Apple, Design Miami Open 'Designers of Tomorrow' Exhibition in Paris
Apple and Design Miami open a Paris exhibition of four emerging designers’ projects, all developed with Apple devices.
The exhibition’s theme is “presence,” Apple said in a press release. It focuses on what still holds the public’s attention amid the hurried pace of the modern world, and the designers were asked to create works that invite reflection, engage the senses and kindle curiosity. The participants were selected by a jury that included Molly Anderson, Apple’s vice president of industrial design.
The designers are Salem S. Charabi, Isabel Rower, Yoonjeong Lee and Parafernalia, the studio of Genki Matsumura and Sebastián Zorrilla. Rodman Primack, the program’s curator, said their works “demonstrate the power of objects to shape our physical environments and transform the human experiences that are possible within them.”
Apple detailed how each project used its devices. Charabi, an Egyptian-Danish architect, used a MacBook Pro for sketching and 3D modeling. Lee, who is based in Seoul, used an iPad Pro and Apple Pencil to sketch ideas and take notes. Rower, who is based in Brooklyn, said she used an iPhone to document her creative process and Keynote to experiment with images and text. Parafernalia said its two designers used an iPhone, an iPad Pro and Procreate to collaborate remotely between Monterrey and Mexico City via FaceTime.
The showcase is the second year of Apple’s partnership with Design Miami. Apple also recently highlighted a fashion collection called “From Earth to Sky,” 9to5Mac noted.