Design To Go—Spain Part II

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Design To Go

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In this installment of Design To Go, Diane Burk travels to Spain, visiting the beautiful cities of Barcelona and Madrid. The biggest city on the Mediterranean, Barcelona is a cultural, economic, entertainment, educational and tourism center for Southern Europe. Madrid is the capital of Spain and the largest municipality in Spain as a whole—and boasts many of its historic buildings and districts kept intact.

August 2017: Spain Part II

 

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This informal design blog began as I departed for a year-long, around-the-world trip in October 2016. As well as a personal gap year, this travel time allows me to take a professional design sabbatical, following more than 30 years as a Graphic Designer/Art Director in the museum design world. "Design To Go" is a casual record of my design-related findings on the road, likely to be eclectic, various and somewhat random. Some of the things I come across that stimulate my design thinking might be of interest to others. My goal is to return to San Francisco in October 2017 inspired with fresh perspectives and energized to restart my design career. In design, anything is possible!

—Diane Burk, Design To Go

  • Qui Som? (Barcelona): A street photography exhibition without stands. This corner and tunnel area, between a cafe and community garden, has been used as a photo venue for years. Here, a portrait of the neighbors.
  • Construction Fence (Madrid): The Centro Canalejas building is being re-constructed, with a beautiful wrapper for the process. With rusted metal panels along the sidewalk, and a horizontal banner attached to the netting above.
  • History of Telecommunication (Madrid): Espacio, Fundacion Telefonica. This exhibition is related to the history of the building. Nice use of wire and copper in the title treatments.
  • Estacion Museo Chamberi (Madrid): Between the Bilboa and Iglesia stations, metro trains pass right through a museum, but most of the passengers don't ever notice it. The Chamberi Station is a little metro history museum, accessible down a spiral stairway from the street.
  • Museo ABC (Madrid): I came here to see "Hide and Seek,” an exhibition of Taiwanese artist Page Tsou. It's rare to find a serious contemporary museum dedicated to the art of illustration—and free.
  • Museum for the Blind (Madrid): Fundacion ONCE is the host of the Typhlological Museum, a museum (and cultural center) for the blind. Everything is meant to be both seen and touched, to educate sighted people while providing an enhanced museum experience for the sight impaired.

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