After an overwhelming successful exhibition at Los Angeles’ Museum of Contemporary Art (MOCA). The retrospective of Japanese pop-artist Takashi Murakami, titled © Murakami, just arrived in New York City. The exhibit will feature some 90+ works in a multitude of mediums from 1992 to 2000. All of which will be on view at the 4th and 5th floors (a total 18,500 square feet of space) of Brooklyn Museum, one of the oldest and largest art museum in the U.S. A 550 square feet mini-boutique, manage by long -time Murakami collaborator Louis Vuitton will showcase several new products, including the new Monogramouflage print, a collaboration between Murakami and designer Marc Jacobs. The exhibition is set to opens this Saturday, April 5th, through Sunday, July 13th.

Brooklyn Museum
200 Eastern Parkway | Map
Brooklyn, NY 11238-6052

Event Date: 04.05.2008 ~ 07.13.2008

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Presently on display at London’s Design Museum are the nominated designs for this year’s Designs of the Year Award. Celebrating the best of international design over the last 12 months period, the Birt Insurance sponsored awards high light all the disciplines in design: architecture, graphics, fashion, product, furniture, interactive, and transport. In total,100 designs from the 7 categories were chosen as nominee. Just a few in the contention this year are SANAA - The New Museum (architecture), Peter Saville - Kate Moss brand logo (graphics), Raf Simons - Jil Sander Spring/Summer 2008 (fashion), Jonathan Ive - Apple iPhone (product), Philippe Starck - Moore Chair (furniture), United Visual Artists - Volume (interactive), plus JCDecaux - Velib Communal Bicycle (transport).

Each will go through another round of selection to be the winner of each category on March 11th. The final 7 will advance for the overall winner round, with the Design of the Year title announce on March 18th. In the meantime, the exhibition will be ongoing in the museum until April 27th.

Design Museum
Shad Thames | Map
London SE1, UK

Exhibition Dates: 02.13.2008 ~ 04.27.2008

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Susana Soares - BEE’s Project - Face Object

In a reflection of our even design-driven lifestyle, Museum of Modern Art (MoMA) in New York just opened its newest exhibition last month. Titled Design and the Elastic Mind, the exhibition highlights the intricate relationship between design, science, and innovation. Over 200 objects, including 4 special commissions, created by designers, architects, engineers, and those in the science/technology field, are all on display. The exhibition is divided into 3 parts: small scale in addressing the growing interests in nano-technology. Human scale in ever blurring boundaries between human and machine. And large scale, the modern struggle of individualism and pluralism, which increase exponentially with the advent of the Internet. In conjunction with physical exhibition in New York City. MoMA launched a special website designed by Yugo Nakamura, the person behind the interactive website for Japanese apparel label Uniqlo. Desing and the Elastic Mind will be on display till May 12th.

Museum of Modern Art
11 West 53rd Street | Map
New York, NY 10019

Exhibition Date: 02.24.2008 ~ 05.12.2008

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More recently, the designer released Things I Have Learned In My Life So Far, a book/exhibition that stemmed from Sagmeister’s habitual list making and slogan display at public spaces during the last 7 years.. The exhibition, which took place at Deitch Projects’ Grand Street Gallery, saw a 3-story high inflatable gorilla, with a sign “Everybody always thinks. . .”, on the rooftop of the gallery. Inside, on display, a continuation of the sign outside, along with his other new designs . But unlike other art exhibits, Sagmeister welcomed a lively interaction between his works and the audience. Everything from interactive computer projection to a “steam” chamber, where other prominent designers, such as Milton Glasner (creator of I Heart NY) and Massimo Vignelli (designer of the NYC subway sign system), put on a impromptu live-doodling show on the fogged up gallery windows. Another ingenious display is a wall of interweave bananas, composed from 7,200 bananas at different stage of ripeness. The statement “Self-confidence Produces Fine Results” is spelled in green bananas against a wall of yellow one. As the exhibit progress on, the bananas will ripen and the statement will disappear with it.

If you missed the exhibition, the companion book, also with the same title, is currently available at bookstores near you or online.

Deitch Projects Gallery
76 Grand Street | Map
New York, NY 10013

Exhibition Date: 01.31.2008 ~ 02.23.2008

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Menswear label Yoko Devereaux is one of the few brand that created a successful inroad in the blending of downtown hipster aestheticism with uptown gentlemen sophistication. Explained the label’s creative director, Andy Salzer, “It makes sense at this point to really start growing up with our customer. The Yoko Devereaux man isn’t necessarily the most traditional customer. Working with fabrics that speak to the tradition of menswear, but then updated for a more downtown customer brings additional depth to the brand and the collection.” To convey that concept across, the label hosted a fashion show at the Blue trade show here in New York City last Monday evening, January 21st. Inaugurated by 2 of the most influential figures in the business of fashion, Elyse Kroll of ENK International and Fern Mallis of IMG Fashion. The Yoko Devereaux Fall/Winter 2008 show saw some 17 combinations of outerwears, trousers, sweaters, and t-shirts. Few standout pieces included the pleated short pants in blue and black herringbone wool, heavy gauge fleece overcoat with hood, and an extensive collection graphic t-shirts & sweatshirts - featured the works of artist Charles Lutz as a continue collaboration between both.

Portions of Yoko Devereaux’s Autumn 2008 collection will debut at upcoming Project trade show in Las Vegas next month. Current Yoko Devereaux products are available at selected retailers worldwide and at the label’s flagship store in Williamsburg, Brooklyn.

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A ribbon cutting ceremony took place yesterday morning right outside of the Bryant Park Tents to mark the official opening of the New York Fashion Week for Fall/Winter 2008. The ceremony featured IMG Fashion Senior Vice President, Fern Mallis, along with actresses Brooke Shields, Kim Raver and Lindsay Price, the leading ladies from Lipstick Jungle, a new TV-series based on best-selling book by Candace Bushnell, of Sex and the City fame. Joining the 5 ladies for the ceremony was Stephen Cannon, the Vice President of Marketing from Mercedes-Benz USA, the major sponsor of Fashion Week.

Joining the already established designers, such as Vera Wang, Carolina Herrera, Lacoste, and others. A few new designer and label will be debuting their collection for the first time within the Bryant Park Tents, such as 3.1 Phillip Lim and Hervé Léger by Max Azria.

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Competition Date: 02.01.2008 ~ 03.31.2008

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