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Take our next set of exhibitions for example. We began discussions to bring Good Design: Stories from Herman Miller to the Woodson Art Museum in March 2007. Last winter, curator of collections Jane Weinke and I drove to Minneapolis/St. Paul and one of our stops included the University of Minnesota’s Goldstein Museum of Design to
view the installation of the Herman Miller exhibition.
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The exhibition will be one of the more difficult installations that our team will undertake. I wanted to see the various components so that I could visualize the layout and assembly in Wausau. We met with the Goldstein Museum of Design’s director and registrar and received a firsthand account of installation challenges.
We’re also preparing for a complementary exhibition, It’s Herman Miller Time: Today’s Furniture Makers Respond, and a few weeks ago, I accompanied curator of education Erin
Narloch to Madison to meet with UW-Madison professors and students to discuss details for a design studio and exhibition of student-made furniture.
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A third exhibition on the docket is a display of Google Doodles, those intriguing designs that appear from time to time on the Google home page. A handful will be printed and installed in the Visitor Services Gallery and more than 150 designs will continuously loop on a screen in the gallery.
Our goal in presenting these exhibitions is to demonstrate classic and contemporary concepts in modern office design. Early Herman Miller Inc. – designed offices were functional, yet stylish, and the company’s successful strategy has continued to this day. The computer and Google Doodles are an integral part of the modern office.
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