Posts tagged V&A

Neville Brody, the man who ruled 80s’ typography, has designed the current front cover of V&A Magazine, the museum’s quarterly members magazine. The issue marks the major retrospective of Post-Modern Design at the museum (Issue published October 10).

Neville Brody, the man who ruled 80s’ typography, has designed the current front cover of V&A Magazine, the museum’s quarterly members magazine. The issue marks the major retrospective of Post-Modern Design at the museum (Issue published October 10).

Stanley Tigerman, The Titanic, 1978. Photomontage on Paper - Mies van der Rohe, is sinking

Stanley Tigerman, The Titanic, 1978. Photomontage on Paper - Mies van der Rohe, is sinking

Ronan + Erwan Bouroullec: Textile Field for Kvadrat - French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec present ‘Textile Field’ a collaborative project with Danish textile company Kvadrat  on the occasion of London Design Week 2011. Installed at the Victoria & Albert Museum. ‘Our intention is to propose a different, casual approach to freely experience what can be a quite intimidating environment, such as a museum. We conceived an expansive, colored foam and textile piece with gentle inclinations to produce a sensual field on which to comfortably lounge while meditating on the surrounding gallery. Everyone can immerse within this temporary installation, for a minute, an hour or more. that is the idea. No efforts, no apprehension, just contemplation.’ - ronan + erwan bouroullec’

Ronan + Erwan Bouroullec: Textile Field for Kvadrat - French designers Ronan and Erwan Bouroullec present ‘Textile Field’ a collaborative project with Danish textile company Kvadrat  on the occasion of London Design Week 2011. Installed at the Victoria & Albert Museum.

‘Our intention is to propose a different, casual approach to freely experience what can be a quite intimidating environment, such as a museum. We conceived an expansive, colored foam and textile piece with gentle inclinations to produce a sensual field on which to comfortably lounge while meditating on the surrounding gallery. Everyone can immerse within this temporary installation, for a minute, an hour or more. that is the idea. No efforts, no apprehension, just contemplation.’ - ronan + erwan bouroullec’

David Bailey’s Box of Pin-Ups - “David Bailey rose to fame as a fashion photographer in the early 1960s, his photographs. He published ‘David Bailey’s box of pin-ups’ in 1965 as a loose portfolio of 36 portraits of the mainly-male fashionable elite that, as the cover description states, ‘belong to Bailey’s own world of fashion, pop music and the Ad Lib [nightclub]’. Each portrait is accompanied by notes by Francis Wyndham. Together, they constitute a celebration of the growing celebrity culture of the Sixties, and many of them have become the definitive images of key figures of cultural life in London during the Swinging Sixties. Surprisingly, only four of the pin-ups are women, all of whom are models; as the notes explain, ‘in the age of Mick Jagger, it is the boys who are the pin-ups’…they constitute a celebration of the growing celebrity culture of the Sixties, and many of them have become the definitive images of key figures of cultural life in London during the Swinging Sixties…Here Jagger poses with Max Maxwell, art director for Queen magazine.”

David Bailey’s Box of Pin-Ups - “David Bailey rose to fame as a fashion photographer in the early 1960s, his photographs. He published ‘David Bailey’s box of pin-ups’ in 1965 as a loose portfolio of 36 portraits of the mainly-male fashionable elite that, as the cover description states, ‘belong to Bailey’s own world of fashion, pop music and the Ad Lib [nightclub]’. Each portrait is accompanied by notes by Francis Wyndham. Together, they constitute a celebration of the growing celebrity culture of the Sixties, and many of them have become the definitive images of key figures of cultural life in London during the Swinging Sixties. Surprisingly, only four of the pin-ups are women, all of whom are models; as the notes explain, ‘in the age of Mick Jagger, it is the boys who are the pin-ups’…they constitute a celebration of the growing celebrity culture of the Sixties, and many of them have become the definitive images of key figures of cultural life in London during the Swinging Sixties…Here Jagger poses with Max Maxwell, art director for Queen magazine.”