Cool Hunting
And now, the perfect roadstop for mega-designgeeks on a summer cross-country trip. Milwaukee, Wisconsin has a hidden history of industrial design innovation starting with industry pioneer Brooks Stevens. The Juried Exhibition of 2006 graduates from the (yes it is) prestigious Milwaukee Institute of Art and Design (MIAD) present the next generation purveyors of beautiful planned obsolescence. Product prototypes, 3-D proposal renderings and boundary-pushing corporate graphic design from the best undergraduate and masters students are featured in the show. Like the stereotype of the pragmatic Midwest, work in the show leans away from an art-for-arts sake mindset towards creating solidly marketable things.
Emerging from the incubator are pieces with sublime, subtle differentiation. MIAD’s tiny campus area also houses the Eisner Museum of American Advertising and Design. The loft-like space mounts retrospectives of ID and graphic design studios which have written the dominant vocabularies of American design, like the upcoming Charles Anderson Exhibit. The MIAD Graduate Exhibition runs through 5 August 2006.
by Kristopher Irizarry
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The London creative scene is keeping us on our toes. No sooner than we recovered from the excitements of the 2007 London Design Festival, it was time to get revved up for the London art fairs. We experienced Pulse London and the enormity of Frieze (more to come on that), but we started out at Design Art London, the organizers of which had clearly...
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Having spent weeks talking to students and looking at the annual Royal College of Art degree show, Exhibit-K, a London-based art tour service, came up with five hot design picks exclusively for Cool Hunting. Doodle Dudes Andrew Haythornthwaite's Doodle Dudes gives the characters that children create in their drawings a 3-d life by using rapid prototyping to print their drawings in 3 dimensions. Children’s...
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Phurniture (one of New York' most lauded destinations for 20th century art and design) 51 Things collects some of the rarest and most significant furniture, lighting, sculptures and decorative objects from the past 60 years under one vacant Toronto warehouse roof. Opening next week on 7 June 2006 and running through 15 July 2006, the 51 pieces in the show include works by such luminaries...
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Hank and Matlok
Neon Shoes
Radio Village Nomade
Ghostly Swim: Interview with Sam Valenti
Creative Index
Interview with Maarten Baas
A Paper Tiger
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