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Hannah Maureen Holden

Hannah Maureen Holden is the Digital Content Editor at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

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A man's robe from China, designed from 1796 to 1820, from the Cooper Hewitt collection. (Cooper Hewitt)

Discover Smithsonian Open Access with 5 Design Treasures

This year, the Smithsonian Institution launched its Open Access initiative. Smithsonian Open Access invites you to share, remix, and reuse millions of the Smithsonian’s images—right now, without asking. Discover Smithsonian Open Access with these five designs drawn from the Cooper Hewitt collection. What will you create?

Photographing PPE

How National Design Award Winners Are Fighting The Pandemic

As the world grapples with the COVID-19 pandemic, National Design Award winners Design that Matters, threeASFOUR, and Open Style Lab are working to increase access to personal protective equipment for medical workers and face coverings for civilians. This article highlights their distinct strategies.

Portrait of Eleanor Garnier Hewitt, who co-founded Cooper Hewitt with her sister Sarah, painted in 1888 by Antonia de Bañuelos and an iBook Laptop Computer designed in 1999 by the Apple Industrial Design Team.

7 Funky Backgrounds For Your Next Virtual Happy Hour

Now that we’ve moved happy hours, birthday parties, and celebrations of all kinds into the digital realm, we’re sharing designs drawn from Cooper Hewitt’s astonishing collection of wallcoverings—among the world’s largest—for you to use as backgrounds on your video conference calls. Think of it as an Immersion Room experience for your home.

Saba Ali, right, and Contemporary Muslim Fashions on view at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum

How Contemporary Muslim Fashions are Having Their Day in the Sun

The exhibition Contemporary Muslim Fashions examines the ascendancy of the global modest fashion industry. On view are 80 ensembles, ranging from high-performance sportswear to haute couture, that showcase how emerging and established designers are meeting the needs of stylish Muslim women.