Last Stop

It would be hard to argue that graphic design isn’t exciting, and prolific. Graphic design is presently one of the largest professions within the design industry and its output is integrated into most every part of our day-to-day lives.

Co-organized by the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis and the Cooper Hewitt, National Design Museum here in New York, Graphic Design: Now in Production presents the concepts and creative practices as they’ve been evolving through the first part of the 21st century. Traveling around American since its debut at the Walker Art Center in October 2011, the exhibition will be making its final stop at the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Laurenz Brunner, Akkurat, 2005. Courtesy Lineto.

Focussed around eight themes—Posters, Magazines, Books, Information Design, Branding, Typography, Storefront, and Film and Television Titles—the exhibition illustrates the incredibly broad reach that graphic design has within our present day, 21st century lives, as well as highlighting the shifting and expanding role of the designer into becoming a producer, be it as an author, publisher, entrepreneur, and project instigator.

This is your last chance to see this outstanding collection of examples of contemporary graphic design from around the globe, so if you can, be sure to stop in to the RISD Museum between March 28th and August 3rd, 2014.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Karen, “Karen,” issue 3, 2007. Courtesy the publisher.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Experimental Jetset, “Statement and Counter-Statement,” 2011. Courtesy the artists.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Chris Dixon, New York, December 22-29, 2008. Courtesy the publisher.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Dexter Sinister, selection from “We Would Like to Share (Some Thoughts on a Possible School Badge),” 2006. Courtesy the artists.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Christopher Clark, “Web Typography for the Lonely: Cluster,” poster, 2011. Courtesy the artist.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Forsman & Bodenfors, with Evelina Bratell (stylist) and Carl Kleiner (photographer), “Homemade is Best,” 2010. Courtesy Forsman & Bodenfors.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog cyan, “Flieger,” 2010. Courtesy Maharam Digital Projects.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog David Bennewith, “Churchward International Typefaces,” 2009. Photo by Franz Vos, Jan van Eyck Academie. Courtesy the artist.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Peter Buchanan-Smith, “First Aid Kit,” Best Made Products, 2009. Courtesy Best Made Products.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog John Morgan, “Dracula” 2008. Art by James Pyman. Courtesy Four Corners Books.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Jop van Bennekom, The Gentlewoman, issue 3, Spring/Summer 2011. Courtesy the publisher.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog Felix Burrichter and Dylan Fracareta, “Pin-Up,” issue 10, Spring/Summer 2011. Courtesy the publisher.

RISD Museum - Graphic Design: Now in Production - L’ArcoBaleno blog “Tiny Bubbles Soap, Pop Ink brand,” 2006. Charles S. Anderson Design.

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Graphic Design: Now in Production will be on show from Friday March 28th–Sunday August 3rd, 2014, at the RISD Museum in Providence, Rhode Island.