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//9.20.10
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//7.1.09
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//2011-2012 Hours
Monday - Friday
12:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Sunday
2:00 P.M. to 4:00 P.M.
Closed holidays, holiday weekends, and school breaks.
After over 35 years and numerous exhibitions in Walker Hall, the UC Davis Design Museum has relocated to Cruess Hall along with the UC Davis Design Program. The new museum is located in a more accessible part of campus, has approximately 1,000 square feet of exhibition space, and can be found at the main entrance to Cruess Hall.
Enhancing the teaching and research activities of the Design Program, the UC Davis Design Museum continues to explore how design shapes, improves and makes economically viable the objects, technology and environments we use, inhabit and experience every day.
2011/12 SEASON
WINTER
Need and Desire, Work from blankblank
January 23, 2012 to March 16, 2012
Need and Desire is curated by Rob Zinn, founder of blankblank - a Northern California design firm that works with a select group of designers and artisans to produce furniture, lighting, and limited edition art. Its collection has been exhibited, collected, and specified around the world. The title of this show alludes to the ambiguities Zinn sees between art and design, form and function, business and creativity, and individual and society.
Need and Desire charts the past eight years of blankblank through examples from its collection, including documentation of development and personal insight from Rob Zinn as to the time, environment, and circumstance in which they were created.
About 
Opening Reception and Curator's Talk: January 26, Thursday, 6:00 PM – 7:30 PM
Free Admission
See photos here
SPRING
Design-by-Design, Juried Student Design Competition
April 4, 2012 to April 24, 2012
This annual installation, timed to coincide with the university's Picnic Day, is a lively survey of student
talent and creativity that reflects the multi-disciplinary breadth of the Design Program.
Design MFA Graduation Exhibition
May 21, 2012 to June 8, 2012
Working with renowned design faculty, M.F.A. students explore the broader topic of "Design" through
a specific design discipline, drawing on collaborations with the arts, humanities, social sciences and
sciences. It showcases M.F.A. candidates' final research and creative projects.
FALL
Gyre, A Grand Tragedy of the Commons
October 10, 2011 to December 2, 2011
This exhibition consists of two parts: photographs and an arrangement of flotsam objects gathered from the North Pacific Gyre, and a video installation called “Kamilo Twisted Waters”, a moving mandala that reflects the fouling of the oceans. Gaylor has developed the installation in response to plastic waste floating in the North Pacific Gyre. Known as the Great Pacific Garbage Patch it is growing rapidly and now covers an estimated area twice the size of the continental United States. It is the world’s largest rubbish dump trapped in place by circulating ocean currents.
Artist Presentation followed by the Opening Reception: October 16, Sunday, 1:00 PM – 3:30 PM
See photos here
Our Commitment
The UC Davis Design Museum is a founding adopter of the Green Museums Accord.
The Accord is a set of five principles that propel museums to become environmental leaders, and is administered by the California Association of Museums and the Green Museums Initiative.
To learn more about green museums and the Accord, visit:
www.greenmuseums.info
To learn more about green exhibition design, visit:
www.greendesignwiki.com