Turn on, Tune in, Get Out
When the sun shines and the longest days keep the evenings bright the Designhouse team go foraging for brain food. Fave hunting grounds include galleries, festivals and the occasional darkened cinema. We asked the studio team for their creative summer recommendations. Here is a veritable menu of must-dos, a smorgasbord for your brain, and restoratives for your imagination.
Here is what we are loving right now…
TeamLab Borderless, Tokyo
“A digital interactive art exhibition across a series of rooms with no start or end point. Artworks move out of rooms, relate to other works, influence each other and are influenced by you walking through the rooms and touching the artwork itself. I loved how they fused digital technology, sounds, smells and lighting to create a truly magical few hours of exploration.”
Jonti Davies, Client Services Director
Wes Anderson at the Design Museum
“Vivid, highly saturated and bright, this is the colour world behind some of Anderson’s most iconic films, which is to say most of them. A fascinating window into a brilliantly creative mind.”
Sam Steele, Marketing Director
Inside Aardman at the Young V&A
“Loads of models, storyboards and insight from the Aardman team. It’s a joy. On until mid November, so plenty of time to go. I’m not biased, but it is in Bethnal Green, so it’s easy to go to my local after.”
Natalie House, Studio Production Manager
It was Just An Accident
“The subject is heavy and sad but there is a bit of comedy in it and it’s very well made. Plus we all love to look cool watching subbed movies”
Cristina Taje, Senior Account Manager
Escher at Somerset House
“I loved Escher as a kid. Graphically powerful and geometric, it plays with perception and negative space. Brilliant draughtsmanship and imagination.”
Richard Debenham, Creative Director
Oceanographic Museum, Monaco
“An immersive, interactive space and time journey to 2050. It encourages the 650,000 annual visitors to the Oceanographic Museum to become involved in the protection of the Mediterranean.”
Al Connolly, Senior Designer
Marilyn Monroe: A Portrait, National Portrait Gallery
“The exhibition explores her iconic image and the personal brand that was created around her, with brilliant photographers featured.”
Sam Mayhew, Designer
David Hockney, “A Year in Normandie” at the Serpentine
Hockney’s sweeping frieze follows the slow turn of the seasons across the Normandy countryside, painted with the freshness of an artist still chasing the light in his ninth decade.
Matt Gillman, Creative Director
That is the studio’s summer in one list. Curiosity goes where it likes, and it always comes back with something worth sharing. Enjoy the summer!
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