Shepard Fairey: The Artist Behind the Obama Portrait

A portrait created by a graphic designer ended up becoming the icon for the Obama campaign and an international phenomenon
January 14, 2009 | By Megan Gambino

Intelligent Designer

Charles Harrison, former industrial designer at Sears, Roebuck and Company, created practical innovations that touched many lives
January 2009 | By Megan Gambino

The Splendor of Greene and Greene

A new exhibition celebrates the work of brothers Charles and Henry Greene, masters of American Arts and Crafts architecture
December 09, 2008 | By Arthur Lubow

A Capitol Vision From a Self-Taught Architect

In 1792, William Thornton designed America's defining monument, where a new visitor center opens in December
December 2008 | By Fergus M. Bordewich

Bernini's Genius

The Baroque master animated 17th-century Rome with his astonishing sculpture and architecture
October 2008 | By Arthur Lubow

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

All that Glitters

Carol Channing can't forget the night her gown got ransomed
August 2008 | By Owen Edwards

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

A Brief History of Pierre L’Enfant and Washington, D.C.

How one Frenchman’s vision became our capital city
May 01, 2008 | By Kenneth R. Fletcher

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

Breuer Chair, 1926

Marcel Breuer's Bauhaus minimalism redefined a household basic
February 2008 | By Owen Edwards

Unlocking Mysteries of the Parthenon

Restoration of the 2,500-year-old temple is yielding new insights into the engineering feats of the golden age's master builders
February 2008 | By Evan Hadingham

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

Frank Lloyd Wright’s Most Beautiful Work

Fallingwater, a southwest Pennsylvania house designed by the famous architect, allows residents to live within a waterfall
January 2008 | By Eric Jaffe

Revolutionary Real Estate

Statesmen, soldiers and spies who made America and the way they lived
December 2007 | By Hugh Howard

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

Chip Kidd

Chip Kidd, a graphic designer and author, received a 2007 Cooper-Hewitt National Design Award for one of his innovative book covers
October 2007 | By Jess Blumberg

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

Undaunted

First Rory Stewart walked the breadth of Afghanistan. Then he took up a real challenge: restoring traditional architecture in Kabul
September 2007 | By Joshua Hammer

Monumental Shift

Tackling an ages-old puzzle, a French architect offers a new theory on how the Egyptians built the Great Pyramid at Giza
August 01, 2007 | By Diana Parsell

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