Pera Museum: An identity design project to inspire

Pera Musuem Since 2005 when it was inaugurated, Pera Museum, is a private museum founded by the Suna and İnan Kıraç Foundation tha offers an outstanding range of diverse high quality culture and art services. Bringing this knowledge and quality to a younger audience Ferhat Akbaba designed a smart visual identity for the foundation's three permanent collections, “Orientalist Paintings”, “Anatolian Weights and Measures” and “Kütahya Tiles and Ceramics”.

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Design is the real star in National Theatre Posters typographic legacy

Following the institute's stunning legacy the volume National Theatre Posters A Design History offer a double take on the theatre's true, unconditional love for masterfully skilled graphic design. National Theatre Posters: A Design History, the book, is  a comprehensive survey of the theatre’s best posters from the 1960s to the present day. National Theatre Posters, the exhibition, takes us on a journey to inspiring poster brilliance...

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Barbara Kruger’s new installation FOREVER delights Berlin

Celebrating an icon in Berlin, Sprüth Magers presents FOREVER, a new site-specific work by Barbara Kruger.
Since the late 1970s Barbara Kruger has established herself as one of the most influential figures in contemporary art. Beginning with her earliest works, for which she combined language with mass media imagery culled from books and magazines, she has turned a critical eye toward consumerism, desire, political will, and the often-hidden mechanisms of power operating within contemporary...

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PSO on the 1st Symposium on Greek Diaspora and Immigration

The Masters Program in Museology and Cultural Management (A.U.Th. & Univ. of Western Macedonia) organized a Symposium on Greek Diaspora and Immigration. The Symposium which took place last May constitutes the first public presentation of the Greek Diaspora and Immigration Research Program.Operating under the auspices of the Institute of International Education, USA and the FULBRIGHT Foundation, the program is funded by the Stavros Niarchos Foundation for a collaboration with academics...

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Pentagram’s Michael Bierut on Poetry Foundation’s new typography

May the great poet we are looking for never find it shut, or half-shut, against his ample genius! To this end the editors hope to keep free of entangling alliances with any single class or school. They desire to print the best English verse which is being written today, regardless of where, by whom, or under what theory of art it is written”. Founded in Chicago by Harriet Monroe in 1912, Poetry magazine began with the "Open Door" and since then it reintroduces the poetry to a whole new...

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