Weekend Heller: Persian Posters, Plinth Post, Products Premiere

Persian Design + Iranian Posters

The 9th exhibition of Persianissimo is now available as a virtual show on all smart devices with support of Posterro. Persianissimo is the Iranian Contemporary Poster Exhibition selected by Majid Abbasi.

Poster-App-2013The first release of the Persianissimo app is available in AppStore:
https://itunes.apple.com/app/persianissimo/id638849964

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You’ve Got To Be MAD

Join the experimental design exhibit at the MAD Museum called Museum as Plinth: Take One/Leave One, an interactive exhibit exploring the role of museums in validating what is and what is not design. Over the course of the Memorial Day weekend (May 24-26), museum visitors are invited to take an object from the shelf and replace it with one of their own— simple ephemera from their pockets or a special piece that they brought with them.

TAKE_LEAVE_MAD_DCRIT-dt2_take_leaveEach object placed on the shelf is officially admitted to the museum’s collection and triggers the debate on value and hierarchy within the museum context.

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Also . . .

As part of NYCxDesign, the students of the MFA in Products of Design at the School of Visual Arts present ALSO!, a series of interactions that explore how we experience new design. The work comes out of a 5-week class called Design Performance taught by Sinclair Smith, which explores design exhibition beyond the pedestal, focusing in on interaction, participation, and staging new behaviors.

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Photo: Kathryn McElroy

“Through a roving set of mobile interventions—both cart-based and human-worn—visitors to the show participate in an unfolding narrative around celebration, sustainability, digital mediation, storytelling, and scale, each expanding the conversation around design beyond form, function, and materiality.”

The work originated at WantedDesign. Learn more at www.alsoproject.com, with documentation at alsodocumentation.tumblr.com.

For more Steven Heller, check out The Education of a Graphic Designer‚ one of the many Heller titles available at MyDesignShop.com.

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Old School vs. New School

In an effort to pull students away from the confines of a screen, they were tasked to design a poster for a play by Shakespeare by hand and also by computer. These were critiqued in a side-by- side comparison of the two efforts.

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Time, Time, Time is On Your Side

Steven Heller presented the commencement address to a class of young designers graduating from the College of Creative Studies. His inspiring message rallied designers to design their time for its optimum impact.

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Noir is Dark: Black Scat Publishing

Black Scat Publishing is responsible for visual and literary books, including “Nickle Noir: the Art of John Nickle”. Founder Norman Conquest provides insight into his evolution in the publishing world. “There’s nothing wrong with digital books, mind you, but only as a convenience. An accessory. Not a replacement!” he says.

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The Paradox of Juxtaposition

Poster stamps were used to advertise and commemorate things, people, events and, of course, products and services. These particular poster stamps are a curious amalgam of politics, government, history, tea and irony.

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Marks on China

Despite the crudity of ledger pages, these marks — china pattern maker logos — exude a design elegance consistent with the era in which they were made.