Design Events

The Imperial Furniture Collection holds one of the key works of Viennese interior design around 1930: the apartment of the ceramic artist Lucie Rie, designed by Ernst Plischke in 1928. In the exhibition Interior Design between the Wars this outstanding ensemble will be places in the context of the history of Viennese furniture design.

Italics: Italian Art between Tradition and Revolution 1968-2008 explores Italian art and creativity from the late 1960s to the present.

This exhibition showcases selections from the "AIGA 50 Books/50 Covers of 2008" competition, which aims to identify the best-designed books and book covers published in 2008.

Italian Style: Dressing Home features indoor furnishing design works, including furniture, lighting equipments and kitchen utensils, which are designed by more than 70 world star designers of the 20th century, notably Alessanro Mendini, Achile Castiglioni and Phillip Stark.

Association of professional graphic designers Grafia and Finnish Association of Designers Ornamo award annually six distinguished designers.

The exhibition is an opportunity for the public to see and interact with some of today's most influential commercially available materials and processes.

Applying their keen eyes to architecture's everyday use, filmmakers Ila Beka and Louise Lemoine create intimate portraits of iconic contemporary buildings.

Dazzling designs by some of the world's best contemporary jewellery artists will take centre stage at this year's Brilliantly Birmingham, the annual celebration of contemporary jewellery which marks its 10th anniversary in 2009.

Three Dimensional City: Future China displays the architects' ideas on building a sustainable city of the future. Their sketches, three-dimensional models, videos and other pieces on show, reveal their architectural explorations into ways of solving present and future ecological problems.

Later Layer is a site-specific installation designed by architects Johnston Marklee and artist Walead Beshty.

The Museum of Modern Art presents the first major museum retrospective of the artist Gabriel Orozco, who since the early 1990s has forged a career marked by continuing innovation and has become one of the leading artists of his generation.

Workwear is an exhibition and programming series exploring the legacy of workwear in American fashion and its influence on contemporary constructions of New York as a fashion capital.

The luminous and sublime "Glass House" photographs utilize color in bold and unexpected ways and further the artist's examination of light, color, and reflectivity and how these elements articulate architectural form.

Through prototypes, interactive displays and examples of ergonomically designed pieces including the Sky TV remote and the CERN Control Room, this exhibition reveals the importance that ergonomics plays in creating design for the real world.

Showcasing landmark designs for both Braun and Vitsoe, this exhibition will examine how Dieter Rams' design ethos inspired and challenged perceptions of domestic design and assesses Dieter Rams' lasting influence on today's design landscape.

Still Robot is a 1,000 square-foot case study introducing the OCTA.BOT system, the proprietary technology of I/O, which is comprised of eight swivel joints, and introduces the unique universal building system of freely rotating elements that expands on space-frame technology.

Designers in Residence is an annual programme where the Design Museum invites young designers to create site-specific work and transform the ground floor of the museum.

Actions: What You Can Do With the City features seemingly common activities such as walking, playing, recycling, and gardening that are pushed beyond their usual definition by the international architects, artists, and collectives featured in the exhibition.

This exhibition celebrates the career of David Hillman, described by the curators as "one of Britain's foremost editorial designers."

Green Furniture Design focuses on the concept of sustainable design, which centers not only around a responsible use of materials and methods of manufacture but also on issues of object life span, energy usage, and recycling/disposal.

Spaces of Labour investigates the architectural and social organisation of work in Scotland. The exhibition documents and presents the places and buildings historically associated with traditional industries that have gone into decline, such as coal, textiles, fishing and slate, and documents these landscapes to ensure that they are not forgotten.

This large-scale urban exhibition debuts 23 new works by leading contemporary artists, presented simultaneously on billboards throughout Los Angeles for seven weeks from February 5 through March 26, 2010.

Photographer John Davies displays changing views of Wakefield at The Beam Gallery.

The Retooling Industrial Sites exhibit will showcase over 50 projects from more than 30 design firms.

From February 1 to March 27, 2010 the winning packaging designs of Pentawards 2009, the worldwide competition that each year crowns the best packaging designs of the world, will be on show in Paris.

Painted Words, Tainted Logos presents several of John's paintings - three from his logo manipulation series from 1999 and 2000, and several from his recent and ongoing "mixed symmetries" series.

The installation brings together some 85 examples from the collection that reveal the dynamic and evolving nature of objects, providing a deeper understanding of contemporary design.

Lace in Translation is a new exhibition of contemporary work that explores the intersection of luxurious hand-craftsmanship with modern, mass production.

Slash: Paper Under the Knife explores the international phenomenon of cut paper in contemporary art-showcasing the work of artists who reach beyond the traditional role of paper as a neutral surface to consider its potential as a medium for provocative, expressive, and visually striking sculpture, installation, and video animation.

The exhibition will show the latest developments in digital and interactive design, from small screen based graphics to large-scale installations.

The Artistic Furniture of Charles Rohlfs, featuring more than 40 pieces of furniture and related objects by this protean artist, actor, and furniture-maker will be presented January 30 to April 25, 2010 at Carnegie Museum of Art.

Included will be 700 examples of rarely or never-before-seen drawings, paintings, storyboards, moving-image works, puppets, maquettes, costumes, and cinematic ephemera, and an extensive film series spanning Burton's 27-year career.

Ernesto Neto: Navedenga is an installation of the room-size sculpture Navedenga (1998) by Ernesto Neto (born 1964), one of the most influential Brazilian artists working today.

The Storyteller is an exhibition exploring how artists use narrative to process and explain important social and political events.

Best in Platinum showcases 17 award-winning pieces selected from a variety of platinum jewelry collections.

Collection: MOCA's First Thirty Years is the largest- ever installation of the museum's world-renowned permanent collection, which numbers nearly 6,000 artworks dating from 1939 to the present day.

Project Europa, opening at the Harn Museum of Art in Florida on February 7, will bring together essential European paintings, sculpture, photos, and video - all created since 1989 - that reflect on how the dream of reunified Europe gave way to the slow creep of xenophobia, intolerance, and hardening nationalism.

Gargoyles and Shadows: Gothic Architecture and 19th Century Photography will look at the relationship between photography and architectural practice. It will feature a range of photographs dating from the 1850s to circa.

Tate Modern announced the first major exhibition in the UK devoted to the Dutch artist and pivotal figure of the European avant-garde, Theo van Doesburg.

Take Note presents selected pivotal moments in the ongoing relationship between writing and architecture.

Performance 7: Mirage by Joan Jonas is a gallery installation by the artist Joan Jonas, in The Yoshiko and Akio Morita Gallery.

The Philadelphia Museum of Art will present a multimedia exhibition of works by Marcel Wanders, whose unique fusion of technology, artistry, and wit have established him as a leading figure in international design.

The Museum of Modern Art has reinstalled the modern design section of The Philip Johnson Architecture and Design Galleries on the third floor.

This installation of posters and numerous small-scale works is drawn from MoMA's rich collection of Soviet Russian, German, Dutch, and Czechoslovakian graphics.