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Paola Antonelli

Special Guest: Paola Antonelli

Arts, Culture & Media

Paola Antonelli is a curator in the Department of Architecture and Design at the Museum of Modern Art in New York, and a noted authority on design. The exhibitions she has developed include “Mutant Materials in Contemporary Design,” “Workspheres,” and “Safe: Design Takes on Risk,” which will open in October 2005.

Design for the Real World: Superball

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Design for the Real World: Q-Tips

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Design for the Real World: Band-Aid

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Design for the Real World: Vespa

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New York art exhibit explores how we talk to objects

Arts, Culture & Media

The Museum of Modern Art has a new exhibition that showcases how people interact with the objects in their everyday world, and the emotions they provoke.

MoMA video game display

The Museum of Modern Art embraces all aspects of digital culture and design

Arts

From video games to the iconic ‘@” symbol to the original Arduino board, MoMA’s design curator Paolo Antonelli sees beauty, form and function — all the elements of art and design.

Looking at the @ sign

Arts, Culture & Media

The @ sign, the only preposition on the keyboard, dates back to the middle ages, but has found new life in the internet age.

New Exhibit Explores How We Talk to Objects

Whether you know it or not, you speak with objects every day.  You put the coffee machine on and tell it to make the beverage you want, your cell phone rings and it lets you who’s calling and you treat your computer as a gateway to the online world.  Essentially, you are interacting and communicating with the […]

The World

Design for the Real World: @

Arts, Culture & Media

Earlier this year the Museum of Modern Art acquired the “@” symbol as part of its permanent collection. MoMA design curator, Paola Antonelli, tells the story of how it came to be so ubiquitous. Produced by Kim Gittleson.

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