This year Daniel Charny nominated four designs for Brit Insurance Designs of the year 2011 the yearly showcase of selected designs from around the world is on at the Design Museum London until July 2011.
SPUN by HEATHERWICK STUDIO/Manufactured by MAGIS; LEVERAGED FREEDOM CHAIR by MIT MOBILITY LABORATORY; BRANCA by INDUSTRIAL FACILITY/Manufactured by Mattiazzi and INTIMATE RIDER by ALAN THOLKES.
Charny is to pursue new projects as Director at FROM-NOW-ON, a creative projects consultancy and to guest curate an exhibition, commissioned by the V&A Museum in collaboration with the Crafts Council.
Titled Power of Making the exhibition is due to open at the V&A in September 2011.
In the past eight years with Charny as curator The Aram Gallery has clocked 30 exhibitions, presented over 200 unique exhibitors, seen close to 10,000 visitors in the gallery and in the past year alone over 120,000 online visitors. Since starting in 2002 the gallery has grown to be a place dedicated to offering insights into design process with a focus on showing experimental work and championing the significance of prototypes. Among the shows were highlights such as Rotations, Significant Colour, Jaime Hayon, Martino Gamper, Sebastian Bergne, Okay studio, Grassworks by Jair Straschnow and most recently Mind Sets by Ineke Hans. In May 2011 Charny will be back to do one more show about material samples with David Adjaye.
Daniel Charny was invited to take part in the Design Miami Designer of the Year Award Jury 2010 alongside Anniina Koivu, Cédric Morisset, Alexander von Vegesack, Ambra Medda & Wava Carpenter and 2008 winners Fernando & Humberto Campana.
The nominations have all gone in and voting has happened as well…the winner this year is Grcic, Konstantin Grcic.
18th September – 13th November
The Aram Gallery presents Mind-Sets, a review of Dutch designer Ineke Hans’s work and her first solo exhibition in the UK. Mind-Sets is an introspective exhibition exploring Ineke Hans’s working process, her thoughts, fascinations and motives in design. This will be the 30th show curated by Daniel Charny at TAG since 2002.
Curated by Daniel Charny in collaboration with special projects manager Phil Rodgers for Neville Brody’s the Anti Design Festival running 17 – 21 September at 28 Redchurch street the M&M! space
Revolving around provocative works and activities, the space includes film-work by artist Giles Ripley called I’m a Winner (Why Aren’t You!!!), short ”social interventions” film series by designer Hwang Kim, sit on cut-up benches by David Amar and listen to manifesto readings given by megaphone from speakers’ corners designed by Alon Meron. Other pieces by Peter Warren, Dominic Wilcox, Stuart Bannocks and Therese Morch. photos from @Panjapop, Stuarts Bannocks and Keinton Butler. More images and info soon.
With the arrival of Abandon Architectures, El Ultimo Grito’s new book, The Aram Gallery is pleased to present three recent collections of work in blown-glass, resin coated cardboard and honeycomb mounted photographs reusing famous quotes. The works from 2009/10 have not yet been shown in the UK.Exhibition continues until 1st May 2010
Curator Daniel Charny
Director Zeev Aram
DIALOGUES has been kindly supported by Kingston University, London
The Aram Gallery is delighted to open the fourth in the ongoing series Prototypes and Experiments with a new batch of exhibits sourced from the studios of emerging and established designers. This time there are a significant number of objects exploring ideas in metal.
Until 6th March 2010
Concept and creative direction by Daniel Charny, From Now On.
Commissioned and produced by: British Council, Arts & Architecture. Project development and design: Åbäke, BERG and Editing consultant Damian Barr. LDF version design team included: Jérôme Rigaud, Bannocks&Hill, Jonathan Attenborough and Oliver Bishop-Young.
Shortlisted in the Design Museum’s Interactive category, The Incidental is a community-generated website and news pamphlet was created for Milan and London Design Festival by and for the design community. It was developed as a new service replacing the traditional gallery exhibition model of previous years and was the fruit of a rich collaboration between curators, writers, digital and graphic designers. First launched in April 2009, for the Milan Furniture Fair it reached an estimated 20,000 people from over 50 countries, offering opinion, reviews, news and recommendations by tapping into peoples reactions to what they were experiencing in the fair events. During the 2009 London Design Festival The Incidental included an open-house publishing base and encouraged people to drop by, comment, record, tweet, email, text and use a mixture of digital and physical forms of communication to add to the user-generated content, which was then distributed through the four editions, daily redesigned, self printed, folded and packaged during the festival.
NOMINATED BY DANIEL CHARNY
Daniel Charny was invited to give a talk about curating contemporary design at Barcelona’s Industrial Design Association based in the beautiful FAD complex by the MACBA. Chaired by Dr. Viviana Narotzky of ADI FAD, Charny reviewed his experience from recent years and presented current thoughts of working in the field of curating contemporary design using examples from projects involving Spanish designers in shows such as the group show Conversational Spanish, Stage by Jaime Hayon, Tenerife Design Festival and most recently the solo show of Javier Mariscal – Drawing Life for the Design Museum London. PODCAST OF TALK
17 September – 28 November 2009
Amsterdam based designer Jair Straschnow has designed a series of experiments in self-assembly furniture. Grassworks is range that is designed to be simple, intelligent, beautiful, space-saving and wholly sustainable.
The furniture is made from bamboo laminate sheets which use an interlocking system of component parts for assembly, with dry mechanical fastening rather than glue and screws. The interlocking components allow the furniture to be flat packed.
Listed as part of London Design Festival 2009
