DESIGN MADE IN AFRICA
January 12th to Febrary 26th 2006

Exhibition presented at the Design Center as part of the Montreal High Lights Festival.
Curator: Michel Bouisson et Céline Savoye
Direction: Marc H. Choko
Set design: Georges Labrecque

Norman Slater – Design lessons
November 24th 2011 to January 29th 2012

Montreal architect and designer Norman Slater (1921-2003) was at the heart of the effervescence that marked the world of design and architecture during the 1960s. Although his professional activity was mainly concentrated in his native city, his career had both a national and international dimension, with interventions in Ottawa, Edmonton, Vancouver, Brussels and Tokyo. In Montreal his interventions were linked to major projects and, although many of them have now disappeared, some of them still occupy a prominent place in the city’s landscape and imagination.
Curator: Réjean Legault
Artistic director: Angela Grauerholz
Photo: Michel Brunelle
Set design: Georges Labrecque

Copy 2010
September 16th to October 3rd 2010

Presentation of a selection of final year projects from the School of Design’s 2009-2010 programmes. The opening of this exhibition, which is part of the events of the 2010 academic year, coincides with the launch of a publication presenting an inventory of the School’s activities.
Curators: Angela Grauerholz and Louise Pelletier
Photo: Michel Brunelle
Set design: Georges Labrecque

Paris. Design in change
January 16th to March 1st 2009

Starting with the question of mutations, which will be the guiding thread, the exhibition aims to present the work of eleven designers or collectives, precursors and leaders of the different currents of the new generation of Parisian design. It will also highlight the main institutional players (design schools, promotional organisations, exhibition venues, etc.) that have enabled these talents to train and make themselves known. This exhibition, presented as part of the Montreal High Lights Festival, has received financial support from VIA (Valorisation de l’Innovation dans l’Ameublement), the City of Paris, CulturesFrance, the EDF Diversiterre Foundation and the Consulate General of France in Quebec City.
Commissioner: Michel Bouisson, VIA, Paris
Artistic director: Angela Grauerholz
Photo: Michel Brunelle
Scenography: Georges Labrecque, in collaboration with Louis-Charles Lasnier

Animated typography – Philippe Apeloig. Judith Poirier
March 12th to April 19th 2009

Two designers, two ways of thinking about the typographic sign. Twenty-six letters, twenty-six iconic forms at the basis of our writing and communication system, endless variations and interpretations which, over time and technical advances, have made typographic exploration an art in its own right. This exhibition explores animated typography through the personal research of the well-known Parisian graphic designer
international designer Philippe Apeloig, and Montreal typographer Judith Poirier, professor at the École de design de l’UQAM.
Curator: Angela Grauerholz
Photo: Michel Brunelle
Set design: Georges Labrecque

Designland. Panorama of current design
January 27th to February 27th 2000

An exhibition produced by the Design Centre, featuring the latest creations in industrial and interior design presented with the financial support of Artemide.
Curator: Marc H. Choko
Photo: Michel Brunelle
Set design: Georges Labrecque

Hangers
15 January to 29 February 2004

Exhibition of Daniel Rozensztroch’s collection of coat hangers, presented in Montreal as part of the France-Quebec Cooperation with the financial support of the Consulate General of France in Quebec.
Curator: Daniel Rozensztroch
Artistic director: Marc H. Choko
Photo: Michel Brunelle
Set design: Georges Labrecque

Alvaro Siza, architect. Projects 1961-1999
September 18thto November 2nd 2003

Exhibition designed and produced by the Centre de design de l’UQAM with the collaboration of the Consulate General of Portugal in Montreal and the financial support of TAFISA Canada, TAP Air Portugal, the Caisse d’économie des Portugais de Montréal (Desjardins), Les Vins du réseau international Global and the Centre International pour la Ville, l’Architecture et le Paysage (CIVA) in Brussels.
Commissioners: Börkur Bergmann, Director of the School of Design,
in collaboration with Carlos Castanheira, architect.
Artistic director: Marc H. Choko
Set design: Georges Labrecque

H20
January 17th to March 2nd 2008

As part of Montréal en lumière, this exhibition will present some one hundred works by Italian designers and architects on the theme of water and the survival of the planet, thanks to the collaboration of the Institut Culturel Italien de Montréal.
Curator: Arch. Roberto Marcatti
Artistic director: Marc H. Choko
Photo: Michel Brunelle
Set design: Georges Labrecque

GROS PLAN The art of the poster by Michel Bouvet
September 12th to November 3rd, 2013

The exhibition Gros plan, presents about sixty posters covering thirty years of career. It is accompanied by several of his notepads, sketches and outlines that allow visitors to understand the richness of his thinking, his approach to the themes he dealt with and his creative process. Working sometimes in black and white, sometimes in colour, with photography (always in collaboration with the photographer Francis Laharrague) or drawing, Michel Bouvet always keeps in mind that the poster must strike and inform the passer-by.
Curator: Marc H. Choko
Photo: Michel Brunelle
Set design: Georges Labrecque

