In Search of the Miraculous or One Thing Leads to Another

October 1–November 24, 2010

As a graphic designer, Milton Glaser has created some of the most powerful and enduring visual art of our time. This exhibition of Glaser’s work attempts to plot the path of a series of design ideas over a period of time to demonstrate how one influences another, and how any two ideas brought together can produce a totally new idea that cannot be anticipated.

Check out:

http://www.aiga.org/content.cfm/exhibit-milton-glaser

Design Research

Image of Design Research Store

A new book designed by Michael Bierut @ Pentagram

Today, retailers like Design Within Reach, Crate & Barrel, Habitat, IKEA and Target have all popularized the idea that good design should be accessible to everyone. But the concept was first introduced over a half century ago by Design Research, the influential modernist mini-chain that mixed design objects from Charles and Ray Eames, Alvar Aalto and Arne Jacobsen with eclectic folk materials and textiles from around the world and helped introduce the modern “lifestyle” to postwar Americans and their homes.

The first Design Research store was established in 1953 …
http://pentagram.com/en/new/2010/08/new-work-design-research.php

Robert Campbell talks about Design Research

It’s a mod world

Design for the Other 90%

“The majority of the world’s designers focus all their efforts on developing products and services exclusively for the richest 10% of the world’s customers. Nothing less than a revolution in design is needed to reach the other 90%.”

—Dr. Paul Polak, International Development Enterprises

http://other90.cooperhewitt.org/