 |
Massive Change: The Future Of Global DesignKnown for his groundbreaking graphic design work for Zone Books in the 1980's and for collaborations with the architects Rem Koolhaas and Frank Gehry, Mr. Mau is a leading member of a profession that is sometimes known for its jaded, glass-half-empty point of view.
"The designers I know," Mr. Mau said, "are always complaining that they don't have any power."
But in "Massive Change," a visually jam-packed, color-saturated exhibition that opened earlier this month at the Vancouver Art Gallery, Mr. Mau paints a remarkably upbeat picture of the ways that design of all varieties promises to improve the human condition.
"In nearly every field that design touches, the long-term developments that we can see are hugely positive," Mr. Mau, 44, explained on a recent afternoon, wearing his standard uniform of an untucked black shirt, black pants and white sneakers.
He was in the exhibition's opening room on the first floor of the museum, an ornate, neo-Classical building that opened in 1907 as a courthouse. Behind him, nearly every inch of wall space, from floor to ceiling, was covered with words. In a typeface chosen (naturally) by Mr. Mau - Helvetica Neue bold condensed - the text trumpeted the show's central theme: "a change in global design culture so audaciously hopeful, so advanced, so optimistic, so generous and so gl
more: www.nytimes.com/2004/10/24/arts/d... (194)
bookmark: 
25/10/2004 | Viewed 5,830 time(s)
|
|
