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Meet Nicole

Nicole Burlock, Membership and Development at Design Museum Boston, truly believed in the museum before she even knew it existed.  While a graduate student at Savannah College of Art and Design, she did her thesis project and dissertation on art museums that took a non-traditional approach; for instance, being a part of a community as opposed to attracting people to a certain building.

“My whole thesis pretty much discusses what DMB is all about,” she says.  “It is about a decentralized network within the city of Boston, where everyone has access to it, and you don’t have to have a certain economic status to attend. It is education based - things aren’t placed upon pedestals.”

When Nicole moved to Boston after earning her degree, she noticed someone on the street wearing a Design Museum T-shirt in the Fort Port area. She went home to look it up, and immediately applied for the position she has held for six months now. Nicole explains that DMB is based on building relationships, whether it be with members, sponsors, or audiences, and giving insight about the things around us, the steps necessary to get those things where they are, and the design behind all of it.

Favorite Exhibition: Street Seats

Location she’d most like to see the museum: Chicago, IL

Originally from: Flint, MI

Word that best defines DMB: Innovative

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Meet Cory

Cory DePasquale met Sam Aquillano, Design Museum Boston’s Co-founder and Executive Director, while studying industrial design at Wentworth University, where Sam often lectured.  Cory applied for the role of Program Manager of the exhibition. He enjoyed the leadership role so much that he later applied for a job at DMB, and today he holds the same role as program manager at Design Museum Boston.

Cory has been with the museum for about two months now, and he finds himself doing a little bit of everything, including managing, scheduling, and budgeting exhibitions, executing design and print work, and planning committee meetings.  Cory enjoys his role in the museum because it encourages him to maintain strong self-direction.

When asked what he likes most about working at DMB, he said, “Working with such a cool team.”  With a staff of six, the team works extremely hard, often doing many things at once and inserting themselves into multiple roles.  “It can be a little overwhelming,” Cory says, “But I would never want a job where I just did one thing.”

Favorite Exhibition: Field Trip with Donald Norman.  “He is a personal hero. He is design Jesus.”

Location he’d most like to see the museum: Europe

Originally from: Plymouth, MA

Word that best defines DMB: Groundbreaking

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Meet Brooke

Brooke Scibelli, Events and Content Producer at Design Museum Boston, first met Derek Cascio, co-founder of Design Museum Boston, at a Creative Career Conference at Massachusetts College of Art and Design, where she attended college. At the conference, Derek gave a presentation about Design Museum Boston, which fascinated Brooke. She needed to know more.  

“I had been involved with pop-up style events and exhibitions before, more in the fine arts area, but after Derek’s presentation I realized that the same thing was happening in the design world and with the museum,” she says. 

Working for DMB for about a month, Brooke is now experiencing first-hand the things that fascinated her about DMB following Derek’s presentation at the conference. “DMB is very community-oriented. We don’t have a building, so the structural foundation of the museum isn’t bricks and mortar, it’s people,” Brooke says. “It’s people like you, it’s people that come to events, it’s people that see our beacons on the street, and show interest and come to another event, and become involved and become a member. So yes, we do have a full-time staff, but without the community’s support, the museum would be absolutely nothing.”

Favorite Exhibition: Green Patriot Posters, coming in January.

Location she’d most like to see the museum: Dorchester, MA

Originally from: Shrewsbury, MA

Word that best defines DMB: Change

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Meet Sam

Sam Aquillano, Co-Founder and Executive Director of Design Museum Boston, brings both the creative and business elements to the museum. He executes the day-to-day needs of the museum, as well as directs DMB’s dedicated and talented team. He also takes on the role of artistic director to support DMB’s efforts, including exhibition, graphic, and web design.

Sam co-founded DMB in 2009, wanting to end his personal frustration about the disconnect between design, something that we see everywhere, and the way people think about design, or fail to think about design.  He believed a design museum would be a great way to share his passion for design around the world.

“Museums are safe places to learn and explore,” Sam says.  “I want the Design Museum to be a place where anyone can go to learn about design and how it shapes our world.  Design is everywhere, and I see us opening in cities across the country to become the people’s design museum.”

