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Jessica Jenkins

Recent articles by Jessica Jenkins

A Modernist’s voyage of discovery Issue 80, Summer 2011
Review

                The Design Museum’s Wim Crouwel retrospective offers a voyage of discovery into…
      
BauhausIssue 73, Autumn 2009
Review

                ‘Arguing is part of the Bauhaus,’ says Philipp Oswalt, director of the current…
      
Football, politics and the mafiaIssue 71, Spring 2009
Feature

	The walls of Naples are a canvas for the crimes, passions and contradictions of the city’s…
Urban brands Issue 61, Autumn 2006
Review

                New Design Cities, a product of the 2004 Montreal symposium, is a dense compendium…
      
A graphic haven in the heart of Berlin [extract]Issue 55, Spring 2005
Review

                As one would expect of an international business venture, Grafic Europe’s second…
      
Depth of fieldIssue 74, Winter 2009
Feature
chezweitz & roseapple are the new scenographers, who persuade museum curators to take the integrated…
Busy branding in Brno [EXTRACT]Issue 45, Autumn 2002
Review

                ‘It is time for ethics to join aesthetics, for integrity to balance identity,’…
      
The frozen pastIssue 54, Winter 2004
Feature
For a time, traces of Berlin’s prewar past could be glimpsed in fragments of shop signs
Remembrance of things pastIssue 58, Winter 2005
Feature
The renovation of Paris’ oldest métro line reveals traces of a century of billboard advertising
Brand madness 3Issue 54, Winter 2004
Opinion

	Letter from Jessica Jenkins

Recent blog posts by Jessica Jenkins

Tear-off type walls in Berlin

20 May 2013

The Bauhaus Archive presents a tour of German-language typographic history with ‘On-Type: Texts on Typography’.

They say that an exhibition should never be a book on a wall, but ‘On-Type’ is exactly that. The entire exhibition is made up of many books and texts all over the walls at Berlin’s Bauhaus Archive, writes Jessica Jenkins.

Give us back our design!

17 August 2012

East Germany’s biggest design archive is about to be put under wraps, inaccessible to scholars and the general public, writes Jessica Jenkins

In the period of political upheaval immediately after the fall of the Berlin Wall, an unknown amount of GDR design material was hastily sold off to dealers, writes Jessica Jenkins – something of a mixed blessing, since, while it was consequently conserved and evaluated, the material was lost to public view.

Not pasted over

3 August 2012

East German posters are given a place in design history, thanks to Plakat Ost’s exhibition in Berlin

The rituals of telling the story of East Germany have become as tired as the rituals of East Germany itself, writes Jessica Jenkins. Typically, works of graphic and industrial design from the former German Democratic Republic are not interpreted as works of design, but paraded, even fetishised, as material manifestations of ideological burden and the command economy.

Break out of the cloisters

3 May 2012

Explore ‘Socialist Modernity’ at a forthcoming RCA symposium

Venture outside the world of blogs and back-slapping designer conferences, writes Jessica Jenkins. Everyday academic life needs your voices.