Title: Super Contemporary
Location: Design Museum
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-06-02
Show: 03 June – 04 October

At the heart of the exhibition are fifteen commissions from some of London’s most dynamic creatives, as a group they demonstrate the diverse approaches to design in London:

Bus Shelter by David Adjaye. Gone with the Wind by Ron Arad. Listening Station by BarberOsgerby. Freedom Space by Neville Brody. Batterseum by Nigel Coates. Rain It In by Paul Cocksedge. London Transport by Tom Dixon. Horatio’s Garden by El Ultimo Grito with Urban Salon. Thames Pin by Kit Grover. Vision for the city of London by Zaha Hadid. K9 Post Office Kiosk by Industrial Facility. Lamp Post Chandelier by Thomas Heatherwick. KiosKiosk by Wayne Hemingway. Head to Toe by Ross Phillips. New London Rubbish Bin by Paul Smith.

* scenography by Martino Gamper and Bibliotheque

Gallery Talks
Get right under the skin of all things Super Contemporary by joining one of our free gallery talks. A Design Museum curator or design specialist will be on hand to guide you round the show in one of our 30 minute talks. No pre-booking but spaces are limited.

Sunday 14 June, 12 noon
Sunday 19 July, 12 noon
Sunday 9 August, 12 noon
Sunday 13 September, 12 noon

from the DM’s website:

Design Museum has joined forces with Beefeater 24 to celebrate the fearlessly progressive spirit of London’s greatest creative minds, past and present. London thinks, designs and makes like no other city; it creates and the world follows. A magnet for mavericks and freethinkers, London has nurtured a creative community that continues to rival all other design capitals.

These creative networks have spurred each other on. This exhibition will illustrate London’s pursuit of new, better and braver, across architecture, industrial design, graphics, fashion and communications alike. Endlessly pushing at the forefront of design and constantly inventing for new worlds, London’s design output is continually Super Contemporary.

Title: Dexter Sinister: True Mirror Microfiche
Location: ICA
Description: Dexter Sinister present True Mirror Microfiche, a lecture with overhead projection that will be performed by a 20-strong cast.
Start Time: 19:00
Date: 2009-05-30

Dexter Sinister is a New York-based collaboration founded by Stuart Bailey and David Reinfurt which ‘publishes’ work exploring the intersection of design, editing, publishing and distribution. For Talk Show Dexter Sinister presents True Mirror Microfiche, a lecture with overhead projection that will be performed by a 20-strong cast, and which itself replicates, revises and recasts two previous performances staged in New York at The Kitchen and the Whitney Museum of American Art in 2008.

Free. Tickets must be collected 30 minutes before the event starts, or they will be released.

Title: Tom Price at Oliver Sweeney
Location: Oliver Sweeney Gallery - W1S 1RW
Description: From March the 20th to April the 19th, Oliver Sweeney will host a solo exhibition of (melted) works by Tom Price.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2009-03-20

http://www.tom-price.com/

Title: Joseph Grigely — Exhibition Prosthetics
Location: ARCHITECTURAL ASSOCIATION
Description: ‘Exhibition Prosthetics’ is a term used to describe a loosely ordered array of exhibition conventions. These conventions include labels, titles, checklists, exhibition announcements, press releases, and catalogues; and in some instances, exhibition publications that manifest themselves outside the physical space of the gallery. In this respect, moving closer to the artwork involves moving away from the artwork – to look closer at fringes and margins and representations, and ask what seems to be a very fundamental question: to what extent are these various exhibition conventions actually part of the art – and not merely an extension of it? How might it be that ‘art’ is subsumed by the various representations that we make for it? This talk will focus on situations in which the representations are art – not merely re-presentations of art.

Artist Joseph Grigely’s lecture ‘Exhibition Prosthetics’ is the first in the Excursus lecture and publication series initiated by Bedford Press, a small-scale private press and publisher operating under the auspices of the Architectural Association.
Start Time: 18:00
Date: 2009-02-18

Bedford Press: Excursus Series
Artist Joseph Grigely’s lecture Exhibition Prosthetics is the first in the Excursus lecture and publication series is initiated by Bedford Press, a small-scale private press and publisher operating under the auspices of the Architectural Association.

Exhibition Prosthetics, Joseph Grigely
Exhibition Prosthetics is a term used to describe a loosely ordered array of exhibition conventions. These conventions include labels, titles, checklists, exhibition announcements, press releases, and catalogues; and in some instances, exhibition publications that manifest themselves outside the physical space of the gallery. In this respect, moving closer to the artwork involves moving away from the artwork–to look closer at fringes and margins and representations, and ask what seems to me a very fundamental question: to what extent are these various exhibition conventions actually part of the art–and not merely an extension of it? How might it be that ‘art’ is subsumed by the various representations that we make for it?  This talk will focus on situations in which the representations are art–not merely re-presentations of art.

