For People Living with Disabilities, New Products Prove Both Practical and Stylish
Cooper Hewitt turns its design eye to beautifully styled wheelchairs, hearing aids and other accessible innovations
Finding the Sacks Appeal in a Collection of Holiday Shopping Bags
The Cooper Hewitt’s collection of some 1,000 bags reveals a few with some very cheery holiday scenes
Designer of the Smithsonian Sunburst Logo Dies
Ivan Chermayeff was a brilliant designer, a gifted artist and the purveyor of a unique visual language, says Smithsonian curator Ellen Lupton
Have We Been Building Chairs All Wrong?
Experimental Dutch designer Joris Laarman uses algorithms and digital technology to innovate through constraint
From Egyptian Cats to Crime Scenes, Here’s a Preview of the Smithsonian’s Upcoming Shows
Gallery-goers in D.C. and NYC are in for a mental workout with shows that deliver on everything from the experimental to the traditional
These Design Champs Are Having Their Moment in the Sun
Three Cooper-Hewitt award winners share secrets and stories with design critic Owen Edwards
Esperanza Spalding’s Pop Culture Loves
She may not own a television, but the Grammy-award winning musician definitely has her favorite books and films
Esperanza Spalding: Jazz Musician, Grammy Award Winner and Now Museum Curator
The title of her latest album “D + Evolution” is also the theme of a new exhibition at the Smithsonian’s Cooper Hewitt
How Jazz, Flappers, European Émigrés, Booze and Cigarettes Transformed Design
A new Cooper-Hewitt exhibition explores the Jazz Age as a catalyst in popular style
The Romance and Promise of 20th-Century Radio Is Captured in This Mural
At the Cooper Hewitt, a rare opportunity to view “The World of Radio” with its masterful vignettes celebrating the Modern age
These Locally Grown Design Ideas Were Created by the People for the People
A Cooper Hewitt exhibition spotlights the innovative and sustainable designs generated by those in search of solutions
Fuel Your Design Obsession With 200,000 Newly Digitized Artifacts
Explore 30 centuries of design at the Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum without leaving your computer
These Kits Beautifully Explain How City Sewers and Zoning Laws Work
New York’s Center for Urban Pedagogy uses art and design to help people better understand complex laws and systems
Can Smell Be a Work of Art?
Scent artist Sissel Tolaas uses chemistry to explore the malodorous, yet beautiful, scent of decay in Central Park
The Art and Design Behind Pixar’s Animation
A new exhibition at the Cooper Hewitt in New York City draws on the rich backstory of what it takes to give computer-animated life to pen and ink sketches
A Look Into the Innovative Mind of One of the World’s Most Inventive Architects
A new show at the Cooper Hewitt reveals the process behind designer Thomas Heatherwick’s projects
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Is Architecture Actually a Form of Weaving?
David Adjaye, architect of the National Museum of African American History and Culture, approaches building design as creating “fabric”
A Brief History of the Chocolate Pot
How humans have consumed chocolate sheds lights on its significance to cultures and eras
The Smithsonian Design Museum Tells the Story of User-Centered Design Through 120 Beautiful Products
A thermostat, a wheelchair, a prosthetic arm and razors are all a part of “Beautiful Users,” now on display in New York City
Nearly Two Million Years of Innovation, As Told Through Tools
Cooper Hewitt, the Smithsonian Design Museum, will exhibit 175 objects that range from Paleolithic tools to space-age satellites
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