BoNE Show call for entries – enter today!
WICKED PROBLEMS. WICKED SOLUTIONS. We’re not talking about witches or nor’easters: we’re talking about design. The BoNE Show recognizes the best of New England’s wicked problem solvers. Are you one? Enter your work today at www.boneshow.org.
The AIGA Best of New England (BoNE) Show is a biennial design competition open to all designers in in Connecticut, Maine, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, Rhode Island, and Vermont; any design project published between January 2009 and January 2011 is eligible for entry.
Deadline for Entries: February 4, 2011
Late Deadline: February 11, 2011
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The deadline is fast approaching, so designers: hop to it and enter your best work today. It would be great to see more exhibition work entered this year—exhibit designers represent! (Not that I have any say in the outcome. The doling out of awards will be entirely up to these fine folk.)
Good luck!
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Happy holidays from the Exhibit Designer
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Build Boston: Touring the MFA
Guest Post // Writing and photography by Katelyn Mayfield, an exhibit designer at Christopher Chadbourne & Associates in Boston. She has a Bachelor of Architecture degree from the Rhode Island School of Design. In her spare time, she makes handstitched books.
After a private tour of the Museum of Fine Art’s new Art of the Americas wing, given by architect Adi Toledano of CBT Architects, I now feel certain that Boston has a world class museum. The tour was given prior to the wing’s grand opening as part of Build Boston. We got up close and personal with the details since almost no one was around, except security guards and last minute glass case cleaners.
My first response in the galleries was to the artifact display cases. These cases were undeniably eye-catching, like no other. The glass was crystal clear, completely devoid of prints of any kind. When standing on one side of a case, I could see perfectly through it and into cases beyond because of the impeccable clarity. The sleekness of the cases also succeeds in hiding complex mechanics, as described in this article. All 200 cases in the new wing were designed, manufactured, and assembled in Milan, Italy by Goppion Museum Workshop before they were shipped to Boston for installation. Goppion has also created display systems for the Mona Lisa at the Louvre and the Crown Jewels of England, among others, so high quality craftsmanship is a given. And once I got past the perfection of the cases, the artifacts inside were not so bad themselves!
Sir Norman Foster along with Foster + Partners was the Design Architect and creative masterminds of the new wing. Our guide, Adi, kept repeating, “Foster wanted ‘everything to line up’”, meaning everything had to be flush. Foster gets what Foster wants. He was knighted in 1990 and won the Pritzker Architecture Prize for his entire portfolio in 1999, the most prestigious international prize awarded in the field of architecture. He was also awarded the American Institute of Architects Gold Medal in 1994. I think he is worthy of dictating every detail, as he did in this project. No detail was overlooked and all components work harmoniously. It was the responsibility of CBT, the local architect of record, to design the actual details that accomplished this harmony. For me, highlights were the “landscape corridor,” the day-lighting strategies, and the details that made “everything line up.”
Names on the wall
Donor names on the wall of the TSMC Lobby of the Strata Center, MIT.
Reminds me of the gallery titles at the Denver Art Museum.
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Mock-up
And they built a mock-up of an interactive kiosk from foamcore and an iPad.
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Don’t touch the walls
MASS MoCA has some of the most fair, nicely worded, “don’t touch” signs I’ve seen in an art museum. Can’t argue with handprints.
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Today’s my birthday
That’s right. An entire year of The Exhibit Designer. Just shy of 100 posts. More than 11,000 page views.
TED is ONE today!
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