(Jun. 27) – Triennale Design Museum presents “The New Italian Design 2.0” exhibition, which will be held at the Beijing Industrial Design Center between June 27th and August 20th , 2012: an overview on contemporary Italian design that explains and describes the transition of the movement and its links with economic, political, technology changes that occurred over the century. Triennale Design Museum, the first museum devoted to the Italian design movement, is directed by Silvana Annicchiarico, and has organized this exhibition to analyze, value and promote the new Italian creativity. The scene that emerges is rich and diverse: it starts from furniture design and touches upon new forms of communication, from food to web design, from fashion to textile design, from jewel design to graphic and multimedia all the way to interior design and object design. The exhibited works range from self-produced prototypes to large-series products, from works of art to merely industrial artifacts. Many of the involved designers are already well established at international level and are employed in important companies in the industry. The exhibition features 282 projects, 165 of which deal with product design issues, 30 are graphic in nature, 54 are focused on the body and decorative objects such as jewels, bags and accessories, 14 are pure research projects, 14 are on food design while 5 are on interior design. (Red)
