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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

The book cover of "Zoobiquity" by Barbara Natterson-Horowitz, M.D., and Katherine Bowers.

Chip Kidd

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

A Myth in the Making

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Paper Boon

Ólafur Elíasson's The Weather Project, Turbine Hall of Tate Modern

A Room with a View

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Hill of Beans

For author Julia Alvarez and her husband, starting an organic coffee plantation was a wake-up call

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Unearthing Egypt’s Greatest Temple

Discovering the grandeur of the monument built 3,400 years ago

Sandra Day O’Connor

Ain’t No Lie

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Memory Blocks

Artist Gunter Demnig builds a Holocaust memorial one stone at a time

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For Hire: Master Brewer

A few rounds with beermaker Will Meyers

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Animal Insight

Recent studies illustrate which traits humans and apes have in common—and which they don’t

Art for the Masses

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Red Light Photo

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