The Haas Brothers, twins Nikolai and Simon Haas, are artists/designers/creative producers based in Los Angeles. Their works of art and objects are situated between the contexts of art and design, frequently departing from the functional, and moving towards the exclusively sculptural. Playful and sometimes irreverent, they create furniture and sculptural objects in the form of anthropomorphic hairy chaises, fantastical beaded chairs and ... +

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The 1917 Russian Revolution ushered in a relatively short-lived era of experimentation and idealism in the visual arts. Including some of the most iconic images in the history of graphic design, Constructing Revolution will present more than fifty Soviet propaganda posters, among them works by major figures of the early twentieth-century avant-garde such as Vladimir Mayakovsky and Alexander Rodchenko. These posters, offering ... +

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The first design exhibition scheduled in the MDC Museum of Art and Design after its April 2018 reopening, By the People: Designing a Better America will explore the challenges faced by urban, suburban and rural communities in the U.S. and its bordering countries. Based on more than two years of field research this exhibition presents collaborative designs for more equitable, inclusive and sustainable communities.  Featuring ... +

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The Miami Antiques + Art + Design Show will feature over 200 premier exhibitors from the U.S., Canada, Europe and South America, offering fine antiques and decorative arts representing all design movements of the 17th, 18th and 19th centuries and introducing vintage 20th century modern. Miami Airport Convention Center (MACC) Friday 11AM-7PM Saturday 11PM-7PM Sunday 11PM-5PM Dolphin Promotions 708-366-2710 / 954-202-1955 www.miamiantiquesartdesign.com ... +

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FORM MIAMI is owned by Atlanta-based Urban Expositions, a Clarion Events company, which produces Art Aspen, Art Palm Springs, and SOFA Chicago (Sculpture Objects Functional Art and Design). All art fairs are presented by galleries from around the world exhibiting modern and contemporary art in a variety of media including painting, photography, sculpture, and mixed-media. ABOUT SOFA CHICAGO Founded in 1994, SOFA ... +

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Design Miami/ is the global forum for design. Each edition brings together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators and critics from around the world in celebration of design culture and commerce. Design Miami/ 2017 brings together Carpenters Workshop Gallery (Paris, London, and New York); Converso (Chicago, Los Angeles, New York); Cristina Grajales Gallery(New York); Demisch Danant (New York); Erastudio Apartment-Gallery (Milan); ... +

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Graphic design helps establish a visual identity—a brand—for a client. At the same time, it can express the designer’s individual creativity. To explore this dual nature of graphic identity, Vienna-based design studio Seite Zwei transforms The Wolfsonian’s façade and lobby with typefaces, abstract forms, and color schemes derived from the work of Julius Klinger, one of the pioneering graphic artists of the ... +

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FIU unveils a pair of graphic design presentations, historic and contemporary, under the shared theme of “identity.” Exhibition Julius Klinger: Posters for a Modern Age presents the work of this pioneer graphic artist of the early 20th century, being the first U.S. solo show devoted to the designer. Complementing Julius Klinger is Double Vision, a two part contemporary installation by Vienna based ... +

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Exhibition Work to Dazzle: Highlights from Design Miami/Basel By CLAUDIA BARBIERI |  Twentieth century and contemporary design is on a roll in the art market, and Design Miami/Basel is gathering no moss. This year’s twelfth edition of the fair in Basel, which ended June 18, was the biggest and arguably best yet with fifty participating galleries from eleven countries, including such newcomers as Mercado ... +

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Investigating gender, crime, and other social issues in the United States, In the Shadows. . . explores pulp magazine and paperback cover art of the 1920s–1950s. Designed to appeal to male readers, the glossy cover illustrations of pulp featured stereotypical, often lurid, images of stereotypical gun-wielding gangsters, tough detectives, seductive or vulnerable women, and foreign enemies. Exhibition runs through Jul 9, 2017 ... +

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William H. Bradley was America’s foremost graphic artist from the end of the nineteenth century into the 1930s. Derived from the Art Nouveau aesthetic, the flowing lines of his designs for advertisements, periodicals, catalogs, and posters made a marked impact on both commercial and fine art in the United States. The Wolfsonian–FIU Museum 1001 Washington Avenue Miami Beach, FL 33139 305.531.1001 www.wolfsonian.org

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Join thousands of home designers, serious collectors, and antiques lovers at the first major antiques event of the South Florida winter season at the Miami Antiques + Art + Design Show on February 3-5 at the Miami Airport Convention Center. Over 200 select dealers from across the U.S., Canada, Europe and South America convene for one weekend to present a breathtaking collection ... +

