Curating the Poster: an Environmental Approach
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Curating the Poster : an Environmental Approach . / Christensen, Line Hjorth.
I: Design Issues, Bind 35, Nr. 2, 4, 01.03.2019, s. 28-45.Publikation: Bidrag til tidsskrift › Tidsskriftartikel › Forskning › fagfællebedømt
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TY - JOUR
T1 - Curating the Poster
T2 - an Environmental Approach
AU - Christensen, Line Hjorth
N1 - An early draft of this article was presented at the 15th Annual Nordcode Conference ”Design and Mediation”, 22-24. November, 2016. The conference was hosted by the University of Southern Denmark in Kolding within the framework of Nordcode, The Nordic Network for Research on Communicative Product Design.
PY - 2019/3/1
Y1 - 2019/3/1
N2 - Parallel to the primary functions performed by posters in the urban environment, we find a range of curatorial practices that tie the poster, a mass-produced graphic design media, to the museum institution. Yet little research has attempted to uncover the diverse subject of curatorial work and the process where posters created to live in a real-world environment are relocated in a museum. According to Peter Bil’ak (2006), it creates a situation where ”the entire raison d’être of the work is lost as a side effect of losing the context of the work”. The article investigates how environmental structures can work as guidelines for curating posters and graphic design in a museum context. By applying an ecological view to design, specifically the semiotic notion “counter-ability”, it stresses the reciprocal relationship of humans and their built and product-designed environments. It further suggests the ecological approach to be viable for curatorial work, and demonstrates how this view inspired a recent poster event, the exhibition Spot on! British posters from the interwar years. The exhibition held at the Danish Poster Museum in 2015-2016 was initiated by the author and co-curated with graphic designer Michael Jensen.Keywords: poster, graphic design, environments, exhibition, curating
AB - Parallel to the primary functions performed by posters in the urban environment, we find a range of curatorial practices that tie the poster, a mass-produced graphic design media, to the museum institution. Yet little research has attempted to uncover the diverse subject of curatorial work and the process where posters created to live in a real-world environment are relocated in a museum. According to Peter Bil’ak (2006), it creates a situation where ”the entire raison d’être of the work is lost as a side effect of losing the context of the work”. The article investigates how environmental structures can work as guidelines for curating posters and graphic design in a museum context. By applying an ecological view to design, specifically the semiotic notion “counter-ability”, it stresses the reciprocal relationship of humans and their built and product-designed environments. It further suggests the ecological approach to be viable for curatorial work, and demonstrates how this view inspired a recent poster event, the exhibition Spot on! British posters from the interwar years. The exhibition held at the Danish Poster Museum in 2015-2016 was initiated by the author and co-curated with graphic designer Michael Jensen.Keywords: poster, graphic design, environments, exhibition, curating
KW - Faculty of Humanities
KW - : poster
KW - graphic design
KW - curating
KW - exhibition
KW - Environments
UR - http://www.mitpressjournals.org
U2 - 10.1162/desi_a_00533
DO - 10.1162/desi_a_00533
M3 - Journal article
VL - 35
SP - 28
EP - 45
JO - Design Issues
JF - Design Issues
SN - 0747-9360
IS - 2
M1 - 4
ER -
ID: 180882429