design Council, [...]
Gavina: Lampi di Design
exhibition, MAMbo, Bologna
«This exhibition provides a platform of enquiry that offers a clear and simple reading, for further critical studies, taking on board something which for Gavina was always a necessary condition: keeping up with his time.»
With these words Elena Brigi and Daniele Vincenzi present the exhibition, of which they are curators, Dino Gavina: Lampi di Design [...]
>Reflections on a design museum for Japan
Journalist Edan Corkill, in “The Japan Times”, offers some reflections on what a design museum in Japan could be. Writing about the exhibition Design: ’60s vs. ’00s, organized by D-8, the Japan Design Association Meeting, held at Mikimoto Hall in Tokyo’s Ginza district, Corkill not only describes the sections of it but reports extracts of [...]
Artefacts Series
learning from science and technology museums
Cases of science and technology museums that have pursued an explicit and strategic policy of collecting and exhibiting industrial arts and design are quite rare. One can mention the Národní technické muzeum (National Technical Museum) in Prague, which comprises collections of Industrial design and Consumer industry – the Museum is currently closed, under renovation, [...]
Designing Modern Germany
some considerations on the role of museums
Designing Modern Germany by Jeremy Aynsley, published this year, is a text full of information and based on an important set of sources and references. The study is lead by the will of the author to understand and make clear how «cultural difference can be acutely perceived through design» (ibid., p. 22). Concluding the Introduction, [...]
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 [...]
Victor Margolin, Design for the 21st Century #1
… and a case study from Italy
Victor Margolin, Design for the 21st Century
Academy of Fine Arts and Design, Ljubljana, Slovenia, 19.05.2009
discussion panel moderated by Steve Diskin
oraganisation by Petra Cerna Oven
«Design 21st Century, this is a very trendy title, but I did it on purpose. [...] Often you meet designers, and they want to talk about heavy theory, etc., and what the [...]