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Art and Fashion join together in an expo-sale that offers clothing, costume jewelry, accesories, and makeup. The second edition of the Arts Fashion Weekend includes twenty-two designers and artists presenting their proposals during the event. Under the curatorship of the Venezuelan artist Adriana Barrios Mendoza, this edition of the Art Fashion Weekend 2017 has been called The Trunk Show, a huge collection of visual experiences and ... +

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Since 1906, Bezalel Academy of Arts and Design in Jerusalem has set the artistic scene in Israel whilst being the leading institution in the country. This talk, “From Carpet Weavers to Transparent Architecture: 111 years of art and design education in Jerusalem,” led by the institution’s current president, Prof. Adi Stern, will portray the story of Bezalel, its unique spirit and its ... +

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During the period 1890–1940, the Netherlands built a reputation—which it still holds today—as a center for innovative design. Modern Dutch Design draws from The Wolfsonian’s extensive collection of Dutch furniture, decorative arts, design drawings, posters and bookbindings, in order to examine the evolution of design in the Netherlands during these decades. The exhibition focuses on how Dutch designers, architects, and artists responded ... +

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Design Miami/ is the global forum for design. Each fair brings together the most influential collectors, gallerists, designers, curators and critics from around the world in celebration of design culture and commerce. Design Miami/ 2016 brings together leading design galleries from around the world to present beautifully conceived and highly individual exhibitions for which the fair has become renowned. Design Miami 2016 ... +

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A talk by world-renowned designer Harry Allen followed by a conversation with PAMM Associate Curator Diana Nawi. Hear about Allen’s uniquely playful cast of domestic objects and larger design practice, including Allen’s Bank in the Form of a Pig, which can be won in a raffle that day. Born in New Jersey in 1964, Allen received a Master’s Degree in Industrial Design ... +

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This exhibition showcases the Spring/Summer 2016 collection of Fashion designer duo Abdul Abasi and Greg Rosborough inspired by East-West/West-East, a public art installation of bronze monoliths by Richard Serra in the Qatari desert. As colors and textures in the garments communicate this unique life experience, their collection is a perfect embodiment of public art inspiring the creative economy. In a recent New ... +

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The #AtHomewithArt showcase and Artist Encounter opens Friday, September 2nd at the Miami Home Design and Remodeling Show located in the Miami Beach Convention Center. Stop by the feature area and meet 23 South Florida artists and representatives from three non-profit arts organizations: Little Haiti Mural Project, Haitian Cultural Arts Alliance (HCAA)/Iris Photo Collective, and Viernes Culturales/Little Havana Art District. The “At ... +

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The Miami Dade College’s Museum of Art + Design (MOA+D) exhibits the second installment of Recent Acquisitions + Highlights II, containing selections from the College’s growing art collection. Notable artists and works in the exhibition will include Cundo Bermudez, Ruben Torres Llorca, Andy Warhol, Larry Rivers, Jasper Johns, Jim Dine, Louise Nevelson, Robert Motherwell and many others. Freedom Tower MDC Museum of ... +

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MDC Museum of Art + Design is pleased to present A Patch of Blue: Illustrations of Oscar Wilde’s The Ballad of Reading Gaol curated by students in the MDC Museum Studies Program. The exhibition features works on loan highlighting the Symbolist style of French artist Jean-Georges Cornelius and examining various themes through original paintings and prints produced for a 1927 French publication ... +

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The Ceramic League of Miami hosts Lisa Orr, who for 25 years has been a professional potter and student of ceramics. She completed an MFA at the NYSCC at Alfred University in 1992. Her work is in numerous public and private collections including the Fine Arts Museum of San Francisco, and the permanent collection of WOCEF in Korea. Currently she teaches, lectures ... +

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From the Jane Gershon Weitzman Collection, Art & Sole: Fantasy Shoes features over 150 of the most inventive examples of these fantasy art shoes, remarkable for their imaginative construction and elaborate adornment. Art & Sole exhibition was curated by Jane Gershon Weitzman. Shoes are constructed of unexpected materials such as bronze, ceramic, wire, Plexiglas or in the case of Robert Steele, corrugated ... +

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Dolphin Promotions is pleased to announce its returning with a new show, the Miami Antiques + Art + Design Show, to be held at the Miami Airport Convention Center (MACC). The inaugural Miami Antiques + Art + Design Show will feature 100 national and international exhibitors offering a broad range of rare antique furniture, decorative and fine arts including silver, paintings, bronzes, ... +

