moimoi is a Toronto-based collective, founded in 2005, dedicated to trans-disciplinary exploration across art, design and craft.
2005 Vitrine (vit’ren) n. A glass showcase for art objects
Every year 1000’s of artifacts are de-accessioned from museums and art galleries. What becomes of them? In an attempt to provide for this inevitability, the Manchester Letherium competition called for the design of a museum for de-accessioned artifacts. Vitrine , side-stepping the museum requirement, proposed to design only the museum gift shop — a glass building where de-accessioned artifacts are displayed, reproduced and/or transformed (insects as key chains, shrunken heads as T-shirts designs etc.) and p