Philadelphia Museum of Art - Information : Associated Groups : Collab : Student Competition

Philadelphia Museum of Art - Information : Associated Groups : Collab : Student Competition: "The 2009 Competition: Tabletop Luminaire
Competition Brief

Collab will hold its Seventeenth Annual Student Design Competition at the Philadelphia Museum of Art on Monday, November 16, 2009. This year’s competition will be held in conjunction with the Museum’s exhibition Marcel Wanders: Designer celebrating the innovative design work of the Dutch designer, the recipient of Collab’s 2009 Design Excellence Award.

Marcel Wanders: Designer presents the designer’s own favorite work from among the hundreds of products he has created for various European manufacturers as well as for Droog Design and Moooi, of which he is also art director and co-owner. Trained in The Netherlands and Belgium as an industrial designer, Wanders has consistently challenged the premises of modernism. “We can no longer fall in total awe at a tube being bent. We can no longer tell our audience that a product is better because it is easier to make,” he said in 2007. “We have to challenge industry so they will learn to follow instead of lead.” With wit, humor, formal elegance, and above all, discipline, Wanders has taken up that challenge, advancing technological research into production methods and materials in designs that can be both environmentally friendly and playfully quirky at the same time. A true visionary, Wanders has created a body of work that is innovative and entirely original.
The exhibition will be on view from November 21, 2009, through June 6, 2010, at the Collab Gallery, Perelman Building, Philadelphia Museum of Art."