Design Events

The Real World Laboratory is presenting designs from six countries of Central Europe: Austria, the Czech Republic, Poland, Slovakia, Slovenia and Hungary.

Wood type aficionados will converge for a Wayzgoose weekend, Nov. 20-22, filled with print presentations and type talk including Matthew Carter as he unveils "Carter Latin Wide," his first wood typeface and the newest addition to one of the premier wood type collections in the world.

AIGA recently mounted its annual survey of communication design, "365: AIGA Annual Design Exhibition 30," at the AIGA National Design Center at 164 Fifth Avenue in New York City.

The exhibition will feature a wide selection of Polaroid prints by photographers who have either worked directly with the Polaroid Corporation as part of their research program or who have become famous for the quality of their Polaroid prints either alongside or independent from their traditional camera-based work.

The exhibition traces the history of car design in Japan and gives a glimpse into the future of automotive design, with illustrative examples from Nissan's history.

Global design and local Finnish design and production meet at The Sami Knife II exhibition at Design Forum Finland. 22 designers have searched for a new form for the traditional Sami Knife.

Industrial designer, Artist Professor Hannu Kahonen (born 1948) has been chosen to receive the Kaj Franck Design Prize of 2009. The prize includes a medal designed by Tapio Junno and an exhibition opening at Design Forum on 29 October 2009.

Singapore Design Festival is a biennial platform to promote design and the design industry in Singapore, creating opportunities for networking and the exchange of ideas, and enhancing Singapore's image as a vibrant and creative international design city.

In honor of the centennial of the Grand Concourse, the borough's central artery, The Bronx Museum of the Arts and the Design Trust for Public Space, a not-for-profit organization dedicated to improving public space for all New Yorkers, sponsored an international ideas competition, Intersections: Grand Concourse Beyond 100.

New York School of Interior Design (NYSID) announced a number of public programs around the theme of lighting this fall at their campus in New York City.

Four distinguished educators who have inspired generations of creatives will be honored as ADC Grandmasters by the Art Directors Club.

Curated by Dutch and Belgian designers Claire Warnier and Dries Verbruggen of UNFOLD, Lucas Maassen, Jan Habraken and Alissia Melka-Teichroew (byAMT), the exhibition will feature work by an international group of designers, architects, computer scientists and material and technology researchers that anticipates the next phase of the digital revolution.

This exhibition presents typographic explorations in Hungul by two Korean Designers, Hyunju Lee and Phil Choo, and is curated by UC Davis Design Professor Mihyun Kang.

An Imaginary Library: Children's Books That Don't Exist (Yet) brings together 75 original paintings, sketches, and drawings by many of the world's most successful and best-known artists for children, including Americans Peter Sis, David Wiesner, and Vladimir Radunsky.

Spotlighting the Flatiron District's colorful and changing architectural and urban history, the exhibition draws on photographs, architects' renderings, vintage views, and film footage to interpret "high and low" from a variety of perspectives, including height, cost, technology, and culture.

"A Warhol Trio" features approximately 150 photographs by the iconic 20th-century artist Andy Warhol recently donated to the museum by the Andy Warhol Foundation for Visual Arts.

Arch Schools: Visions of the Future is the fifth annual exhibition of exemplary student work from fourteen area architecture schools.

This exhibition, a preview of the citywide celebration of the Burnham Plan Centennial that begins in January, presents 32 of these prized illustrations from the Department of Architecture and Design's collection in five separate and insightful rotations.

The diamond jewelry design competition held by the Israel Diamond Institute Group of Companies (IDI) in honor of Israel's 60th anniversary is the basis for a new exhibition that opened at the Harry Oppenheimer Diamond Museum.

Control|Print features works by a number of notable international artists and designers who play with the notion of digital technology.

17 Swedish Designers - all young, progressive women - are touring in the United States. Their ceramics, furniture and textiles show, in black and white with some bright accents, hints at the flavors of good contemporary design for every day use.

The exhibition Tracking Traces examines people, nature and culture through a variety of traces. Metaphorically, it studies tracking and positioning as a kind of expedition.

The exhibition represents the Los Angeles debut for the Toronto-based artist who mines contemporary vocabularies of glamour, fashion, popular culture, to examine the iconography of femininity as it exists in the cultural imaginary, personal memory, and fantasy.

This survey of audience favorites will be on view at the Museum from March 1, 2009 through January 3, 2010.

