Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum
Celebrate National Design Week!
It's a pleasure to see how good design—those objects we surround ourselves with that are both utilitarian and visually pleasing—are so widely accessible. You can walk into a Target and find home goods designed by a who's who of aesthetic gurus–like Michael Graves, Isaac Mizrahi and Todd Oldham—and ...
October 19, 2009 |
By Jesse Rhodes
Polls Open for People's Design Award
In 2006, it was a house (albeit clever and economical) that won people's choice. Then it was a philanthropic shoe company in 2007 and a hearing aid in 2008. So it's anyone's guess what will take home the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum's People's Design Award this year.The polls opened Monday...
September 22, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
This Just In: White House Officials to Join National Design Award Winners in DC
Last week, co-blogger Abby Callard reported on the public programs being held this coming Friday (10 AM-11 AM) at Smithsonian and other area museums in conjunction with the Cooper-Hewitt's tenth annual National Design Awards. But the Cooper-Hewitt has now announced that some administration official...
July 22, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Awards; Events on the Mall
A 10th anniversary is at hand. The Cooper-Hewitt's much vaunted National Design Awards turns 10. To celebrate, the New York City-based museum is bringing to Washington, D.C., a number of free public programs, featuring guest appearances from some of this year's award winners, design mavens such as ...
July 14, 2009 |
By Abby Callard
Design-Your-Life.org with Curator Ellen Lupton
Ellen Lupton is the kind of person who ponders the necessity of toasters."Is civilized life possible without this fundamental kitchen gadget?," she muses in her book Design Your Life: The Pleasures and Perils of Everyday Things. "Could a 21st-century family get by with no toaster at all?"Well, yes....
June 01, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
Design for a Living World at National Design Museum
Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum has teamed up with The Nature Conservancy in an exhibition called "Design for a Living World," which opened yesterday. For the purposes of the show, leading fashion, industrial and furniture designers were given a natural material from a Nature Co...
May 15, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Award Winners Announced
The Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum in New York City recently announced the winners of its 10th Annual National Design Awards. Spanning across the Lifetime Achievement, Design Mind, Corporate Achievement, Architecture, Communication, Fashion, Interaction, Interior Design, Landsca...
May 07, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
David Rockwell, the Oscars Set Designer
Last night after the red-carpet coverage, a segment on New York architect David Rockwell caught my attention. I know that guy, I thought; he won a design award last year from the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum.Rockwell designed the newly revamped and stunningly svelte stage set a...
February 23, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Cooper-Hewitt: Doodle 4 Google Contest
Don’t you just love the holiday-themed doodles Google comes up with on its home page—like when a powdered wig hung from one of the "o’s" in Google and the second "g" was melded into a treble clef for Mozart’s birthday, and the letters were written in Braille (well, 2-D Braille that is, of course) f...
February 06, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
People's Design Award: Pick Your Favorite
Voting starts today for the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum’s third annual People’s Design Award – a contest that asks the public to nominate and vote for an object or concept that constitutes good design.
So if there’s a product on the market that leaves you spellbound, a new building that...
September 22, 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
A Unique Frame of Mind
Architect Tom Kundig thinks outside the box. In fact, he’s been known to take a box, put it on stilts, add wheels and raise its roof—all in the name of reinventing the notion of "home."
Kundig, a 2008 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award winner and partner in the Seattle-based firm Olson Sundberg K...
June 02, 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
Build a Better Bike Rack
Everyone knows that creating a quality product requires polling your audience. So in hearing that the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum has teamed up with the New York City Department of Transportation, Google and Transportation Alternatives in a competition to design a bike rack for...
April 04, 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
Tech-Spun Remedy
Hunter Hoffman, director of the University of Washington’s Virtual Reality Research Center, has a new take on how to deal with pain. He’s created SnowWorld, an innovative virtual reality program that distracts burn victims during painful wound care procedures with a glacial world of snowmen waiti...
January 09, 2008 |
By Megan Gambino
And the Cooper Hewitt People’s Design Award goes to. . .a shoe
At first glance, the canvas, rubber-soled slip-on may seem too simple to win a design contest. Some even argued it had been around the block. "This shoe is a plain copy from the typical shoe from Argentina, Uruguay and the south of Brazil. I don’t see the innovation in it," read a heated posting ...
October 22, 2007 |
By Megan Gambino
Stand Up and Be Counted. What's Good Design?
Today kicks off the Smithsonian Cooper-Hewitt's National Design Week. If you want to have a say in the matter of what constitutes good design, go vote for one of the 300 submissions, or nominate one yourself, in the second annual People's Design Award.You’ll have your pick of environmentally con...
October 15, 2007 |
By Megan Gambino
Sacks Appeal
Attention shoppers: just what you need one more seasonal ornament
December 2006 |
By Owen Edwards
