Diane Burk has just returned from a yearlong around the world Design Sabbatical. Check out Diane Burk's design blog "Design to Go". Newly inspired, she's ready to explore fresh opportunities in museum consulting, design correspondence, design forums and education...
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.
In this installment of Design To Go, Diane Burk travels to Spain, visiting the beautiful city of Barcelona. The biggest city on the Mediterranean, Barcelona is a cultural, economic, entertainment, educational and tourism center for Southern Europe. The city is home to famous architectural works of Antoni Gaudí, and boasts both many UNESCO World Heritage sites and museums to visit.
" If graphic design is the arrangement of word and image to communicate a predetermined message, then for me collage is graphic art in the service of mystery."
In this week's installment of Design To Go, Diane Burk travels to Kyoto and Tokyo in Japan. Kyoto is known for its Buddhist gardens and temples and its preservation of traditions from wooden houses to kaiseki dining and geisha entertainers. Tokyo is Japan's capital city and is world-renowned for its lively nightlife, many museums and blending of traditional and ultra-modern architectural styles.
In this week's installment of Design To Go, Diane Burk travels to Cambodia, visiting the capital, Phnom Penh, and Siam Reap. The country has a complicated and painful past—characterized by war, genocide and changes in government—which is reflected in its museums.
In this week's installment of Design To Go, Diane Burk travels to India, visiting cities in the Southeast, Mamallapuram, a seaside town known for its temples, and Pondicherry, which has a well-preserved French Quarter.