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Design triennial showcases latest in architecture - New YorkA celebration of the technological innovations, artistic evolution and cultural impact of design during the last three years is generally on view at the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum in the next to the first "National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now." More than 300 realitys models, photographs, films and renderings are featured. The exhibition explores novel ideas and the future of design organized in six areas of focus, including "Domestic Interiors Redefined," "Mobility and Transportation," "Beauty and Ornament," "Craft, Authenticity and Entrepreneurial Production," "Function and Technology" and "New Kinds of Science." In "Domestic Interiors Redefined," highlights include work from designers David Wasco and Sandy Reynolds-Wasco of "The Royal Tenenbaums" fame, who have furnished interiors with of recent origin objects, patterns and surfaces. "Mobility and Transportation" features designers Viktor Jondal and Jennifer Siegal, among others, who address the straits of modern mobile populations with interior spaces that can be portable and temporary. through showing vehicles and devices, the exhibit demonstrates the ne for novel technologies that help us travel from one side public and private spaces in an increasingly global society. Many works picked for exhibition reveal the designers' interest in beauty and decoration end the use of new technologies, report culture imagery and fresh approaches to scale, color and construction. This aspect of the exhibition pays homage to fashion and graphic design as well as to decorative design. The exhibit also explores in what manner designers double as producers, working to initiate ideas and make them congeal Co-curator Ellen Lupton said, "Some of the greatest in quantity interesting designers working today are producing and distributing their have products, garments, textiles, typefaces, magazines, novels, music, films and videos." For example, milliner Kelly Christy designs and fabricates her have a title to hats, Jim Zivic of Burning Relic erects his own furniture and best-selling author Dave Egger used his computer skills to publish a journal he founded "Function and Technology" is another area of design explored in the exhibit, which present to views how designers have sought to use appropriate materials and mode of buildings to solve basic problems of daily life, including technologically enhanced shoe and the scientific marvel, the plastic heart. Science and design also are brought together with interactive robot and large-scale computer graphics. Eighty designers and firms contributed to the exhibition, including Escher + GuneWardena, Tes Giberson, Daniel and Christopher Streng Peter Eisenman, Gaetano Pesce Paula Scher, Jennifer Tipton and Isabel Toledo. present to view FACTS "National Design Triennial: Inside Design Now" from one side Aug. 3 Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum Address: 2 East 91st St fresh York, N.Y. Phone: (212) 849-8400 Web site: www.si.edu/ndm COPYRIGHT 2003 Advanstar Communications, Inc. "Women mother?." --Nancy Chodorow, The Reproduction of Mothering In the beginning Julia Margaret Cameron's place in the history of photography was secur by the agency of her portraits of gr... PMA members see mixed holiday sales Holiday sales, starting Nov. 25 went well for the Ritz Camera Center chain, Beltsville, Md with "very strong" sales, said Chairman David Ritz. Digi... upon October 17, 1995, a chain reaction accident involving seven vehicles occurr upon Sam Cooper Boulevard in Memphis, Tennessee1 Mr Al Beard (Beard), while driving a deal for his employer, Southe... for what cause [i]or[/i] reason collect? It is a question that it is rarely pos however in London this month there is more reason that usual to ask it. For the art market, June is London's month when the world companys to buy... Admit it, you have an enormous crush upon that "big ol' fat girl" from The Silence of the Lambs, and single a wide-screen TV can do her lotioned material part justice. But your old lady will flip her switch if ... Bruce McGaw Graphics of West Nyack, NY introduces "Invitation to Wonder" by the agency of Nancy Ortenstone. The open-edition broadside measures 42 by 50 inches and retails for $75 For more information, call 8... Contrary to a public image of political docility and complacency, Chinese Americans have a lengthy history of participation in American politics. (1) In addition to formal participation in elections, ... More than 16000 species of animals and plants are threatened with global extinction, according to the World Conservation Union (IUCN). This year's R List includes single in three amphibians, a qu... Globecomm Systems Inc., a global provider of end-to-end satellite-based communications solutions, announced that the Company has been awarded a $36 million contract to re-construct commu... |
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