Favorite Exhibition: Street Seats

Location he’d most like to see the museum: San Francisco, CA

Originally from: Erie, PA

Word that best defines DMB: Experience

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An Awesome Neon Map Of Paris

Francophiles and cartographers would probably agree that it’s impossible to adequately convey the magic of Paris on a flat, lifeless map. But French designer Antoine Corbineau has come close in his newest print—a neon vision of the City of Light that resembles pop-art stained glass. With a tangle of streets in white against buildings in bold pinks, yellows, and reds, you can try to use this map for navigation, but you’d probably be better off hanging it on the wall.

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Did you know?

With Philips LED lighting, this 210 meter high tower with 56 floors is lit with the energy needed to power just 10 domestic irons

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Artist Phillip K. Smith III transformed this abandoned cabin in the desert into a reflective beacon, read more at Urban Decay

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Thrown to the Wind

Ever notice all the trash around? Then again, who doesn't?  The truth is, we are all living with it, and some of us more than others.  This piece by Beijing artist Wang Zhiyuan, called "Thrown into the Wind," is 36 feet high and represents the multitude of trash that overwhelms his hometown and surrounding environment.  

Aside from this being a creative and awesome design piece, we appreciate and commend the light Wang shines on the waste problem in the environment.  The artist says, “I want my art to be about something bigger than me. If it wasn’t involved in society I would feel guilty.”

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Going Green with Today's Youth

Don’t believe that age is just a number? We’ve found an article on BioFriendly.com that details seven ways today’s youth has helped with environmental sustainability – A cause very near and dear to our hearts. Check them out!

1. A 13-year-old boy designed a solar array, based entirely on the Fibonacci design of the oak tree! 

2. A team of architectural and business students designed this self-shading, insulation using, and surface reflecting building.

3. Middle school students created a green business rating system for sustainable business practices.

4. What about this “eco-friendly, bio-gas furnace" for a local Hindu crematorium? 

5. Or on that note, this eco-friendly hand dryer? 

6. Then there are student groups and organizations, like teensturninggreen.org who both initiate change and inspire others to join them. 

7. Finally, there's the first Net Zero Energy School in the U.S.

Remember - It’s never too late or too soon to begin helping our planet – No matter what age you are! Are you ready to create some change?

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Artist Do-Ho Suh’s ghostly fabric sculptures explore the meaning of home

One of our favorite contemporary artists has just come out with his largest work to date. Do Ho Suh is a Korean sculptor and installation artist who’s known for his thought-provoking sculptures that often have to do with migration and personal space. These themes reflect his own move from his homeland of Seoul, South Korea to New York.

At the National Museum of Modern and Contemporary Art (MMCA) in Seoul, you’ll find Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home, a 1:1 scale replica of two houses the artist had previously lived in, one inside the other. Created in purple fabric, his traditional Korean home, where he lived in when he was a child, is enveloped and suspended within a more modern building, his first apartment building when he came to the United States, located in Providence, Rhode Island.

The work is so massive, measuring 12m x 15m, that Suh had to use a 3D scanning machine for precision and detail. While you see two homes in this piece, Suh calls it Home Within Home Within Home Within Home Within Home because he wants the viewer to see the installation on a larger level. “As you approach the gallery space, my translucent piece is between the viewer and the longer view, so it becomes five homes-within-homes: my two homes inside; the museum; the palace; and then Seoul.”

You can see and even walk through this installation at the MMCA until May 5, 2014.

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Mägi Bench by Olli Mustikainen & Jari Nyman

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Grow by SpY

A vegetative circle on an old factory in Besançon.

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Typografie, Zeit, Reaktion

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Fiat Lux - Constance Guisset

Innovative light fixture with a levitating appeal by Constance Guisset.

Fiat Lux is a lamp whose switch levitates when the light is on. When the light is off, the switch is an autonomous sphere that can be stocked onto the lamp thanks to a magnet system. The user becomes an illusionist by turning the lamp on, just by approaching the switch.

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Street Seats Kids Reception 11/07

DMB members joined us this past week to celebrate the creative work of Street Seats Kids.  We enjoyed an evening of fun design and conversation. 

Photography by Mi Zhao, DMB Volunteer