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Mary Queen of the Universe is a solo exhibition of works by Steven and William Ladd. The exhibition features crafted sculpture, drawings, and prints by the fraternal collaborative team. For more than ten years, Steven and William have explored the blurred boundaries between design and fashion, fine art and craft. In a decade of working together, with fascination for materials and process, ... +

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Margin of Error explores cultural responses to mechanical mastery and engineered catastrophes of the modern age—the shipwrecks, crashes, explosions, collapses, and novel types of workplace injury that interrupt the path of progress. The exhibition traces the narrative of technological ambition from myth and triumph to peril and accident prevention through over two hundred works from the mid-nineteenth and twentieth centuries, including decorative ... +

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Macchietta, Small Sketches by Karen Rifas, as a part of “Design Lab”, presents a retrospective of small scale maquettes. Representing over 19 years of artistic practice, this exhibition explores the artist’s process in creating plans and ideas for much larger and site specific installations. Miami-based artist, Karen Rifas, has a long history with site-specific installations and architectural interventions. Known for her minimal ... +

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The photographic series Childhood Memories from the Other Side of the Water by Eduardo del Valle, includes certain aspects of the artist’ memories. For 40 years, Del Valle have worked focusing his practice on subjects in states of transformation. Over the past nine years, the artist has worked on a visual autobiography of his experiences related to his childhood, his recollections of ... +

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Gallery Diet is pleased to announce Trees in Oolite, the inaugural design show in the courtyard of its new space. The first outdoor-design exhibition in the gallery’s history, eight designers and artists present an assortment of outdoor furniture, lighting, and design elements. Set within a Floridian landscape that includes mango, oak, and avocado trees, these objects complement the subtropical flora with a ... +

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The Fort Lauderdale Home Design and Remodeling Show presents “At Home with Art” — an art exhibit, where within 6 curated art exhibit booths, 18 Broward artists will showcase work of various mediums including sculptures, paintings, and digital art. Artists are either members of non-profit organizations, ArtServe or Grace Arts Center with Sugarcane. This Home Show feature is sponsored by Around Town ... +

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UNTITLED (3 for 8), is an exhibition of sculptures and wall constructions by one of Miami’s most influential artists, Robert Thiele. The exhibition is organized by the Museum and curated by guest curator Tyler Emerson-Dorsch. There’s a quiet intensity that has marked Thiele’s artwork since he first arrived in Miami in 1966, who became an art instructor at Miami Dade College, where ... +

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Through this exhibition, MDC Museum of Art +Design pays tribute to one of Miami’s homegrown pioneers through a retrospective of pivotal works spanning his prolific career: Robert Huff. In 2014, the Miami art community mourned the great loss of Robert Huff, an exceptional artist and teacher to many. Spanning nearly fifty years, the two- and three-dimensional works in Robert Huff: 47 Years ... +

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Opening its door August 15, Bossa Gallery is the first local gallery to specialize in Brazilian fine art photography. Located inside the 4141 plaza, across the street from ICA, the gallery presents the works of rising talents, adding to Miami’s evolving art landscape, the current and vibrant production of contemporary art in Brazil. Join us on Thursday, August 27, from 6pm to ... +

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Since his initial works from Cuba in the early 80’s, Florencio Gelabert continues to look for ways of expression that go beyond the traditional standards of sculpture, using unconventional materials and forms, and deconstructing the actual concept of sculpture. His efforts have focused on the creation of sculptures and installations that incorporate elements extracted from nature, utilitarian objects and architectural fragments. This ... +

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ArtServe presents the Warholian-like art happening “RedEye”, featuring Def Jam Recording’s pioneering graphic designer Cey Adams, the South Florida premiere of a film with DJ EFN examining Cuba’s hip-hop scene, live bands, works by celebrated local artists, live art, food trucks and more that will spill out of the ArtServe gallery onto Sunrise Blvd. RedEye is … A sensory explosion of live ... +

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From North Miami’s The Fountainhead Studios to the South’s Deering Estate at Cutler, 7 uniquely curated exhibits will represent a sample of the diversity and range of art available close to home. 22 artists along with art districts spokespersons and interior designers will be on hand to discuss how art can be used as the departure point for a design concept in ... +

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Video by Where | WhereTraveler.com Join WhereTraveler.com as we explore two areas that define Miami’s arts community. First we explore the posh style of Miami’s Design District, and then we … Watch on Youtube

