Category Archives: Reading
>Observing [NY] Museums via designobserver
Recently, two articles have appeared in designobserver which – with totally different perspectives (that of a curator and that of a critic and visitor) – look through two renown New York institutions (MoMA and Cooper Hewitt), raising thoughtful reflections on the role and use of contemporary design museums.
The first article is by Barry Bergdoll, [...]
> Design Failures and Museums
«… designers [...] are judged more by their hits than by their misses. [...] Designing without fault is impossible,» wrote Henry Petroski in his Small Things Considered. Why There Is No Perfect Design, 2003.
Many of those who are interested in design and museums, sooner or later, wonder how a show dedicated to the design failures [...]
>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 [...]
