As we now move into Autumn, I have revisited these photos from an exhibition I saw at the Design Museum. Ai Weiwei: Making Sense. Food for thought.
Making Sense?
Category: Design
Mad about Museums
Mechanical Art & Design Museum
I am mad about museums and this was such a GEM to find in Stratford Upon Avon.
Being smooth about clay
A clay model for the Ferrari J50, 2015. at the Design Museum Ferrari under the skin exhibition. Just ten of these cars were built to celebrate Ferrari’s first 50 years in Japan. One half of this model has been finished and painted. The other half is bare clay showing the stages of the modeling process.
A quick trip out for inspiration and the Design Museum was my choice this weekend and ‘Ferrari Under the Skin’ is what drew me.
It was wonderful.,extremely informative, very beautiful and full to the brim with facts and displays which were breadth taking.
But it was this particular exhibit which appealed to me the most. It highlighted both design and craft skills in a very high end and powerful industry.
Well it inspired me to post this, to stop procrastinating and to move forward with some creative ideas.
Less is more.
Exhibit by Ma Ke at the Design Museum London
This exhibit is by Ma Ke, a Chinese fashion designer and is on display at the Design Museum in Kensington. Ma Ke stopped producing commercial clothing 10 years ago and set up ‘Wuyong’ a design studio social enterprise project and focuses on traditional ways of making clothes and rejecting hyper-consumption.
The simplicity is very effective and speaks volumes during a time of consumerism.
Time to relax and take it all in.
Eduardo Paolozzi sculpture outside the Design Museum Kensington
The Design Museum Kensington
I was lucky to get a sneak preview of the Design Museum on Sunday and I will definitely be returning. It opens this week, great location, great meeting place and ‘design is all around us’ is my mantra now leading up to Christmas. Design is the arts and sciences working together creatively.
Blog 94:Making you own garden inside
There is something about these flowers which make me smile. Looking homely, comfortable and absolutely right against a backdrop of a roadway and the green countryside. Slightly wacky but creative fun at a design wonderland, Vitra design Museum.
Bog 67: Bikes galore by the Thames
Its funny but something made me stop and take a photo of this group of bicycles. They appeared to have personalities but this bicycle with its basket made me sad. Stories to tell I’m sure.
Cycle Revolution at the Design Museum
Blog 61: The Red Dress and the reading room and my weekend began.
A real surprise on the Euston Road at the Wellcome Collection . The start of a great visit.
‘Closing Neural Tube Dress’ Red fake fur Helen and Kate Storey, 2014 (after the 1997 original)
Blog 55: An evening exhibition experience in the Strand.
Brand positioning, a thought provoking experience and very different to my usual cultural hit.
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Blog 53: Today is about being BRIGHT. Being Creative, Clever and Curious at the London Design Festival.
http://www.londondesignfestival.com/events/curiosity-cloud
What’s fun is finding the unexpected and in unusual places. I have only begun the trail of the London Design Festival but The Norfolk House Music Room at the V&A and The ‘Curiosity Cloud’ by an Austrian duo Mischer’ traxler.happened to be my first stop. There is lots about this experience that has made me investigate their work further. The creation of the different glass bulbs, the amazing fluttering of the mechanical butterflies inside, a sound and visual extravaganza! Feeling good and finding out more.
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