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Week 15 Laura Coombs 06/11
Laura Coombs: Book Index
- Laura Coombs: Book Index Opens!
- Reflect on Post Tool and Class
Week 14 Post Tool 06/04
Post Tool
- Maki Suzuki exhibition deinstall
- Install Post Tool Exhibition
  
  Robingeggpie (Dongchul Sin) stops by Powerplant at 3pm to install his work
- Post Tool Exhibition Duties – refer to PM team's schedule
- Laura Coombs exhibition opens next week!
Week 13 Maki Suzuki 05/28
Unwrapping
- Maki Suzuki exhibition opening!
- Robingeggpie (Dongchul Sin) stops by class at 2pm to drop off his work
- Discuss final works for P2
  
  Let's figure out a schedule and plan for next week
- Team Laura make progress on your exhibition
- Finalize all works for P2 and be available as needed for install
Week 12 Accessibility 05/21
ADA Guidelines Average Viewing Sightline
- Discuss exhibition accessibility standards
- Share updates on P1 & P2
- In your P1 Group: Make progress on your Portable Exhibition
- In your P2 Group: Make progress on your group's work for the Powerplant Exhibition
  
  Refer to the PM Team's outline
- Maki Suzuki exhibition opens next week!
Week 11 Min Guhong Mfg. 05/14
© 2025 Min Guhong Manufacturing (Introducing Introduction)
- Share updates on P1 & P2
- Min Guhong Manufacturing exhibition opening!
  
  Min Guhong visits to share about his practice and celebrate
- In your P1 Group: Make progress on your Portable Exhibition
- In your P2 Group: Make progress on your group's work for the Powerplant Exhibition
  
  Refer to the PM Team's outline
Week 10 Spaces 05/07
An image of a glass opposite an image of a lemon, So-Yeon Kim, 2022
- Share updates on P1: Portable Exhibition
- Share group updates on P2: Powerplant Exhibition
- In your P1 Group: Make progress on your Portable Exhibition
- In your P2 Group: Make progress on your group's work for the Powerplant Exhibition
  
  Refer to the PM Team's outline
- Min Guhong Manufacturing exhibition opens next week!
Week 9 Works 04/30
Lost Formats Winterthur, Experimental Jetset, 2015
- Share updates on P1: Portable Exhibition
- Share group updates on P2: Powerplant Exhibition
  
  Discuss which works to request from artists
- Note: Laura Coombs show opening and talk have been rescheduled!
  
  Laura's show will open May 2
  
  Laura's talk will take place during the Powerplant Exhibition
- In your P1 Group: Make progress on your Portable Exhibition
- In your P2 Group: Make progress on your group's work for the Powerplant Exhibition
  
  Each group should try and have a rough draft of all materials, this means...
  
  Space/Install Team: rough floorplan / zones of work based on proposed artists list; sample furniture
  
  Identity/Promotion Team: rough logo and identity system; examples of spatial graphics (wayfinding, wall text, etc.); example promotional materials
  
  Editorial/Archive Team: sketches for catalog (web or print (or both)); GD exhibition archive proposal
  
  PM Team: Finalize curatorial statement; create overview of tasks and deadlines
- Look up Soyeon Kim's work and think of some questions you'd like to ask her when she visits next week
Week 8 Curation 04/23
Designed in California, 2018
- Share updates on P1: Portable Exhibition
- Share group updates on P2: Powerplant Exhibition and...
  
  Discuss team leaders and decision-making
  
  Set rough group of designers to invite
- In your P1 Group: Make progress on your Portable Exhibition
- In your P2 Group: Make progress on your group's work for the Powerplant Exhibition
- Try to come to Laura Coomb's guest lecture next Wedensday at 1pm!
Week 7 Concepts pt. 2 04/16
Yale Laser Show Preparation, 2017
- Share updates on P1: Portable Exhibition
- Discuss P2: Powerplant Exhibition motivations
  
  Let's finalize our concept in class
  
  Meeting in your P2 groups, begin brainstorming and creating a schedule for your work on P2
- In your P1 Group: Make progress on your Portable Exhibition
- In your P2 Group: Make progress on your group's work for the Powerplant Exhibition
- Individually: Select one artist who you'd like to invite to participate in the P2: Powerplant Show and add to the class Google Doc
- Look up Robert Kett's work and think of some quesitons you'd like to ask him about design curation when he visits next week
Week 6 Concepts 04/09
London College of Communication Postgraduate Shows, 2019, Carlos Romo–Melgar
- Talk: The Exhibitionary Apparatus
- Share updates for P1: Portable Exhibition and P2: Powerplant Exhibition
  
