Exhibitions Archives - Design Work Life https://designworklife.com/tag/exhibitions/ Design inspiration & how-tos for your everyday work and life. Mon, 17 Mar 2014 17:23:12 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 https://designworklife.com/wp-content/uploads/2024/09/cropped-dwl-icon-32x32.png Exhibitions Archives - Design Work Life https://designworklife.com/tag/exhibitions/ 32 32 Bryan Patrick Todd: Banner Year https://designworklife.com/bryan-patrick-todd-banner-year/ Tue, 18 Mar 2014 19:00:20 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=77560 Bryan Patrick Todd recently opened his first solo show, “Banner Year,” which includes eight handcrafted banners featuring eight quotes serving as “part motivation, part fun.”

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]]> MoMA Art Lab: Movement https://designworklife.com/moma-art-lab-movement/ Wed, 15 Jan 2014 20:00:25 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=73727 Tony Lee Jr., a designer at MoMA Design Studio (and previously featured for his student work), recently sent over his updated portfolio. I was immediately impressed by his work for MoMA’s art lab, an interactive space where people of all ages can explore, play and create while discovering various topics in art. The movement exhibit, shown […]

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]]> Super Precious Art Gallery: Punctuation Show https://designworklife.com/super-precious-art-gallery-punctuation-show/ https://designworklife.com/super-precious-art-gallery-punctuation-show/#respond Fri, 06 Dec 2013 15:00:19 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=71751 Attention grammar enthusiasts: the latest exhibit Super Precious Art Gallery is the Punctuation Show, which features 17 pieces by 11 artists, all inspired by punctuation. Check out all of the pieces and pick up prints right here.    

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]]> https://designworklife.com/super-precious-art-gallery-punctuation-show/feed/ 0 Food Chocolate Design https://designworklife.com/food-chocolate-design/ https://designworklife.com/food-chocolate-design/#comments Tue, 18 Jun 2013 12:00:16 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=65802 In addition to being three of my favorite things, Food Chocolate Design is an exhibition and accompanying publication featuring the work of various food makers, food bloggers and designers. You can purchase the book here (though I’m not sure the seller ships to the U.S.) and check out more images of the book and exhibition […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/food-chocolate-design/feed/ 2 Shantanu Suman: Horn Please Musical Boxes https://designworklife.com/shantanu-suman-horn-please-musical-boxes/ https://designworklife.com/shantanu-suman-horn-please-musical-boxes/#respond Wed, 05 Jun 2013 14:00:00 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=65433 As part of his Horn Please exhibition, Shantanu Suman created a series of beautiful music boxes to demonstrate the various horns found in Indian trucks. Each hand painted box was included four buttons that produce different pitched sounds when pushed—check out the quick video below to see (and hear) them in action. Beautiful work!

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]]> https://designworklife.com/shantanu-suman-horn-please-musical-boxes/feed/ 0 Lashun Tines: Diaspora “The Art of Blackness” 2013 https://designworklife.com/lashun-tines-diaspora-the-art-of-blackness-2013/ https://designworklife.com/lashun-tines-diaspora-the-art-of-blackness-2013/#comments Wed, 08 May 2013 13:00:18 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=63310 Take a look at Chicago-based designer Lashun Tine‘s work for the 2013 Diaspora “The Art of Blackness” exhibition. (See the 2012 edition right here.) A bit of background: As the Art Director and Public Relations Chair for The MetroBoard of the Chicago Urban League, one of the highlights of my tenure has been the creation of The […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/lashun-tines-diaspora-the-art-of-blackness-2013/feed/ 1 Merijn Hos: Wood Sculptures at Beginnings NYC https://designworklife.com/merijn-hos-wood-sculptures-at-beginnings-nyc/ https://designworklife.com/merijn-hos-wood-sculptures-at-beginnings-nyc/#comments Mon, 08 Apr 2013 14:00:21 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=62662 Dutch artist and illustrator Merijn Hos recently had an exhibition at Beginnings NYC, featuring a selection of his colorful wood sculptures. A bit of background on the series: Wood Sculptures is a collection of works originally made for an exhibition at the Stedelijk Museum Kampen in the Netherlands, which was on display in the Spring of […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/merijn-hos-wood-sculptures-at-beginnings-nyc/feed/ 1 Hamilton Wood Type Needs Your Help https://designworklife.com/hamilton-wood-type-needs-your-help/ https://designworklife.com/hamilton-wood-type-needs-your-help/#comments Wed, 21 Nov 2012 12:00:32 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=56234 Calling all designers and typography afficionados: The incredible Hamilton Wood Type & Printing Museum in Wisconsin, needs your help. The owners of their building have given them a short amount of time—approximately 60 days as of now—to vacate the premises. In order to do this, they need to raise $250,000 to pack up all 30,000 […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/hamilton-wood-type-needs-your-help/feed/ 1 Illustrated Bites Exhibition https://designworklife.com/illustrated-bites-exhibition/ https://designworklife.com/illustrated-bites-exhibition/#comments Wed, 02 May 2012 14:00:15 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=45627 Heather Hardison recently opened a show at San Francisco’s Curiosity Shoppe featuring food-related bits of hand-lettering and illustration. The show’s pieces were inspired by the work created for her blog of the same name.  

