Victoria and Albert Museum, London
Terence Conran at Design Museum, London (2011-12) (press release)
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Terence Conran at Design Museum, London (2011-12) (press release) ADP staff; Text by Design Museum, London artdesigncafé | café library | Published 2 January 2012 Terence Conran, c. 1950, by Ray Williams. Press Release Terence Conran— The way we live now Design Museum, London 16...
Yohji Yamamoto at Victoria and Albert Museum, London (press release) (2011)
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Yohji Yamamoto at Victoria and Albert Museum, London (press release) (2011) ADP staff; Text by Victoria and Albert Museum artdesigncafé | café library | Published 15 March 2011 Press Release Yohji Yamamoto designs. © Photograph by Ronald Stoops. Next spring the V&A will open the...
Kylie Minogue at Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2007) (press release)
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Kylie Minogue at Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2007) (press release) ADP staff; Text by Victoria & Albert Museum, London artdesigncafé | music + art room | Released December 2006 Kylie - The Exhibition. © P. Kelleher @ V&A Images. Press Release KYLIE - THE EXHIBITION...
Vivienne Westwood at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2004) (press release)
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Vivienne Westwood at the Victoria & Albert Museum, London (2004) (press release) ADP staff; Text by Victoria & Albert Museum, London artdesigncafé | café library | Released February 2004 PRESS RELEASE VIVIENNE WESTWOOD AT THE V&A: 34 YEARS IN FASHION 1 April to 11 July 2004...
Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002)
→ Art Design Publicity magazineJohn A. Walker - 08 May 02
Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 (2002) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Left Shift which gives a year-by-year account of developments. Radical Art in 1970s Britain: 1976 Cover image: Jordan in Derek Jarman’s film Jubilee, (1978). In China, Chairman Mao Zedong and Chou En-Lai died; and the...
Plastics (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
Plastics (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Plastics Plastics are a group of natural and synthetic materials which can be shaped and moulded when soft. (The word “plastic” derives from the Greek "plastikos" meaning “mouldable”,...
Packaging / Wrapping (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 15 Jun 92
Packaging / Wrapping (1992) (Also Bagging and Emballages.) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Packaging / Wrapping It was Man Ray, the surrealist, who introduced this technique into the fine arts with his mysteriously shrouded object...
Design Research Unit (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 04 Jun 92
Design Research Unit (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Design Research Unit The Design Research Unit (DRU) is a British design office established in 1943 when its founding partners were in the Ministry of Information. The idea...
Conran Foundation (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
Conran Foundation (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Conran Foundation The Conran Foundation is an educational charity established in the late 1970s by the British designer and businessman Sir Terence Conran (founder of Habitat,...
Coca-Cola Collectibles / Design (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 03 Jun 92
Coca-Cola Collectibles / Design (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Coca-Cola Collectibles / Design The products, graphics and advertising associated with the giant American corporation Coca-Cola merit attention here for several...
Britain can make it (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 02 Jun 92
Britain can make it (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Britain can make it Britain can make it was the title of an important exhibition of British design organized by the Council of Industrial Design and held at the Victoria...
Book Art / Artist Books (1992)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker (glossary) - 02 Jun 92
Book Art / Artist Books (1992) Excerpt fr. John A. Walker’s Glossary of Art, Architecture & Design since 1945, 3rd. ed. Book Art / Artist Books Books are complex, multimedia products. They overlap the categories of literature, art and design because they are linguistic/literary entities and...
Malcolm McLaren & the sources of Punk
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker - 01 Jul 85
Malcolm McLaren & the sources of Punk Time for a little history (c. 1985) about a man who knew a thing or two about Crackdown, from a ballsy art historian who carries on this tradition to today. Blatant contradictions abound in Pop music: multimillionaire rock stars record songs advocating...
Beatle City: They all live in a yellow hi-tech shed (1984)
→ music + art roomJohn A. Walker - 05 Oct 84
Beatle City: They all live in a yellow hi-tech shed (1984) Does the new Beatles Museum, like the International Garden Festival and the Albert Dock refurbishment, signal a revival in the fortunes of Merseyside or does Liverpool’s crisis require more drastic action? Beatle City, a multi-media...
Images for sale at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1983)
→ café libraryJohn A. Walker - 01 Aug 83
Images for sale at the Victoria and Albert Museum, London (1983) (2009 note to readers: This review features the Boilerhouse Project, which was a display space devoted to modern design located within the basement of the museum that was sponsored by Terence Conran of the Habitat chain. It...
Art magazines and their impact (1976)
→ Creative Business / EntrepreneurshipJohn A. Walker - 02 Sep 76
Art magazines and their impact (1976) A display unit produced by Nicholas Wegner shown at The Gallery, London in March-April 1976. Wegner, the artist-director of The Gallery, is developing the notion of "Standard art". He argues that since art marketed through the gallery system becomes...
The art press: Three decades of art magazines / journals (1976)
→ Creative Business / EntrepreneurshipJohn A. Walker - 02 May 76
The art press: Three decades of art magazines / journals (1976) Writing history is an extremely problematical enterprise— even writing the history of such a restricted subject as the development of art periodicals during the past thirty years— because historians choose certain events from the...
