Autocritique. A biography of the automobile object
The new line of Problemata, to be read by the fireside...
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Holographic nail varnish collectionLet’s Shine !
Behind the bodywork... An unusual collection of automotive resources
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1962. Ford Thunderbird vehicles bodies at Wixom Assembly Plant (Michigan, USA) articleAutopsy and biography of the automobile
Design to build criticism and organise controversy
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Lidar view of a Palo Alto street articleAI, cars and mapping...
How are autonomous vehicles transforming the map of the world?
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Direction indicator, Simler, n.d. articleFasten your seatbelt!
A history of automobile safety in the United States... and related innovations
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“Forty per cent" car, advert on the Revolico website, 2012 articleRevolico! From the big mess to the art of resourcefulness
Hybrid cars and technological disobedience in Cuba
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Guy Seligmann (director), “Mazamet, la ville rayée de la carte”, still from the documentary, 17 May 1973, INA articleEveryone (or almost) loves the car
A look back at a blind spot in motoring legislation
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Julien Magre, Troubles, 2014 articleFrom movement to action
With philosopher Joëlle Zask, an aesthetic journey?
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Road signs in Paris during the German occupation, Place de la Concorde, 1943 articleStrange typographic landscapes?
Symbols of central power, engineering craftsmanship or bureaucracy, signage and road markings, have they stayed away from design?
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Jean Widmer, “Vallée de Chevreuse” animation panels on the A10, photographic record 1986 articleIn the backstage with Jean Widmer
An exclusive interview with the graphic designer, conducted by director Seb Coupy during the filming of the documentary “L'image qu'on s'en fait” (2019).
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Gilbert Weil, “Fragments”, 1990 collectionAn open-air collection...
Julien Lelièvre‘s “Art d'autoroute” joins Problemata‘s collections, with nearly 100 resources from his photographic campaign (2009-2015).
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Wolf Panizza, “Ascent to Irschenberg”, ca 1936 lineViewed at 130. Roads, graphics, regions...
Like the “Société des Autoroutes du Sud de la France”, the researchers in this new line welcome you!
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Pierre Bernard, signage, le Mont Blanc, 1991 articleDesign for the public domain
A different approach to motorway signage by Pierre Bernard
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Volodymyr Lesniak. Corporate identity for 50 years of Kharkiv Institute of Physics and Technology 1978. lineZNAK! Ukrainian logotypes. 1910-2019
A research by Ukrainian graphic designers : U.N.A. Collective. Cataloguing, contextualising and reactivating ukrainian corporate trademarks from 1910 to 2019.
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Buick Roadmaster Advertising, 1951 lineAs Long as It’s Pink...
Five extracts from historian Penny Sparke’s landmark book on women and design...
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Clark Richert, View of Drop City, The Complex, in El Moro, outside Trinidad, Colorado c. 1966 article“The Whole Earth Catalogue”, the next step for the white man?
How racism and sexism of mainstream America infiltrate counter-culture communities...
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Preparatory document for the exhibition “Au temps de l’Espace” Centre Georges-Pompidou, 1983 articleFictional interstellar travel...
The scenographic devices of an exhibition-show in the 1980s.
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Reyner Banham in the Mojave Desert, 1979 articleA Home is not A House: Technical paradoxes of the American House
Founding myths and technological drifts of the American house. One of the major texts by the architectural and design historian Reyner Banham, translated into French for Problemata.
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Les Immatériaux (1985), commissariat Jean-François Lyotard. © Bibliothèque Kandinsky, MNAM/CCI, Centre Pompidou – Dist. RMN-Grand Palais collectionLes inconnues du CCI
Bunker Archéologie (1975), Les Immatériaux (1985) sont des expositions célèbres. Qui sait qu’elles furent portées par le CCI ? Voir les images de la collection du site.