Katie Shelly

Cat Memes of Antiquity


The internet looooves silly cats. This we all know.
spanking cat, IDEO, selects, Exhibition, meme, cat, internet, funny

Meet the Staff: Katie Shelly


Katie Shelly, Digital Media Specialist, shares her experiences working at Cooper-Hewitt.

Collections Candy: Very Pinteresting!


If you're not familiar with Pinterest, let me try to paint the picture a bit for you. It's a pretty low-commitment social networking site with a simple signup process and an easy-to-use interface. The logo is swirly and red like a peppermint candy.
Pinterest, social media, collections, Collectors and collecting

Only One Month Left to See Graphic Design— Now in Production


In this quick ten-minute gallery tour, curator Ellen Lupton talks about indie publishing, typographic spectacle, non-normative software use, design as fiction and more.
Ellen Lupton, Exhibition, graphic design, walkthrough, tour, gallery, Governors Island, video

4 Questions 4: Anab Jain


The latest in our 4 Questions 4 interview series features Anab Jain, founding partner of Superflux, a collaborative design practice based in Ahmedabad and London. Anab is a designer and entrepreneur who has worked in film, interaction design, and innovation consulting.
anab, jain, superflux, 4q4, 4 Questions 4, Interview, video, contemporary, strategy, consultancy, digital, 21st century

4 Questions 4: Critter and Guitari


We got in touch with Critter & Guitari, electronic instrument designers from Philadelphia, to ask them four questions about their practice of design, music, and art.
4 Questions 4, Critter and Guitari, music, electronic instruments, instruments

Cooper-Hewitt Visits Smart Design


Cooper-Hewitt recently acquired several original prototypes and drawings used to develop OXO's Good Grips product line. Cooper-Hewitt curators identified this line for the museum's collection because the products were a game-changing innovation iconic of late 20th century design.
SmartDesign, products, product design, product development, oxo, good grips, icon, 20th century, acquisitions

Shoelust


One of the joys of design is its relentless pursuit of variation ... Shoelust is a blog devoted to a familiar material mainstay: the shoe.
Shoelust, shoes, blog, images

Monday Enhancement: Lit Tree


Lit Tree is an augmented-reality project which lets you use hand gestures to interact with an illuminated tree.
Lit Tree, augmented-reality, interaction, voxels, 3-D, 3D, pixels, Kinect, scan, Kimchi and Chips, de-screenify, outdoor, visual, media

Monday Enhancement: The Artvertiser


The Artvertiser is a software platform that replaces billboard advertisements with art in real-time. It works by teaching computers to recognize individual advertisements so they can be easily replaced with alternative content, like images and video.
Artvertiser, artvertising, software, open source, advertisement, advertising, billboard, alternative, content, goggles, binoculars, improved reality, augmented reality

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