Jul 15, 2011
A museum & a shop
I have been working on a few huge projects over the past year with Tanner Woodford and they are slowing sneaking out of our heads and into reality.
We’re doing a couple short-term “pop-up” ideas that will be happening in October as part of Phoenix Design Week[s].
One of those is the Phoenix Design Museum. The museum will be open first for the month of October and feature two traveling exhibitions as well as a selection from part of the permanent collection. Yes, the permanent collection. While the idea is to have the museum be limited engagement exhibitions, there are also plans to develop archives and create materials (books, posters, etc) for them. Last week, we got a huge and amazing donation that I will talk about when the details are finalized. Phoenix is going to have a Design Museum in October. I’ll admit, it’s still weird saying it out-loud.
Another project that we’ve been working on is Ignorance & Ambition. It’s also a “pop-up” and it’s going to be the shop for the museum. I think its going to be amazing to have a museum shop that only has limited edition, locally designed products. There are 30 designers and counting participating and a lot of fun things that they’re all going to make.
Part of the Museum + I&A is generating some money to get these things going. To do that, we started with a t-shirt sale. There are 3 shirts created by store participants (and myself) that will be available for another two weeks over at http://ignoranceandambition.com. (You can also find out why the crazy name.) They are limited edition as well, in keeping with the store. They are only available for the 30 days they are on sale at the site, then gone forever!
We’ll be doing this every month, year round.
The shirts are being produced by Tumble Tees and the proceeds go to funding the Museum/Store and getting things going. We had thought of doing a Kickstarter or something similar, but why not let the designers excellent work speak for itself?
I’ll keep everyone updated, but in the mean time, buy a shirt and keep your ears/eyes open for all the amazing stuff happening in Phoenix this fall.