OM2 Katherine Moline

Biography

Katherine Moline is an artist, designer and senior lecturer in the School of Design Studies at the College of Fine Arts, University of New South Wales. Katherine has a Master of Design (UTS) and she is currently completing a PhD in experimental design practices at UNSW through practice and research. Her practice in design-art is exhibited nationally and is represented by Yuill Crowley Gallery, Sydney. Katherine acknowledges research support provided by an Early Career Researcher grant from the University of New South Wales.

Time warps in three exhibitions of graphic design.

An essay by K.M.

{21st of July 2005}

You are Here: the design of information, the Design Museum, London. February 12th to May 15th 2005.

Psy[k]é / Off the Wall: Psychedelic posters of San Francisco 1966-1969, Musee de la Publicite, Paris. December 9th 2004 to March 27th 2005.

Irony takes a holiday (One monkey with one typewriter): The poster art of Paul Worstead, the Tin Sheds, Sydney University. May 27th to June 18th 2005.

The space is crammed with information, compressed and overloaded. You are Here: the design of information is an exhibition of historical and contemporary maps, diagrams, charts and symbols. The slices of space and time exhibited in You are Here ambitiously include abstractions of places and epochs over three hundred years of mainly European design.

Based on a curatorial premise to create an intense impression of information, graphic representations are defined and evaluated according to the effectiveness and clarity of the information they communicate. The exhibition, curated by James Peto for The Design Museum in London, is selected and organized in three sections neatly arranged in three long rooms reminiscent of wide corridors. Wall signs provide a key for navigating the space by defining areas of the exhibition as Mapping, Explaining and Analyzing.

The curatorial strategy is encyclopedic in its attempt to display so many examples of large amounts of data including maps of the London Underground by Harry Beck and the first pie charts by William Playfield.