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.

“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.”

“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.”

Jasper Morrison,
Guest Editor

Glimpse of the Month

Archiving Archiving
By Zara Arshad, Vivien Chan and Andrea Foffa

“In my research in Hong Kong, I had been using the city and street as an alternative to institutional Archives. Zara had similar experiences in China, coming across people with amazing archives, which weren’t institutional or
official. We had conversations for years about our experiences, and realized we were forming a network through our experiences of researching in Asia. Eventually we reached out to the people in this network for a panel at the 2021 Design History Conference. Our goal was to bring in an academic context alternative perspectives of “what is a design Archive?” Because in our experience it is not always this nice, air-conditioned, neatly cataloged space.”
Vivien Chan

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