This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More
Category: Design Exhibition
The Poster Remediated – installation shots and press
These installation shots in Poster Museum at Wilanów were provided by Podpunkt, the excellent studio which designed the show and the … More
Design Exhibitions Today – Answers and Questions
This piece appears in Disegno magazine, 7, 2014. Design museums and galleries have long been in the business of … More
Modernizacje 1918-1939. Czas przyszły dokonany – review
This review was commissioned by the European Architectural History Network in 2010. ♦ Like a number of other exhibitions on … More
Writing Design: The History of Design Criticism in the UK since the 1960s
This essay appeared in the book published to accompany Communicate! British Independent Graphic Design since the 1960s, an exhibition curated … More
A spectre haunts the world and it is the spectre of migration
This review appears in Frieze, November 2011. ♦ In recent years Studio Formafantasma – Italian designers, Andrea Trimarchi and Simone … More
Any colour .. as long as it’s black
Warsaw’s Museum of Modern Art – in its temporary location of a socmodernist furniture store – is, appropriately enough, hosting … More
Boiling the City
At the Łódź Design Festival last weekend, I saw this exercise in data visualisation and sonification. Culling data pulled from … More
Design Beyond Art
Here’s a review of two exhibitions – ‘Telling Tales‘ at the V&A and ‘Super Contemporary’ at the Design Museum. Both exhibitions … More