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Vitra Design Museum: The BauVitra Design Museum: The Bauhaus #itsalldesignhaus #itsalldesign
A pictorial review | 30.12.2015

smow blog 2015. A pictorial review: September

The end of design's summer hibernation is traditionally marked by the opening of the Vitra Design Museum's winter exhibition, which for 2015/16 is the fulminate The Bauhaus #itsalldesign Elsewhere September 2015 saw us discuss photographing Le Corbusier with Margret Hoppe, the challenges as young designer in Berlin with Gunnar Søren Petersen, how design can be used for social change with Pepe Heykoop ...... and become completely obsessed with a steel horse from Prague. Vitra Design Museum:

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Maker Library Thingking © Jana Atherton-Chiellino for British Council
Designer | 22.06.2015

smow blog compact: The Maker Library Network at the Vitra Design Museum Gallery

In his review of Chris Taylor's book "How Star Wars Conquered the Universe" the American film critic Tom Shone makes a point so obvious you wonder how it has escaped you these past 38 years: Junk is everything in Star Wars. The Jawas deal in junk. The droids are sold as junk. Our heroes are delivered as junk into the Death Stars trash compactor. That the Death Star is the only new piece of technology on display is sign enough of its nefariousness: those serving the Empire are the only people

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Konstantin Grcic Panorama Vitra Design Museum Netscape Swings
ClassiCon | 24.03.2014

Konstantin Grcic - Panorama @ Vitra Design Museum

One of the first telephone calls Mateo Kries and Marc Zehntner made upon assuming leadership of the Vitra Design Museum in 2011 was to Konstantin Grcic to discuss the possibility of an exhibition. Grcic was, in principle, open to the idea, but, "I didn't want a static exhibition, something that froze my work in time, rather I wanted something dynamic" That "something dynamic" is the exhibition Konstantin Grcic - Panorama which opened at the Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein on Friday March

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