Design
Homemade Clothes for Hollywood - Made Movies
Rabbit Goody has been the go-to weaver for historically accurate fabric for the movie industry’s biggest period dramas
December 07, 2009 |
By Rachel Dickinson
Savoring Puebla
Mexico's "City of Angels" is home to gilded churches, artistic treasures and a delectable culinary culture
December 2009 |
By Francine Prose
Trek Lime Bike Wins People's Design Award
Every year, the Cooper-Hewitt, National Design Museum asks the public, what constitutes good design? This October, a couple hundred products were nominated and thousands of votes were cast in the fourth annual People's Design Award contest—and the winner was (drum roll, please)...the Trek Lime bicy...
November 03, 2009 |
By Megan Gambino
Drawn From Life
Artist Janice Lowry's illustrated diaries record her history—and ours
November 2009 |
By Owen Edwards
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
Q and A: Mark Newport
Costume designer Mark Newport talks about knitting outfits for superheroes, both famous (Batman) and unknown (Sweaterman)
October 2009 |
By Jordan Steffen
250 Years of Wedgwood
Two new exhibitions celebrate the enduring wares of ceramics designer and entrepreneur Josiah Wedgwood
September 29, 2009 |
By Nancy Mann Jackson
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
Saving Punjab
A Sikh architect is helping to preserve cultural sites in the north Indian state still haunted by 1947’s heart-wrenching Partition
September 2009 |
By Geoffrey C. Ward
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
50 Years of Pantyhose
Love them or hate them, the once-ubiquitous women’s accessory was a revolutionary invention that helped transform women’s fashion
July 08, 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
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
A Green Addition to Frank Lloyd Wright’s Meeting House
Architects of the First Unitarian Society’s new eco-friendly addition find inspiration in the ideas of original architect Frank Lloyd Wright
May 21, 2009 |
By Laura Kearney
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
Edward Steichen: In Vogue
A painter by training, Edward Steichen changed fashion photography forever
May 2009 |
By Owen Edwards
Q and A: Isaac Mizrahi
Fashion designer Isaac Mizrahi's salmon skin dress is on display in a new exhibit at the Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum
April 2009 |
By Joseph Caputo
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