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The work of Einar and Jamex, a.k.a. the de la Torre Brothers, has recently evolved through the use of digital and lenticular printing. Understanding the frenzy of the work of Einar and Jamex de la Torre is like trying to navigate the running of the bulls in Spain on a tricycle. From the baroque sculptural glass and mixed media figures to the ... +

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The Wolfsonian’s collection of art and design is an astonishing accumulation of human documents. Some are immediately exquisite while others at first seem rather ordinary. And on occasion these artifacts—from gorgeous paintings to domestic pleasantries—turn out to be a really big bummer. Factory scenes with a dreariness that glows. A Frank Lloyd Wright prototype chair that is elegant to the eye and ... +

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Born in Haiti and a resident of Miami, Asser Saint-Val received his BFA in Painting and Graphic Design from NWSA in 2004. His work was selected as the signature piece for the Miami International Film Festival in 2004, is a two-time recipient of the South Florida Cultural Consortium Fellowship Award for Visual and Media artists, and has exhibited in South Florida, New ... +

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From April 25, 2014 through July 12, 2014 Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Museum of Art + Design (MOAD) is honored to present Impact and Legacy: 50 Years of the CINTAS Foundation, an exhibition encompassing 50 years of the foundation’s support of Cuban-born artists, writers, architects, and composers working outside of Cuba. The exhibition is organized and curated by the Museum and includes ... +

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June 28, 2014 through September 28, 2014 A visionary who was equally comfortable in the realms of fact and fiction, Norman Bel Geddes (1893–1958) played a significant role in the 1920s and ’30s, shaping not only modern America but also the nation’s image of itself as innovator and leader into the future. Bel Geddes most famously expressed his dynamic vision of this ... +

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February 14-18, 2014 The Fair takes place in a new waterside pavilion “in the round” at downtown’s Bayfront Park. Organized by IFAE in collaboration with the French SNA (organizers of the Paris Biennale) , MA+D is Miami’s most elegant fine art event and will feature prestigious international dealers presenting art and design of all periods. The fair will feature the best of ... +

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From January 23 through March 8th Lauren Pascarella (b. Hollywood, Fla.) received her Master of Fine Arts in photography from Parsons The New School for Design in 2009 and her Bachelor of Fine ARts in photography from New World School of the Arts in 2007. Her work has been exhibited in group shows in including States of Flux in 2010 at Aperture ... +

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From March 27 through May 1, 2014 In A Narrative of An Artist Exploring Capitalism from Los Angeles-based artist Tatiana Vahan, examines the complex relationship between value formation and art. Using artistic signifiers such as the press release and traditional portraiture, the artist constructs personal narratives that portray both humor and failure, some spanning over ten years of time. Tatiana Vahan (b. ... +

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From May 22 through July 12, 2014 William Cordova (b. Lima, Peru) earned his Master of Fine Arts from Yale University in 2004, his Bachelor of Fine Arts from the Art Institute of Chicago in 1996 and attended MDC’s North Campus. He has participated in multiple artist residencies, including Artspace, San Antonio, Texas; The Core program, Museum of Fine Arts, Houston; and ... +

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Thursday, Feb. 13, 2014. From 8:00 – 11:00 p.m. Paper Hearts is MOAD’s single largest fundraiser to fuel exhibition and education programs, in addition to the continued stewardship of its historic home. Guests are invited to mingle among artists, enjoy various performances, and savor bites and cocktails from local restaurants and bars, all while moving to the beats of DJ Hottpants and ... +

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Photographs by Famed Spanish Photographer Cristina García Rodero Through March 29, 2014. Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Museum of Art + Design (MOAD) is presenting Rituales en Haití, an exhibition of photographs by Spanish-born photographer Cristina García Rodero. Rituales en Haití is García Rodero’s first exhibition at the College’s flagship institution dedicated to the presentation and exhibition of visual art and design, housed ... +

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Through May 24, 2014. Fairchild Tropical Botanic Garden is showcasing works by Hugo Franca. Based in Brazil, Franca uses all natural materials to create functional and sustainable design pieces, often tables and seating. Each piece uses reclaimed wood from felled, burned or dead trees found in Brazil. By working them into functional designs, Franca gives new life to trees that are sometimes ... +

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Through January 11, 2014. Mirror Stage from Miami-based artist Liliam Dominguez is the second in a series of five exhibitions presented by the MDC Museum of Art + Design and its alumni exhibition series, swing/SPACE/miami. In Mirror Stage, the artist “… observes reality as a hierarchy of events in a continuum of arbitrary scenes. In the reflection of the mirror, the same ... +