  Maki group share an update on the vitrine design
- Carlos Romo-Melgar guest lecture
- Working by yourself: reflect on your motivation for your concept, and be ready to verbally share about this next class
- Working in your Portable Exhibition Group: make progress on your portable exhibition
- Optional/Recommended Reading: Exhibit A: The Exhibitionary Apparatus, by Andrew Blauvelt
Week 5 Bumpiness 04/02
Hiroshige’s 100 Famous Views of Edo (feat. Takashi Murakami), Brooklyn Museum, Bon Hae Koo
- Bon Hae Koo guest lecture
- Discuss The Yale MFA Graphic Design Show, and P!DF (Excerpts)
- Share concepts for P2: Powerplant Exhibition
- Working in your P1: Portable Exhibition groups:
  
  Create a proposal for P2: Powerplant Exhibition, it should include:
  
  Overall Concept
  
  Example works (3 or more)
  
  Keywords (ex. mixed-reality, research, etc.)
  
  Display Ideas
  
  Create final(-ish) proposal for P1: Portable Exhibition (Maki's team focus on a final(ish) proposal for the vitrine design)
- Fill out the poll on Kakaotalk about your preference for P2: Powerplant Exhibition groups (read more about rolls here)
- Look up Carlos Romo Melgar's work in preparation of his visit next week
Week 4 Site Visit 03/26
The Magic Hat, Bird Pit & Flying Saucer 1, Seendosi
- Class will meet at 3pm at CORD and should end by 5pm to account for travel time
- Visit Bird Pit at his exhibition The Magic Hat at CORD
- Visit Lee Byoung Jae at Seendosi
- Share 2 concepts for your P1: Portable Exhibition
- In your portable exhibition groups develop a concept for P2: Group Exhibition
- Look up Bon Hae Koo's work in preparation of her visit next week
- The Yale MFA Graphic Design Show, by Rachel Berger
- P!DF (Excerpts), by Prem Krishnamurthy
Week 3 Research 03/19
Karel Martens, Re-Printed Matter, 60 Years of Books, Enter Enter
- Special Lecture: Kyunghwa Son
- Discuss: Graphic Design in the White Cube
- Share short presentations on exhibition you visited
- Share P2 Step 1: Exhibition Ideas
  
  2-3 thoughts about what a graphic design show today should focus on, along with 1-2 designers whose work you think addresses/reacts/embodies these issues and 1-2 design exhibition references (shows, curators, organizations/venues, etc.)
- Meet at CORD at 3pm for Bird Pit's show "The Magic Hat", after which we will visit Seendosi
  
  CORD: 2F, 19, Toegye-ro 45-Gil, Jung-gu, Seoul
- Contact your exhibition subject (except Maki) and create 2 concepts for your P1: Portable Exhibition
  
  In your portable exhibition team discuss ideas about a concept for P2: Group Exhibition to share in 2 weeks
  
  For next week Maki's group focus on a proposal for vitrine design for lobby of building 49
Week 2 Research 03/12
Asahisonoma Vol. 2: Tetsuya Goto
- Share Class Exhibition: Representative Graphic
- Intro Project: Group Exhibition
- Project: Portable Exhibition Step 2: Mini-presentations
- Tetsuya Goto Class Visit
- ~~Discuss: Graphic Design in the White Cube~~ (postponed to next week)
- Share an ordered list with chris of which designer (Maki, Laura, or Min) you want to work with on P2: Portable Exhibtiion by EoD Thursday March 13 via Kakaotalk
- Go see an exhibition and take notes about its design elements. Put together a 5 min presentation on the show's design – highlighting one interesting design detail
- Meet with your Portable Exhibition group to discuss your collaboration and continue researching your exhibition subject
- P2 Step 1: Exhibition Ideas
- Graphic Design in the White Cube, by Peter Biľak
Week 1 Introductions 03/05
Yuji Agematsu, zip: 01.05.20 … 31.05.20, 2020
- Introductions and class overview
- Discuss: What is the role of design in exhibitions?
- Intro Project: Portable Exhibition
- Exercise Class Exhibition: What's in My Bag
- For next week:
  
  Bring in a graphic (as a print, object, etc. – must have a physical form) for the Class Exhibition: Representative Graphic
  
  Prepare for Tetsuya Goto's class visit by reading about him and familiarizing yourself with his projects
- Within two weeks: Go see an exhibition and take notes about its design elements. Put together a 5 min presentation on the show's design – highlighting one interesting design detail
- Graphic Design in the White Cube, by Peter Biľak