The Perfect Fit - Shoes Tell Stories is a new exhibition that explores the cultural meanings of shoes, presenting imaginative objects of every size and craft medium.

Some great Dutch Illustrators and animators that are renown for their eye-catching contemporary work have now joined forces for "Young 2009". Creative production agency Shop Around collaborates with the top layer of this Dutch illustration and animation scene.

Bike Rides will explore the increasing relevance of bicycles in contemporary art and culture.

Design for a Living World is a traveling exhibition featuring objects created by leading designers and made from sustainable, natural materials.

This exhibition features some of the most notorious works, including Salvador Dalí's bread-and-inkwell-crowned Retrospective Bust of a Woman and Meret Oppenheim's fur-lined teacup.

Four multidisciplinary teams of architects, engineers, and landscape designers will participate in an eight-week workshop to develop proposals for future infrastructure projects in New York Harbor.

The legacy of the Bauhaus informs a wide-ranging exhibition of installation, design, video, and digital works co-organized and presented by the School of the Art Institute of Chicago (SAIC) and the Mies van der Rohe Society at the Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT) this fall.

Graphic Masters II: Highlights from the Smithsonian American Art Museum, the second in a series of special installations, celebrates the extraordinary variety and accomplishment of American artists' works on paper.

Continuing its investigation of contemporary architecture, the Nasher Sculpture Center in Dallas presents a retrospective of the work of Foster + Partners.

Ghost Stories: New Designs from Nendo transforms the MADProjects Gallery on the Museum's second floor into a magical landscape of new designs that imbue chairs, vases, and lamps with whimsy and optical illusion.

The exhibition James Tissot: "The Life of Christ" will include 124 watercolors selected from a set of 350 that depict detailed scenes from the New Testament, from before the birth of Jesus through the Resurrection, in a chronological narrative.

Fascinated by the post-war rebuilding of London, Auerbach combed the city's numerous building sites with his sketchbook in hand.

This fall, the Gallery of Japan Society presents the first survey of Serizawa Keisuke's work to be seen in the U.S.

Context Contrast asks how the NYC Landmarks Preservation Commission's charge of ensuring "appropriate" new architecture in historic districts has allowed neighborhoods to evolve without endangering the essential character that contributes to their public value and makes them worth protecting.

For the first-time, the Robert V. Fullerton Art Museum will host a history of graphic design exhibition that will include 75 works from Pan, a German multi-volume arts and literary Art Nouveau periodical, published between 1895 and 1900 in Berlin by Julius Otto Bierbaum and Julius Meier-Graefe.

Konstantin Grcic: Decisive Design is specifically devoted to the portfolio of Grcic and his firm, Konstantin Grcic Insdustrial Design (KGID), and brings together more than 100 of his objects, including furniture, products, tableware, and office accessories.

Parallel Nippon focuses on 110 representative architectural specimens selected from among buildings constructed primarily in Japan in the 10 years from 1996 to 2006, presenting them against the backdrop of Japan's socio-cultural environment.

This retrospective, presented in collaboration with a consortium of the three Bauhaus collections in Germany, is the first comprehensive treatment of the Bauhaus at MoMA since 1938 and the first major show in the United States on the subject in decades.

Apostles of Beauty: Arts and Crafts from Britain to Chicago presents designs by the movement's most notable practitioners, from William Morris and Charles Robert Ashbee to Gustav Stickley and Frank Lloyd Wright.

Les Arts Decoratifs is devoting a major exhibition to Madeleine Vionnet.

This major exhibition celebrates David Chipperfield's work for the first time in the UK and spans his entire career to date, including such acclaimed projects as the River and Rowing Museum in Henley-on-Thames, and the Museum of Modern Literature in Marbach, Germany, winner of the RIBA Stirling Prize for Architecture 2007.

This exhibition's purpose is to demonstrate how digital technology is enabling new aesthetic imaging possibilities and conceptual statements.

With Otto Neurath. Gypsy Urbanism, the MAK Center for Art & Architecture at the Schindler House presents the absorbing work of Otto Neurath in an exhibition guest curated by architectural critic and theorist, Nader Vossoughian.

Who Shot Rock & Roll: A Photographic History, 1955 to the Present features more than 175 works by 105 photographers, including many rare and never-before exhibited photographs, that gave the music its visual identity.

California Car Design: Local Style, Global Influence will tell the story of locally designed automobiles and explains how progressive local designers like Harley Earl and Dutch Darrin brought a fresh approach to a conservative profession.

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.

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.

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.

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