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November 18, 2013 – February 14, 2014. The Miami Dade College (MDC) Galleries of Art + Design (GOAD), in conjunction with the college’s 2013 Miami Book Fair International, presents Havana Revisited: An Architectural Heritage, an exhibition created by Boston-based artist Cathryn Griffith. Opening the week of the Book Fair on Monday, November 18th, Havana Revisited documents the history, preservation and present uses ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum-FIU. October 18, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Join New York-based architect and interior designer William T. Georgis , whose work Elle Decor describes as “uptown but impertinent”, for a free book signing and reception in The Wolfsonian’s café. This first monograph on Georgis’s work, released by The Monacelli Press, presents sixteen houses and apartments in New York City, Long Island, Florida, Montana, ... +

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September 2013. More than three dozen new objects, along with two new special installations, are part of the recently updated Art and Design in the Modern Age: Selections from The Wolfsonian Collection (ADMA). The updated installation retains the exhibition’s core themes and overall structure while refreshing its graphic identity, refining the exhibition design, revising text panels, and introducing new material. ADMA showcases ... +

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June 2013. Creative Jessy Nite is opening the Nite Writer, a typographic studio dedicated to hand-lettering, type and illustration. Launching at NiteWriter.co, Nite has produced an interactive pan and scan portfolio that allows viewers to explore the gamut of her hand-drawn typeface and design capabilities. Best known for her fine and public art projects, Nite Writer was conceived as an extension of ... +

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Through September 21, 2013. The Miami Dade College (MDC) Museum of Art + Design will present A Poetic Reality: Magical Realism of the CINTAS Fellows Collection. Stewards of the collection since 2011, the Museum is located within the College’s historic Freedom Tower and it is free and open to the public Wednesday to Sunday, from noon to 5:00 p.m.  Featuring artworks by ... +

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April 2013. Imagine a center that fostered peace by incorporating elements of different religions in one space. That’s what Miami Dade Colleges (MDC) architecture students did recently for eight weeks. The team won a competition sponsored by the Key Biscayne Community Foundation and Global Education Foundation in March. The winning design is also being considered as a model for an actual peace ... +

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June 2013. One Eyed Robot, a South East-based Award Winning animation and design studio is excited to announce it will be setting up shop in the Miami area this June 2013. Opening a South Florida office is part of One Eyed Robot’s bigger plan to offer their animation and design services to the many networks and local ad agencies in the area ... +

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April 23, 2013, 7:00 p.m. Cannonball and Architecture Design Studio invite you to experience the final Spring 2013 Studio Brief, where architecture students propose innovative projects to local developers. This event is free and open to the public. Funded by Tony Goldman, Architecture Design Studio is a platform for architecture students and landowner/developers to collaborate in reinventing the Miami urban landscape. Since ... +

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March 2013. Drawing inspiration from Gaia, Greek goddess of the earth, Miami Dade College’s (MDC) interior design students from the School of Architecture and Interior Design created a porcelain tiled dress that won an award for “Most Historical” concept at the March 16 International Interior Design Association (IIDA) Design Mix show. The event was held at the Crandon Golf Key Biscayne Club ... +

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From March 22 through May 12, 2013. View the prize-winning installation of the 2012 DawnTown design/build competition at HistoryMiami. For the past five years, DawnTown’s annual design ideas competition has attracted designers from around the world to present new and creative possibilities for Miami. This year’s winning design Up-Downtown is an international collaboration between Jacob Brillhart (Miami, FL) and Manuel Clavel-Rojo (Murcia, ... +

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From February 14, through May 4, 2013. The Miami Dade College (MDC) Museum of Art + Design (MOAD) presents Arnold Mesches: A Life’s Work, a major retrospective-style exhibition spanning 60 years of work by American painter Arnold Mesches. Mesches’ most comprehensive and inclusive retrospective to date. The exhibition, reception and lecture are free and open to the public. Arnold Mesches (b. 1923, ... +

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From February 9 through March 2, 2013. The course is designed for anyone who wants to know about Miami Beach’s unique architectural styles, from those Art Deco hotels to the fantastic, auto-revering hotels of the ’50s and ’60s known as Miami Modern, or MiMo. Over four Saturdays and 15 1/2 hours, historians, authors, architects, city officials, artists and veteran tour guides tell ... +

