Lecture and book presentation:	Thursday February 19, 2009, 18:30
Organizer:	Die Neue Sammlung – The International Design Museum Munich
Location :	Ernst von Siemens-Auditorium, Pinakothek der Moderne | Barerstrasse 40 | München

Anonymous designed objects: simple, functional, yet elegant and astoundingly. Franco Clivio – shaper, designer, lecturer and collector – shows the complexity of the design process, not by design objects, but on the basis of things of everyday life.
Following book presentation: Franco Clivio, Hans Hansen, Pierre Mendell “Hidden Forms” (Verborgene Gestaltung) Ed. Zurich University of the Arts. A Birkhäuser book.

Exhibition:	July 25 – October 5, 2008
Press preview:	thursday July 24, 2008, 11.00
Vernissage:	thursday July 24, 2008, 19.00
Organizer:	Die Neue Sammlung Munich and Neues Museum Nuremberg
Location :	Neues Museum, Klarissenplatz, Nuremberg
Opening hours::	Thuesday – Friday 10 – 20, Saturday, Sunday 10 – 18 Info-Tel +49 (0)911 / 240 200, +49 (0)89 / 272725-0

On the one hand snapshots of cutting edge designs – on the other icons of German modernist design: the risk of presenting the two together marks this first special exhibition since the return of the design section and its new presentation in co operation with Die Neue Sammlung München.

From graphic and interior design to the development of industrial products – that is the spectrum of this thematically arranged cross-section of contemporary and classic designs by German designers and companies from past till present. The themes cover such aspects as material, position, function, system and tools – which have not only been formative for German design but also retained their validity to this day. They lend structure to the exhibition and determine the choice and the layout of the exhibits: from Walter Gropius’ famous service TAC01 to the playfully poetic lamp Lucellino designed by Ingo Maurer, to the latest cantilever chair Myto by Konstantin Grcic.
The English word case with its several meanings points here both to a particular installation featuring cases used for the exhibits, as well as to the case in point: “Design Deutschland”.
Through this experimental approach, light is shed on the essence of German design by taking select items by way of example. At the same time a tradition can be observed in the values cherished by German modernist design: design is there to solve problems.
This maxim was devised in the early 20th century by for instance the German Werkbund and in the 1920s by the Bauhaus, and continued to be pursued in the 1950s and ’60s by the Hochschule für Gestaltung in Ulm. And a great many current designs also subscribe to this ethos.
Case Study 08 sees its task as collecting and collating data amid the wide diversity and rich history of German design – giving a stimulating overview and an exciting snapshot of 2008.

An exhibition in cooperation with Die Neue Sammlung München as well as German Design Council and imm cologne.