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Category: Design Exhibition

The Peasant in the City

This piece was written for a Zacheta show, Polska – kraj folkloru? You can download the catalogue in English here. … More

folklore, peasant culture, Stalinism

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

Poster Museum, Warsaw International Poster Biennale

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

Antonelli, curation, Design Critique, MoMA, Museums

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

Eye magazine, journalism

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

Formafantasma, LIbby Sellers Gallery

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

black, Grcic, Museum of Modern Art Warsaw, product design

Boiling the City

At the Łódź Design Festival last weekend, I saw this exercise in data visualisation and sonification. Culling data pulled from … More

Budapest, Data visualisation, Kitchen Budapest, megalopolis

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

Design Museum, El Ultimo Grito, Jurgen Bey, Maarten Baas, Studio Job, Urban Salon, V&A

This is a notebook and an archive. I use this blog to sketch thoughts into words and to post articles and reviews already in print which are difficult to source or in translation. If you are interested to look further, you'll mostly find writing on graphic design and/or Eastern Europe here. You'll need to scroll down the page. There are some downloads and links in the menu above.

- David

You can email me at crowleyd[at]staff.ncad.ie

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