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December 2012. Miami Beach residents have seen prized historic homes demolished in their city for years now. Sadly, local historic preservation laws do not adequately protect these houses which are integral to the fabric and quality of life of the community and representative of its history. Recently, MDPL noticed an alarming uptick in the number of historic homes being demolished in order ... +

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Opening reception: November 30, 2012. 7:00 p.m.From November 30, 2012 through January 26, 2013. As part of Foreverglades, an environmentally minded public installation by William Sweetlove and other members of Cracking Art Group, large-scale recyclable plastic alligators, sea turtles, frogs, and bunnies will be positioned crawling up and down and around the historic Freedom Tower at MDC. The exhibition will open with ... +

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November 2012. Renovations have begun to the gallery’s building at 151 NW 24 Street, where the gallery has been located since 2000. When the gallery re-opens in February 2013, visitors will enter the new gallery space by walking through our adjacent lot into a new lobby on the east side of the building. To the left will be an entrance to the ... +

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December 7, 2012. 8:00 p.m. – 12:00 a.m. The Creative Complex, a Miami-based graphic design shop, is organizing and hosting the first ever gallery dedicated to the art of nightlife graphic design. Alex Miranda, CEO of the company, believes it’s time to unmask the artists behind great event flyers we see across Miami. Ruben Vazquez, Creative Director at The Creative Complex, will ... +

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From November 2 through December 21, 2012. Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Galleries of Art + Design is presenting The SWEAT Broadsheet Collaboration, a project that originated with a small group of South Florida artists and writers. The 46 artists and 40 participating writers were interested in the intersection of their respective genres – that is, artists interested in text and book arts, ... +

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The Works of Isabel Toledo and Ruben ToledoFrom November 9, 2012 through January 26, 2013. Miami Dade College’s (MDC) Museum of Art + Design and Terra Group in partnership with Bacardi present an evocative retrospective exhibition of the unique three-decade creative collaboration of award-winning fashion designer Isabel Toledo and her husband, artist Ruben Toledo at the Freedom Tower, the landmark Mediterranean Revival ... +

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September 2012. MAD inItaly, owned and operated by Nadine Curmi Borgomanero, is a concept store that offers lifestyle furniture, art and home accessories handpicked from Italy. Located in the Miami Design District, MAD inItaly boasts a refreshing and modern blend of imported Italian designs that provide drama and definition, add character and expression using cutting-edge technology and quality materials for all interiors. ... +

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Opening reception: September 20, 2012. 5:00 p.m.From September 20 through November 2, 2012. Curated by Gustavo Orta, this unique exhibition features fans designed by prominent artists of Cuban descent. Fans Forever re-creates a 1943 exhibition of artist-designed fans auctioned off to raise funds for the Church of Santa María del Rosario, a jewel of Cuban Baroque architecture in Havana, Cuba. Notable artists ... +

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New exhibitions by Jaimie Warren and Elena SistoFrom September 6 through November 2, 2012. In the heart of Downtown Miami at Miami Dade College’s Freedom Tower, the MDC Museum of Art + Design kicks off its inaugural season at 7:00 p.m. on Thursday, September 6 with two major exhibitions by Jaimie Warren and Elena Sisto. The opening reception, which features a special ... +

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August 2012. Cartier is one of the first new luxury tenants to open in the Miami Design District. The new Cartier boutique will have a 4,331-square-feet store, with just under 3,000-square-feet for retail space. The boutique will feature a mix of Cartier’s jewelry, watches, accessories and fragrances. The design includes luxurious and contemporary elements with glass display cases trimmed in bronze and ... +

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July 2012. On June 12th, the property at 1001 Lincoln Road again came before the Miami Beach Historic Preservation Board (HPB). The last time the board reviewed the plans for this property, the proposed building designed by Apple. Inc. was very controversial. The owners and Apple proposed a complete demolition of the existing structure and a new design that was incompatible with ... +

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From July 26 through October 25, 2012. What are the products we use in our everyday lives, and what impact do they have on our planet?  These are the questions proposed in Design for a Living World, an exhibit from The Nature Conservancy, opening July 26 at the Coral Gables Museum. The exhibit features intriguing works from ten of the world’s most ... +

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April 2012. This April, Giorgio Armani Group inaugurated its first Armani / Casa store in the Miami Design District. The Miami location is the third Armani / Casa store in the United States. The Armani / Casa Miami store in Miami covers about 1,200 square feet and features a wide spectrum of home collections range from furniture and furnishings to accessories, décor ... +

