MoMA

Straight Talk On American Design | Part 2

BY american design, Michele Caniato, brian collins, larry keeley, gadi amit, andrew razeghi, graham button, clive roux, tim brown, fred dust, ideo, paola antonelli, moma | 09-14-2011 | 4:26 PM | MAGAZINE

Straight Talk On American Design By Fast Company Staff We asked dozens of designers to critique U.S. design. They're not a bashful bunch. In the past 15 years, the U.S. market has ...READ MORE›

How Design Can Save NYC When The Next Big Storm Hits

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 09-12-2011 | 10:54 AM | RISING CURRENTS

Last March, MoMA opened an exhibit on how to adapt New York City to the watery effects of climate change. Rising Currents: Projects for New York’s Waterfront was strangely clairvoyant. Irene was downgraded to a tropical storm before ... READ MORE›

Artist Transforms Action Films Into Action Paintings [Videos]

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 09-09-2011 | 11:44 AM | VIDEOS

Here at Co.Design, we love modern art. We also love schlocky action movies (don’t hate). Let’s combine the two, shall we? Canadian software artist Jeremy Rotsztain takes scenes and sounds from action films--explosions! car ... READ MORE›

Meet Ryan Trecartin, Art's First Genius Of The YouTube Age

BY Cliff Kuang | 08-05-2011 | 4:24 PM | RYAN TRECARTIN

When the video artist Ryan Trecartin opened his current show at New York’s Moma/PS1 in Queens, the critical praise was immediate and deafening: Peter Schjeldahl of The New Yorker declared him the “most consequential artist to ... READ MORE›

Genius Marketing: A Stop-Motion Film Made With 350,000 Post-Its

BY Suzanne LaBarre | 08-04-2011 | 7:51 AM | SãO PAULO

Brazilian footwear company Melissa has turned the side of a building in São Paulo into a mega-huge movie screen for an animation that uses Post-its like analog pixels. [youtube znN4vKL8baA] Twenty-five animators worked for a ... READ MORE›

MoMA Preview: 12 Brilliant Projects That Explore How Tech Helps Us Talk

BY Linda Tischler | 07-20-2011 | 1:25 PM | BIG BANG DESIGN

If you listen carefully, deep inside MOMA’s remarkable new show, “Talk to Me: Design and Communication Between People and Objects,” you can hear the sound of a mournful howl. A wounded baboon? A lonely chimpanzee yearning ... READ MORE›

Five Inspiring Ideas, From MoMA's Chief Design Mind And A Leader In Game Development [Video]

BY Cliff Kuang | 04-27-2011 | 2:30 PM | DESIGN MASH UP

Few people are better situated to speak about the present state -- and future prospects -- of design today than Kevin Slavin and Paola Antonelli. Antonelli, of course, is the senior curator of architecture and design at the ... READ MORE›

The Google Art Project: Like Street View for Museums

BY Jenara Nerenberg | 02-01-2011 | 8:05 AM | ETHONOMICS

Visitors can zoom in, navigate through galleries, and build their own "collection of masterpieces."READ MORE›

Italian Furniture Designer Patricia Urquiola's Work Goes Beyond Just Furniture

BY Linda Tischler | 10-01-2010 | 2:00 PM | MAGAZINE

With a blend of artistry and commercial savvy, Patricia Urquiola enthralls tony Italian furniture makers—as well as BMW, H&M, and high-end hotel chains such as Mandarin Oriental. It’s a beautiful business.READ MORE›

A Dancing, Shifting Architecture Installation Opens in Queens

BY Molly Heintz | 06-25-2010 | 10:12 AM | DESIGN

A profile of SO-IL, the lean, mean firm behind the P.S.1 courtyard installation, this summer's hottest architecture project.READ MORE›

Photographer Henri Cartier-Bresson: Father of Photojournalism

BY Ken Carbone | 04-15-2010 | 11:06 PM | DESIGN

What is photography? What is a photographer? And, what is photojournalism today? Ken Carbone heads to MoMA to find out.READ MORE›

For MoMA's New Exhibition "Talk to Me," They'd Like You to Talk to Them

BY Alissa Walker | 04-13-2010 | 8:08 AM | DESIGN

A new MoMA show will focus on the communication between people and objects, as enabled by design. In that spirit, the curators have opened up their process to the public.READ MORE›

SFMOMA's Expansion Plans are Shockingly Safe

BY William Bostwick | 03-22-2010 | 12:16 PM | DESIGN

After his dream for a museum in the Presidio went nowhere, Gap founder Don Fisher turned his 1,100-piece contemporary art collection over to SFMOMA. It'll make SFMOMA into an art-world force on the level of MOMA or the Tate Modern, and as such, it'll need its own flashy new box.READ MORE›