The Design Issue
Abstract
The new cycle of ARCHIVIO continues: four thematic issues, each edited by a Guest Editor specialized in the field in order to have an expert eye to open the doors of the archives and show you where to look in these vast worlds.
Following The Fashion Issue, ARCHIVIO N°10 is dedicated to Design and edited by Jasper Morrison—an internationally renowned British designer, and Marco Sammicheli—director of the Museo del Design Italiano at Triennale Milano. Editorial direction is by Daniela Hamaui, while the art direction is by Alessandro Gori.
For our cover and first pages, Morrison assembled an imaginary archive of everyday objects from different places, made at different times, related by character or a shared understanding of what it is to be an object.
ARCHIVIO N°10, offers a mapping of the design archives international landscape at this moment in time and a privileged look at the many international design archives, allowing us to admire their eclecticism and heterogeneity, and dividing them into three sections, “Organizations”, “Brands”, and “Designers & Creatives”.
It also includes a special poster: an (in)complete mapping of the many design archives in Italy. A research by Promemoria Group, ARCHIVIO’s publisher, visually processed by Accurat. The result is a map that is also a small work of art.
Jasper Morrison,“Forget about Time, forget about Place, forget about Type, Material, Value, Quality or Condition, an archive can be anything you want it to be, there are no rules.”
Guest Editor
Glimpse of the Month
The Design Museum — The index of the everyday
By Eleanor Watson
The Design Museum, London is one of the world’s leading museums of contemporary design and architecture. Founded in 1989 by designer and entrepreneur Sir Terence Conran, it moved to its current home in the former Commonwealth Institute, Kensington, in 2016.
From this striking modernist landmark the museum runs a lively programme of temporary exhibitions as well as a free permanent display and a wide variety of educational programmes. Most recently, the museum acquired the status of Independent Research Organisation through its establishment of Future Observatory, a national research programme that aims to explore and platform design’s role within the green transition.
Credits:
All images courtesy The Conran Foundation and The Design Museum