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]]> https://designworklife.com/illustrated-bites-exhibition/feed/ 1 Allan Peters: Artcrank 2012 https://designworklife.com/allan-peters-artcrank-2012/ https://designworklife.com/allan-peters-artcrank-2012/#comments Tue, 03 Apr 2012 14:00:55 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=44715 Allan Peters designed this poster as part of Artcrank 2012, a Minneapolis-based event that features hand-made, bike-inspired posters created by 40 Twin Cities artists. His piece grew out of a love for “badges, crests and vintage type lock-ups” and inspiration from the vintage air museum he recently visited in Alabama (read more about his process here), resulting in […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/allan-peters-artcrank-2012/feed/ 7 AIGA San Francisco 50 Books/50 Covers Exhibition https://designworklife.com/aiga-san-francisco-50-books50-covers-exhibition/ https://designworklife.com/aiga-san-francisco-50-books50-covers-exhibition/#comments Mon, 19 Mar 2012 14:00:07 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=44012 If you’re in the San Francisco area on March 29th (I wish I was!) don’t miss this great event: Fifty Books/Fifty Covers, a juried selection of the best-designed books and covers published in 2010 and juried in 2011. The exhibition and reception is being presented by the San Francisco chapter of the AIGA, Chronicle Books and the […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/aiga-san-francisco-50-books50-covers-exhibition/feed/ 1 Lashun F. Tines: Diaspora Exhibition https://designworklife.com/lashun-f-tines-diaspora-exhibition/ https://designworklife.com/lashun-f-tines-diaspora-exhibition/#comments Wed, 22 Feb 2012 16:00:58 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=42941 It’s short notice, but if you happen to be in the Chicago area, a great creative event is happening this Friday. Diaspora: The Art of Blackness, an event that celebrates art, design and music in observance of Black History Month, is jointly sponsored by Metropolitan Board of the Chicago Urban League, The Society of Typographic Arts and the […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/lashun-f-tines-diaspora-exhibition/feed/ 2 Robert Finkel: Up, Down, Left, Right Exhibition https://designworklife.com/robert-finkel-up-down-left-right-exhibition/ https://designworklife.com/robert-finkel-up-down-left-right-exhibition/#comments Wed, 11 Jan 2012 15:00:27 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=40614 For his thesis project, Robert Finkel chose to produce an exhibition based on the history of the arrow, entitled Up, Down, Left, Right. Here’s a brief description in his own words: The image of the arrow is nearly everywhere we look. It suggests and controls the movement of information, people, and machines. However, the use […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/robert-finkel-up-down-left-right-exhibition/feed/ 2 Laurie DeMartino Design: Womn in Design Exhibition https://designworklife.com/laurie-demartino-design-womn-in-design-exhibition/ https://designworklife.com/laurie-demartino-design-womn-in-design-exhibition/#respond Mon, 21 Nov 2011 17:00:23 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=39041 Minneapolis has such an amazing design scene, including an especially high concentration of talented female designers. So it was great to see the development of WOMN: Women in Minnesota Design, an exhibition put together to honor women’s contributions to the field, by the College of Visual Arts. The promotional pieces for the event were designed by […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/laurie-demartino-design-womn-in-design-exhibition/feed/ 0 C/C: AMERICANANA https://designworklife.com/cc-americanana/ https://designworklife.com/cc-americanana/#comments Thu, 06 Oct 2011 14:00:02 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=36151 Check out the identity and materials that New York’s C/C designed for Americanana, a group art exhibition at The Hunter College Art Galleries—I love this typographic, black-and-white approach. Get a more in-depth look at the concept, process and design in the AIGA Design Archives.

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]]> https://designworklife.com/cc-americanana/feed/ 1 A Friend Of Mine: VCE Season Of Excellence https://designworklife.com/a-friend-of-mine-vce-season-of-excellence/ https://designworklife.com/a-friend-of-mine-vce-season-of-excellence/#comments Wed, 05 Oct 2011 15:00:48 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=36672 Check out this beautiful identity program, which features stunning paper cut work, for VCE Season of Excellence by A Friend of Mine. The VCE Season of Excellence, by the Victorian Curriculum and Assessment Authority (VCAA), is a series of events and exhibitions celebrating a selection of A+ grade work produced by VCE students in an […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/a-friend-of-mine-vce-season-of-excellence/feed/ 5 Scott Albrecht: Along the Way https://designworklife.com/scott-albrecht-along-the-way/ https://designworklife.com/scott-albrecht-along-the-way/#comments Tue, 07 Jun 2011 15:00:51 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=31489 Along the Way is an upcoming exhibition featuring the work of Brooklyn-based artist, Scott Albrecht. The exhibition will be on view from June 25th through July 20th at Philadelphia’s Trick Go—a must see, if you’re in the area. Albrecht often uses found materials as alternative canvases for his work (discarded books, maps, and wooden boxes) […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/scott-albrecht-along-the-way/feed/ 1 Old School Favorites https://designworklife.com/old-school-favorites/ https://designworklife.com/old-school-favorites/#comments Wed, 27 Aug 2008 13:00:19 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=785 Check out more gallery images on Flickr Uppercase Gallery’s Old School exhibition finally opened last week in Calgary. If you’re like me and (unfortunately) way too far away to check it out in person, you can now purchase some of the artwork online. And don’t forget to order the companion book and check out some […]

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]]> https://designworklife.com/old-school-favorites/feed/ 1 Kehinde Wiley https://designworklife.com/kehinde-wiley/ https://designworklife.com/kehinde-wiley/#respond Mon, 14 Jul 2008 14:00:39 +0000 https://designworklife.com/?p=361 I read about extremely talented painter, Kehinde Wiley, in a recent issue of Time Out New York, which you can check out right here. And I immediately loved his work. Lucky for us New Yorkers, he has a show up at the Studio Museum in Harlem, called The World Stage: Africa, Lagos ~ Dakar, which […]

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