Graphic Design: Now in Production RISD Museum (March 28 — August 3, 2014)

17.04.2014

This spring, the RISD Museum explores some of the most cutting-edge concepts and creative practices in 21st-century graphic design as the ambitious international exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production culminates its national tour in Providence. Graphic Design: Now in Production opens at the RISD Museum on Friday, March 28, and is on view—complemented by an exciting series of public programs and events—through Sunday, August 3, 2014.

“The RISD Museum is thrilled to present the groundbreaking exhibition Graphic Design: Now in Production,” says Museum Director John W. Smith. “We are confident that this exhibition will resonate widely throughout our community—where powerful, innovative design is valued and respected.

Graphic design has broadened its reach dramatically in the 21st century, expanding from a specialized profession to awidely deployed tool. Today, graphic design is the largest of the design professions in the United States, with more thana quarter-million practitioners using color, typography, images, symbols, and systems to make the surfaces around uscome alive with meaning. The revolutions in desktop computing and networkedcommunication have raised public awareness of graphic design, and the field isshifting and expanding in unexpected ways as social media and other technologieschange how people consume information. As design tools have become more widelyaccessible, designers’ roles have also expanded: more designers are becomingproducers—authors, publishers, instigators, and entrepreneurs.

Co-organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York, Graphic Design: Now in Productionexplores some of the most vibrant graphic design work produced since 2000,including magazines, books, and posters; the expansion of branding programs forcorporations, institutions, and subcultures; the entrepreneurial spirit of designerproducedgoods; the renaissance in digital typeface design; the storytelling potentialof film and television titling sequences; and the transformation of raw data into compelling information narratives.

“The show vividly highlights the ways in which graphic design influences our livesand offers a deeper understanding of the creative thinking that informs the designprocess,” Smith says. “During the course of the exhibition, the Museum will be a forum that unites the public and some of graphic design's leading practitioners through lively and innovative programming.”

Jan Howard, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs for the RISD Museum, adds, “As the RISD Museum is the last venue for this show, we are excited to develop programs that give us an opportunity to respond to the installations at the previous venues, and discuss some of the innovations in graphic design since the show was organized just a few years ago. Graphic Design: Now in Production also presents an opportunity for the RISD Museum to become more strongly identified as a major venue in the Northeast for the display of design.”

About the Exhibition

Graphic Design: Now in Production is co-organized by the Walker Art Center, Minneapolis, and the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum, New York. The exhibition is co-curated by Andrew Blauvelt, Chief of Communications and Audience Engagement and Curator of Design, Walker Art Center, and Ellen Lupton, Senior Curator of Contemporary Design, Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum. Jan Howard, Curator of Prints, Drawings, and Photographs, is the show’s organizing curator in Providence. Howard is assisted by Derek Schusterbauer, Graphic Designer for the RISD Museum; Prem Krishnamurthy and Won Choi of New York-based creative agency Project Projects; and Anther Kiley and Colin Frazer, both RISD MFA alumni and critics in the Graphic Design department. The RISD Museum is the final stop in a national tour of the exhibition, which debuted at the Walker Art Center in

October 2011.

Exhibition Themes

Graphic Design: Now in Production is organized around eight themes: Posters, Magazines,

Books, Information Design, Branding, Typography, Storefront, and Film and Television Titles.

Detalii: http://risdmuseum.org/notes/graphic_design_now_in_production