CHROMATIC NOTES
From the studio and around the world: print, design, materials, and ideas worth bringing into production.
Photo: Alexandr3126, August 11, 2019. Archive Marunouchi location image; not GOOD DESIGN Marunouchi or the exhibition. Display crop; image remains CC BY-SA 4.0. Image source ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0WORLD NOTES / JAPAN
A Tokyo exhibition connects design with regional making. For print, the lesson is to make a product’s material and maker easy to understand.
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Photo: Acediscovery, 2012. Archive city photograph; not Sade Ofset or its equipment. Display crop. Image source ↗ · CC BY 4.0WORLD NOTES / ISTANBUL
An Istanbul packaging printer connects job planning and press data. The useful lesson is continuity across the whole job.
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© Vitra Design Museum, photo: Julien Lanoo. Venue photograph; not a Panton work or exhibition installation. Image source ↗ · Editorial press-use termsWORLD NOTES / WEIL AM RHEIN
Vitra’s Panton exhibition offers a prompt to test colour across print, light, texture and space.
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Photo: Superraptor123, September 7, 2026. Museum sign; not an exhibition installation. Display crop; image remains CC BY-SA 4.0. Image source ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0WORLD NOTES / NEW YORK
Cooper Hewitt’s collection display offers a way to think about patterns, print and the small decisions that make a design recognisable.
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© Vitra Design Museum, photo: Thomas Dix. Museum exterior by Frank Gehry; venue photograph, not a Bawa building or exhibition installation. Image source ↗ · Editorial press-use termsWORLD NOTES / SRI LANKA + GERMANY
Ahead of a new retrospective, a lesson in treating graphics, materials and movement as one spatial experience.
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Photo: -wuppertaler, 2019. Archive location image; not the 2026 pavilion. Display crop; image remains CC BY-SA 4.0. Image source ↗ · CC BY-SA 4.0WORLD NOTES / LONDON
The Pangolin Shield brings bamboo craft into a public pavilion as London Design Festival opens.
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