Zurich Design Museum
(1875)
design museum
What makes the Swiss museum of design Zurich relevant for its audience
is its distinctive educational approach to the themes of visual arts, based on which
the collected material is meant to be useful for academic theoretic and applicative
purposes in a variety of design fields. This is made possible by the addition of some extremely useful
documentation from a wide range of sources.
Thus the activity of the museum is not centred in showcasing works of
design, but in offering tools for the analysis of the design process. The documentation provided includes concepts, unfinished plans,
creations from unknown designers, and theories aimed to ascribe anonymous designs either to
those who have realised them, or to an artistic movement, or to a social trend.
The most important section among the collections of the design museum Zurich
is about graphic design. Others are
about industrial design, applied art, and poster design (this is presented separately from
graphic design for underlining the difference between the merely communicative
function of graphic design, and the artistic, self-expressive one of poster making).
related
subjects:
links:
www.museum-gestaltung.ch
