Design - Ivar Hagendoorn

17 Nov 2024 · Blog | Art | Design | Literature

Bande Dessinée 1964-2024 at the Centre Pompidou

I wish I had scheduled more time to visit Bande Dessinée 1964-2024, the amazing comic art exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. There was simply too much to see and discover and too many artists that I had never heard of.

28 Jul 2024 · Blog | Art | Design

Richard McGuire. Then and There. Here and Now

"Richard McGuire: Then and There. Here and Now" at the Cartoonmuseum Basel is a wonderful career retrospective of the illustrator and designer best known for his cult graphic novel "Here".

13 Jan 2023 · Blog | Design | Fashion

The 80s. Fashion, Design and Graphic Design in France

For a flashback to the 80s this exhibition at the Musée des Arts Décoratifs in Paris is not to be missed.

31 Dec 2022 · Blog | Literature | Non-Fiction | Design

The Best Books of 2022

The best fiction, best general non-fiction, best biography, philosophy and history books, best graphic novels, the best art and photography books and the most disappointing books that I read this past year.

30 Dec 2022 · Blog | Design

Emigre Magazine Archive

I was delighted to discover that the full run of legendary graphic design magazine Emigre is available online. It brought back a lot of memories and gave me the same jolt of inspiration as when I first discovered the magazine as a student.

16 Jul 2022 · Blog | Art | Design

National Museum of Norway

Norway's beautiful new National Museum is a must visit if you are in Oslo and not just because of the magnificent Munch room.

29 May 2022 · Blog | Art | Architecture | Design

Germany/1920s/New Objectivity/August Sander

Germany/1920s/New Objectivity/August Sander is the somewhat awkward title of a mammoth exhibition at the Centre Pompidou. Bringing together some 900 works of painting, photography, architecture, design and film, this is the first panoramic overview of the New Objectivity movement in France.

25 Oct 2019 · Blog | Art | Design

Joost Swarte Overal/Everywhere

The exhibition Joost Swarte Overal/Everywhere at the Kunsthal Rotterdam presents a selection from the work Swarte has produced over the past fifty years: from his first ventures into comics to his recent work for The New Yorker and an album celebrating the artists of De Stijl.