A display of M/M (Paris) fashion archives. Features works by Inez van Lamsweerde & Vinoodh Matadin (Yohji Yamamoto, Balenciaga, Bjork), Craig McDean (Jil Sander, Yohj Yamamoto), David Sims (Yohji Yamamoto) and more. Stands and tables designed at M/M (Paris). Exhibition curated by Sophie von Offers, on view til January 9, 2011 at MMK Museum für Moderne Kunst, Frankfurt Am Main. mmk-frankfurt.de
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“There are few pieces that represent the typographic and design spirit that illuminated that moment of history, and certainly none on a scale as ambitious.†Milton Glaser.
Kemistry Gallery is celebrating the work of legendary designer Lou Dorfsman, art director for the CBS network.
The exhibition centres on his most notable creation, the 11 metre wide handmade wooden typographic wall that he named Gastrotypographicalassemblage. With custom type created by Herb Lubalin and Tom Carnase, the wall contains almost 1500 individual characters.
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Le Printemps de Septembre is an annual creative festival held in Toulouse, France. Leslie David created the beautiful catalog for this year’s festival which finished last week. Check out his portfolio for more top-notch work.
October 22-24th / Point Ephémère
cneai = organises the Salon Light: an annual meeting of micro-publishers of artists’ publication at Point Ephémère. For its seventh edition, the Salon Light is part of the program off of the FIAC and will take place from the 22nd to the 24th October 2010. With the presence of some fifty international publishers and 6000 visitors in 3 days, this festive event reveals a demanding but also a very accessible artistic production.
The 2010 edition is divided into four poles: publishers, Motto selection, booksellers and the freebies salon. It highlights the inventiveness of the participants who put their know how in the service of transversal practices: books, magazines, posters, videos, vinyl, websites …
These publications, often with a limited circulation and sometimes impossible to find, open new doors and create new networks in the world of publishing. Shifted, thrifty and adventurous, the editorial approach of the participants in the Salon Light reflects a willingness to rethink the printed object and its overall production.The salon is punctuated by sales and signatures on the stands of publishers as well as by the Marathon « 11 minutes », a continuing program of performances and lectures conducted by the publishers, the graphic designers and the writers participating.
Barbara Kruger designs the third Whitney site-specific installation at 820 Washington Street on the corner of Washington and Gansevoort Streets. Kruger produces a dramatic intervention that addresses the viewer with powerful and enigmatic textual statements and engages with the social history of the site.
The artist has described her motivation for her installation as follows: “Because I’ve spent so many years in lower Manhattan, the streets are rife with remembrance. So I’ve tried to mark the site with a gathering of words about history, value, and the pleasures and pains of social life.â€
The installation uses bold text to respond to the viewer’s visual and temporal experience of the site and its surroundings. Some of the statements are drawn from Kruger’s catalog of signature phrases like “YOU BELONG HERE†and “BELIEF + DOUBT = SANITY.†Other statements respond to the neighborhood’s shifting identity and address the changing industries that have inhabited it from meatpacking to fashion to art. Texts printed on vinyl are attached to surfaces around the site and are visible from the street and the High Line. Kruger’s installation elegantly and provocatively writes itself into the activity and history of the museum’s future downtown building.
More info over at the Whitney Museum of American Art
FROM SEPTEMBER 1–TO OCTOBER 17
