A short Lower East visit at Museum für Gestalting, the design museum in Zürich. Switzerland’s leading design and visual communication museum. While the main building are being renovated, all activities are placed in the Schaudepot.
The museum is always worth a visit! Next very interesting exhibition will be “Stefan Sagmeister. My Collection“. Opening in October 2017.
Check out the design museum here.
18 incredible design museumsWe just stumbled over this blog; Creative Bloq, with a blog post where they have collected “18 incredible design museum trips“. Go check the museums out, there’s a lot of interesting places to visit. We at Lower East have managed to visit five of them so far – still 13 to go!
The list includes Museum of Modern Art, New York, Design Museum, London, The V&A, London, Bauhaus Archive, Berlin, Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein, Stedelijk Museum, Amsterdam, Design Museum, Copenhagen, Musée National d’Art Moderne, Paris, Museum of Design, Zürich and nine more.
See the blog post here.
Photo from our visits at Centre Pompidou in Paris, Design Museum Danmark, MoMA, New York and Bauhaus Archive, Berlin.
MFO-Park, Oerlikon, Zürich
Hey, what a cool park!! The MFO-Park in Oerlikon, Zurich, Schweiz. The sun was shining, one of the first days of October, it was 20 degrees, and all the fantastic colors of the autumn appeared. What’s not to like?!
Okay, maybe we had a lucky moment. Lower East jumped of the train, and had the most wonderful and quiet hour in the park built on the former area of the engine factory “Maschinenfabrik Oerlikon”. The Park is 100 meter long, 34 meter broad and 18 meter high, with the hanging gardens. Even the park benches was a thrill.
Architects of this little wonder is Swiss Burckhardt+Partner AG, in cooperation with landscape architects Raderschall.
More info on the park here.
Museum für Gestaltung ZürichLower East visited Museum für Gestaltung in Zürich the other day. Enjoying the exhibition “100 Years of Swiss Graphic Design“. Really cool work; high quality, simple solutions, good focus on typography and on precision.
Extract from the museums website; “The view of one hundred years of graphic design shows both the diversity of current visual communication as well as the fine lines of tradition that connect works from different epochs. Alongside the poster and smaller items of printed matter, the show also includes outstanding examples from advertising and information graphics, typography, signage or book design, design objects that relate to graphic design, as well as selected striking advertising spots, and works for web design. Many objects come from the museum’s own collection”.
Check out the Museum für Gestaltung Zürich.