Art and design have had an enduringly productive relationship. Artists and designers, as well as graphic artists, fashion designers, and architects, share common strategies, methods, and aims. While some artists employ design strategies to make socially critical statements, others use design as a way of reflecting everyday phenomena, emotions, or conceptual approaches. (Picture: Martino Gamper, Gallery Furniture, 2007 © Francis Ware)

Many designers on the other hand, having dispensed with any belief in the ideal of neutrality, intervene increasingly in social, political, ethical, or ecological discourses. This exhibition confronts ten contemporary positions on the edge of reality, on the border of what is possible. Featuring: Jurgen Bey (NL), Bless (FR/DE), Dexter Sinister (GB/US), Dunne & Raby and Michael Anastassiades (GB), Alicia Framis (ES), Martino Gamper (IT/GB), Ryan Gander (GB), Martí Guixé (ES), Tobias Rehberger (DE) and Superflex (DK). A co-production with the Centre d’Art Contemporain Genève and the Haute école d’art et de design Genève.

The exhibition »Would it be nice…« can be seen in the Museum of Design Zurich till 25 May 2008.

New York, February 20, 2008 – Design and the Elastic Mind is an exhibition about the latest developments in design, and a glimpse into what the future holds. It explores the reciprocal relationship between science and design in the contemporary world, bringing together more than 200 objects, installations, and concepts that marry the most advanced scientific research with attentive considerations of human nature, limitations, habits, and aspirations.

The exhibition shows designers’ ability to grasp momentous revolutions in technology, science, and history that demand or reflect major adjustments in human behavior, and to convert them into objects that people can actually understand and use. The objects in the exhibition range from images of nanoscopic devices to vehicles, from appliances to interfaces, and from pragmatic solutions for everyday use to provocative ideas meant to influence our future choices. The exhibition is organized by Paola Antonelli, Senior Curator, and Patricia Juncosa Vecchierini, Curatorial Assistant, Department of Architecture and Design, The Museum of Modern Art.

In the interview with ROGER, Ms. Antonelli says, “This exhibition Continue Reading »

There is a lot of »Liechtenstein« in the media these days, because Klaus Zumwinkel, CEO of Deutsche Post, brought millions of Euros to »LGT«, the bank of the sovereign family of Liechtenstein. All this wouldn’t be a problem would Zumwinkel, who was boss of the German post for 18 years, would have paid taxes for those millions. Zumwinkel was arrested on Thursday morning in his house in Cologne and set free later in the day by paying a bail. On Friday Deutsche Post announced that Zumwinkel steps down as CEO and also as member of the advisory board of Deutsche Telekom and Postbank.

In a James-Bond-like manner the German secret service bought thousands of files from an whistle-blower for around 5 million Euros. Those data carry information about customers of two Liechtenstein banks that illegally Continue Reading »