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Video by cmvprod April 14th, 2012 Before official Opening Night Reception for “Spring Affair”. Enjoy the tour. Watch on Youtube

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April 2012. Offering a new vision in window decorations, this internationally recognized brand provides its clientele with different themed fabric collections including nature prints, micro prints, jacquards with fashion forward graphics and flame-retardant fabrics with a natural linen look. Coulisse also has showrooms in Mexico City and Brazil. “Window decorations are more than just products: they are an expression of style and ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum – FIU. Oct 28, 2011. 7:00 p.m. “Digital design is not simply a means to an end, but is opening doors for different kinds of sensibility of design – it is opening up a Pandora’s box of new possibilities for architecture,” says Eric Goldemberg, author of the newly published book Pulsation in Architecture. Goldemberg presents his book as part of ... +

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There have been a lot of changes at the Bass Museum lately. The most notable of these might be the external arrival area, recently redesigned into a naturally flowing and attractive space by Oppenheim Architecture + Design. But there’s more going on, and one only needs to head just inside the museum’s doors to catch a glimpse of its further transformation. This ... +

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Through May 28, 2011. Access to China is a three-part exhibition sponsored by the International Chinese Fine Arts Council and Miami Design District showcasing distinctly diverse selection of Chinese art. “The Feminine Flair” by Art Lexing presents a dialog between two acclaimed Chinese artists: Ye Hongxing and Wang Xiaojin. “Emerging Art on Paper” curated by Inez Suen will show four recent graduates ... +

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Deadline: May 30, 2011. WAN Interiors + Design Lighting Awards 2011 are now open for entries. The award celebrates and promotes the best in international lighting products and projects, attracting entries from all over the world and providing a global platform to showcase new designs. The WAN Interiors + Design Lighting Awards showcase the best from within the lighting industry. The award ... +

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May 2, 2011. DawnTown, the annual international architectural competition, announces that the awards ceremony for the Miami Marine Stadium Floating Stage Design Competition will be held on May 2nd at the Rusty Pelican restaurant on Virginia Key. The event will feature a display of all of the contest entries as well as the announcement of the winner and semi-finalists. This year’s competition ... +

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February 2011. Leading international “green” architect Chad Oppenheim was selected by top Philippine developer, The Net Group, to design the nation’s first certified green project. The Net Metropolis is the flagship pilot development of the recently created Philippine Green Building Council (PHILGBC) to answer to the local environment’s specific needs. Oppenheim, who has a growing reputation for his green design work, participated ... +

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January 2011. International “green” architect Chad Oppenheim completed the new entrance for the Bass Museum of Art in Miami Beach. The rejuvenated entrance was officially unveiled during a ceremony on December 2010 celebrating the opening of Collins Park – one of the city’s new living rooms. Oppenheim’s design reconnects the museum to the community. The door literally opens it to the new ... +

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Absolute to Minimal. Through Jan 14, 2011. For its inaugural exhibition, Arevalo Gallery presents From Absolute to Minimal a group exhibition featuring works by Post-War Latin American artists and their international counterparts all of whose work was defined by the ultimate search for the absolute. It was through Kazimir Malevich’s search for an artistic expression void of representation that the quest for ... +

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Dec 1 through 5, 2010 Design Miami/, the global forum for design, will hold one of its most ambitious shows to date this December in a new location in Miami Beach. This year’s fair will feature an expanded selection of galleries showcasing some of the most important design works of the 20th and 21st centuries, along with an impressive list of emerging ... +

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Lecture and Book Signing.Art Deco Welcome Center. Oct 21st, 2010. 7:00 p.m. “This book provides an important – and readable – addition to the bookshelf addressing the context of contemporary Miami and Miami Beach. By presenting the built environment of the Miami area for its compelling variety and unique mélange of styles, the authors go far in interpreting a long overlooked portion ... +

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Fall 2010. The Fall Lecture Series at Miami Design Preservation League’s Art Deco Welcome Center is packed with a variety of free, interesting presentations. Veronika Pozmentier, art historian, journalist and MDPL tour guide, compares our own backyard with one of Paris’ most diverse districts with her lecture “South Beach and Le Mariais: A Tale of Two Historic Neighborhoods.” It starts at 7:00 ... +

