Graphic Design: Now In Production

Limited-run products and an exhibition on graphic design at Minneapolis' Walker Art Center

This Saturday (22 October 2011) Walker Art Center in Minneapolis launches a new exhibition on graphic design that will run through 22 January 2012. “Graphic Design: Now in Production” is a retrospective on the evolution of the medium since 2000, and ambitiously explores the publishing gamut with pieces from magazines, newspapers, books, and posters. The collection follows technical changes in graphic design, which the museum …

Cannondale and Junk Food Clothing

An urban road bike gets a vintage-inspired overhaul in a one-off collaboration

Biker gangs like the Hells Angels may have more in common with Cannondale’s murdered-out Bad Boy bicycle, per se, but Junk Food Clothing‘s new motorcycle club-inspired rendition offers enough attitude to lure its own contingent of riders. The collaborative bike is the first of two unique designs that the L.A.-based T-shirt brand will conceive for Re:Mix Lab, Antenna Magazine’s five-city-wide traveling art show. Cannondale’s Michael …

Modern in the Past Tense

The New York School of Interior Design recreates the seminal show "What Modern Was" in a new exhibit and discussion

When the traveling exhibition “Design 1935-1965: What Modern Was” opened in 1991, the accompanying 424-page catalog startled the industry with its declaration that the Modern period was over, and should, from that point, be spoken about in the past tense. Subsequently revered as the bible for mid-century decorative arts, the heavy tome’s distinct perspective came from four years of scholarly research of the thirty-year period, …