This month sees a name to motion from Dutch Design Week, an exhibition on plastic’s promise and issues at V&A Dundee, a guide celebrating turntable design and extra.
Exhibition: Plastic: Remaking Our World, V&A Dundee
Anybody accustomed to the existence of the Nice Pacific Rubbish Patch will perceive the big influence plastic has had on our world in its 150-year historical past.
However asking the tougher query of ‘How did we get right here?’ is an exhibition opening on 29 October at V&A Dundee, co-produced with Vitra Design Museum, maat, Lisbon and curators from V&A South Kensington.
The exhibition traces plastic’s trajectory from invention to ubiquity, acknowledging what made this materials so extraordinary. Plastic has been utilized in all forms of design, by way of product and furnishings to structure and trend, and on present might be uncommon objects spanning plastic’s beginnings to its apotheosis within the pop period. However alongside eye-catching designs resembling Eero Aarnio’s Ball Chair and Thirties Bakelite posters, the exhibition will present the place many in design are actually focusing their consideration: on the clean-up of the oceans and growing bio-based options product of algae and mycelium.
Plastic: Remaking Our World might be on the V&A Dundee from 29 October 2022 – 5 February 2023. Discover out extra and purchase tickets right here.
Revolution: The Historical past of Turntable Design by Gideon Schwartz
Of curiosity to design-lovers, audiophiles, and each the current converts and analogue natives of the ‘vinyl revival’ is a brand new guide on the design, historical past and cultural influence of turntables and vinyl know-how.
Written by audio design professional Gideon Schwartz, like his earlier title Hello-Fi: The Historical past of Excessive-Finish Audio Design, Revolution spotlights a key object within the historical past of music. It comprises greater than 300 turntable designs starting from the reasonably priced to the high-end, together with the ‘audiophile-approved’ Nineteen Eighties Micro Seiki SX-8000 by Hideaki Nishikawa alongside uncommon designs such because the ‘Brutalist’ Sharp Optonica with its substantial granite plinth.
Threaded all through the publication, Schrwartz’s textual content reveals how object and tradition have labored in tandem over the many years – from the early visions of Edouard-Leon Scott de Martinville, Charles Cros, and Thomas Edison, to the connection between DJs and corporations resembling Techncs – to clarify why each this design object and analogue music tradition have had such lasting enchantment.
Revolution: The Historical past of Turntable Design might be printed by Phaidon on 13 October 2022 and is on the market for preorder now.
Design Truthful: Dutch Design Week
That includes the work of over 2600 worldwide designers for exhibitions, occasions, debates and extra, the twenty first version of Dutch Design Week (DDW) will happen from 22-30 October throughout Eindhoven.
This 12 months’s theme, Get Set, is a name to motion. “We’ve got to behave now,” says inventive lead Miriam van der Lubbe. “Not every thing will work out the way in which we plan or hope, [but the] solely mistake we will make is simply to not get began.”
The programme is cut up into seven thematic exhibitions, resembling Get Set for World Wellbeing, which explores ideas and designs to deal with planetary well being issues.
There may also be exhibitions from a wider design group of studios, universities, academies, places and DDW companions.
This 12 months Formafantasma and photo voltaic designer Marjan van Aubel tackle the position of design advocate for DDW. Each will create new tasks for DDW, whereas for the primary time, younger design skills might be invited to collaborate.
Dutch Design Week takes place from Saturday 22 – Sunday 30 October throughout the town of Eindhoven, The Netherlands. Discover out extra and purchase tickets.
Design Speak: Profession Horror Tales from SheSays, Bureau and Design District
From SheSays, an organisation supporting ladies within the inventive industries, comes the second version of its in style ‘Horror Tales’ occasion at Bureau, the member’s membership situated in Design District, London.
The occasion is pitched as an sincere dialog for members of the inventive industries, the place as an alternative of specializing in their profession successes, three professionals from design, gaming and movie will confess the bizarre and memorable failures they’ve additionally needed to take care of alongside the way in which.
Sharing their tales might be Emma Sexton, design advisor and founding father of inventive company Arms Down! !®; Katie Farmer, international head of manufacturing at Gravity Highway; and “entrepreneur, author, avid solo-traveller, psychological well being advocate, spoken phrase poet, public speaker and ex-investment banking skilled” Obsidian Funmi Adebayo. The occasion might be chaired by SheSays president Amy Dick, who can be head of Influence at Anybody, an app that allows you to name anybody on this planet for recommendation.
Profession Horror Tales will happen on 12 October 2022, at Bureau C3, Design District, 13 Soames Stroll, London SE10 0AX. Discover out extra and guide tickets.
Occasion: Small Publishers Truthful
The annual Small Publishers Truthful returns to Bloomsbury for 2 days, showcasing the work of sixty-nine small press publishers drawn from throughout the UK and world wide.
Modern type and content material will come collectively throughout the combination of artists’ books, letterpress restricted editions, poetry pamphlets, posters, zines and ephemera.
The work of many guide designers together with restricted version and hard-to-find publications might be accessible to browse and buy.
Among the many returning and new exhibitors are: Ambeck Design, Unhealthy Betty Press, bookartbookshop, Coracle Press, Equus Press and lots of extra. Work might be accessible to buy with costs starting from £2 to over £200.
This 12 months’s exhibition Bibliopoe appears at books by poet, author and performer SJ Fowler. That includes greater than fifty publications made with many various imprints throughout the breadth of British small publishing since 2010, the exhibition paperwork his distinctive engagement with the processes of publishing experimental literature. Fowler will curate a day of readings on the Friday afternoon.
The Small Publishers Truthful might be at Conway Corridor, Bloomsbury, London on Friday 28 and Saturday 29 October. Discover out extra on the web site.
Banner Picture: Cupboard of Collaborations from Dutch Design Week 2021.