HEINZ WAIBL – THE CREATIVE JOURNEY
February 23rd to April 9th 2017

This exhibition is organized jointly by the Centre culturel de Chiasso – m.a.x. museo, the Centre de design de l’UQAM and the Institut italien de culture de Montréal. It focuses on the creative and professional itinerary of Heinz Waibl, an important figure as a graphic designer of the “Milanese school” in the 1950s/60s, highlighting his dual career between Europe and the United States (with an extension to South Africa). Among the more well-known projects are those for Rai, la Rinascente, Atkinsons, Olivetti, Pirelli, Flos – but also the collaboration with Unimark International in Chicago and Johannesburg at the end of the 1960s, thanks to which Waibl developed the brand identity for JCPenney and American Airlines (with Massimo Vignelli).
Curators :
Nicoletta Ossanna Cavadini, Director of the m.a.x. museo in Chiasso, Switzerland,
Alessandro Colizzi, professor at the UQAM School of Design
Artistic director: Börkur Bergmann
Photo: Michel Brunelle
Set design: Georges Labrecque

DESIGN VLAANDEREN
September 14th to October 22nd 2006

The exhibition presents the work of 25 Flemish artists over the past 10 years. It has been specially produced by Design Vlaanderen for the Design Centre, under the direction of Johan Valcke, as part of the Quebec/Flanders cooperation.
Artistic director: Marc H. Choko
Pictures: Michel Brunelle
Set design: Georges Labrecque

Architecture and territorial imaginary competition.
Cultural projects in Quebec from 1991 to 2005
November 9th to December 17th 2006

The exhibition includes design sketches, competition boards, photographs of projects and aerial photographs of implementation covering 31 competitions of the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec held between 1991 and 2005. When it leaves UQAM, it will be presented at the Musée La Pulperie in Chicoutimi and the Musée régional de Rimouski, then in Paris at the Pavillon de l’Arsenal. Travelling exhibition produced by the Centre de design de l’UQAM, in collaboration with LEAP of the Université de Montréal and with the financial support of the Ministère de la Culture et des Communications du Québec, the Canada Council for the Arts, the Conseil des arts et des lettres du Québec and Design Montréal.
Curator: Denis Bilodeau
Artistic director: Marc H. Choko
Scenography: Georges Labrecque in collaboration with Alexandre Renzo

ALFRED EN LIBERTÉ
June 5th to July 27th, 2014

A free summer exhibition that pays tribute to more than 40 years of Alfred Halasa’s creations. Alfred en liberté is about a hundred posters created throughout his career as an internationally award-winning designer and professor at UQAM’s School of Design.
Curator: Marc H. Choko
Artistic director: Börkur Bergmann
Set design: Georges Labrecque

PACKPLAY
September 11th to November 2nd, 2014

Launched in 2013 by Professor Sylvain Allard, the PACKPLAY project proposes an increasingly topical approach to packaging design: user-centred design. Putting the user at the centre of the design process means first of all understanding their expectations and measuring whether the packaging is adequate and meets them.
The project brings together several international universities studying packaging design as part of their academic and research activities. They have proposed packaging prototypes on the same subject, and the best projects have been selected for this exhibition. PACKPLAY positions packaging design as a specific field of design where industrial design, graphic design and commerce meet.
Curator: Sylvain Allard
Artistic director: Börkur Bergmann
Scenography: Georges Labrecque with the collaboration of Catherine Gomes-Aubin

THE JAPANESE OBJECT.
Panorama of contemporary design in Japan
November 20th to January 18th 2015

This touring exhibition, produced by the Japanese Design Foundation, features 100 contemporary products from Japan selected for the quality of their workmanship, as well as for their unique features associated with Japanese design. Of these, 89 are everyday objects and 11 are considered to be among the best object designs of recent decades. “The 100 objects gathered here are drawn as much from popular culture as from the world of sophisticated design. Not all of them have the clean lines of modern design, and many have forms typical of a craft culture. These differences reflect the trends in Japanese design today,” says curator Hiroshi Kashiwagi. This exhibition is an opportunity to discover the world of Japanese objects and to travel, for a moment, to the land of the rising sun.
Curator: Hiroshi Kashiwagi, Professor, Musashino Art College
Artistic director: Börkur Bergmann
Set design: Georges Labrecque

PGL and modern Quebec architecture 1958-1974
November 12th to January 17th, 2016

This exhibition puts the work of the Papineau Gérin-Lajoie LeBlanc (PGL) architectural firm, a firm born during the Quiet Revolution, back in the foreground. Well known to architects but little known to the public, this firm produced an exceptional body of public facilities and introduced the notion of collective design to Quebec. The exhibition aims in particular to revisit the career of the principal designer, Louis-Joseph Papineau. It highlights architectural practice as a strategy and as a research process, with its ups and downs and its successes, and will present the agency’s most outstanding projects.
Curators: Réjean Legault, Professor, School of Design
and Louis Martin, Professor, Department of Art History
Artistic director: Börkur Bergmann
Set design: Georges Labrecque

Quebec in design.
75 years of creations from the collection of the Musée des Beaux-arts du Québec

A travelling exhibition produced by the Musée national des beaux-arts du Québec and the Centre de design de l’UQAM, presenting objects, design sketches, photographs, models and audiovisual documents illustrating Quebec creation in the fields of applied arts, industrial design and graphic design, from the 1930s to the present day.
November 8 to December 16, 2007
Curators: Paul Bourassa and Marc H. Choko
Set design: Georges Labrecque