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Diary editor: Riya Patel \| riya@icon-magazine.co.uk


Wim Crouwel: A Graphic Odyssey	SO-IL	Robin and Lucienne Day: Design and the Modern Interior
Design Museum, London	z33, Hasselt	Pallant House Gallery, Chichester
30 March – 3 July 2011	15 March 2011	26 March – 26 June 2011
Dutch design legend Wim Crouwel has been working in the field of graphics, print and typography for 60 years. Nicknamed "Mr Gridnick" for his innovative use of the grid-based layout, his work embodied 1960s advancements in computer technology and the excitement of the space age. For his first UK retrospective, expect to see his iconic posters for Amsterdam's Stedelijk Museum and his pioneering "New Alphabet" typeface. www.designmuseum.org	Architects Florian Idenburg and Jing Liu are a busy pair. Having set up their Brooklyn studio, SO-IL, in 2007, they have already completed a house in New York for designer Ivan Chermayeff, a shell-shaped wedding chapel in Nanjing, China, and a project space for Kukje Gallery in Seoul. Idenburg, a former associate at SANAA, has been gaining ground in the academic world too, with posts at Harvard and Columbia University. Catch up with them if you can for a lecture at z33 on 15 March. www.z33.be	British furniture designer Robin Day (profiled in Icon 030) died in November last year, but his legacy lives on. A new exhibition in Day's hometown of Chichester celebrates his modernising influence on a nostalgic post-war Britain, along with the progressive textile designs of his wife Lucienne. Exhibits include the famous Hillestak dining chair and Calyx fabric, both originally showcased at the 1951 Festival of Britain. www.pallant.org.uk



Colour Moves: Art and Fashion by Sonia Delaunay	Fritz Lang's Spione	Yohji Yamamoto
Cooper-Hewitt Museum, New York	Centre for Contemporary Arts, Glasgow	Victoria and Albert Museum, London
18 March – 5 June 2011	10 March 2011	12 March – 10 July 2011
Sonia Delaunay's art employs contrasting colours to create a sense of rhythm and movement. Although primarily an abstract painter, known for co-founding the Orphism movement with husband Robert, she also turned her talents to fashion design, textiles, interiors and film. As part of a retrospective, the Cooper-Hewitt presents work from her Atelier Simultané studio in Paris during the 1920s and her textiles for the Metz & Co department store in Amsterdam in the 1930s. www.cooperhewitt.org	The Austrian-American filmmaker Fritz Lang is best known for the sprawling futuristic megacity he created in the 1927 expressionist film Metropolis. A year later came his penultimate silent film Spione: a meticulously detailed and elaborate spy thriller with a dystopian setting that mirrored the troubles of Weimar Germany. The CCA is screening Spione as part of its ongoing Dark Visions season. cca-glasgow.com	More than 80 avant-garde creations by influential Japanese fashion designer Yohji Yamamoto are on show in a new retrospective at the V&A this month. Mannequins wearing Yamamoto's trademark oversized silhouettes and draped textures will be scattered all around the museum in dialogue with the permanent collections. Find them in the Leighton Corridor, the Norfolk House Music Room and hidden in an alcove of the Hintze Sculpture Galleries. www.vam.ac.uk



Zoom: Italian Design and the Photography of Aldo and Marirosa Ballo	Bas Princen: Reservoir	MAM Project 014: Yukihiro Taguchi
Vitra Design Museum, Weil am Rhein	deSingel International Arts Campus, Antwerp	Mori Art Museum, Tokyo
26 March – 3 October 2011	3 March – 22 May 2011	18 March – 3 July 2011
During the second half of the 20th century, there was hardly a piece of iconic Italian design that didn't pass through Aldo and Marirosa Ballo's Milan studio. The couple's precise, dispassionate camerawork not only highlighted function and form, but also helped forge modern perceptions of Italian design. The Vitra Design Museum puts their images on show alongside the objects they helped to elevate to prized national status. www.design-museum.de	Photographer Bas Princen has a knack for making the ordinary and overlooked seem strange and surreal. Back in Icon 078 we featured photographs from Princen's Five Cities Portfolio (pictured) – a selection of starkly portrayed structures and landscapes that make an inspired antidote to the retouched glamour of mainstream architectural photography. This month the deSingel offers another chance to see his travelling exhibition, Reservoir. www.desingel.be	Osaka-born artist Yukihiro Taguchi is known for exhibiting installation work, rearranging it and then recording those changes in thousands of stop-motion video frames. For his acclaimed Moment series (pictured), Taguchi uprooted boards from his gallery floor and photographed them in various formations on the streets of Berlin. We can't wait to see what space-time tinkering he has planned for the Mori Art Museum in March. www.mori.art.museum/eng