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Sneak Peek
Via artic.edu
May 2012
As finishing touches are made for its Roy Lichtenstein show (opening next week), the Art Institute of Chicago offers a behind-the-scenes glimpse of the exhibition-making process, from placing tiny paintings in replica galleries to uncrating the actual art.
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Remixing Architecture
Via smh.com.au
May 2012
For a month starting May 25, Urbanscreen will have the iconic roof of the Sydney Opera House as its canvas. The German collective considers its 3D projections—in which “dancers try to explore the shape” of the building—architectural “remixing.”
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Hamilton Wood Type
Via designobserver.com
May 2012
Founded in 1880, the Hamilton Wood Type and Printing Museum in Two Rivers, Wisc., is a living museum: it displays its collection of 1.5 million pieces of wood type, while also working with designers like Matthew Carter to create new typefaces.
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Fun & Function
Via ft.com
May 2012
The Barbican’s Bauhaus: Art as Life reframes the sober form-follows-function movement, highlighting the fun in it, writes Jackie Wullschlager, who notes the show’s emphasis on lesser-known works, artistic personalities, and discipline-crossing experiments.
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“No Text Means No Context”
Via wordlessweb.com
May 2012
Ji Lee, whose World Trade Center Preservation Project is part of our Graphic Design: Now in Production show (opening at Cooper-Hewitt May 26), is back with Wordless Web, a browser bookmarklet that strips text from favorite websites.
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Breuer Archive Launches
Via syr.edu
May 2012
Syracuse University just launched the Marcel Breuer archive, a repository for 30,000 digitized drawings, photographs, and letters by the modernist architect, including blueprints and models for his iconic 1961 Abbey Church at Minnesota’s St. John’s University.
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Weiwei’s Week
Via galleristny.com
May 2012
It’s a big week for Ai Weiwei: plans for his Serpentine Gallery pavilion (co-designed with the architects of the new Walker, Herzog & de Meuron) were released, and a Chinese court agreed to hear his appeal on a $2.4 million tax evasion fine.
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Minnesota’s Best
Via aigaminnesota.org
May 2012
The Walker took home six prizes at the AIGA Minnesota Design Show. Our website and the catalogue for Nathalie Djurberg’s show (now at the New Museum) were among winners. A seventh went to design director Emmet Byrne and Michael Aberman for Postcards from America.
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Occupy & Design
Via designobserver.com
Apr 2012
The “elliptical, poetic and provocative” image on the first Occupy Wall Street poster—a ballerina on the iconic stock market bull—matters less than the hashtag, writes Michael Bierut, who asks: “In the age of social media, does political graphic design matter?”