Title: Rodchenko and Popova: Defining Constructivism 12 February – 17 May 2009
Location: Tate Modern
Description: The Russian Revolution was accompanied by a remarkable period of artistic experiment known as Constructivism, which questioned the fundamental properties of art and asked what its place should be in a new society. The Constructivists challenged the idea of the work of art as a unique commodity, explored more collective ways of working, and looked at how they could contribute to everyday life through design, architecture, industrial production, theatre and film.

Liubov Popova (1889-1924) and Aleksandr Rodchenko (1891-1956) were pivotal figures in the debates and discussions that defined Constructivism. Rodchenko, whose wife Varvara Stepanova was a major artist in her own right, energetically embraced almost all of its manifestations, from advertising to photography and film. Popova’s achievements in painting, theatre, and graphic and textile design took place in spite of ill health and tragedy: her husband died of typhoid in 1919, and she spent a year recuperating from the illness herself. In 1924 she and her son both died of scarlet fever.

The Constructivists compared the artist to an engineer, arranging materials scientifically and objectively, and producing art works as rationally as any other manufactured object. This was, in theory, an art that transcended gender differences. The equality of the sexes was an important Communist principle, and this was one of the first periods in history when female artists were valued as highly as their male counterparts.
Date: 2009-02-15

Title: Le Corbusier - The Art of Architecture
Location: Barbican Art Gallery
Date: 2009-02-19

Title: It’s not for reading. It’s for making
Location: 51–63 Ridley Road, London E8 2NP (http://www.formcontent.org/)
Description: A reflection on collecting and archiving with interventions by Luca Frei, Edgar Schmitz, Charlotte Moth, Guestroom, Raymond Taudin Chabot, Matteo Terzaghi & Marco Zürcher
12 February – 5 April 2009
Date: 2009-02-14

Title: Wim Crouwel
Location: LCC
Description: Wim Crouwel, born in 1928 in Groningen, Netherlands, is a Dutch graphic designer and typographer. He is known for his posters and exhibition design for the Stedelijk Museum in Amsterdam. Crouwel has designed several font sets, of which the New Alphabet (1967) is best known. New Alphabet is a highly abstract font, based on a dot-matrix system. Crouwel intended it to be easily read by computers.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2009-02-05
End Time: 20:30

Title: SuperChristmasMarket
Location: Somerset House - WC2R 1LA
Description: Simon Donald, Robert Archard, Alexandre Bettler, Isabel Costa Lucio, Carl Clerkin, Bernadette Deddens, Simon Donald, Martino Gamper, Gemma Gourlay, Sena Gu, Jon Harrison, Ikik Ceramics, Out of Office, David Weatherhead and Joe Wentworth.
Start Time: 10:00
Date: 2008-12-19

Shopping highlights include: The Clamp Nut Cracker by Simon Donald, available in either walnut or beech wood and personalised wooden name brooches and necklaces by Lady Luck Rules OK.

Other designers in Super Christmas Market include: Robert Archard, Alexandre Bettler, Isabel Costa Lucio, Carl Clerkin, Bernadette Deddens, Simon Donald, Martino Gamper, Gemma Gourlay, Sena Gu, Jon Harrison, Ikik Ceramics, Out of Office, David Weatherhead and Joe Wentworth.

Super Christmas Market is designed by Mark Garside and curated by Somerset House with Vicky and Jess.

Cash or cheque only
Friday 19 December, 6 – 9 pm
Saturday 20 and Sunday 21 December, 10am – 6pm
Ticket £2, which includes entrance to the Wouldn’t it be nice… exhibition.
Somerset House, Strand, London, WC2R 1LA. www.somersethouse.org.uk, 020 7845 4600
Nearest tube: Holborn, Embankment, Temple

Title: Professor Yoshiro Gotoh
Location: Main Lecture Theatre London College of Communication
Description: Please reserve a place by emailing graphics@lcc.arts.ac.uk

This special Talking Graphics is free to all. Refreshments will be available after the lecture.

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Professor Yoshiro Gotoh, Head of Graphic Design at Musashino Art University in Japan, will be visiting the School of Graphic Design for one week in December to work with Students from BA (Hons) Graphic and Media Design: Design for Typo/Graphics year 2 on projects exploring duality in language and communication.

This special Talking Graphics will feature Professor Gotoh talking about teaching typography and information design in the department of Visual Communication Design at Musashino Art University, his own Information Design Research and his visit to the college working with Typo/Graphics students. He studied at LCC in the 1970s. His areas of interests encompass typography, early print history and print technology.
Start Time: 18:30
Date: 2008-12-02