Monthly Archive for January, 2011

Emerging Digital Spaces in Contemporary Society: Properties of Technology

Published on January 30, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 1 Comment

A new title edited by Phillip Kalantzis-Cope and Karim Gherab-Martin…

Analyzing the relationship between digital technologies and society, this book explores a wide range of complex social issues emerging in a new digital space. It examines both the vexing dilemmmas with a critical eye as well as prompting readers to think constructively and strategically about exciting possibilities.

Table of Contents

Introduction – Properties of Technology
Technology, Culture and Society
Digital Communications
Defining New Media
The Texts of Digital Publishing
Democracy, and Governance: Information Politics
Digital Citizenship

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Design Museum announce shortlist for Brit Insurance Designs of the Year 2011

Published on January 27, 2011 in News. 1 Comment

Dezeen…

Showcasing a year in design, the fourth annual Brit Insurance Design Awards features an international shortlist ranging from Yves Behar’s Swarovski Chandeliers to concrete Emergency Shelters designed in Wales. Nominations also include the Apple iPad as well as six different app’s including the popular Angry Birds game.

Industry experts have nominated innovative and engaging designs from around the world across seven categories: Architecture, Fashion, Furniture, Graphics, Interactive, Product and Transport. Stephen Bayley will chair the 2011 jury and will be joined by art and design curator Janice Blackburn OBE, graphic designer Mark Farrow, novelist Will Self, Pro Vice- Chancellor of Kingston University Penny Sparke and Simon Waterfall co- founder of digital agency Poke. We are pleased to announce that Bill Moggeridge, Director of the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, New York will also join this year’s jury.

The nominations will be on show at the Brit Insurance Designs of the Year Exhibition at the Design Museum from 16 February – 7 August 2011. From this comprehensive list, the jury will select the seven category winners to be announced on 28 February 2011. The overall Brit Insurance Design of the Year will be announced at the Awards Dinner on 15 March 2011 and this year’s awards trophy will be exclusively designed by Ross Lovegrove. More…

When Modernism Entered the Kitchen

Published on January 26, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 1 Comment

From Martin Filler at NYRBlog…

Cooking odors grow stronger as visitors approach the gallery where Counter Space: Design and the Modern Kitchen—a stimulating show at New York’s Museum of Modern Art on food preparation in the twentieth-century home—is installed. Although the aromas actually emanate from a café next to the second-floor exhibition, the pervasive food smells that can be so distracting throughout the restaurant-riddled MoMA are for once appropriate here.

Counter Space was conceived in part to show off the design collection’s most important recent acquisition, a rare unaltered example of the mass-produced Frankfurt Kitchen. This standardized, modular all-inclusive unit was designed in 1926-1927 by the Austrian architect Margarete Schütte-Lihotzky (more familiarly known as Grete Lihotzky) for Frankfurt’s ambitious program of municipally funded International Style workers’ housing estates erected during the zenith of the social-democratic Weimar Republic. More…

Dezeen podcast: Drawing Fashion at the Design Museum

Published on January 24, 2011 in News and Newsletter. 0 Comments

From Dezeen…

Drawing Fashion celebrates a unique collection of some of the most remarkable fashion illustrations from the twentieth and twenty first centuries. These original works define the fine art of illustrating fashion, from the collections of Chanel, Dior, Comme des Garçons and Poiret as well as Viktor & Rolf, Lacroix and McQueen.

The exhibition showcases fashion illustrators at their creative heights: Lepape at the beginning of the century, Gruau in the 40?s and 50?s, Antonio throughout the 60s, 70s and 80s, to current artists Mats Gustafson, Aurore de la Morinerie and Francois Berthoud. Film-clips, music and photography sit alongside the original illustrations to reflect not only the spirit and the style of the decades but also the wider social and cultural changes of the century.

It is the first time this collection, which was put together over the past 30 years by Joelle Chariau of Galerie Bartsch & Chariau, has been displayed. More…

[D]³ CONTEST

Published on January 19, 2011 in News. 1 Comment

D3 Contest takes place the 8th time in 2011 with a record number of 862 products which have applied for the contest this time. This year 28 prototypes of 35 young designers from all over the world are invited to present their ideas for furniture, lighting and interior design to an international audience in hall 3.2 next to Pure Village.

The best three prototypes will be awarded by an internationally well-known jury of interior experts with the Interior Innovation Award of imm cologne.

The competition is sponsored annually at imm cologne by Koelnmesse and has been developed and organised in cooperation with the German Desing Council. More…