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From Jun 15th through 19th, 2010. The global forum for design, Design Miami/ Basel, will again take place in Basel, Switzerland during the popular visual art’s fair Art Basel this summer. At the core of the Design Miami/ forum is a marketplace for limited-edition design, amid which the most reputable international design galleries present curated exhibitions of museum-quality furniture, lighting and objets ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum. From Oct 16th, 2009 through Mar 14th, 2010. The Wolfsonian – Florida International University presents Styled for the Road: The Art of Automobile Design, 1908-1948, an engaging exploration of automobile design in America from the 1900s through the 1940s. The exhibition, on view from October 16th, 2009 through March 14th, 2010, highlights the important role played by designers and visual ... +

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July 2009 Kelepso Design Studio presents the first collection of Miami Neighbor-Hubs Souvenirs, featuring framed artwork and decorative coasters showcasing Miami’s Historic Black and Latin Caribbean neighborhoods. The collection is created for residents, local and international tourists to share a piece and learn more about Miami’s rich and dynamic history. The first collection features the historic Coconut Grove, Little Haiti, Little Havana ... +

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Selections from the Wolfsonian Collection. Ongoing. The Wolfsonian Museum at FIU holds and incredible collection of Design. Think Miami and think Design. However, many of the museum’s holdings precede our era of magnificent condos by the bay and aseptic contemporary interiors. The exhibition holds nearly 300 objects from the museum’s collection, covering a period from 1885 to 1945. The boundaries between art ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum. Dec 19th, 2008. 6:00 p.m.  The Wolfsonian Museum – FIU is hosting its Deco and Design Tour on December 19th, 2008 at 6:00 p.m. This two-hour adventure begins with a walking tour of the Art Deco District, then moves inside to explore The Wolfsonian's collection. The tour focuses on American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow, which will be on ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum. From Oct 24th, 2008 through May 17th, 2009.  From the Twentieth Century Limited train and Chrysler’s Airflow automobile to the Zephyr digital clock, the aerodynamic style known as streamlining endowed many classic American products with a futuristic sheen – the glamour of speed. American Streamlined Design: The World of Tomorrow, organized by The Liliane and David M. Stewart Program for ... +

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Horse Play. From Jul 17th through Aug 15th, 2008.The Visual Arts Department at the Miami International University of Art and Design, located at 1501 Biscayne Blvd. in Miami, presents an invitational exhibition of two-dimensional and three-dimensional works inspired by the horse sculptures of China's Tang Dynasty. The exhibition will open to the public on July 17th, 2008. This event is free and ... +

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Wolfsonian Museum. Ongoing. The Wolfsonian Museum at FIU holds and incredible collection of design. Think Miami and think Design. However, many of the museum’s holdings precede our era of magnificent condos by the bay and aseptic contemporary interiors. The exhibition holds nearly 300 objects from the museum’s collection, covering a period from 1885 to 1945. The boundaries between art and design have ... +

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From Jun 3rd through 5th, 2008. Not only Basel comes to Miami in the winter, but also happens the reverse in the summer. Design Miami, our local design fair, will anchor in Switzerland during the Art Basel days. Regarded as a global forum for collecting, exhibiting, discussing and creating design, the fair brings together the world’s most influential dealers, designers, collectors, curators ... +

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Ongoing. The Craig Robins Collection is a private contemporary art and design collection that includes works from John Baldessari, Richard Tuttle, Marlene Dumas, Paul McCarthy, Mike Kelley, Martin Kippenberger, Kai Althoff, Cosima von Bonin, Huang Yong Ping, and Paulina Olowska. Pieces in the collection represent a wide spectrum of artistic perspectives and encompass the disciplines of design, architecture, film, music and dance. ... +

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at the Poltrona Frau Showroom. From Dec 5th through Dec 9th, 2007. Mundus Vivendi, a collective of 15 emerging designers from the Naples area will present an exhibition at the Poltrona Frau showroom in the Miami Design District. The exhibition will invite visitors to discover how environmental factors can affect how a space or object is perceived. Interior Design will be on ... +

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Modern Paintings and Decorative Arts. The 20th Century Design Gallery, located at 5050 Biscayne Blvd in Miami, is exhibiting paintings by Pedro Friedeberg, an artist born in Florence, Italy who now lives and works in Guanajuato, Mexico. During World War II in 1940, Pedro and his mother immigrated to Mexico. In 1956, he entered Universidad Iberoamerica to study architecture and art under ... +

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June, 2007. Ligne Roset, one of the world’s leading companies in luxury and contemporary furniture design, has closed its showroom in Coral Gables and relocated to the Miami Design District. Now located in Oak Plaza’s two-story Twery Building at 160 NE 40th Street, the new 4,650 square foot two-level showroom is set to open at the end of June 2007. Ligne Roset’s ... +

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