Cold War Modern at V&A

This exhibition was excelent!

http://www.vam.ac.uk/microsites/cold-war-modern/

Sebastião Salgado in Berlin

"Sebastião Salgado - In Principio", an exhibition in C/O Berlin, showed black and white photos by the Brazilian photographer, who documented the landscapes of the countries of coffee growers.

I always liked Salgado's photographs and liked this exhibition very much. What I most knew about his work was the documentation of poverty and portraits of people in Brazil, especially from the North of the country. First time that I see theses photographs about coffee.

What I'm most interested in these kinds of photos is the fact that it is documenting time, people and history of a certain culture, in a very authentic way.

Link for the exhibition:
http://www.co-berlin.info/co-neu/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=500

China Design Now

China Design Now was an exhibition at the Victoria and Albert Museum of design from the last 2 decades in the main cities in China: Beijing, Shanghai and Shenzhen. It exhibited posters, toys, product design, installation, video, animation, etc.

What I got most interested was the Homescape by Chen Shaoxiong: a photo collage installation with pictures of furniture and objects from typical homes rearranged.

Website of the exhibition:
http://www.vam.ac.uk/vastatic/microsites/1636_chinadesignnow/

Brit Insurance Designs of the Year

An exhibition of the 100 best projects of design of the year in the Design Museum in London.

I liked very much some of the projects, especially in the Interactive session. Although, I was a bit disappointed with the Graphic Design session. I was expecting a bit more in terms of experimentation, new materials, print process...

The projects that interested me most were:

- Sketch Furniture, by Front
The group Front have developed a process to turn "air" sketches into real furniture.
Watch the video
Read more in the Front website

- Your house, by Olafur Eliasson.

This book was designed by Olafur Eliasson who relates the experimental narrative of reading a book to walking through a house.


- Sharkrunners, by area/code
Sharkrunners is an online game created for the 20th anniversary of the Discovery Channel's Shark Week.
In the game, players become virtual sharks researchers, but the sharks in the game are the real white sharks with GPS, which provides the position and movement of the real sharks.
Play the game

- Private View Exhibition for Trussardi, Palazzo Trussardi Alla Scala, Milan, by Paul Cocksedge
An exhibition at the Salone del Mobile in Milan. The walls are covered with a filter that for human eyes it appears black. People discover the hidden objects using their mobile cameras or digital cameras.

- The Replenishing Body Kiosk, by Ross Phillips

An interactive video installation where visitors were invited to make a one-second video recording which become part of the video portrait.

Showstudio website