Saturday, April 4, 2020

Artists of the day, April 4 2020: the curators and artist of the The Moscow Design Museum (#960)

The Moscow Design Museum was founded in 2012 and it is the first museum in Russia specifically dedicated to design. The museum collects, studies, and preserves Russia’s design heritage, introduces the viewers to the best examples and main schools of international design, and presents Russian design abroad.

The museum collection includes examples of domestic and foreign design from the avant-garde to the present day. These are the best works of constructivist artists, the most significant developments of Soviet designers and design associations, the works of contemporary Russian designers and cult objects of international design.

So far, the museum has successfully organized exhibition projects in some of the most prominent spaces in Russia, as well as abroad – in the UK, Holland, Germany, Belgium, and China. The museum represents the Russian Federation at the international level: in 2015, the museum presented an exhibition on the Russian avant-garde in the Russian Pavilion at EXPO 2015 in Milan. In 2016, the museum’s exhibition “Discovering Utopia: Lost Archives of Soviet Design” took part in the first London Biennale of Design (Somerset House, London) and was awarded the medal of the Biennale for the best response to the topic.

The museum works with professional audiences and students, holds forums and conferences dedicated to current issues in the development of Russian design. The museum puts much effort into educational activities engaging leading European and Russian designers and design historians.

The museum is creating a series of documentary films on design, including “History of Russian Design”, “Holland – Territory of Design”, “Discovering Utopia”, “Sweden. Design for Society”, “British Design. Traditions and Innovations”. Together with the world's largest publishing houses, the museum publishes books based on its own collection: “Designed in the USSR: 1950-1989”, “VNIITE - Discovering Utopia”, “Vladimir Runge: from“ Horizon ”to“ Zenith ”


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The Moscow Design Museum identity
The Moscow Design Museum identity
The Moscow Design Museum identity
Composition on the theme of an industrial area with buildings and metal constructions. 1924-33
Graphic Design: Proun by El Lissitzky.1922-23
Graphic Design: El Lissitzsky, Figures from The Three-Dimensional Design of the Electro-Mechanical Show ‘Victory over the Sun’. 1923
Toy Design
Fashion Design
Graphic Design: Logo CCCP
Graphic Design: Poster
Graphic Design: Poster, Moscow Architecture Propaganda Revolution
Graphic Design: Poster, Moscow Propaganda Revolution
Graphic Design: Print
Graphic Design: Print
Toy Design: Anton, Masha, and Grib Nevalyashka, 1956-70s
Graphic Design: Packaging Sputnik wind-up shaver, 1968
Product design: Atmosfera radio
Product design: Chair
Product design: Chair 1960s
Product design: Computer
Product design: Dish
Product design: Fan
Product design: Radio
Product design: Radio
Product design: Saturnas vacuum cleaner, 1962–70
Product design: Sewing machine
Product/Transportation: Snowmobile
Product design: Tea set
Transportation: Concept car
Product design: Television
Transportation: Heavy equipment
Transportation: Airplane
Transportation: car
Transportation: car
Transportation: Concept car
Transportation: car

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